Reported by TPM,
(emphasis is mine)
House Intelligence Committee member Rep. Trey Gowdy (R-SC) said Thursday that information about Attorney General Jeff Sessions' conversations with a Russian ambassador "should never have made it to the public domain."
"We cannot overlook the fact that the methodology of the collection and the content of that transcript never should have made into the public domain," Gowdy said in an appearance on MSNBC. "And people may like that it did today, because it hurts Republicans, but what it really does is it hurts our country because you are leaking classified information."
Many have mistakenly believed that Sessions and the Russian ambassador both met face-to-face in Sessions office. Nope. Many have overlooked an important detail. According to The Hill,
A spokeswoman for Sessions confirmed the contact with Kislyak, saying the attorney general spoke on the phone with the ambassador from his office in September.
This is the same Kislyak who had his phone bugged when talking to Michael Flynn. Jeff Sessions was physically in his office, but the Russian was on the phone.
UPDATE: There’s some confusion, and I don’t want to be inaccurate. There is dispute whether there was a face-to-face meeting, a phone call, or both.
This link says there there is a correction:
Corrected on March 2 at 5:23 p.m. Sessions met with Kislyak on Sept. 8. The meeting was also in Sessions' office, not over the phone.
This Washington Post article with timeline says that there was a Sept 8th meeting, face-to-face in Sessions’s office, and that a spokesperson said there was also a Sept 13th phone call, and then retracted the statement about a call. So things are a little bit murky.