Donald Trump's nominee for Attorney General has been forced to deny he has sympathies for the Ku Klux Klan, describing its ideology as "hateful".
It has been alleged Jeff Sessions once supported the white supremacist group and that he once called a black lawyer "boy".
But he told his confirmation hearing: "As to the KKK, I invited civil rights attorneys from Washington DC to help us solve a very difficult investigation into the... horrendous death of an African American... simply because he was black.
"I actively backed the attorneys throughout that case and they broke that case.... That murdering Klansman was indeed executed.
"I abhor the Klan and what it represents and its hateful ideology."
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