Did Sessions ‘Lie’?

House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi says Attorney General Jeff Sessions “lied under oath” when he said he “did not have communications with the Russians” during the presidential campaign. She has called on him to resign.

Sessions says that, in context, his responses as part of the Senate confirmation process were “honest and correct as I understood it at the time.” He acknowledged that he should have told the Senate that he “did meet one Russian official a couple of times,” but he said any claims that he gave a false answer are “not correct.”

We’ll leave it up to readers to decide whether Sessions’ comments to Congress were “lies,” which would mean an intention to deceive. But here are the facts as we know them right now.

Let’s start with Sessions’ comments in question. They were made at the Jan. 10 Senate hearing on whether by Sen. Al Franken, a Democrat (at the 2:10 mark).