Attorney General Jeff Sessions said Tuesday that he only recalled a meeting with Trump campaign advisers, during which the prospect of a face-to-face Trump-Putin meeting was raised, after he read news reports about the event.

"I had no recollection of this until I saw these news reports," Sessions told the House Judiciary Committee, in reference to meetings of the campaign's national security team, attended by campaign advisers George Papadopoulos and Carter Page.

Sessions also said the Trump campaign was too chaotic for him to remember everything that happened.

Papadopoulos and Page have said they discussed their contacts with Russian officials at campaign meetings. Papadopoulos said he raised the prospect of a trip by then-candidate Donald Trump to Russia at a March 2016 meeting where Sessions was present. Page has said he told Sessions in person about a speech he was giving in Russia in the summer of 2016.

But in October, Sessions told a Senate committee that he was "not aware" that anyone associated with the campaign had communicated with Russian officials.

Late last month federal investigators revealed that Papadopolous secretly pleaded guilty on Oct. 5 to lying to FBI agents about when he met with Russian nationals to get "dirt" on Hillary Clinton.

Page, a former national security adviser to the Trump campaign, testified earlier this month behind closed doors that he had mentioned his upcoming speech to Sessions last summer. Sessions said he did not recall the brief interaction, which Page said took place at the Capitol Hill Club, a private Republican social club in Washington.

From Sessions' prepared testimony: