Jeff Sessions: “I still continue to hope that Chief Justice Roberts has enough political savvy to avoid this backlash, but there is no…”

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.

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

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

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.