Jeff Sessions

I have just got to tell you, the President made a big mistake here.

No President should demand amnesty, legal status, for millions of people unlawfully in this country when there is no sufficient staff to do the kind of background we have been doing for people who apply lawfully.

This individual was approved for legal status in the United States, even though he may have had gang affiliation, and now has murdered.

This is an important issue that Senator Lee has spent a good deal of time researching and it relates to the promise the President made that nobody would get citizenship under this program, and it appears that they will.

That is my understanding. There would not be a plan to do person-to-person interviews.

Experts have told me on that, a process that does not have the person-to-person interview is really a dangerous process and creates a lot of different dangers.

The Congressional Budget Office studied that and what they found was that per capita GDP went down.

It was the Democratic Senators that blocked the Senate bill from even coming to the floor and even having a chance to be amended.

My perspective is that the House of Representative fully funded homeland security with their bill.

I have always admired his skill and ability and I am confident we will go forward effectively.

Congress and the American people need to know the truth and to understand what our laws say, how they are being carried out, why it is failing, and how it can be fixed.

I am going to offer for the record, relevant to what you just said, a February 27 letter by Senator Grassley.

I think we need to reestablish where we are, or confirm where we are, not--Director Clapper, is it still our policy that no options are off the table and that Iran should not have a nuclear weapon?

Well, I think that's true. We had a very important hearing yesterday on nuclear forces and strategic forces.

I don't think there's any doubt they were--they would never--they never relinquished the intention to build a weapon.

I do remember that the CIA reported, in, what, early 2000s, that Iran wasn't intent on building a nuclear weapon. That was wrong, was it not?

I am, frankly, of the view that there is uncertainty about the United States' will around the world.

I am a little bit of the view that things are getting dicey around the world.

I had not thought of either one of those examples before, but I think it is something for us to think about.

I am not sure I agree with that, but that is where we are.

Well, it is definitely a complex thing. It seems to me that if you have got now Iran, Saudi Arabia, other nations with nuclear weapons, you have got four Nations perhaps who would use nuclear weapons if their existence is at threat.

I do not believe it is fair to say we are acting on--is the possibility of configuring our nuclear arsenal with more specialized weapons.

So they are planning and exercising in their war games the utilization of nuclear weapons?

You do think providing a nuclear umbrella to our allies in the region is something that would have to be considered?

I think that any significant reduction in our nuclear capabilities could be misread at this point in history.