1 00:00:04,879 --> 00:00:07,160 Speaker 1: What's going on. Thank you so much for listening to 2 00:00:07,200 --> 00:00:09,640 this podcast. It is heard live every day from noon 3 00:00:09,679 --> 00:00:12,480 to three on WBT Radio and Charlotte. And if you 4 00:00:12,560 --> 00:00:16,719 want exclusive content like invitations to events, the weekly live stream, 5 00:00:16,760 --> 00:00:18,719 my daily show prep with all of the links, become 6 00:00:18,719 --> 00:00:22,359 a patron, go to vpetclendershow dot com. Make sure you 7 00:00:22,440 --> 00:00:24,920 hit the subscribe button. Get every episode for free right 8 00:00:24,960 --> 00:00:27,320 to your smartphone or tablet. And again, thank you so 9 00:00:27,399 --> 00:00:30,000 much for your support. So that's what we are going 10 00:00:30,039 --> 00:00:34,520 through yet again today another round of confirmation hearings up 11 00:00:34,560 --> 00:00:40,920 on Capitol Hill for the incoming administration's cabinet members. We've 12 00:00:40,960 --> 00:00:45,560 got we had Christy Noam, she went this morning. Started 13 00:00:45,560 --> 00:00:50,520 this morning at nine am for Homeland Security, Sean Duffy 14 00:00:50,840 --> 00:00:57,240 Transportation Department, John Ratcliffe from to lead the CIA, Marco 15 00:00:57,399 --> 00:01:01,520 Rubio for the State Department, Secretary of State, Chris Wright 16 00:01:02,039 --> 00:01:06,400 for Secretary of Energy, and Russell Vote. He's coming up 17 00:01:06,439 --> 00:01:11,120 at one for Office of Management and Budget. But what 18 00:01:11,200 --> 00:01:17,120 I was watching was the confirmation hearing for Pam Bondi. 19 00:01:18,120 --> 00:01:24,920 She would replace Merrick Garland as the Attorney General. And 20 00:01:25,040 --> 00:01:32,439 Pam Bondy is former state prosecutor, former Florida Attorney General. 21 00:01:34,079 --> 00:01:37,799 She's actually going to be doing two appearances before the 22 00:01:37,840 --> 00:01:42,159 Senate Judiciary Committee. She was Donald Trump's pick for attorney 23 00:01:42,239 --> 00:01:50,799 general after his first choice, Matt Gates, withdrew from consideration. Bondie. 24 00:01:51,599 --> 00:01:56,719 This is according to the AP note. Yeah, the Associated Press, 25 00:01:56,920 --> 00:02:01,359 Bondi is a longtime fixture in Trump's orbit. The Attorney 26 00:02:01,439 --> 00:02:04,640 general will be one of the most closely watched cabinet members, 27 00:02:04,840 --> 00:02:07,599 given the concerns among Democrats that Trump will look to 28 00:02:07,680 --> 00:02:11,159 bend the Justice Department to his will like Joe Biden has. 29 00:02:11,719 --> 00:02:14,039 I'm just kidding. I added that last part because it's true, 30 00:02:15,319 --> 00:02:20,120 Like this is the hilarity of what occurred today in 31 00:02:20,159 --> 00:02:27,319 this Judiciary Committee. The constant focusing on this idea that 32 00:02:27,360 --> 00:02:30,919 the Attorney general needs to be independent from the White House, 33 00:02:32,000 --> 00:02:34,000 that the White House can't have anything to do with 34 00:02:34,120 --> 00:02:37,599 anything that's going on with the attorney general. I believe 35 00:02:37,639 --> 00:02:41,919 it was Dick Durbin. Yeah, Dick Durbin who said, you know, 36 00:02:41,960 --> 00:02:49,159 the attorney general isn't the president's wingman. That's a quote. 