Three Reuters sources are contradicting Attorney General Jeff Sessions’s testimony that he pushed back against a meeting between Trump campaign officials and Russians.
Sessions told Congress last year that he opposed a proposal by former campaign adviser George Papadopoulos to meet with the Russians.
However, three other people present at the March 2016 campaign meeting said Sessions never voiced any opposition to meeting with the Russians, Reuters reported.
The sources also said they have discussed the matter with special counsel Robert Mueller’s team or congressional panels.
{mosads}Another meeting attendee, J.D. Gordon, told the news service that he stood by previous comments that Sessions strongly opposed Papadopoulos’s proposal.
Reuters said Sessions’s spokeswoman and Mueller’s office declined to comment on the new allegations.
Last year, Sessions failed to disclose that he had met with former Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak and testified that he was not aware of anyone in the campaign talking with Russians.
Democrats have said Sessions might have committed perjury with his testimony, but Sessions has argued that he has always told the truth and his testimony was to the best of his recollection.