美国司法部长塞申斯周六称，他愿意出席美国参议院情报委员会13日进行的会议，以回应被解职的联邦调查局局长科米于本月8日的有关指控。不过目前尚不知晓这次会议会以公开还是私下的方式进行。
US Attorney General Jeff Sessions said on Saturday that he will appear before the Senate Intelligence Committee on Tuesday in a response to the testimony of former FBI Director James Comey.
The Intelligence Committee is the "most appropriate" place to address matters, wrote Sessions in a letter to the chairman of the Senate appropriations subcommittee, Richard Shelby of Alabama.
It was not immediately clear if he would testify in public or private.
Sessions recused himself in March from a federal investigation into contacts between Russia and the presidential campaign of Donald Trump, after he faced pressures to step aside from the probe due to his involvement with the Trump campaign.
Former FBI Director James Comey testifies before a Senate Intelligence Committee hearing on Russia's alleged interference in the 2016 US presidential election on Capitol Hill in Washington, June 8, 2017. /Reuters Photo
However, Comey raised questions at a hearing on Thursday, saying that the FBI expected Sessions to recuse himself weeks before he actually did.
Comey said in a closed hearing that investigators had received Russian intercepts detailing a possible third meeting between Sessions and Sergey Kislyak, Russia's Ambassador to the US, reported CNN citing sources familiar with the briefing on Thursday.
