Jeff Sessions: “We passed the bill and we extended it, and all of us had some angst and worry.”

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 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.

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…