committee is arguing over whether or not to push through senator jeff sessions for attorney general. oo lot to cover on this front. kelly o'donnell is covering the developments. >> reporter: we are outside in the hallway on the hearing for the jeff sessions committee hearing. a long line of members of the senate have been waiting to get a seat. we've seen a handful of protesters removed by u.s. capitol police. there's a lot of emotion here but there won't be a lot of suspension. jeff sessions, we expect it will be a party line vote where republicans will support him, democrats will not. but what is different today is in the news of the last evening where the president has relieved from her duties the acting attorney general sally yates, that is sort of the domain of this committee as well and we're