Jeff Sessions: “This is a political deal. I know how it worked out.”

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.

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.

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.