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Jeff Sessions: “Like any CEO with a law firm, sometimes the lawyers have to tell the CEO, 'Mr. CEO, you can't do that. Don't do that.…”

On the recordMay 15, 2017
Like any CEO with a law firm, sometimes the lawyers have to tell the CEO, 'Mr. CEO, you can't do that. Don't do that. We'll get sued. It's going to be in violation of the law. You'll regret it, please, no matter how headstrong they might be.' Do you feel like that's a duty on the attorney general's office?
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Jeff Sessions
Republican · Alabama

Editor's note · Context

Sessions questions Yates about the attorney general's responsibility to advise the president against unlawful actions.

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