Originally Posted by Owain
Not in the context of the question asked, which is what the government would have to prove to secure a perjury conviction.

As far as answering Franken's question goes, it was a convoluted meandering word salad of a question, so it's not surprising that Sessions gave up trying to tease an actual question out of it, and responded as he did.



It doesn't necessarily matter if he was asked a specific question or not. Old white power Jeff brought up voluntarily that he had no contact with Russians. This was a lie. Lying to congress constitutes perjury.

per·ju·ry
ˈpərj(ə)rē/
nounLAW
the offense of willfully telling an untruth in a court after having taken an oath or affirmation.