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Watch Live: Jeff Sessions Testifies Before Senate Intelligence Committee

The attorney general faces questioning from some of his former Senate colleagues about last week's testimony by James Comey, the FBI director who was fired by the president.
Attorney General Jeff Sessions arrives to testify during a Senate Select Committee on Intelligence hearing on Tuesday.

Updated at 3:13 p.m. ET

Attorney General Jeff Sessions told a Senate committee Tuesday he had no contact with Russian officials related to last year's U.S. presidential campaign and was not aware of anyone else in President Trump's campaign who did so.

In his opening statement to the

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