Fmr. Attorney General Jeff Sessions Expected To Announce Run For Senate

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🗓️ 7 November 2019

⏱️ 14 minutes

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Former Attorney General Jeff Sessions is expected to announce his bid for a Senate seat in Alabama despite no backing from the Republican establishment. This episode: political reporter Danielle Kurtzleben, White House correspondent Tamara Keith, and senior political editor and correspondent Ron Elving. Email the show at nprpolitics@npr.org. Find and support your local public radio station at npr.org/stations.

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0:44.4	Yale. It's just before we started. Everybody wants to copy us. All right, hello, it is the NPR
0:49.4	Politics podcast. I am Danielle Kurtzleban, I cover politics. I am Tamra Keith, I cover the
0:54.0	White House. And I'm Ron Elbing, editor correspondent. And we are coming to you today. We're going to
0:58.0	start out by talking about a blast from the past, a blast from the past in the form of Jefferson
1:03.8	Beauregard Sessions III. Who a year ago on this day was fired from his role as president Trump's
1:10.5	attorney general. It can't be an entirely accidental bit of timing. Plus tomorrow is the deadline
1:16.3	for filing if you want to be part of the primary and march in the runoff in April.
1:20.6	Right. And what we're talking about here, by the way, in terms of filing is that Jefferson
1:24.0	Beauregard Sessions, we know him as Jeff Sessions, Jeff Sessions. He's set to announce that he's
1:28.2	running to once again serve as the senator from Alabama in a seat that he himself vacated to become
1:34.3	Donald Trump's attorney general. So let's start with a refresher, you guys. Who is Jeff Sessions?
1:39.6	And let's talk about his relationship to president Trump. Well, Jeff Sessions was president
1:44.2	Trump's first attorney general. But before that, he was a senator for 20 years from Alabama,
1:49.2	initially being elected back in 1997, being reelected several times. And he was cruising along as a
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