on the question and my staff recommended recusal. they said since i had involvement with the campaign, i should not be involved in any campaign investigation. the attorney general called allegations he acted as an intermediary between the trump campaign and russian intelligence as false and baseless. attorney general sessions he will clarify as confirmation testimony to the senate judiciary committee. there, he said he was caught offguard by democrat al franken s question about a media report concerning allegations the russians have a damaging dossier on then-candidate trump. attorney general sessions said he correctly stated he had no contact of a political nature with the russians but will now explain his meetings with the russian ambassador. in the september meeting, sessions said the request came out of the blue to meet with him and to this day, he does not understand the motive.
yemen. of course, this coming about a month after that controversial raid on the ground that left one navy s.e.a.l. dead and a number of civilians also killed. what we don t know may be the most interesting question. was the intelligence that led them to conduct these air strikes overnight, did any of that intelligence coming from that controversial raid on the ground? we don t know the answer to that yet. what we do know is the u.s. military very much stepping up the campaign in yemen, going after al qaeda in that country, going with air strikes and possible additional ground raids and now we have seen the next step here, these air strikes overnight in yemen. allison? appreciate it, barbara. thank you very much. democrats are calling for attorney general jeff sessions to recuse himself from russian investigations or to even resign because of the inaccuracies in his confirmation testimony. the only democratic senator who