A spokeswoman for U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions denied that he was being untruthful when he said at his confirmation hearing that he had no contact with Russian officials amid revelations Wednesday that Sessions met with the Russian ambassador during Donald Trump's campaign for president.

The contact was first reported by the Washington Post. Federal investigators reportedly probed Sessions' contact with Russian officials, according to the Wall Street Journal, which added that it's unclear whether the probe is ongoing.

Sessions was a key player in Trump's campaign, serving as the head of Trump's national security advisory committee.

Sarah Isgur Flores, the spokeswoman, said that Sessions' meetings with Russian ambassador to the United States Sergey Kislyak were held in Sessions' capacity as a senator on the Armed Services Committee. Before he was tapped as Trump's attorney general, Sessions served as Alabama's junior senator.

Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., the committee's chairman, did not take a meeting with Kislyak, and neither did 19 of the 26 committee members who responded to the Washington Post. Flores told AL.com she didn't know whether any of Sessions' colleagues on the committee met with Kislyak.

Flores denied Sessions was deceiving senators at his confirmation hearing when he was asked about a CNN report claiming the Russian government and the Trump campaign exchanged information.

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"I have been called a surrogate at a time or two in that campaign and I didn't have--did not have communications with the Russians, and I'm unable to comment on it," Sessions said at the hearing.

Flores provided AL.com with a list of 31 times where Sessions held meetings with ambassadors and diplomats in 2016, while he was still a senator.

"There was absolutely nothing misleading about his answer," Flores told AL.com in an email. "Last year, the senator had over 25 conversations with foreign ambassadors as a senior member of the Armed Services Committee, including the British, Korean, Japanese, Polish, Indian, Chinese, Canadian, Australian, German and Russian ambassadors. He was asked during the hearing about communications between Russia and the Trump campaign--not about meetings he took as a senator and a member of the Armed Services Committee."

A member of the Trump administration said the ambassadors made superficial comments about the 2016 elections to Sessions but that the election wasn't the main thrust of the conversations.

Sessions spoke with Kislyak in July in Cleveland during the Republican National Convention, when Sessions gave a speech at a Heritage Foundation event attended by 50 other ambassadors, according to Flores. She said Kislyak was among a group of ambassadors who approached Sessions after the speech. Some of the ambassadors invited Sessions to join them at various events they were sponsoring but he did not make any commitments. It was unclear if Kislyak was one of the ambassadors who invited Sessions to an event.

Sessions also met Kislyak in his Senate office on Sept. 8, according to a list provided by Flores.

While Sessions is maintaining that his contact with Kislyak was not connected to the Trump campaign, revelations of the ambassador's conversations with National Security Adviser Gen. Michael Flynn led to Flynn's resignation last month. Flynn and Kislyak spoke on the phone multiple times on Dec. 29, when then-President Barack Obama announced sanctions against Russia for interference in the presidential election.

In December, the CIA concluded Russia was meddling in the U.S. election to benefit Trump by hacking into the Democratic National Committee's servers and the email account of Hillary Clinton's campaign manager, John Podesta.

Democrats, and some Republicans, have called for congressional investigations to probe whether the Trump campaign exchanged information with the Russians.

Corrected on March 2 at 5:23 p.m. Sessions met with Kislyak on Sept. 8. The meeting was also in Sessions' office, not over the phone.