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Watch a senator grill the U.S. attorney general nominee on undocumented immigrant rights



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United States attorney general nominee Loretta Lynch didn't face many tough questions during the early portion of her confirmation hearing on Wednesday, but that started to change when Republican Sen. Jeff Sessions of Alabama got a turn at the microphone


Sessions wanted to know how Lynch viewed the rights of undocumented immigrants, and how they compared to the rights of U.S. citizens. "Do you believe that a person who enters the country unlawfully ... has a civil right to citizenship?" he asked



Sessions said he thought Lynch dodged his question not once, but twice. Watch how the exchange went down in the video, above Read more...


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