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May have had a third contact with russians that he did not disclose and reports that he and president trump had heated exchanges after sessions recused himself from the russian probe. cnn washington correspondent ryan nobles is following this story. ryan, what are you hearing there this morning? >> reporter: good morning. this is a bit of a surprise and at this point we don't have full confirmation that this hearing will each happen. attorney general jeff sessions was supposed to appear before a senate appropriations subcommittee to discuss the justice department's budget on tuesday, but democ...

Reportedly said the meeting never happened but sessions, himself, has yet to answer a specific question on the topic and to appear before the committee he would need to answer that under oath. committee members have yet to acknowledge they have received this letter. at this point, we have to wait and see if and when sessions ever appears before senators. >> very good point. ryan nobles, thank you for the clarity this morning. let's bring in errol louis, cnn commentator and professor of princeton university and another reporter. tom, let me start with you. why is this happening? is this a dir...

Sessions in this investigation? we had the stories at the beginning of the week that there are big rift between the two of them. and then during comey's testimony, he suggested a level of discomfort from sessions when he saw president trump remove everyone from the room so he could speak with comey privately and comey then said that sessions in the end left the room. i think there is multiple levels of this relationship that have opened up thu the hearings and those stories. >> errol, i know that comey made some reference to the attorney general several times. i want to play the sort of second...

>> a claim of responsibility for the deaths of three american soldiers in afghanistan. >> the afghan taliban is claiming responsibility. >> when heroes fall, americans grieve. ♪ we are so grateful to have your company early on this sunday morning. i'm christi paul. >> i'm martin savidge in for victory blackwell. good morning to you. capitol hill is ready for another blockbuster testimony and this time it could be jeff sessions take a turn on the hot seat. >> the attorney general plan to appear before the senate intelligence committee. this is happening tuesday, we understand. although we d...

Let me send this to you. we started this week with reports that sessions and trump, there is a rift there that they have been having heated conversations with president trump and even made it clear that he would be willing to step down if it's something that trump wanted. do we know how loyal is session to the president? and how candid might he be in these conversations? he was very loyal to the president. we have to remember we are talking about someone who is one of the first movers in the trump campaign from congress. one of donald trump's first big supporters from the republican party. the...