Attorney General Jeff Sessions’s recusal from probes into Russia’s sway on the presidential election is “an admission” of wrongdoing but doesn’t go nearly far enough to satisfy Democrats fighting to learn the extent of Moscow’s sway, Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) said Friday.

The House minority leader said Sessions’s move constitutes “a very narrow recusal” that ignores the “whole Russian connection of personal, political and financial” ties between Moscow and “President Trump, his administration and his campaign.”

“So this is just totally unacceptable,” Pelosi said Friday morning during an interview with Politico’s Playbook team at the Newseum in Washington. “And the very idea that they’re making excuses and splitting hairs and this or that … We have not seen the end of this.”

Pelosi, who called earlier in the week for Sessions to resign immediately, warned that the attorney general’s behavior sends the dangerous message that lying will be tolerated, both within the Justice Department and beyond.

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“He’s the highest [ranking] law enforcement officer in the country. He’s supposed to tell the truth,” she said. “What does that say to the lawyers in the Department of Justice? What does that say to the American Bar Association [and] their standard of professional conduct?”

The firestorm around Sessions raged all day Thursday after The Washington Post reported the night before that Sessions had met twice with Sergey Kislyak, the Russian ambassador to the U.S., during the presidential campaign — meetings he did not disclose in under-oath testimony to the Senate Judiciary Committee during the confirmation process.

Sessions, then an Alabama senator, was among the first members of Congress to endorse Trump, and became a vocal surrogate for the billionaire business mogul on the campaign trail.

As the pressure mounted Thursday — and the list of Republican lawmakers demanding his recusal grew — Sessions called a hasty press conference where he did just that.

“I never had meetings with Russian operatives or Russian intermediaries about the Trump campaign, and the idea that I was part of a quote, ‘continuing exchange of information’ during the campaign between Trump surrogates and intermediaries for the Russian government is totally false,” he said.

Trump wasted no time rushing to Sessions’s defense, saying the former senator’s misleading testimony was “clearly not intentional” and calling the Russia investigations “a witch hunt.”

But Democrats have a decidedly different view, accusing the administration of condoning falsehoods and whitewashing connections between the president and the Kremlin. Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.), a member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, on Friday called for Sessions to return to Capitol Hill and testify once more under oath before the panel.

Pelosi on Friday acknowledged that lawmaker meetings with foreign diplomats are not unusual. But in the context of Sessions’s position as an active Trump surrogate — combined with revelations that Russia had hacked Democratic organizations during the campaign — his meetings with Kislyak smell suspicious, she said.

“Let’s just say that everything is about timing,” she said. “So for him to say, ‘Well, I was just meeting him,’ the normal course of a senator meeting with an ambassador, the Russian ambassador, who everybody knew was hacking our system, it is beyond naive. It’s almost pathetic.”

Pelosi suggested Sessions had broken the law with his misleading testimony and urged Republican leaders on Capitol Hill to get more aggressive in their investigation of potential Trump ties to Russia.

“The possibility of perjury … is punishable by law for anybody else. Certainly, we should have that standard for the highest-ranking law enforcement person in our country,” she said.

“The Russian influence is not just about this election; it’s about what they want to continue to do here. What they are doing in Germany and France, what they’re doing in Europe, they’re undermining democracy,” she added.

“And these actions by the Trump administration make them accomplices to it, unless they help us get to the bottom of it.”