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Jeff Sessions: “I think we are kidding ourselves if we suggest that we should not ask a nominee, someone who has been nominated to be…”

On the recordJanuary 27, 2015
I think we are kidding ourselves if we suggest that we should not ask a nominee, someone who has been nominated to be the Attorney General of the United States, about problems existing within the U.S. Department of Justice.
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Jeff Sessions
Republican · Alabama

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Sessions argues for the necessity of questioning a nominee about existing DOJ issues.

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