They probably alledgedly lied as you claim, because they felt that they were being set up. If enough people start saying something is wrong, then people start believing it is wrong even if it isn't wrong..
I would lie to if I was the victim of a witch Hunt.
At least two of them denied contact with the russians before the fbi investigation was even announced.
The only people who knew talking to the russians was bad, were the russians, and the americans they were colluding with.
I'm curious, RR...are you claiming that people in the Obama Administration didn't talk to Russians? In the Bush Administration? In the Clinton Administration? The truth is...people in ALL of those administrations talked to the Russians. They're a super power. We're a super power. Super powers talk to each other...it's what they DO! It wasn't wrong when Hillary was talking to the Russians about uranium deals...why is it suddenly wrong because someone from the Trump administration is talking to them now?