Jeff Sessions: “You have one of the great large departments in our country. Not too long ago, we cobbled it together.”

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.

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

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.

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.