Sessions on His Hawaii Judge Attack: ‘Nobody Has a Sense of Humor Anymore’

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STEPHANOPOULOS: Let’s talk about the travel ban. You’re taking some heat for comments you’ve made on the Mark Levin show this week. I want to play them for our audience.

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SESSIONS: I really am amazed that a judge sitting on an island in the Pacific can issue an order that stops the president of the United States from what appears to be clearly his statutory and constitutional power.

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STEPHANOPOULOS; Of course, that island in the Pacific is the state of Hawaii. You’ve been blasted by Hawaii’s senators, one called it dog whistle politics. Your response?

SESSIONS: Look, they filed a suit, the plaintiffs get to chose the venue. They filed a lawsuit in Hawaii. And the first decision on the new executive order came out of Hawaii. And all I was saying was the president..."