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I have not approached it that way.

Look, I don’t regret it. You do what you have to do. And just so you understand, they voted to impeach me … In all fairness, you think that I’m going to support somebody that voted to impeach me?

I’ll reach out to whoever I have to, but anybody voting against [Blanche] would be doing a great disservice to the country.

I will vote for Mr Blanche. Mr Blanche is not perfect, and he will tell you this, but the choice is not between perfection and Mr Blanche; it is between Mr Blanche and another acting attorney general who may not run the department…

He can advise the president, but the president is not obligated to take his advice

This is the rationale for having a Senate confirmed attorney general with more leverage to push back

I will be criticized for this vote

We're doing the same thing, by the way, in the lovely Islamic Republic of Iran. We're knocking the hell out of them.

To the victor belong the spoils.

The war there lasted 48 minutes, and we paid for the war with what we've taken out many, many, many times.

I am particularly concerned about episodes of apparent lawfare, DOJ bringing suits against political enemies.

Congress has the responsibility to ensure those funds are used to celebrate and preserve American history, not distort it.

I'm against Murkowski. I do more for Alaska than any president in history. No president's done for Alaska what I've done. She's not good.

I am realistic that President Trump can be unrelenting on this, but this will be true no matter who the attorney general is.

I will vote for Mr. Blanche. I'll be criticized for this vote. What's new? But the people of Louisiana can be assured that I worked hard to understand the issue and to make the right decision.

This shouldn't be controversial. This should just be something to build trust in our elections.

When you vote you may not know for weeks to months what the final election count is.

I have made fun of other states for years because there's quite a few states around the country that can't seem to figure out how to be able to count.