In the lead up to the 2016 election, Jeff Sessions was one of the first people in Congress to support Trump's candidacy. And that made him a darling of the media surrogates like Roger Stone.

On November 18th, 2016, Alex said, quote, he's now announced that his attorney general, should he be confirmed by the Senate, Senator Jeff Sessions, that's going to happen. Very honorable man. Could not think of a better choice. That guy does not deal in politics when it comes to justice. People better look out. And let me tell you, Hillary is going to be in big trouble. Jeff Sessions never compromises, never backs down, and is one of the best people we've got in our government.

It's not surprising that Tucker loves Jeff Sessions, considering he's a huge racist and has a record of consistently opposing the Voting Rights Act and has open hostility towards non-white voting rights.

voting rights asshole that when he was nominated for a federal judgeship by Reagan in 1986, he was rejected due to concerns about his comments on race. Yeah.

Or, of course, his big zinger was, quote, I thought those guys, in reference to the classians, Sure, Jeff Sessions is an honest and principled band. A man who's very honest and principled about his racism and opposition to voting rights for non-white people.

I mean, obviously, Jeff Sessions will always be my first choice because I think he's the smartest. He's the most impressive member of the Senate.

I've watched Trump's body language with Sessions four or five times. He doesn't do it with anybody else. He literally... Bites his teeth and savors and just looks at him like he's in love with him. I mean, I'm sorry. The body language is something I've ever seen in Trump other than when he really likes Sessions.

People are trying to present that as a resignation, but when you write in your resignation letter, you asked me to quit? Yeah. That's getting fired. That's a fire.

And so Jeff Sessions is a super patriot because he's opposed to the Trans-Pacific Partnership. Most likely. That's a big part of why Alex is so into him.

The Attorney General, when he was a senator, didn't pull out and didn't fill out all the forms about any foreign nationals he met with. And then at the bottom of the article it says U.S. Senators are exempt from that because they meet with foreign dignitaries as part of their job and they're a separate branch of government from the executive.

But the point is... I know when I see these headlines, it's a lie, because I've already groundhog days, been through them five or six times in the cycle.

The attorney general staff consulted with those familiar with the process, as well as the FBI investigator handling the background check, and was instructed not to list meetings with foreign dignitaries and their staff connected with his Senate activities. That's the piece of it that Alex is not taking into consideration.

These meetings, in question, aren't related to Senate activities. They are related to Trump transition team stuff, Trump campaign stuff, and the fact that he left them off is a really big deal.

Yeah, the fact that he wrote a memo about the person who was conducting the Russia investigation means that he was from. He might have his law legal license taken away.

My best theory is that it was Sessions. Sessions was actively involved in that. Because Sessions himself wanted to shut down the investigation. Yes, because I believe from a lot of things that I've read, most of it's speculation, but some of the indications within James Clapper's testimony lead people to believe that one of the names specifically that was unmasked was Jeff Sessions. It has to be. Well, the reason. Otherwise, why would he lie? The reason that most people have given in terms of their analysis of Clapper's testimony is that he was asked, I can't remember who asked him, but they asked, the names that you've seen on Mest, were they Trump associates or Trump campaign members or members of the Congress? And he said, well, both. Yeah. And that's a fun little twist because it could be two different people and it's both or the only person who was both, Jeff Sessions. Really? Yeah.

Ridiculous that the Attorney General, Jeff Sessions, recused himself. And he was very clear. He was asked about Russians talking to them as surrogates on the campaign trail.

Sessions answered a question he wasn't asked and answered it poorly.

Again, he used campaign funds to go to the RNC, which takes him outside of his role as a senator and puts him into the context of being a part of the campaign.

Here's some more shit about Sessions, and he lies about what happened to Flynn. If he'd have said, as a U.S. ranking senator on the Armed Services Committee, as the ranking Republican, have you met with the Russians? Well, absolutely. I've met with one of their top generals. I've met with their ambassador several times. Just this year, I've met with some of our generals and some of their military people at a base inspection I attended a few months ago. Yes, there's a whole list of that in my file. You can see my itinerary for the last few years. Posted at US.gov, you know, Senate sessions. Boom. It's all right there. These are public meetings. These are completely above board.

But that's the whole reason that Sessions wants to criminalize it is because of revenue.

I mean, Sessions has been one of my biggest allies.