Jeff Sessions shifts ground on Russia contacts under Senate questioning

Jeff Sessions agreed that there was a significant difference between answering ‘no’ to whether he had discussed particular issues with Russians and answering ‘I do not recall’.The US attorney general, Jeff Sessions, has given a new account of his contacts with the Russian ambassador during the 2016 election, conceding it was possible that they had discussed Donald Trump’s policy positions.Under intense questioning by the Senate judiciary committee, Sessions departed