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51. Later in the article is the part I heard discussed

Two months before the September meeting, Sessions attended a Heritage Foundation event in July on the sidelines of the Republican National Convention that was attended by roughly 50 ambassadors. When the event was over, a small group of ambassadors approached Sessions as he was leaving the podium, and Kislyak was among them, the Justice Department official said.

Sessions then spoke individually to some of the ambassadors, including Kislyak, the official said. In the informal exchanges, the ambassadors expressed appreciation for his remarks and some of them invited him to events they were sponsoring, said the official, citing a former Sessions staffer who was at the event.

I have not been paying as close attention to the details - my husband has been out of town and got home during the coverage of these stories. While he was gone I had appointments with a cardiologist and our accountant so I had to update him on what had happened. Plus, in between we were watching the coverage and discussing it.