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through yet again today another round of confirmation hearings up
on Capitol Hill for the incoming administration's cabinet members. We've
got we had Christy Noam, she went this morning. Started
this morning at nine am for Homeland Security, Sean Duffy
Transportation Department, John Ratcliffe from to lead the CIA, Marco
Rubio for the State Department, Secretary of State, Chris Wright
for Secretary of Energy, and Russell Vote. He's coming up
at one for Office of Management and Budget. But what
I was watching was the confirmation hearing for Pam Bondi.
She would replace Merrick Garland as the Attorney General. And
Pam Bondy is former state prosecutor, former Florida Attorney General.
She's actually going to be doing two appearances before the
Senate Judiciary Committee. She was Donald Trump's pick for attorney
general after his first choice, Matt Gates, withdrew from consideration. Bondie.
This is according to the AP note. Yeah, the Associated Press,
Bondi is a longtime fixture in Trump's orbit. The Attorney
general will be one of the most closely watched cabinet members,
given the concerns among Democrats that Trump will look to
bend the Justice Department to his will like Joe Biden has.
I'm just kidding. I added that last part because it's true,
Like this is the hilarity of what occurred today in
this Judiciary Committee. The constant focusing on this idea that
the Attorney general needs to be independent from the White House,
that the White House can't have anything to do with
anything that's going on with the attorney general. I believe
it was Dick Durbin. Yeah, Dick Durbin who said, you know,
the attorney general isn't the president's wingman. That's a quote.
He used the term wingman. And anybody who's been paying
attention since two thousand and eight should note the high
irony or the hyeranny, if you will, of using that term,
why glad you asked? Eric Holder, the former Attorney general,
uber partisan who politicized the DOJ, continues this day to
engage in law fair against Republican legislatures and such all
around the country over the redistricting stuff. Eric Holder gave
an interview back in twenty thirteen while he was still
AG and he said, quote, I'm still the president's wingman,
right so when when you have an ag that says
that it made news, and Dick Durbin was up there
at the time, everybody's anybody who has been paying attention
to this stuff since twenty thirteen, April fourth, to be precise,
knows what that term applied. That's Eric Holder who called
himself Obama's wingman, you know, thereby admitting that he does,
in fact operate as an extension of Barack Obama. He's
got Barack's back on all of these legal issues and
all of you know, any kind of consulting on stuff.
And somebody mentioned it during the Judiciary Committee today. I
believe it was It may have been Lindsay Graham who
pointed out because the Democrats were making this big deal
about you know, will you have more loyalty to the
president than the constitution?
Speaker 2: Right?
Speaker 1: This is there now, they're very, very, very afraid that
the DOJ could be weaponized against the sitting president's political opponents. Well,
I never really that could happen. How could that happen?
Republican or Democrats are very Are you worried about this?
And Graham pointed out Bobby Kennedy. Bobby Kennedy was named
attorney general by his brother, John F. Kennedy. President John
Kennedy named Bobby Kennedy as attorney general. I'm sure he
was qualified, but he was putting in place somebody he
could trust, somebody who was dare I say it loyal?
Maybe to his brother. We have a bunch of audio
because yeah, Tom Tillis, I thought, gave some very good
remarks and to our great national embarrassment. Maisie Herono is
also on judiciary, so she got round. She got a
round a questioning today as well. But who am I
to complain? It makes for good show. Prep Ari Fleischer,
the former press secretary for the George W. Bush White House.
He said, the more Democrats ask about who won the
twenty twenty election, the more, they demonstrate they are focused
on the past, on behalf of the MSNBC audience. It's
one of the reasons they lost in twenty twenty four.
But they still think everyone should be relentlessly focused on
twenty twenty not twenty twenty five. Big mistake, right. They
again always think in these terms, right, or always try
to at least assess it. What are their incentives? What
are the incentives of the Democrats in this hearing? I
mentioned it yesterday. It's to get airtime. It's to get
the viral clips. And while we will play the clips
and mock them appropriately, so not too much, but the
appropriate level of mockery is required. But it's to get
the clips on MSNBC because that's what they watch, right.
They want to see their faces grilling the nominee over
really super important dishes on Blue Sky, which is where
all the leftists ran so their tweets could be censored.
Do they call them tweets over at Blue Sky? I
don't know. Do they call them blues skies? It is
funny that it's called blue Sky, though, isn't it not red?
