January 10th, 2017 - Al Franken questions Jeff Sessions under oath during the Attorney General confirmation hearing.

https://www.c-span.org/video/?c4659119/franken-sessions-exchange-russia

Senator Al 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.

YOU SAID EARLIER THAT YOU ACCEPT THE FBI'S CONCLUSION. TO MY MIND, IT'S ABSOLUTELY EXTRAORDINARY TO SEE A PRESIDENT-ELECT SO PUBLICLY REFUTING AND WITHOUT EVIDENCE AS FAR AS I CAN TELL, THE ASSESSMENT OF OUR INTELLIGENCE AGENCIES. WHY DO YOU THINK PRESIDENT-ELECT TRUMP HAS BEEN SO UNWILLING TO ACKNOWLEDGE RUSSIAN INVOLVEMENT IN THE HACKING?"

Sentator Jeff 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 DID NOT HAVE COMMUNICATIONS WITH THE RUSSIANS, AND I'M UNABLE TO COMMENT ON IT."

March 1st, 2017 - Washington Post releases article delving into Russian involvement during the 2016 campaign.

Then-Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-Ala.) spoke twice last year with Russia’s ambassador to the United States, Justice Department officials said, encounters he did not disclose when asked about possible contacts between members of President Trump’s campaign and representatives of Moscow during Sessions’s confirmation hearing to become attorney general.

One of the meetings was a private conversation between Sessions and Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak that took place in September in the senator’s office, at the height of what U.S. intelligence officials say was a Russian cyber campaign to upend the U.S. presidential race.

What are the penalties for lying under oath? Can we expect them to be enforced under an Attorney General that has perjured himself?