Jeff Sessions: “I know of no policy that would suggest that something like that would be done, and I would not push for it.”

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.

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.

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