- A new report claims three witnesses in special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation said Attorney General Jeff Sessions failed to "push back" against proposals of a meeting between President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin.
- The accounts contradict Sessions's own version of events — he said he rebuffed the proposal.
- The accounts also suggest Sessions may have misled Congress on multiple occasions about the nature of the meeting.
- Legal experts say it is unclear if Sessions could actually be charged with perjury.
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3 witnesses have contradicted a key portion of Jeff Sessions' Russia testimony — and it could intensify scrutiny on him
Sessions has a history of not recalling events, and then later remembering they happened.
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Three witnesses in special counsel Robert Mueller's Russia investigation have claimed Attorney General Jeff Sessions failed to challenge a proposal for a meeting between President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin during the campaign, a Reuters investigation reported Sunday.
The report opens up the possibility that Sessions may have misled Congress about his response to the proposal during sworn testimony last year.
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In November 2017, Sessions told the House Judiciary Committee that he had
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