Like any CEO with a law firm sometimes the lawyers have to tell the CEO, Mr. CEO, you can't do that. Don't do that. It will get us sued. It's going to be in violation of the law you'll regret it, please, no matter how head strong they might be.
Sessions discusses the responsibility of the attorney general to advise the President against unlawful actions.
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I think we ought to clarify it one way or the other so the public is out there not breaking Federal law.
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 am disturbed that the Acting Chief of the U.S. Capitol Hill Police, who was in charge of intelligence, did not show today.
I'm not going to unrecuse myself because I have a conflict, because I did--was involved in the campaign and knew some things, can't do it.
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