Going back to Frankin's original question, he kept asking about contacts as part of the Campaign, to which Sessions truthfully answered "no".
http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-me...anken-about-m/
Senator Sessions was meeting with the Russians in his capacity as a United States Senator.
Originally Posted by Jackie S
if you go back and analyze the question/statement franken presented to Sessions in the exchange one will find that franken actually asked Sessions (assuming he became ag), "if there is any evidence that anyone affiliated with the Trump campaign communicated with the Russian government in the course of this campaign, what will you do?"
that was the question
sessions did not respond to that question, he responded to a question never asked.
he responded to the set up by franken of the question, not the question itself.
this was the question's preamble to which Sessions did respond:
"CNN just published a story alleging that the intelligence community provided documents to the president-elect last week that included information that quote, ‘Russian operatives claimed to have compromising personal and financial information about Mr. Trump.’ These documents also allegedly say quote, ‘There was a continuing exchange of information during the campaign between Trump's surrogates and intermediaries for the Russian government.’
Sessions said, "Senator Franken, I'm not aware of any of those activities. I have been called a surrogate at a time or two in that campaign and I didn't have — did not have communications with the Russians, and I'm unable to comment on it."
now the dims are feigning outrage and demanding resignation and possibly a perjury indictment because it has come out that Sessions was at a function, as senator, where the russian ambassador approached him and they exchanged a few words, and that at another time the Russian ambassador asked for and came to his senate office for a meeting
Session's position is that he didn't have any communications with the Russians as a surrogate and that he was truthful as is plain in his response to franken.
in essence he responded to the presentation by franken that CNN claims that surrogates had a continuing exchange of information with the Russians, and Sessions responded, I was called a surrogate, and I didn't have any communications (as surrogate) and I'm unable to comment on it.