More proof the media's 24/7 fake-news -----Jeff Sessions Perjury Allegation Is Meritless

Jeff Sessions Perjury Allegation Is Meritless | National Review:
"...But the claim that his testimony was perjurious as a matter of law is wholly without merit. 
Perjury is not inaccuracy. 
It must be willfully false testimony. 
Willfulness is the criminal law’s most demanding mens rea (state of mind) requirement. 
...Now, let’s look at the relevant portion of the transcript, the nub of which the Post has excerpted as follows: 
Franken: "Okay. CNN has just published a story, and I’m telling you this about a news story that’s just been published. I’m not expecting you to know whether or not it’s true or not. But 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.” Now, again, I’m telling you this as it’s coming out, so you know. But if it’s true, it’s obviously extremely serious, and 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?" 
Sessions: "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." 
Senator Franken patently framed this line of inquiry in the context of Russian espionage against the Trump campaign, drawn from CNN’s report of a salacious, discredited, uncorroborated dossier. 
It claimed that the Russians had acquired compromising personal and financial information about Donald Trump. 
With that premise, Franken added the dossier’s claim that “there was a continuing exchange of information between Trump surrogates and intermediaries for the Russian government.” 
The point that Franken was clearly driving at was that Sessions, having supported Trump and been a Trump-campaign surrogate, should recuse himself as attorney general from any investigation probing communications between the Trump campaign and Russian officials..."