Three people who have spoken with Special Counsel Robert Mueller's team or congressional committees investigating Russian meddling in the 2016 presidential election told Reuters that during their interviews, they contradicted the testimony of Attorney General Jeff Sessions, who last November told the House Judiciary Committee he "pushed back" against a proposal in 2016 to have Trump campaign representatives meet with Russians. The three witnesses were at a March 2016 meeting, where former Trump campaign adviser George Papadopoulos suggested the meeting, and while their accounts differed slightly, all said Sessions had no objections to Papadopoulos' idea. At the time, Sessions was still a Republican senator from Alabama, and was chairing the meeting as head of the campaign's foreign policy team.

Scroll for 5 things you

need to know now

↓