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sessions. the washington post reporting, sessions met with russian envoy twice last year in encounters did not disclose. this morni sessionses insides there s no there there. i have not met with any russians at any time to discuss any political campaign and those remarks are unbelievable to me and false. so, what comes next for sessions? if you re a democrat, it s recuse or resign. if you re a republican, well, it s more complicated. if he himself is a subject of investigation, of course he would, but if he s not, i don t see any purpose or reason to do this. i do think he needs to clarify. i think he should recuse himself, absolutely. should he recuse himself? no. if there is an investigation, probably shouldn t be involved in it. the american people served him. could jeff have been more clear in what he said? yes. the underlying meeting is a nothing burger. nbc s hallie jackson is at the white house, msnbc s kasie hunt is on capitol hill, hans ni ....
election season, during these cyberattacks by russia. the top democrat in the house says session lied about those meetings and demanding he resigns, why? because in an online questionnaire he was asked several of the president elect s nominees or advisors have russian ties have you been in contact with anyone connected to any part either before or after election day? no, he responded simply. also on camera, this exchange. cnn just publish add story alleging that the intelligence community provided documents to the president elect last week that included information that quote russian operatives claimed to have compromising personal and financial information about mr. trump. these documents also allegedly stated quote there was a continuing exchange of information during the campaign between trump surrogates and interimmediate areas for the russian government. now again i m telling you this as it is coming out, so you know, but if it s true, it s obviously extremely se ....
do. a special edition of america s news headquarters. elizabeth. nice to be with you as well. i m elizabeth prann in washington. there are other headlines. a shake-up at the white house, we ll look at the incoming white house communications director, anthony scaramucci. plus, as congress stalls on repealing and replacing obamacare, can they find a way to pass any major legislation before facing constituents back home during the august recess? that s all ahead on america s news headquarters. . now, the u.s.s. gerald ford, 13 billion dollars and 1092 feet. we did the math for you, that s $113 million a foot. the navy calls it the futur car launch more aircraft in the same amount of time. its entire flight deck the length of three football fields. president trump on hand for the commissioning ceremony. here is the president just a few minutes ago. for the rest of your lives, you ll be able to tell your friends and family that you served on the greatest ship in th ....
that donald trump junior and paul manafort are cooperating. they will speak with the senate panel behind closed doors. now to the revelations involving the russia investigation. according to the washington post, russian ambassador sergei kislyak told his kremlin bosses that he did in fact talk about campaign matters, with then-senator jeff sessions, during the 2016 election. current and former u.s. officials tell the post they learned of the conversations from intercepts of russian discussions. attorney general jeff sessions has repeatedly said that he did not speak to russians about campaign-related issues. cnn s justice reporter, laura jarrett, joining me to go over what was discussed and what this means for the administration, laura? sessions has been dogged by news since march that he failed to disclose his contacts with russia officials, but this report from the washington post goes a step further and says these recordings with russian ambassador sergei k ....