Jeff Sessions: “Why am I faced with placing children in jail longer than they've been alive?”

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

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

We need to take away children.

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.