Story highlights Sessions attributed the oversight to advice he received from an FBI employee who helped him fill out the form.

If Trump truly believes that this whole thing is a made-up story, then he should be unrelentingly supportive of the Mueller investigation

(CNN) Attorney General Jeff Sessions failed to properly disclose his contacts with Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak in a security clearance application, CNN reported on Wednesday night.

Sessions attributed the oversight to advice he received from an FBI employee who helped him fill out the form. The FBI employee told Sessions he didn't need to note every interaction -- especially passing ones -- with foreign officials. So, Sessions didn't.

This is not an uncommon occurrence. Phil Mudd, who spent time at the CIA and the FBI and now works as a counter-terrorism analyst for CNN, acknowledged Thursday morning on "New Day" that he, too, didn't list every foreign official he came into contact with on his security clearance forms -- comparing it to going 62 in an area where the speed limit is 55.

Fair enough.

The problem here for Sessions -- and the Trump administration more broadly -- is that the meetings the Attorney General failed to disclose are with the Russian ambassador. Not the ambassador to France or England or literally any other place in the world.

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