Good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen. It is a great pleasure to be with you and look at this overflow audience. Particularly it is an honor for me to be able to introduce a gentleman i have known for a long time. He is a good friend and certainly a person i have great admiration for. As lawyers, we all appreciate the many responsibilities of the attorney general. He is, of course, the chief Law Enforcement officer of the federal government. He is the legal advise advisor to the executive branch. He has a special responsibility to the people of the country to be sure that the constitution is preserved and protected. The career, past career, of Jeff Sessions could not have been better to make him such an ideally qualified person for this responsibility. Jeff, as you know, restarted his career after private law practice, his Public Service was as an assistant u. S. Attorney. And then he was appointed by Ronald Reagan in his first term as the u. S. Attorney for the Southern District of ala
Good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen. It is a great pleasure to be with you and look at this overflow audience. Particularly it is an honor for me to be able to introduce a gentleman i have known for a long time. He is a good friend and certainly a person i have great admiration for. As lawyers, we all appreciate the many responsibilities of the attorney general. He is, of course, the chief Law Enforcement officer of the federal government. He is the Legal Advisor to the executive branch. He has a special responsibility to the people of the country to be sure that the constitution is preserved and protected. The career, past career, of Jeff Sessions could not have been better to make him such an ideally qualified person for this responsibility. Jeff, as you know, restarted his career after private law practice, his Public Service was as an assistant u. S. Attorney. And then he was appointed by Ronald Reagan in his first term as the u. S. Attorney for the Southern District of alabama. H
Jeff sessions spoke at the Federalist Society convention. This is just over 30 minutes. Thank you for those special words. If ambassador tinsley act in the room . Before i get started here. Russians . Anybody been to russia . Got a cousin in russia . Anyway. I was so on a honors to hang certain pictures in my conference room. You can be sure his went up in that room. I know the leadership he did and still remember, particularly the Law Enforcement community. We are part of Law Enforcement if anybody wonders. Our duty is to protect america and have the back of our police officers. Solution to the problem of crime, not the problem. I feel like at this time in history, it was a lot like the 60s and 70s and we had a serious problem of more hours and lack of respect for police. He actually reduced murder rates over 35 years by half. It is an important achievement you have had a fabulous run wherever you are. I say, leonard. Make no mistake. Being able to celebrate with Justice Gorsuch was a
Voices from the states on cspan. Up next, Jeff Sessions regarding the rule of law, judicial nominees and President Trump immigration policy. [applause] whats good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen. Its a great pleasure to be with you and look at this overflow audience here. Particularly an honor for me to introduce a gentleman ive known for a long time. Certainly a person i have great affirmation admiration for. The career of Jeff Sessions could not have been better to make am such an idyllic ideally qualified person for this responsibility. Jeff started his career after private law practice, Public Service as an assistant u. S. Attorney and then appointed by Ronald Reagan in his first term as the u. S. Attorney for the Southern District of alabama. He later on was elected as the attorney general of alabama, and had a distinguished body of service in the United States senate. A person we could always depend first. The constitution been thee time he has attorney general of the United Stat
Weeks. Reporter they say he wasnt feeling well on christmas. At 44 years old and in good health he thought he could ride it out. Fever, feeling like the typical flu that everybody gets that lasts a couple of days. And so, you know, he was in bed with the flu. As far as he knew the fever and feeling altogether bad. Reporter his wife says she finally convinced him to see a doctor who detected pneumonia, gave him antibiotics and certainty him home. Four days later he went to the hospital. He seemed to be getting worse. He started coughing. He had a coughing fit and was turning blue. And the nurses are running in trying to intubate him. Reporter barbeau, who worked in i. T. Went into a medicallyinduced coma eight days after first feeling sick. He would never regain consciousness. He was transferred here to California Pacific Medical Center where he stayed on life support for three weeks but the damage the flu did to his lungs was too much to overcome. His family removed him from life suppo