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“When Ronald Reagan nominated Jeff Sessions for federal district court judgeship, the Senate Judiciary Committee rejected his nomination.”

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The question for the Republicans running the confirmation hearings in the United States Senate is whose rules are they going to use?

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Prosecutors have absolutely no control over what witnesses say when they leave the grand jury room.

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Because Republicans defected and voted with all the Democrats to reject Jeff Sessions' nomination when they discovered that when he was working as a prosecutor in Alabama, he called the NAACP Un-American.

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The Trump view of immigration defies our history. Immigration is a transaction that has historically benefited the country.

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I don't think anybody knows it was Russia that broke into the DNC. She [Hillary Clinton] is saying Russia, Russia, Russia. Maybe it was.…

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National security advisors are not there to be advocates, generally. They're not there to be partisans, they're not there to be ideologues.

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