House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) said Wednesday that Attorney General Jeff Sessions Jefferson (Jeff) Beauregard SessionsTrump's policies on refugees are as simple as ABCs Ocasio-Cortez, Velázquez call for convention to decide Puerto Rico status White House officials voted by show of hands on 2018 family separations: report MORE should recuse himself from investigative efforts to determine potential ties between Russia and the Trump administration.

Pelosi said she agreed with Senate Minority Leader Charles Schumer Chuck SchumerMcConnell accuses Democrats of sowing division by 'downplaying progress' on election security Warren, Schumer introduce plan for next president to cancel ,000 in student debt Schumer lashes out at Trump over 'blue states' remark: 'What a disgrace' MORE (D-N.Y.), who has also said that Sessions should recuse himself.

“I completely agree with him in that regard,” Pelosi said.

Pelosi noted that Sessions, when he was in the Senate, had posed questions to then-Deputy Attorney General nominee Sally Yates about her capacity to distance herself from President Obama, who appointed her.

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“Sen. Sessions asked her, ‘Do you think you can be independent of the president who appointed you?’” Pelosi said. “That's an interesting question … for him [because] at this point we don't think he can be."

“His ties to Trump are political,” she added. “[Yates] didn't have those ties to President Obama. So he shouldn't be appointing any special prosecutor.”

Both the House and Senate Intelligence committees have launched investigations into Russia's interference in the U.S. presidential election, after the top intelligence agencies determined the Kremlin had hacked Democratic campaign offices and the email account of John Podesta, Hillary Clinton Hillary Diane Rodham ClintonHillicon Valley: FBI chief says Russia is trying to interfere in election to undermine Biden | Treasury Dept. sanctions Iranian government-backed hackers The Hill's Campaign Report: Arizona shifts towards Biden | Biden prepares for drive-in town hall | New Biden ad targets Latino voters FBI chief says Russia is trying to interfere in election to undermine Biden MORE's campaign chairman, with the intent of helping Trump to victory.

Scrutiny of the Russia saga intensified this week when Michael Flynn, Trump's national security advisor, was forced to step down after The Washington Post revealed that he'd misled Vice President Pence, among other top White House officials, about the nature of a conversation he'd had with Russia's U.S. ambassador prior to Trump's inauguration.

Democrats have pressed hard for Republicans to expand their Intelligence panel investigations to include Flynn, and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell Addison (Mitch) Mitchell McConnellMcConnell focuses on confirming judicial nominees with COVID-19 talks stalled McConnell accuses Democrats of sowing division by 'downplaying progress' on election security Warren, Schumer introduce plan for next president to cancel ,000 in student debt MORE (R-Ky.) said it's “highly likely” the upper chamber will do just that.

House GOP leaders, after initially rejecting such an expansion, appeared to open up to that possibility on Wednesday following a meeting between Reps. Devin Nunes (R-Calif.) and Adam Schiff Adam Bennett SchiffOvernight Defense: Top admiral says 'no condition' where US should conduct nuclear test 'at this time' | Intelligence chief says Congress will get some in-person election security briefings Overnight Defense: House to vote on military justice bill spurred by Vanessa Guillén death | Biden courts veterans after Trump's military controversies Intelligence chief says Congress will get some in-person election security briefings MORE (D-Calif.), the chairman and ranking member, respectively, of the House Intelligence Committee.

“He assured me that we would investigate everything that the Senate is looking at, including the Flynn allegations,” Schiff said afterwards.

Pelosi suggested Thursday that she's not convinced GOP leaders will make good on their vows to follow the probe wherever it goes, including toward Flynn.

“While the Speaker is saying, ‘Oh, the House Intelligence Committee will cover this,’ the chairman of the House Intelligence Committee is saying, ‘I'm not doing that,’” she said.

Still, she noted that Schiff “is hopeful that there will be [a full] investigation,” and “I respect his judgment.”

Pelosi and Schiff on Thursday wrote to Michael Dempsey, acting director of national intelligence, requesting a briefing on the Flynn episode, including access to the unredacted transcripts of the phone call, which was intercepted by the Justice Department.

Pelosi, however, said she's not confident those transcripts will survive to see the light of day.

“I'm afraid they're going to destroy the documents,” Pelosi said. “The fact that I would even say that [indicates that] the level of trust has gone so far low in all of this."

“That's too bad,” she added, “because we're talking about the national security of our country.”