Sessions tells Judiciary Committee: 'I abhor the Klan'

Alabama Sen. Jeff Sessions sought to shoot down accusations that he is racially insensitive and disavowed the Ku Klux Klan at his attorney general confirmation hearings on Tuesday.

“Let me address another issue straight on, I was accused in 1986 of failing to protect the voting rights of African-Americans … and of condemning civil rights advocates and organizations and even harboring, amazingly, sympathies for the KKK. These are damnably false charges,” Sessions said at the hearing. “I abhor the Klan and what it represents and its hateful ideology.”