POLITICO: Sessions faces grilling about Russia’s outreach to Trump campaign

Published Nov. 14, 2017 at 7:56 pm

WASHINGTON, DC - JULY 20: U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions (L), Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein and other law enforcement officials hold a news conference to announce an 'international cybercrime enforcement action' at the Department of Justice July 20, 2017 in Washington, DC. President Donald Trump said Wednesday in an interview with the New York Times that he never would have appointed Sessions had he known Sessions would recuse himself from overseeing the investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election. "Sessions should have never recused himself, and if he was going to recuse himself, he should have told me before he took the job and I would have picked somebody else," Trump said. Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images/AFP

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After months of dismissing questions about the Kremlin’s meddling in the 2016 election, Jeff Sessions on November 14 will have to address recent revelations that he knew about some aspects of Russia’s outreach to Donald Trump’s campaign.

Members of the House judiciary committee have already indicated they’ll ask the former Alabama senator about his role in meetings and conversations about Trump aides’ travels to Russia and attempts to set up a meeting between the then-Republican presidential nominee and Russian President Vladimir Putin.