Jeff Sessions: “We hope that Congress will consider giving the States... 80 percent of the Clean Water Act funds.”

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.

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

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