Earlier this year, Attorney General Sessions said during a private event that the U.S. legal system must be “based on law and based on facts” and “can’t be politicized.”

ABC News obtained video of the summer intern lecture series event featuring Sessions through a Freedom of Information Act request. For 25 minutes on June 22, the attorney general took pointed questions from college students working at the department during the summer.

When an intern from the Justice Department pressed Sessions on the Trump administration’s handling of cannabis and guns use, he said access to cannabis should be more restricted than access to guns.

“Statistically guns kill significantly more people than marijuana does,” the intern said during a Q & A session with the attorney general. “You support pretty harsh policies for marijuana and pretty lax gun control laws.”

“That’s an apples and oranges question,” Sessions responded. “The Second Amendment — you’re aware of that — guarantees the right of people to keep and bear arms. And I intend to defend that Second Amendment. It’s as valid as the First Amendment. That’s my basic philosophical view about it.”

Sessions added cannabis is more dangerous than many people think.

“There’s this view that marijuana is harmless and it does no damage,” he said. “Marijuana is not a healthy substance, in my opinion. Do you believe that?” he said back at the intern.

“I don’t,” she said.

But when the intern challenged that assertion, Sessions seemed dismissive, addressing the intern as “Dr. Whatever Your Name Is.”

“I don’t think America is going to be a better place if marijuana is sold in every corner grocery store,” Sessions said, alleging that legalization is causing problems in Colorado.

“People didn’t seem to mind really hammering tobacco, which is a long-term health problem for people,” he continued, “but I think likewise we should be talking about some of the dangers of marijuana as we go forward.”