Also, looking deeper into the Sessions perjury story, there's no way indictment comes there either.
There's 2 main reasons:
1) For there to be a crime of perjury, 3 things must be present - lying , being under oath, intent. As much as you and I may know he intended it, that's not going to be enough. There's far too many cases like this that just don't stick. The question he answered that to didn't even ask if he'd had contact with the Russians so his answer.
Quote:
Franken:#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: 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 did not have communications with the Russians, and I'm unable to comment on it.
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2) The other more awful reason no charges will be levied anyways is that only the DOJ can investigate a crime. Congress cannot. So that means only Jeff Sessions can authorize an investigation into whether Jeff Sessions is guilty of perjury