Following fired FBI Director James Comey's testimony last week that Sessions might have had a third, unreported meeting with Russian Ambassador Sergei Kislyak, the attorney general offered to testify before the same panel. Republican Senator James Lankford, a member of the intelligence panel, said on CBS' "Face the Nation" that decision had not been finalised, but, "I assume that this will be public".
"(Sessions) believes it is important for the American people to hear the truth directly from him and looks forward to answering the committee's questions tomorrow", a Justice Department spokesperson said.
After the meeting, Comey said he told Sessions that he did not want to be alone again with Trump and "it can't happen that you get kicked out of the room and the president talks to me".
Comey's dramatic testimony drew invective from his former boss on Twitter, with Trump dismissing him as a leaker on Friday and a coward on Sunday.
Comey accused the Republican president of trying to get him to drop the investigation of former national security adviser Michael Flynn and fired him to undermine the Russian Federation probe.
Comey said he wrote memos on his meetings with the Trump because of "the nature of the person" he was talking to.
The last person to leave was Jared Kushner, who also stood by my chair and exchanged pleasantries with me. Democrats on the Senate Intelligence Committee are not happy - other Democrats, too. But Reed said he could not comment on anything that was said in the closed session.
Trump has disputed Comey's account of the conversation about Flynn as inaccurate, although his oldest son, Donald Trump Jr., a frequent defender of his father's White House performance, seemed to confirm the gist of it.
Trump denied Comey's testimony, saying he never asked the Federal Bureau of Investigation director for a loyalty pledge or to drop the Russian Federation probe.
Discussions with the attorney general on topics within the scope of the President's constitutional duties ordinarily would be protected, lawyers say.
Jeff Sessions Pushes Back On Suggestions Of Collusion
Ron Wyden of OR asked Sessions whether there were any undisclosed reasons for his recusal from the Russian Federation probe. But the majority of the responses from Sessions went around in circles, and some on the committee grew clearly frustrated.
There is a way that Sessions could skirt around having to directly answer these questions, however.
Comey also told the Senate panel he had thought Sessions would recuse himself from the Russian Federation probe earlier than he did, for undisclosed reasons that are classified.
Attention has focused on Sessions amid reports he may have had more meetings with Russian officials during the presidential election campaign a year ago than the two he has informed authorities of.
Democratic Sen. Dianne Feinstein of California, a member of the Intelligence committee, sent a letter to Sen.
In addition to the Senate Intelligence Committee investigation on Russia, special counsel Robert Mueller is leading an independent inquiry into Russia's election meddling and potential links between Russians and the Trump campaign. Charles Schumer of NY, the Senate's top Democrat.
"'I hope you can see your way clear to letting this go, to letting Flynn go, '" Comey quoted Trump as saying.
Questions are swirling about possible additional encounters with the ambassador, Sergey Kislyak.
Sessions eventually did recuse himself from the investigation, but he had not recused himself on February 13 when Trump dismissed national security adviser Michael Flynn or the next day, on February 14, when Comey says the president told Comey to "let ... go" of his investigation into Flynn.
Comey said he could address the details only in a classified setting - heightening the suspense about what might be asked and answered on Tuesday.
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