Speaking in the Rose Garden at the White House US President Donald Trump has, for the first time, spoken publicly following former FBI Director James Comey's explosive testimony before the US Senate Intelligence Committee.
Mr Lankford said Mr Sessions's testimony on Tuesday will help flesh out the truth of Mr Comey's allegations, including Mr Sessions's presence at the White House in February when Mr Trump asked to speak to Mr Comey alone.
"He's a leaker", Trump said of Comey.
Stephen Gillers, an ethics expert at New York University Law School, said "in no circumstance would the Judiciary Committee have jurisdiction to impose a penalty".
Trump also indirectly accused Comey of perjury when he adamantly denied the fired FBI director's claim that the President asked him to end the FBI's investigation into former national security adviser Michael Flynn, a close Trump confidante.
The former Federal Bureau of Investigation director said Trump's private comments urging him to drop the probe into former national security adviser Michael Flynn led him to tell his Justice Department colleagues they needed to be careful.
The House requested Comey and the White House provide the records, including tapes if they exist, by June 23.
While Comey said Trump had lied about him, Trump didn't use that exact terminology in return on Friday.
"I don't think it's for me to say whether the conversation I had with the president was an effort to obstruct".
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Mr Trump said, Mr Comey recalled, "I hope you can see your way clear to letting this go, to letting Flynn go".
Trump cryptically refused to say whether those private exchanges were taped - a matter at the heart of the conflicting accounts of what passed between them at a time when Comey was leading an FBI investigation into Russia's interference in the presidential election and its ties to the Trump campaign.
Comey confirmed that he told Trump three times that he was not personally under investigation as part of the Russian Federation probe.
He says nobody would ask a man he hardly knew to pledge loyalty to him.
"Oh you're going to be very disappointed when you hear the answer, don't worry", he added, . On Friday he said he was "committing the United States to Article 5".
The committee also sent a letter to Mr Comey asking for any notes or memos about the discussions he had with Mr Trump before being abruptly fired last month.
He also accused Qatar, a key US military partner, of funding terrorism "at a very high level", and said solving the problem in the tiny Persian Gulf nation could be "the beginning of the end of terrorism".
Comey also revealed that he'd orchestrated the public release of information about his private conversations with the president. "If I didn't, I did it for almost all of them, especially the ones that were substantive", he said.
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