(CNN) Leaders of the influential Koch network are downplaying the challenge Attorney General Jeff Sessions might pose to their objectives on criminal justice reform, which the network said would be a key policy focus this year. Mark Holden, senior vice president and general counsel for Koch Industries, said he met with the Sessions and others at the White House in recent weeks on criminal justice reform. But their discussions focused narrowly on prison reform, not on a broader criminal justice reform proposal that some lawmakers and the Koch network have championed. On prison reform, Holden said, Sessions "is totally on board." But Holden also suggested criminal justice reform efforts might need to be done piece by piece to satisfy Sessions and other holdouts.

Source: CNN January 28, 2018 01:41 UTC