Jeff Sessions: “I think we struck the right balance. I think there is a lot of controls and limits and reviews over this.”

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.

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

We need to take away children.

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