Sessions fires back at Trump -- and says he won't let president's 'political considerations' affect his work

Attorney General Jeff Sessions on Thursday fired back at President Donald Trump, who once again publicly slammed him during an interview that aired earlier on Fox News.

Responding to the president's latest attacks, Sessions insisted that he "took control of the Justice Department the day I was sworn in" and he said that he has "had unprecedented success at effectuating the president's agenda."

Sessions then said, however, that he would not be beholden to the president's "political considerations" in doing his job.

"While I am Attorney General, the actions of the Department of Justice will not be improperly influenced by political considerations," he said. "I demand the highest standards, and where they aren't met, I take action. However, no nation has a more talented, more dedicated group of law enforcement investigators and prosecutors than the United States."

Trump on Thursday viciously attacked Sessions and the Department of Justice during an interview with Fox News' Ainsley Earhardt. In particular, the president continued to bitterly attack his own attorney general for recusing himself in the Russia probe, while suggesting that the AG’s role should be to personally protect the president.

“He took the job and then he said, ‘I’m going to recuse myself,'” Trump said. “I said, what kind of a man is this?”