Jeff Sessions: “We have altered our COPS grants to encourage the use of COPS grant money for school resource officers.”

It hasn't been good, and the American people don't like the idea that we're separating families. We never really intended to do that.

Do you believe that you would come under political pressure from leading Democrats on this committee who want you to arrest 500 more people?

We need to take away children.

What he decides to do over at the Justice Department will be independent of political considerations over at the White House.