WASHINGTON — President-elect Donald Trump has offered the job of attorney general to Sen. Jeff Sessions, CBS News reports.
Sessions, a Republican from Alabama, was the first sitting senator to endorse Trump, doing so in February of this year.
Sessions was in Trump Tower, in Manhattan, for several hours on Thursday, Hallie Jackson, of NBC News, told WTOP Friday morning. She added that Trump was full of praise for Sessions later in the day, calling his experience “impressive.”
Jackson, who covered Trump on the campaign trail for about a year and a half, said, “You often saw Sessions introducing Trump [and] acting as a surrogate to him.”
Sessions is considered a hard-liner on immigration, one of Trump’s signature policies.
He’s been in the Senate since 1997. Before that, he was attorney general of Alabama.
In 1986, his nomination for a federal judgeship was rejected by a GOP-majority Senate after objections were raised regarding his record on civil rights, as well as racially charged comments he made as U.S. attorney for the Southern District of Alabama, CBS reports.
At about 9 a.m. Friday, CBS News reported that Sessions had accepted the offer.
