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 recep