Sessions: It Became a ‘Testy’ Conversation with the Russian Ambassador

EXCERPT:

REPORTER: "What did you talk about?"
SESSIONS: "Well, just normal things such as — I started off by saying — I don’t remember a lot of it, but I do remember saying I had gone to Russia with a church group in 1991, and he said he was not a believer himself, but he was glad to have church people come there. Indeed, I thought he was pretty much of an old style Soviet type ambassador. And, so, we talked about — a little bit about terrorism, as I recall, and somehow the subject of the Ukraine came up. I had had the Ukrainian ambassador in my office the day before to listen to him. Russia had done nothing that wrong in any area and everybody else was wrong with regard to the Ukraine. It got to be a little bit of a testy conversation at that point. It wrapped up. He said something about inviting me to have lunch. I did not accept that, and that never occurred.”