Attorney General Sessions Will Testify In Public

The newspaper noted that it doesn't exclude the possibility of recordings created by another entity.

The attorneys general of Maryland and the District of Columbia plan to sue President Donald Trump.

His re-election campaign says the event will take place June 21 at an arena in Cedar Rapids, Iowa.

"I'm sure Attorney General Sessions would love to remove himself from it if possible, at least inoculate himself to some degree", Williams said.

Spicer told reporters Monday that it "depends on the scope of the questions" and said it was "premature" to say.

In light of former Federal Bureau of Investigation director James Comey's testimony last week, Sessions is expected to get many questions from lawmakers about his contacts with Russian officials during the 2016 election campaign.

Initially, Sessions expected to testify in a closed-door session, said two sources familiar with the attorney general's thinking.

He did not say if he would appear in open or closed session.

Sessions, who had agreed to testify this week before the Senate and House appropriations subcommittees about the Justice Department budget, wrote the chairmen of the committees Saturday and said he was sending his deputy to testify instead.

Several Republican lawmakers also criticized Comey for disclosing memos he had written in the aftermath of his private conversations with Trump, calling that action "inappropriate".

The committee has not yet confirmed the Tuesday date for Sessions' testimony and is still discussing whether to allow Sessions to testify in open or closed sessions, or both, as was the case with James Comey last week, reports said.

The Justice Department says Sessions looks forward to answering the committee's questions. "They attacked us. They knew what they doing, and not only did they get into emails and released emails and try to influence the election, they were also poking and prodding in state election systems, and they're going to be back".

Democratic Senate leader Chuck Schumer and fellow Democratic Senator Jack Reed questioned yesterday why Sessions was involved in Trump's May 9 dismissal of Comey after he had recused himself from investigations of whether Russian Federation tried to meddle in the 2016 presidential election with possible help from Trump associates. After the White House wouldn't give Sessions a full-throated public endorsement, Comey told senators that Sessions may have had a third, undisclosed meeting with the Russian ambassador to the US, Sergey Kislyak. Comey welcomed any tapes during his hearing, and congressional investigators have asked the White House to produce them if they exist.

Democratic operative Scott Ferson, former press secretary to U.S. Sen.

Democrat Senator Dianne Feinstein said that request made her "queasy".

"You may be the first president in history to go down because you can't stop inappropriately talking about an investigation that, if you just were quiet, would clear you", Mr. Sessions wants a chance to respond - questions about whether the FBI was in possession of some facts about Sessions in Russian Federation that would make it clear Sessions would have to recuse from that investigation. "I don't think that should continue", Republican National Committee Chairwoman Ronna Romney McDaniel said on "Fox News Sunday".

Trump's allies attempted to move the national storyline away from Russian Federation on the Sunday talk shows, arguing that Comey's testimony about former Attorney General Loretta Lynch to call the Hillary Clinton email investigation a "matter" was more compelling.

Appearing on CBS's "Face the Nation", Senator Chuck Schumer of NY, the Democratic leader, said Mr. Sessions would need to answer questions about his recommendation that Mr. Comey be fired in light of Mr. Trump's admission that his decision was linked to the Russian Federation investigation.