Donald Trump Offers Jeff Sessions Attorney General Post

He's been through the Senate confirmation process before, with mixed success. And confirming the four-term lawmaker this time around, even in a Republican-controlled chamber, is not guaranteed. He did make it through a Republican-controlled Senate in 1981, when they approved him to be the U.S. attorney for the Southern District of Alabama.

President-elect Trump has offered Alabama Sen. Jeff Sessions the post of attorney general, sources directly involved in the selection process tell CBS News .

Sessions has been one of Mr. Trump's closest and most consistent allies, and he was the first senator to announce his support for the president-elect. An architect of Mr. Trump's immigration, counterterrorism and trade policies, Sessions was also considered for secretary of defense. The Trump transition team pronounced itself "unbelievably impressed" with Sessions in a statement, citing his work as a U.S. attorney and state attorney general in Alabama. Appointing him the nation's top prosecutor is sure to be controversial, though.