Jeff Sessions: “I think, for the record, a number of significant articles should be in the record.”

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 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.

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