Note that's different. That's COMI I got that in the
stack of stuff too, there's another migration. So there are
migrations occurring in social media world. So you have the
leftists after Trump won, they were like, I'm laeving if
Belon Musk is not in his censor conservatives, I'm going
over to my cry closet, blue cry closet. And so
they went over there, where like it's funny because they're
in the process of like banning each other into obsolescence.
I'm sure it's a great business model, but we'll see
how it works out. And then the TikTok stuff, TikTok
set to close up shop rather than sell for billions
of dollars because as a corporation based in commune, China,
who would want to make money when the whole point
is to, you know, collect all the data. But they're
shut set to shut down in a couple of days.
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people off of the TikTok going on to literally a
communist Chinese app, not TikTok. It's a different one they've got.
They've got another one over there. And so at this point, guys,
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So this is Pambondy. I believe this is North Carolina
US Senator Tom Tillis's line pod quest.
Speaker 3: Thank you for being here. I think I told you
when we met. Thank you for the time we met.
I was born in Florida, have a lot of friends
and family and follow Florida politics pretty closely. And you've
had a very impressive career there though. I do also
have to admit I'm a game hater, so for the.
Speaker 1: Florida University of Tennessee.
Speaker 3: But anyway, I actually in some of these hearings, I've
created a bingo card to see what some of my
colleagues on the other side of the aisle were going
to hit. I want to go back to a few
of them really quickly. One was about you being a
lobbyist paid for it on the payroll of Cutter. Would
you mind going back and repeating what you said in
case people did not hear the involvement of your law
firm and precisely what you were doing for the government
of Cutter.
Speaker 2: Yes, Senator, I was very proud of that work. It
was anti human trafficking in advance of the World Cup,
and human trafficking has been something that's been very important
to me my entire career, especially when I was Attorney General.
Speaker 3: You also made it clear that you had a number
of practitioners within the firm working on it. So this
narrative that you were getting one hundred and fifteen thousand
dollars a month from Cutter is correct.
Speaker 2: Or not not correct?
Speaker 3: Okay, thank you. I want to talk a little bit
about well, First off, I want to go back. You
should be happy that so many comments have been directed
towards Cash Bettel, whose confirmation I am supporting. In fact,
I'm meeting with him today, because that means they're out
of stuff for you. So if it comes up again,
you will once again know that you've got a great
reputation and a great resume and they're just trying to
find things to put your integrity into question. You have
answered the question repeatedly that you will be loyal to
the Constitution and you will live up to the oath
to the Constitution and to protecting the American people. And
I think mister Patel, when he becomes here, he'll be
able to get rid of the myth and the same
way that you did as a lobbyist for Cutter, he'll
be able to get rid of that list of the enemies,
be able to deal with the enemy's list, and the
marketing department for your opposition is going to have to
come up with material because that stuff is getting old.
Section seven oh two. You heard Senator Lead talk about
some concerns that he has with seven oh two. I
believe it's one of the most important things that you
can do early into your confirmation you will be confirmed
and hopefully with some Democrat support, that there have been
dramatic reforms to seven oh two. I've set through an
extensive presentation to try and make sure that the abuses
never occur again, and that you have a throat to
choke if somebody abuses the protocol that's in place. I
believe that we need to codify a lot of that.
As a matter of fact, when I went through it,
I felt like there were so many blinding flashes of
the obvious. How could this not have already been a
part of the approval matrix? So can you after your
confirmed commit that you are a designate, will come back
and provide for this committee an update on all of
the protocols that have changed and recommended legislation for CODIFE,
so that when we do go to reauthorization will have
what we need to make sure that that program stays
in place.
Speaker 2: Senator I or designee will review all of seven oh
two before it terms of course in twenty twenty six
and come back and report to you.
Speaker 1: I believe that's the Pizas stuff.
Speaker 3: By the way, you have a great perspective with your
time in the state all.
Speaker 1: Right, I'm gonna stop it there. So I think they're
talking there about if I remember correctly, it was seven
oh two, is the FISA court stuff and how to
get the warrants and all of that. She had a
number of responses that were very awkward for Democrats that
tried to you heard Tillis mention it there. They tried
to smear her with Cash Patel, the FBI director nominee
that Trump has announced trying to smear her with stuff
that Patel said, will you just said they were literally
playing the disavow game with her defender disavow d or
D defender disavow And she's I'm not aware. I don't
know all of that he has said. Those are his comments, like,
and she's like, but I know him, and he will
follow the law. He was a public defender, he was
a prosecutor, He has a lot of experience in the
intelligence community. I have no doubt he will follow the constitution.
