The full transcript doesn't show anything of the kind in your copypasta. Senator Franken asked, "if there is any evidence that
anyone affiliated with the Trump campaign (
which Sessions was) communicated with the Russian government
in the course of the campaign (
during the campaign), what will you do?"
Sessions proceeds to not answer the question and say "I have been called a surrogate at a time or two in that campaign (
true) and
I did not have communications with the Russians (
false)." To insert words into his quote to change the meaning is overly generous. Sessions said he did not communicate with "Russians". That is false. If he meant to say "about the campaign" or "as a campaign surrogate", he should have said that. Oh, and by the way, there's no evidence that he didn't talk about the campaign, and I really think that's out of the question given that one of the meetings with the ambassador was at the Republican National Convention.