37 00:02:49,759 --> 00:02:54,039 He used the term wingman. And anybody who's been paying 38 00:02:54,080 --> 00:03:01,000 attention since two thousand and eight should note the high 39 00:03:01,199 --> 00:03:06,479 irony or the hyeranny, if you will, of using that term, 40 00:03:06,840 --> 00:03:11,639 why glad you asked? Eric Holder, the former Attorney general, 41 00:03:12,879 --> 00:03:19,000 uber partisan who politicized the DOJ, continues this day to 42 00:03:19,159 --> 00:03:23,080 engage in law fair against Republican legislatures and such all 43 00:03:23,120 --> 00:03:28,360 around the country over the redistricting stuff. Eric Holder gave 44 00:03:28,400 --> 00:03:33,240 an interview back in twenty thirteen while he was still 45 00:03:33,280 --> 00:03:37,680 AG and he said, quote, I'm still the president's wingman, 46 00:03:39,319 --> 00:03:43,400 right so when when you have an ag that says 47 00:03:43,439 --> 00:03:49,159 that it made news, and Dick Durbin was up there 48 00:03:49,240 --> 00:03:52,400 at the time, everybody's anybody who has been paying attention 49 00:03:52,479 --> 00:03:57,080 to this stuff since twenty thirteen, April fourth, to be precise, 50 00:03:57,479 --> 00:04:03,120 knows what that term applied. That's Eric Holder who called 51 00:04:03,199 --> 00:04:09,879 himself Obama's wingman, you know, thereby admitting that he does, 52 00:04:09,919 --> 00:04:14,360 in fact operate as an extension of Barack Obama. He's 53 00:04:14,400 --> 00:04:17,800 got Barack's back on all of these legal issues and 54 00:04:17,839 --> 00:04:20,120 all of you know, any kind of consulting on stuff. 55 00:04:21,160 --> 00:04:25,920 And somebody mentioned it during the Judiciary Committee today. I 56 00:04:25,959 --> 00:04:29,279 believe it was It may have been Lindsay Graham who 57 00:04:29,319 --> 00:04:31,759 pointed out because the Democrats were making this big deal 58 00:04:32,800 --> 00:04:35,839 about you know, will you have more loyalty to the 59 00:04:35,879 --> 00:04:38,040 president than the constitution? 60 00:04:39,160 --> 00:04:39,319 Speaker 2: Right? 61 00:04:39,399 --> 00:04:42,839 Speaker 1: This is there now, they're very, very, very afraid that 62 00:04:42,920 --> 00:04:51,319 the DOJ could be weaponized against the sitting president's political opponents. Well, 63 00:04:51,439 --> 00:04:56,879 I never really that could happen. How could that happen? 64 00:04:58,360 --> 00:05:01,040 Republican or Democrats are very Are you worried about this? 65 00:05:01,160 --> 00:05:09,480 And Graham pointed out Bobby Kennedy. Bobby Kennedy was named 66 00:05:09,519 --> 00:05:16,959 attorney general by his brother, John F. Kennedy. President John 67 00:05:17,079 --> 00:05:21,319 Kennedy named Bobby Kennedy as attorney general. I'm sure he 68 00:05:21,399 --> 00:05:27,000 was qualified, but he was putting in place somebody he 69 00:05:27,040 --> 00:05:31,480 could trust, somebody who was dare I say it loyal? 70 00:05:32,120 --> 00:05:39,160 Maybe to his brother. We have a bunch of audio 71 00:05:40,439 --> 00:05:45,319 because yeah, Tom Tillis, I thought, gave some very good 72 00:05:45,399 --> 00:05:51,040 remarks and to our great national embarrassment. Maisie Herono is 73 00:05:51,079 --> 00:05:53,639 also on judiciary, so she got round. She got a 74 00:05:53,680 --> 00:05:56,839 round a questioning today as well. But who am I 75 00:05:56,879 --> 00:06:01,279 to complain? It makes for good show. Prep Ari Fleischer, 76 00:06:01,399 --> 00:06:07,399 the former press secretary for the George W. Bush White House. 