Republican Senator Tom Cotton calls slavery 'necessary evil'
“As the Founding Fathers said, [slavery] was the necessary evil upon which the union was built."
FILE PHOTO: U.S. Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR) speaks during a Senate Intelligence Committee nomination hearing for Rep. John Ratcliffe (R-TX), on Capitol Hill in Washington, U.S., May 5, 2020(photo credit: ANDREW HARNIK/POOL VIA REUTERS)
