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Sessions as attorney general will uphold the laws he voted against as senator, on issue after issue then senator sessions made clear that he w l will, it's important to recall what senator sessions said in this regard, quote, the office of attorney general of the united states is not a normal political office and nine which holds it must have total fidelity to the laws and the constitution of the united states, end of quote. and everyone on this committee br, be they republican or democrat, knows senator sessions to be a man of integrity and a man of his word because we know him to be a man of...

Checking, it looks -- okay, there are others down the hall. lots of running around here. that's the nature of the place. but richard blumenthal said he had great concerns about the actions that unfolded last night and it is moving toward a real constitutional question and he has great concerns. in his life prior to coming to the united states senate he was a state attorney general in connecticut and a u.s. attorney and has background on this, as many members of the committee do. so they understand these issues in ways that go beyond just a general knowledge. so we expect that there will be a l...

Role, more specifically the office of legal counsel. of course, as we all know, senator sessions is not yet attorney general. he isn't yet running the department because now roughly three weeks and over 700 written questions after his hearing, this committee is still debating his nomination. to me this underscores that we shouldn't needlessly delay this -- >> we're doing to continue to watch this for you but we want to break in because we have breaking news coming out of the white house. just moments ago we heard from president trump. he has been meeting with the leaders of big pharma. he famo...

Side because we disagree. >> we're not demonizing jeff sessions. >> you're not? >> i haven't called him a racist. excuse me. >> we're going to take a listen now. we'll come back. let's take a listen. >> -- nomination to serve as attorney general. after we vote on senator sessions, we will turn to legislation and other committee housekeeping business on the agenda. i'd like to mention a few things before we proceed, except for the ranking member, i'll ask everyone to try to limit their remarks to five minutes. that's how i handled lynch's nomination. and by my count, every democrat on this comm...

Should be able to move forward in an orderly way. three weeks ago senator sessions testified before this committee for more than ten hours. throughout that testimony the american people had the opportunity to hear and learn directly from senator sessions what all of us on this committee already knew to be true because we have served with him for so long. he knows the department better than any nominee for attorney general in recent memory. he's a man of integrity, he's a man of his word, and, most importantly, he will enforce the law regardless of whether he would have supported passage of tha...