United States President-elect Donald Trump on Friday picked Alabama Senator Jeff Sessions as his attorney general and named retired Lieutenant General Michael Flynn the national security adviser and conservative Republican Mike Pompeo the director of the Central Intelligence Agency. All three men have accepted the offer, reported Reuters.

Trump’s office released a statement, calling Sessions a “world class legal mind”. Sessions, who has been a close conservative ally of Trump, is a former prosecutor who was rejected for the post of federal judge in 1986 for making racist remarks, reported BBC. Sessions said he believes in Trump’s idea of “one America and his commitment to equal justice under law”. Sessions, who has been with Trump from his early campaign days, is a huge supporter of the president-elect’s promise to build a wall along the border with Mexico.

Flynn, on his part, had openly criticised the Barack Obama administration after he was sacked as director of the Defence Intelligence Agency in 2014. He had once said that the fear of Muslims was “rational”. He is on the same page with Trump when it comes to renegotiating the Iran nuclear deal, improving relations with Russia and strengthening the fight against the Islamic State group.

Pompeo originally supported Republican Marco Rubio before he lost to Trump. He had tweeted, “I look forward to rolling back this disastrous deal with the world’s largest state sponsor of terrorism [referring to Iran].”

However, both Sessions and Pompeo will have to face a confirmation battle in the Senate in January. The Trump administration will come to force on January 20.