http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2017/06/1...t-man.html
"...One of those smears is reported to have come from former FBI Director James Comey, who speculated that then-Senator Sessions had met with the Russian Ambassador at the Mayflower Hotel on April 27, 2016. That’s when then-candidate Trump delivered a major foreign policy speech in the hotel’s ballroom. As it happens, I know something about that. I was there, as someone who, along with Bob Tyrrell and my wife Esther Goldberg, had prepared a draft of the speech. We sat ourselves down in the second row, and it was thrilling to hear some of our words played back for us.reported to have come from former FBI Director James Comey,
Just before the speech was given, a bunch of bigwigs entered the ballroom from a private reception where they had met with Trump. Jeff Sessions was one of them, and he sat in the row just ahead of us. We shook hands and settled back for the speech. When it was over, I saw him hang back a bit, and then exit alone. If he had met with a Russian ambassador I think I’d know. And it didn’t happen.
Comey had no evidence about any such meeting. If he was the source of the rumor, that tells you something about his willingness to smear people.
Apart from that, there’s the idiocy of supposing that, if the Russians had wanted to influence the campaign, the way to do so would be to send the ambassador to meet with a campaign official in approximately the most public venue in all of Washington. Behind us the cameras were all rolling, and in the room were a few great Washington Post reporters, Bob Woodward and Robert Costa...."