Cenk Uygur
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Feinstein Bashes Sessions, Votes Against Him
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February 1, 2017
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3:14Now PlayingDianne Feinstein is not a fan of Jeff Sessions. Cenk Uygur and Ana Kasparian, hosts of The Young Turks, break it down. Tell us what you think in the comment section below.
"The top-ranking Democrat on the Senate Judiciary Committee, Dianne Feinstein, delivered a savage rebuke Tuesday of her longtime Republican colleague, Sen. Jeff Sessions of Alabama.
At the root of Feinstein’s argument is a fundamentally different view of the role of an attorney general than the one held by President Donald Trump. Feinstein, who is far from a fire-breathing liberal, notes that Trump has often referred to Sessions as “my attorney general.” An attorney general, argues Feinstein, reflecting centuries of precedent, must be independent of the president.
But Feinstein meticulously lays out the evidence to support the idea that Sessions would be subordinate to Trump, which undermines the rule of law.
That the hearing was being held on Tuesday at all was the result of Feinstein’s previous push that it be delayed to take into account the concerns of women who marched across the country the day after Trump’s inauguration.
Close to 10 minutes in, the California senator begins digging into Sessions’ record beyond his deep involvement with the recently announced temporary ban on travel from seven Muslim-majority countries, which is coupled with an indefinite ban on refugees from Syria, even those already vetted and approved.”*
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