An escalation of the political drama in Washington.

US Attorney General Jeff Sessions will be testifying this morning before the Senate Intelligence Committee investigating Russian connections with President Donald Trump's presidential campaign.

Associated Press reporter Eric Tucker told Rachel Smalley there are Democrats who feel he wasn't honest with them after admitting he'd met with the Russian Ambassador before the Presidential election.

"He's going to face also very sharp questions about why he was involved in the decision to fire the director of the FBI, James Comey, when he recused himself of the Russia investigation," he said.

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The former Republican US senator from Alabama, one of Trump's most avid supporters on the campaign trail, will likely have to explain why he told politicians in January he had no dealings with Kremlin officials last year.

His staffers have since acknowledged that he met twice with Russian Ambassador Sergei Kislyak. They say he did not mislead Congress because the encounters were part of his job as a senator, not as a surrogate of the Trump campaign.

But the revelations forced Sessions to recuse himself from the Russia investigation in March, and it is now being handled by a special counsel.

The attorney general could also face questions about whether he met Kislyak on a third occasion. Several media outlets have reported that Comey told the Intelligence Committee last week that the FBI was examining whether Sessions met with Kislyak at a Washington hotel last year.

It is not clear whether Sessions plans to answer all the questions or if he will invoke executive privilege to avoid disclosing private conversations with the president.

Some members of the Intelligence Committee, frustrated by the tight-lipped performance of other administration officials last week, said they were not going to allow Sessions to follow suit.

"That's just not going to be acceptable," said Senator Ron Wyden, a Democrat on the committee.

One of those administration officials, Admiral Michael Rogers, head of the National Security Agency, met with members of the Intelligence Committee in a closed-door session, according to the agency.