Jeff Sessions: “We place ourselves at greater risk if more and more of these people end up being released because we did not have…”

I see that the fact that no one was being prosecuted for this as a factor in a five-fold increase in four years in this kind of illegal immigration so, yes, hopefully people will get the message and come through the border at the port of…

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.

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

Yes, hopefully people will get the message.