Jeff Sessions: “I think we have a right to ask for that. Don't you?”

I see that the fact that no one was being prosecuted for this as a factor in a five-fold increase in four years in this kind of illegal immigration so, yes, hopefully people will get the message and come through the border at the port of…

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'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.

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