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Happened in congressional testimony. man ewe rambling ewe is on capitol hill with more >> kay tee mcfarland was nominated to be the singapore ambassador. during the confirmation hearings before the senate foreign relations committee is she was asked about conversations she may have had michael flynn related to sergei kizlyak. i'll read you exactly what was sent in a written question from senator cory booker. he said did you ever discuss any of general flynn's contacts with russian ambassador sergei kizlyak directly with general flynn? now in response mcfarland wrote back i am not aware of any ...

New? >> a little bit. so sessions is trying very hard to defend the answer he gave in the confirmation answer, and i think we can give him the benefit of the doubt, it was a long confirmation hearing, and say that he did misunderstand the question and is giving it differently. today the question he's hearing is confronted with two comments he made at the confirmation hearing. he then got a follow-up question, a written question, where he gave the same answer. then later when it came out he had talked with russian officials, he said he met with them but they did not discuss the substance of the...

Russian government in the course of this campaign, what will you do? >> senator frank en, ien, i'm n aware of any of those activities. i've been called a surrogate a time or two in that campaign and i did not have communication was the russians. >> he said he didn't have communications with the russians. then when asked in a written question whether he had been in contact with anyone connected to any part of the russian government about the 2016 election, either before or after the election day, sessions responded no. now listen to what he said when he recused himself from the russia probe bac...

Sessions said during his confirmation hearing back in january. >> if there is any evidence that anyone affiliated with the trump campaign communicated with the russian government in the course of this campaign, what will you do? >> senator franken, i'm not aware of any of those activities. i have been called a surrogate at a time or two in that campaign, and i did not have communications with the russians. >> so that was january. when asked in a written question whether he had by in contact with anyone in the russian government about the 2016 election before or after election day, he responded...

Election. there has been a lot of smoke around the trump campaign and it's possible ties, it does have some ties to russia, some of the people who were on part of the campaign. but the smoke doesn't necessarily mean fire, right? >> smoke doesn't necessarily mean fire. but it is very suspicious. let's not forget that michael flynn, the national security adviser, resigns within one month because he lies about the nature of his conversation with the russian ambassador, furthermore it was revealed that he was also made by russia to attend the rt state propaganda dinner where he sat next to vladimi...