Every Democrat on the House Judiciary Committee sent a letter on Thursday asking FBI Director James Comey for a criminal investigation into Attorney General Jeff Sessions.
“Efforts by Attorney General Sessions to assert that his testimony was not false or even misleading because he met with the Russian ambassador in his capacity as a senator, rather than a campaign representative, appear to be disingenuous at best as the questions put to him did not in any way ask if the meeting was campaign related,” the Democrats wrote.
In response to a question during his confirmation hearing at the Senate Judiciary Committee, Sessions said he “did not have communications with the Russians” during the Trump campaign. But it was reported and confirmed by Sessions’ staffers on Wednesday that he spoke twice with Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak, including a private conversation in September in the senator’s office.
According to the letter’s signees, Sessions’ statements to the Senate panel “could potentially implicate a number of criminal laws including Lying to Congress and Perjury, 18 U.S.C. §§ 1001 and 1621.”
Numerous Democratic lawmakers have called for Sessions to resign as attorney general.
