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Elizabeth Warren asks Trump to withdraw AG nominee or face fight in Senate

Elizabeth Warren spoke Friday at the New England Women's Policy Conference at UMass Boston. Josh Reynolds / The Boston Globe

US Senator Elizabeth Warren blasted the selection of Senator Jeff Sessions of Alabama for attorney general on Friday, calling on President-elect Donald Trump to withdraw his name, or for the Senate to reject the nomination.

“I strongly urge Donald Trump to withdraw any consideration of Senator Sessions,” she told reporters at the University of Massachusetts Boston. “But if Donald Trump fails to do that, then there will be a moral question in the United States Senate. And that is: Can the Republicans step up and say, ‘No. No to Jeff Sessions?’ ”

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