“My answer was correct,” Sessions wrote in a letter to the Senate Judiciary Committee that he used to further explain his testimony.

“I did not mention communications I had had with the Russian ambassador over the years because the question did not ask about them,” Sessions wrote.

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“No,” Sessions had responded.

In his letter, the former Trump campaign surrogate only said he does “not recall any discussions with the Russian ambassador, or any other representative of the Russian government, about the campaign.”

Sessions’s confirmation hearing answers about his previously undisclosed talks with Russian ambassador Sergey Kislyak, which were revealed by The Washington Post last week, set off a major firestorm in Washington.

It led to Sessions’ recusal from any election-related investigations, a decision he said he began to discuss with senior Justice Department officials in late February.