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    Trump's AG pick is grilled

    Jeff Sessions was grilled this morning by Democrats on the Senate Judiciary Committee . Alabama's Republican Senator is Donald Trump's nominee to be US Attorney General. While Sessions repeated his view that Roe v.

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    By Warren Olney • Jan 10, 2017 • 1 min read

    Jeff Sessions was grilled this morning by Democrats on the Senate Judiciary Committee. Alabama's Republican Senator is Donald Trump's nominee to be US Attorney General. While Sessions repeated his view that Roe v. Wade is "one of the worst colossally erroneous Supreme Court decisions" of all time, he acknowledged that it is "the law of the land" and vowed to respect it. He also defended his record on race. "This caricature of me back in 1986 was not correct. I am the same person perhaps wiser, maybe a little better, I hope so, today, than I was then, but I did not harbor the kind of animosities and race-based discrimination ideas that I was accused of."

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    Race relations after Obama
    1. 1:23Trump's AG pick is grilledYou’re reading this
    2. 7:56Barack Obama and race in America
    3. 41:51Speed bumps on the GOP's road to repeal Obamacare
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    The full episode

    1 of 3
    Race relations after Obama
    1. 1:23Trump's AG pick is grilledYou’re reading this
    2. 7:56Barack Obama and race in America
    3. 41:51Speed bumps on the GOP's road to repeal Obamacare
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