Jeff Sessions: “I hope this will be viewed as the best hearing this Committee has ever had.”

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.

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 think we ought to clarify it one way or the other so the public is out there not breaking Federal law.

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