Spicer: ‘I can only hope’ Coretta Scott King would support Sessions

Published February 8, 2017 8:16pm ET



White House press secretary Sean Spicer said Wednesday that he hoped Coretta Scott King, the late wife of civil rights icon Martin Luther King Jr., would agree with a former Democratic senator who publicly retracted his opposition to Sen. Jeff Sessions, President Trump’s attorney general nominee, after voting against Sessions for a different position years earlier.

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