jeff sessions got thumbs up. he's not as what you saw before the break getting great reviews from everybody especially in the civil rights community. cnn's pamela brad has been looking into the senator's background and where he stands. pamela, tell us more of the allegations against sessions when he was nominated to be a federal judge in the 1980s. >> he was nominated by president reagan in the 1980s and several of his colleagues came forward to testify against sessions saying that he made racist comments in the workplace and one of his former colleagues said that he called the naacp on americans and communist inspired and another african-american attorney who worked with him saying that he called them boyd and he joked about the kkk that