Jeff Sessions: “I am generally, as you can tell, not disposed to a major increase in judges.”

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 believe that we are involved in a crisis in this country. We have been through one. I think January 6 was a very difficult time and a crisis.

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.

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