Jeff Sessions: “You are indeed an excellent chairman; work hard, you take responsibility for this.”

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?

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 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…