Sen. Jeff Sessions, R-Ala., praised the United Kingdom for voting to leave the European Union, and said the U.S. needs to take a similar step to take its country back.

"Now it's our time," Sessions said in a lengthy statement on the Brexit. "Just as in the U.K., our November presidential election presents a stark contrast. The establishment forces, the global powers, are promoting their values and their interests."

Sessions, who is the senior member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, is also the chairman of Donald Trump's Foreign Policy Advisory Committee. Trump, speaking from Scotland Friday, also praised the so-called "Brexit."

"I said this was going to happen, and I think that it's a great thing," Trump said at a press conference in Ayrshire, Scotland. "Basically they took back their country."

Sessions called out "politicians and pundits" in the United States who have been "woefully oblivious to, or in some cases complicit in, what is going on around us."

He added that "the failed European Union experiment, and Great Britain's rejection of it" should now "serve as a wake-up call for all of us in America."

"I applaud yesterday's strong and patriotic action taken by America's special friend, retaking its independence," Sessions said. "I know that moving forward the deep and historic ties between Great Britain and America will grow ever stronger. I believe the American people too will choose independence this November."