Jeff Sessions: “The expectation that we're going to demand that we have to have dollar-for-dollar increases in non-defense as to…”

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 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…

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.