He had to recuse himself for lying in a confirmation hearing in front of the senate. What this talks about is him lying on the form he had to take to get security clearance. He has now lied to two separate agencies over his contacts with Russia.
The Russia story sounds to them the way the Seth Rich story sounds to us. They've devoted themselves to believing that all the new details are made up by the liberal media so when a story like this breaks, they just say "That never happened. The story is a lie to discredit Trump."