Feinstein: Sessions should re-testify on Russia meetings

Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) on Sunday said she believes Attorney General Jeff Sessions should return to the Senate Judiciary Committee to clarify his testimony that he was unaware of contacts between Trump campaign officials and Russia.

“It seems to me Sen. [Al Franken (D-Minn.)] has been very good in outlining the various instances where there was more than one contact on behalf of Sessions,” Feinstein told CNN’s Jake Tapper on “State of the Union.” “Whether he remembers it or not, I think some of that needs to be developed further. I think that request has been made by Franken, and I think [Sessions] should come back and clarify it.”

Feinstein, the ranking Democrat on the Senate Judiciary Committee, said she plans to discuss bringing Sessions back to re-testify with Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa.), the committee’s chairman.

Sessions previously testified before the committee on Oct. 18.

It was revealed last week that Trump campaign aide George Papadopoulos pleaded guilty to lying to the FBI about his contacts with a Kremlin-linked professor who claimed to have dirt on Hillary Clinton.

Carter Page, another Trump campaign adviser, later in the week told investigators on the House Intelligence Committee that he met with Russian government officials during a July 2016 trip to Moscow.

“We certainly don’t want him to tell us things that aren’t true,” Feinstein said of Sessions on Sunday. “Maybe he has a faulty memory, so there are a lot of excuses one can make. But at this stage, he’s got to narrow his recollections. When he comes before the committee again, he has to be precise and it has to be accurate.”