So but I do find it interesting how afraid Democrats are,
at least pretending to be, that Republicans under the Trump
administration might do to them what was done to the
Republicans by them. I do find that to be telling
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have the village idiot who actually I am. I've just
learned this woman graduated law school, Mazie Arono from Hawaii.
All right, well, well listen for yourself.
Speaker 4: Thank you, missus, Chairman. As part of my responsibility to
ensure the fitness of all nominees, I asked the following
two initial questions. First, since you became a legal adult,
have you ever made unwanted requests for sexual favors or
committed any verbal or physical harassment or assault of a
sexual nature?
Speaker 2: No, Senator, Have you ever.
Speaker 4: Faced discipline or entered into a settlement relating to this
kind of conduct, no, Senator, Ms BONDI. I am focused
on two things in my evaluation of President Trump's President
Elect Trump's nominees. The first is whether the nominee is
qualified and experienced enough to do the job. The second
is a fitness to serve, which includes putting loyalty to
the Constitution over loyalty to the president. Unfortunately, my view,
many of President Trump's President Elect Trump's nominees are lacking
in at least one of these two requirements. She's just
reading aperients as a prosecutor is the kind of thing
we would expect to see in a nominee for attorney General.
But I do have questions and concerns about potential conflicts
of interest, about whether you will keep DOJ's law enforcement
responsibilities independent of the president's political whims, and about whether
you will let facts and evidence guide your decisions. So
let's start with the importance of facts, which you say
is important, Ms. Wani. We want an attorney general who
bases decisions on facts. So I want to ask you.
Speaker 1: By the way, when she pauses like that, it's because
she's trying to understand the sentence that she's about to read.
She's literally got sheets of paper in front of her
and she's just reading off of the sheets, and so
when she stumbles and she takes that pause, you can
see she's kind of reading ahead because she's not understanding
the way the sentence is formed. So you'll anyway, just
a heads up.
Speaker 4: A factual question. Who won the twenty twenty presidential election.
Speaker 2: Joe Biden is the president of the United States. Ms.
Speaker 4: Bondy, you know that there is a difference between acknowledging
it and you know I can say that Donald Trump
won the twenty twenty four election. I may not like it,
but I can say it. You cannot say who won
the twenty twenty presidential election.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: By the way, Pam Bondi said earlier in the hearing
when she was asked this exact question by a different Democrat,
and she gave that exact same answer. And then she
also noted that she was in Pennsylvania working for the
Trump campaign and talked about the irregularities that she saw
in Pennsylvania. And so there's is it reasonable for a
Republican looking at the twenty twenty election to question, to
doubt whether or not Joe Biden did eke out that
victory when you've got Pambondi, lawyer, former attorney general, former prosecutor,
going through the election system in a particular state, noting irregularities,
for her to then question, I'm not really sure about
these results. And I think it was Tom Tillis who
later on said every election has irregularities, every one of them.
So anybody up on that dais who is pretending that
And this ya Tillis was the one who said, if
you're up here and you're pretending that every election is
run perfectly and there aren't any irregularities like you need
to go home, you need to go spend some time
back home. Because there are irregularities. I have been saying
this for years. The question is the scope, whether they
affected particular outcomes? Right, and is there evidence that you
can use to prosecute. Okay, here's that you can't.
Speaker 4: Give voice to that fact.
Speaker 1: Moving on to so there she is again she has
to come up with her own words, and so she
had difficulty there. So now she's back on scripts from politics.
Speaker 4: Ms BONDI, if you are confirmed as attorney general, you
will take an oath to the Constitution and not to
any individual, including the president. To start, I'd like to
know whether you agree with some of the statements President
elect Trump made during the election.
Speaker 1: Why during the campaign.
Speaker 4: First, are the felons convicted of breaking into the Capitol
on January sixth hostages or patriots including the Trump as
President elect Trump has said repeatedly, do you agree with
his characterization of the felons that I refer to.
Speaker 2: I am not familiar with that statement, Senator, I.
Speaker 4: Just familiarized you with that statement. Do you agree with
that statement?
Speaker 2: I'm not familiar with it, Senator.
Speaker 4: No, answer. He has also said illegal immigration is poisoning
the blood of our nation. He said that in December
twenty twenty three. Do you agree with that statement.
Speaker 2: Senator, I am not familiar with that statement, but what
I can tell you is I went to the border
a few months ago. I went to Yuma, Arizona, and
what I saw at that border was horrific, Senator, it
was horrific. I went to a rape crisis center.
