host of "a.m. joy" on weekends on msnbc. ken dilanian, i want you to take us over what nbc news is reporting tonight, adding to all of this. >> absolutely, lawrence. and first i want to be very clear about one thing. jeff sessions adamantly denies that he had a meeting with sergey kislyak at that mayflower hotel event. his spokesman denies it on the record. and this is one of the reasons, you know, i've known about this and i've been reporting on this meeting for a while as i think have some other reporters in this town. and there has been a lot of haziness about what exactly congressional investigators were learning. and that's why i was really glad to see senator al franken on your show last night go on the record and say look, we have reason to believe, that's the phrase he used, that this was not as had been first reported. recall that this was a speech that donald trump gave during the primary, sponsored by a russian friendly think tank. and before the speech, there was a vip reception at which sergey kislyak, the russian ambassador was present, along with some other diplomats.