77 00:06:07,879 --> 00:06:10,600 He said, the more Democrats ask about who won the 78 00:06:10,600 --> 00:06:14,040 twenty twenty election, the more, they demonstrate they are focused 79 00:06:14,040 --> 00:06:18,920 on the past, on behalf of the MSNBC audience. It's 80 00:06:18,920 --> 00:06:21,399 one of the reasons they lost in twenty twenty four. 81 00:06:21,720 --> 00:06:25,079 But they still think everyone should be relentlessly focused on 82 00:06:25,120 --> 00:06:30,519 twenty twenty not twenty twenty five. Big mistake, right. They 83 00:06:31,040 --> 00:06:34,000 again always think in these terms, right, or always try 84 00:06:34,040 --> 00:06:37,240 to at least assess it. What are their incentives? What 85 00:06:37,319 --> 00:06:40,839 are the incentives of the Democrats in this hearing? I 86 00:06:40,879 --> 00:06:44,800 mentioned it yesterday. It's to get airtime. It's to get 87 00:06:44,839 --> 00:06:49,160 the viral clips. And while we will play the clips 88 00:06:49,439 --> 00:06:54,240 and mock them appropriately, so not too much, but the 89 00:06:54,279 --> 00:06:58,480 appropriate level of mockery is required. But it's to get 90 00:06:58,519 --> 00:07:02,680 the clips on MSNBC because that's what they watch, right. 91 00:07:03,279 --> 00:07:08,399 They want to see their faces grilling the nominee over 92 00:07:08,600 --> 00:07:13,480 really super important dishes on Blue Sky, which is where 93 00:07:13,519 --> 00:07:18,160 all the leftists ran so their tweets could be censored. 94 00:07:19,399 --> 00:07:22,279 Do they call them tweets over at Blue Sky? I 95 00:07:22,319 --> 00:07:27,319 don't know. Do they call them blues skies? It is 96 00:07:27,360 --> 00:07:31,279 funny that it's called blue Sky, though, isn't it not red? 97 00:07:31,319 --> 00:07:35,240 Note that's different. That's COMI I got that in the 98 00:07:35,279 --> 00:07:38,360 stack of stuff too, there's another migration. So there are 99 00:07:38,399 --> 00:07:42,879 migrations occurring in social media world. So you have the 100 00:07:42,959 --> 00:07:45,759 leftists after Trump won, they were like, I'm laeving if 101 00:07:45,879 --> 00:07:49,360 Belon Musk is not in his censor conservatives, I'm going 102 00:07:49,439 --> 00:07:53,240 over to my cry closet, blue cry closet. And so 103 00:07:53,279 --> 00:07:56,920 they went over there, where like it's funny because they're 104 00:07:56,959 --> 00:07:59,959 in the process of like banning each other into obsolescence. 105 00:08:00,519 --> 00:08:02,399 I'm sure it's a great business model, but we'll see 106 00:08:02,399 --> 00:08:06,439 how it works out. And then the TikTok stuff, TikTok 107 00:08:06,600 --> 00:08:10,480 set to close up shop rather than sell for billions 108 00:08:10,519 --> 00:08:13,480 of dollars because as a corporation based in commune, China, 109 00:08:13,519 --> 00:08:15,959 who would want to make money when the whole point 110 00:08:16,040 --> 00:08:18,519 is to, you know, collect all the data. But they're 111 00:08:18,560 --> 00:08:20,879 shut set to shut down in a couple of days. 112 00:08:21,279 --> 00:08:23,800 And so now there's a migration of all of these 113 00:08:23,839 --> 00:08:27,480 people off of the TikTok going on to literally a 114 00:08:27,600 --> 00:08:33,519 communist Chinese app, not TikTok. It's a different one they've got. 115 00:08:33,759 --> 00:08:38,240 They've got another one over there. And so at this point, guys, 116 00:08:38,440 --> 00:08:41,919 why not just go to Instagram right, set yourself up 117 00:08:41,919 --> 00:08:45,919 on Instagram or YouTube or Twitter or Facebook or one 118 00:08:45,960 --> 00:08:48,679 of the American companies. Just set yourself up there and 119 00:08:48,759 --> 00:08:51,879 then just like mail your tax returns and all of 120 00:08:51,919 --> 00:08:54,799 your credit card information and birth date, social Security and 121 00:08:55,000 --> 00:08:59,200 just give all of that stuff to the communist Chinese Party. 