Speaker 4: That is not my question.
Speaker 2: I went to a rape crisis center. Well, I'm not
familiar with the statement, but I went to a rape
crisis center. I met with border patrol agents. I'm sure
you've been to.
Speaker 4: The border as well, so I want to get to
my next question.
Speaker 1: I'm sure you've been to the border as well, so
you can answer that right show of fans, How many
people think Maizie Herono has made a border visit? Uh
huh yeah, no nobody. I'd be surprised if she has.
What is the point of this? This is like asking
the Attorney general nominee about random pull quotes from Trump
to find out if she agrees, like how like this
isn't even good faith or sorry, this isn't even bad faith?
Speaker 2: Uh?
Speaker 1: Questioning right, bad faith questioning. I would expect to be
constructed in a better way. This is just dumb assery.
This is a bunch of staffers thinking that they're writing
gotcha questions, where you know, when did you stop beating
your wife type questions. Trump said they were felons and patriots.
Do you agree? Well, like, who were you talking about?
Who was he talking about? Every single person like that?
So she just says, I'm not familiar with that statement.
And this was a this was a pattern that Democrats
were engaged in pull quotes, do you agree? Pull quote?
Do you agree? And Bondi kept saying basically the same thing,
I'm not familiar with the quote. And then in one
exchange with Dick Durbin, she says something on to the
effect of, well, like, what's the full context of that,
because he was asking about the phone call to the
Georgia Secretary of State Raffensburger, you know, find me the votes,
And she's like, I have not listened to the whole
I have not listened to that whole phone call, Like, well,
I just told you what it was, Yeah, but I
don't trust you. That's what I mean. That's what they
should say, that's what I wish some of these people
would say. I don't trust you are giving me the
full context of that quote. I suspect you're pulling a
quote in order to find the most outrageous thing to
generate the outrage, uh, and then get me to go
on the record supporting some outrageous statement, when in fact,
if you look at the full context, sort of like
the good people on both sides thing, then you find
out that the context illustrates something completely opposite of what
you are trying to provoke. Right, that's my that would
be my preference. I would like to see some nominees say.
Speaker 2: It like that.
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By the way, just two notes that are of very
little value. She's pronouncing it fentanyl, and like I would
oppose her nomination just for that. I hate It's not fentanyl,
DeSantis does it? Maybe it's a Florida thing fentanyl. It's
fentanyl anyway. Pambondi. Also she calls it Mexico Mexico, which
may be also the reason why Trump says he wants
to rename the Gulf of Mexico so this way he
doesn't have to hear Mexico, Mexico, Mexico. But anyway, maybe
I'm wrong on that too, I don't know anyway. She
then gets questioned by Senator Richard Blumenthal, who spent his
entire adult life lying about Vietnam service. But he well, here,
you just listen, Senator.
Speaker 2: First, I need to clarify something that you said that
I have to sit up here and say these things. No,
I don't I sit up here and speak the truth.
I'm not going to sit up here and say anything
that I need to say to get confirmed by this body.
I don't have to say anything. I will answer the
questions to the best of my ability.
Speaker 1: And want to ask you. Yeah, all right, so yeah,
and that's what he did say. I know you have
to sit up there and say these things. She says,
I don't have to be here at all. And that's like,
that's true. She doesn't have to answer a single thing
that you ask of her. She's not getting your vote, right,
Bloom's not going to vote to confirm her. Maybe I
don't know, Maybe he does. This was the line of
questioning with Mike Lee speaking of unacceptable. Oh, hang on
a second, I'm not going to have time for that
that's fine. I'll tell you what she said. They were
talking about the weaponization of the DOJ, and Bondie said,
going after parents for attending a school board meeting has
got to stop, has got to stop. And Shelley Whitehouse,
when he's not attending his No Blacks Allowed country club
up in Rhode Island, he's at these hearings, and he asked,
under what circumstances do you prosecute journalists? She says, well,
if they violated the law. Right, if they have violated
the law is when you would do that. And by
the way, she then turns around and says, and when
giving examples of weaponization that Shelley is very concerned that
Trump is going to do. She said, you know, we
have a lot of great prosecutors in the Justice Department,
but I'll give you like so, no, we're not talking
about the good ones, but there are bad ones. And
here's a bad one. Klein Smith, the guy that lied
on the FISA warrant. Right, that guy broke the law.
And Shelley didn't have a response for that. All right,
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