Jeff Sessions: “It is clear that 8 years after September 11, 2001, there are still holes in our counterterrorism system.”

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 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.

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

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