Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine, said the Senate Intelligence Committee will be requesting documents from and an interview with Attorney General Jeff Sessions as part of its investigation into Russia’s election meddling.
“The committee is going to be requesting documents and an interview with the Attorney General,” Collins said on MSNBC Friday morning.
Collins’ comments come after a report from CNN that former FBI Director James Comey told lawmakers in a closed hearing on Thursday that Sessions may have had a third, undisclosed meeting with Russian Ambassador Sergei Kislyak during the 2016 campaign.
“There are some answered questions. The Attorney General clearly made the right decision in recusing himself from the Russian investigation,” Collins added. “He made the right call.”
Collins declined to say whether the committee was seeking information about that reported third meeting.
Sessions recused himself from any federal investigation into Russia’s hand in the 2016 election after it was revealed he failed to disclose to the Senate two meetings he had with Kislyak in 2016 while he was an advisor to then-candidate Trump during his campaign.
According to CNN, Sessions’ third meeting with the Russian ambassador came in April 2016, around the time when Trump gave his first major foreign policy speech.
