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Difference of opinion on immigration legislation that weve put forward. Youve had different ideas. I have no doubt that as Attorney General, youll faithfully execute the office. I appreciate the answers that you have given today. Unanimous consent to submit a column written by our own Attorney General in arizona, Mark Burnovich for the hill. Without objection it will be included. Supporting your nomination. Let me talk to you about an aspect of immigration thats important in arizona. As you know, we have a large border with mexico. We have a program called Operation Streamline that has over th...

Watch leader of the kkk. >> right. now, let's go into this piece. the voting rights piece, which is interesting. his state right now is in the middle of this voting rights issue. many of the alabama motor vehicle offices were moved out of urban areas. people had to go to driver's licenses to get to the polls. here he is saying, oh, he plooefz in voter id, and then they just came up with an agreement with the department of transportation to fix this problem, and this is the devil is in the details. this is the first time in 15 years that people have not seen the full enforcement of the voting r...

To be able to persuade this committee that he will act fairly and impartially and share in this. we've worked well on state and local law enforcement issues, on the reauthorization of the child abuse act. i appreciate that partnership, but there's also been many issues on which we have disagreed. issues from immigration, civil liberties, criminal justice, voting rieghts and torture, andi am concerned on a number of these issues when we met last week so i am grateful to the committee and chairman that we are going to have a full hearing on all of these issues today. let me start with the time y...

Up from jeffrey tubbin. i want you to stand by. our senior political reporter manu raju is just outside. room where senator sessions has been testifying in this confirmation hearing. he has a special guest with him. manu. >> thanks. i'm here with senator chris goose from delaware. about to ask. what do you want to hear from senator sessions? >> what i want to hear from senator sessions, clear and concise answers to a number of questions i've got about his actions as alabama's attorney general, about his actions as u.s. senator. blocking bipartisan criminal justice reform efforts, blocking bipa...

I've heard some evidence on that subject, so i do not have a legal opinion about the case. have not studied the details of it. >> just to be clear what i was pressing you on there was the use of the hitching post which is a disciplinary measure that has been abandoned by every state but alabama it was used by the stocks centuries ago and tr struggling to me that it continued without challenge. and to address ways in which our criminal justice system is broken and the disparagement of incarceration that has happened over the last 30 years. we wrote about the importance of balance of criminal ju...