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The Honorable James B. Comey, Jr Page 2 of 3 March 20, 2017 his personal office with the Russian ambassador on September 8, 2016, and they also had a conversation following an event at the Republican National Convention. in July 2016. Following this revelation, the Attorney General issued a statement that claimed he "never met with any Russian officials to discuss issues of the campaign. I have no idea what this allegation is about. It is false.' The Attorney General then confirmed he had met with the Russian ambassador on these two occasions during a press conference on March 2, 2017, during which he said the September meeting took place "in campaign season, but [he did not] recall any political conversations.2 He also claimed that he "[did not] remember a lot of. [the conversation]." The Attorney General later confirmed both meetings in a. letter to the Judiciary Committee on March 6, 2017. Given his own admissions regarding contacts with the Russian ambassador,. including at the Republican National Convention, and particularly in light of his description of his lack of recollection of what was said during the conversations, Attorney General Sessions' written testimony to Senator Leahy appears to be. discernably false. His testimony to Senator Franken also appears to be unequivocally false. We are concerned by Attorney General Sessions' lack of candor to the Committee construed as perjury. We are also disturbed that the Attorney General has not been forthcoming about his contacts with the Russian ambassador since he was forced to disclose the two meetings following press reports. The press has now reported that. there was a third undisclosed instance in which the Attorney General may have had contact with the Russian ambassador during the 2016 elections, which occurred at. a small, private campaign event in April 2016 with'then-candidate Trump in attendance.' In light of Attorney General Sessions' failure to provide truthful and complete responses to the Judiciary Committee -- in his sworn testimony, in.his explanation for his false statements, and in his subsequent March 6 letter purporting to provide ambassador, or any other Russian officials, may have had with Attorney General 2 https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2017/03/02/transcript-of-jeff-sessionss-recusal-press- conference-annotated/?utm term=.96a4d24c5at2 http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/jeff-sessions-sergey-kislyak-mayflower._ us _ 58c05639e4b0d1078ca37225? section=politics