Jeff Sessions: “I don't think that statement needs modifying, but it's obviously in context that the President of the United States…”

We need to take away children.

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?

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.