Jeff Sessions: “Let me ask you this. It's something that all of us in politics know, the authority of the people to make decisions.”

I really am amazed that a judge sitting on an island in the Pacific can issue an order that stops the president of the United States from what appears to be clearly his statutory and constitutional power.

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 see that the fact that no one was being prosecuted for this as a factor in a five-fold increase in four years in this kind of illegal immigration so, yes, hopefully people will get the message and come through the border at the port of…

Yes, hopefully people will get the message.