accused me of having false tears. i didn t run to invoke section 19. so the question is why? there are a whole lot of different explanations, people can draw their own conclusions but i will tell you this. i think a lot is because these republicans know that somebody like senator sessions doesn t belong as attorney general, they re feeling the pressure. they re feeling the heat, some of them may have some consciences they re feeling so it results in these absurd actions which backfire on them. you actually think they didn t mean for it to unfold the way they did? it was an outburst borne on of guilt? i don t know if it s brought on by guilt but i know it was not planned. i talked to a number of high-up republicans and they told me that. they lost their cool. why did they lose their cool? why was elizabeth warren the one they singled out? why was it coretta scott king s letter that seemed to raise their hackles the most? these are good questions we can come to our own conclusions.
and she later went on to say that she will vote no to senator sessions. her point that senator sessions doesn t have the independence or objectivity to uphold the laws of the united states. she said she is not confident that he will do that. certainly a contentious statement, but i should note, carol, that he is expected to pass out of committee. that will then be sent to the full senate likely for a larger senate vote later this week. that s right. it s extremely likely that jeff sessions will be confirmed as the attorney general of the united states. sunlen serfaty, thanks so much. to illustrate the roll-out of this temporary travel ban, five days after president trump signed that executive order, his new department of homeland security secretary will hold a press conference at noon eastern to tell the country the operational imtplementation of the executive order. he ll tell the country exactly how the administration plans to execute mr. trump s temporary
are already being vetted coming into this country. to put forth this ban and to not determine as to whether or not our own interpreters and people like that can come into the country is dangerous and it s not based on evidence. and it s a very similar attack to what jeff sessions and president trump and steve bannon have been saying about voter fraud. these are lies. these are myths being developed by this administration to push forth an agenda. this may be constitutional and may be in donald trump s right to do so but it doesn t mean it s right for the country. doesn t mean it s safe and certainly doesn t make anybody in this country or this panel any safer. george, let me put it this way. let me put it to you this way because donald trump didn t really confer with many experts when he came up with this executive order. and some people say he did that for a reason. he just wanted to push it through, and it didn t really matter if it was constitutional or not because that fight was t
senator sessions doesn t need to look any further than his home state to find evidence of discrimination because shelby county, alabama, which brought this challenge to the supreme court, was guilty of a section 5 violation as recently as 2008. so, this is very much can you explain for me, what was going on in shelby county that so, there was a city in shelby county, passed redistricting plan that eliminated the only black city council district. took it from 71% african-american to 29% african-american. he lost that election by a few votes under a map that was not precleared by the justice department. the justice department stepped in, said you need to change this law. you need to get approval for your voting change. they changed the way districts were allocated. that man was subsequently re-elected in the new district so now there is a black city council member. this is the kind of stuff we ll see without section 5. it s not just going to be on a statewide level. there will