But Conway's one-line answer is significant: Sessions is expected to testify before the Senate Intelligence Committee Tuesday, where he will answer questions raised by fired FBI Director James Comey's testimony before the same committee last week.
Top administration officials sometimes argue they shouldn't disclose the details of what they discuss with the president.
"The attorney general has requested that this hearing be public", said spokeswoman Sarah Isgur Flores.
Sessions, a close campaign adviser to Donald Trump and the first senator to endorse him, stepped aside from the investigation in early March after acknowledging he had spoken twice in the months before the election with the Russian ambassador.
The Justice Department ultimately agreed to a Tuesday public hearing in an attempt to show there's nothing to hide and nothing controversial about Sessions' interactions with Russian officials, officials said. And why did you fail to provide information about the meetings you had with Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak on your security clearance form?
What was your involvement in the decision to fire James Comey?
"As NPR's Carrie Johnson recently reported on All Things Considered: "[Sources] are telling me Trump has been very angry with Jeff Sessions for recusing himself in the Russian Federation investigation to begin with, lots of profane conversations and yelling.
Sessions said in a letter on Saturday that he would appear before the committee to address matters that Comey brought up last week in testimony to the same panel.
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Senators have questioned why Sessions was involved in Comey's dismissal though Comey was leading the Russian Federation investigation.
"As the participants started to leave the Oval Office, the attorney general lingered by my chair but the president thanked him and said he wanted to speak only with me", Comey wrote in his statement.
He was the US attorney in Manhattan who in 2003 charged Martha Stewart with obstructing justice in a stock trade investigation.
On Monday, when pressed about the possibility of tapes, White House press secretary Sean Spicer said Trump would "get back [to reporters] as soon as possible" with an announcement.
"I think what needs to happen tomorrow is the panel needs to very carefully craft their questions so that they can illicit responses which would be outside of the privilege". Democratic Sens. Patrick Leahy of Vermont and Al Franken of Minnesota had asked the Federal Bureau of Investigation early a year ago to review the possible third meeting with Kislyak. "The nature of the person", he said.
He did not say if he would appear in open or closed session. "I was honestly concerned that he might lie about the nature of our meeting, and so I thought it really important to document", the ex-FBI director testified.
In his opening remarks publicized one day ahead of his testimony on Thursday, Comey revealed that the president met with him alone to discuss an FBI investigation into Flynn on February 14.
Comey's dramatic testimony drew invective from his former boss on Twitter, with Trump dismissing him as a leaker on Friday and a coward on Sunday. "I was sacked because of the Russian Federation investigation", Mr. Comey testified. They also emphasized Comey's admission that he arranged to have contents of his memos leaked to the news media. "Totally illegal?" he asked in a tweet.
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