Attorney General Jeff Sessions and President Donald Trump appeared to be making efforts to bury the hatchet Thursday after a week of tumult and speculation over the two men’s ability to continue working together. Speaking on Fox News’s Tucker Carlson Tonight Thursday, Sessions told audiences: Well, it’s kind of hurtful, but the President of the United States is a strong leader. He is determined to move this country in the direction he believes it needs to go to make us great again. And he has had a lot of criticisms, and he’s steadfastly determined to get his job done, and he wants [is] all of us to do our jobs, and that’s what I intend to do. The explanation came after a week of escalating criticism and attacks on Sessions by the president that began with the release of a New York Times interview last Wednesday in which Trump said he would not have nominated Sessions for his post if he knew he was going to recuse himself from the Russia investigation. Despite an outpouring of support for Sessions on the political right, the president continued to disparage Sessions’s job performance on a variety of grounds — most recently Wednesday, when