Jeff Sessions: “The Solicitor General should have told the Attorney General, 'We cannot not defend that statute. It does not comply with…”

We need to take away children.

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?

I'm not going to unrecuse myself because I have a conflict, because I did--was involved in the campaign and knew some things, can't do it.