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Attorney General, Jeff Sessions said Tuesday that he had “no recollection” of a former Trump campaign adviser’s comments on Russia during a March 2016 Trump campaign meeting on national security ? until, that is, it emerged that George Papadopoulos had pled guilty to lying to FBI agents working with the special counsel investigating Russian interference in the 2016 election. Sessions now says that, to the best of his recollection, he tried to make clear at the time that Papadopoulos could not represent the campaign to the Russian government.

Donald Trump Jr. is facing criticism for corresponding privately with Wikileaks both in the run-up to the 2016 presidential election and following his father’s surprise win. The president’s son received messages from Wikileaks over a period of 10 months, during which time the organization requested that he push for Julian Assange to become Australia’s ambassador to the U.S. and share the organization’s work. He was asked for Trump’s tax returns and encouraged to tell his father not to concede if he lost the election. On more than one occasion, Trump Jr. appeared to have taken political suggestions from WikiLeaks' board.

The House of Representatives voted Monday to reduce the pensions and other benefits available to former presidents in view of the "high-paying opportunities" afforded modern US leaders upon leaving office.The Presidential Allowance Modernization Act was passed by voice vote, meaning consensus, but Senate passage, and the president's signature, are needed before it can become law. It is intended to reform a 1958 law that entitles former presidents to a six-figure pension as well as budgets to maintain staff and offices.