JEFF SESSIONS: This was very improper language, and he's acknowledged that.

TWS: But beyond the language, would you characterize the behavior described in that [video] as sexual assault if that behavior actually took place?

JEFF SESSIONS: I don't characterize that as sexual assault. I think that's a stretch. I don't know what he meant—

TWS: So if you grab a woman by the genitals, that's not sexual assault?

JEFF SESSIONS: I don't know. It's not clear that he—how that would occur.

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Senator Jeff Sessions claims that grabbing a woman by the genitals is not sexual assault.