Jeff Sessions: “I do not know that I defer to the Southern Poverty Law Center as the final authority on who is a radical group.”

We need to take away children.

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 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.

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