122 00:09:00,240 --> 00:09:03,799 Just make it separate. You don't have to learn Mandarin people, 123 00:09:04,840 --> 00:09:07,360 which they are having to do because the app was 124 00:09:07,399 --> 00:09:12,639 never built for an international audience. So they're going on 125 00:09:12,720 --> 00:09:20,720 to a communist sensword platform. 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Thank you for the time we met. 153 00:10:49,000 --> 00:10:52,120 I was born in Florida, have a lot of friends 154 00:10:52,159 --> 00:10:56,120 and family and follow Florida politics pretty closely. And you've 155 00:10:56,240 --> 00:10:59,000 had a very impressive career there though. I do also 156 00:10:59,120 --> 00:11:01,080 have to admit I'm a game hater, so for the. 157 00:11:01,360 --> 00:11:03,879 Speaker 1: Florida University of Tennessee. 158 00:11:03,879 --> 00:11:08,399 Speaker 3: But anyway, I actually in some of these hearings, I've 159 00:11:08,440 --> 00:11:11,840 created a bingo card to see what some of my 160 00:11:11,960 --> 00:11:13,840 colleagues on the other side of the aisle were going 161 00:11:13,879 --> 00:11:15,279 to hit. I want to go back to a few 162 00:11:15,279 --> 00:11:20,480 of them really quickly. One was about you being a 163 00:11:20,600 --> 00:11:23,480 lobbyist paid for it on the payroll of Cutter. Would 164 00:11:23,480 --> 00:11:25,840 you mind going back and repeating what you said in 165 00:11:25,879 --> 00:11:28,960 case people did not hear the involvement of your law 166 00:11:29,000 --> 00:11:31,399 firm and precisely what you were doing for the government 167 00:11:31,399 --> 00:11:31,799 of Cutter. 168 00:11:32,200 --> 00:11:34,840 Speaker 2: Yes, Senator, I was very proud of that work. It 169 00:11:34,919 --> 00:11:38,399 was anti human trafficking in advance of the World Cup, 170 00:11:38,440 --> 00:11:41,360 and human trafficking has been something that's been very important 171 00:11:41,759 --> 00:11:44,919 to me my entire career, especially when I was Attorney General. 172 00:11:45,159 --> 00:11:47,759 Speaker 3: You also made it clear that you had a number 173 00:11:48,000 --> 00:11:51,519 of practitioners within the firm working on it. So this 174 00:11:51,639 --> 00:11:54,200 narrative that you were getting one hundred and fifteen thousand 175 00:11:54,240 --> 00:11:56,799 dollars a month from Cutter is correct. 176 00:11:56,440 --> 00:11:57,840 Speaker 2: Or not not correct? 177 00:11:58,000 --> 00:12:02,960 Speaker 3: Okay, thank you. I want to talk a little bit 178 00:12:03,000 --> 00:12:06,559 about well, First off, I want to go back. You 179 00:12:06,600 --> 00:12:09,960 should be happy that so many comments have been directed 180 00:12:10,000 --> 00:12:13,840 towards Cash Bettel, whose confirmation I am supporting. In fact, 181 00:12:13,879 --> 00:12:16,919 I'm meeting with him today, because that means they're out 182 00:12:16,960 --> 00:12:19,759 of stuff for you. So if it comes up again, 183 00:12:19,879 --> 00:12:22,879 you will once again know that you've got a great 184 00:12:22,919 --> 00:12:26,279 reputation and a great resume and they're just trying to 185 00:12:26,320 --> 00:12:30,639 find things to put your integrity into question. You have 186 00:12:30,720 --> 00:12:36,320 answered the question repeatedly that you will be loyal to 187 00:12:36,360 --> 00:12:39,519 the Constitution and you will live up to the oath 188 00:12:39,919 --> 00:12:45,399 to the Constitution and to protecting the American people. And 189 00:12:45,440 --> 00:12:47,799 I think mister Patel, when he becomes here, he'll be 190 00:12:47,840 --> 00:12:49,399 able to get rid of the myth and the same 191 00:12:49,440 --> 00:12:52,159 way that you did as a lobbyist for Cutter, he'll 192 00:12:52,200 --> 00:12:54,159 be able to get rid of that list of the enemies, 193 00:12:54,919 --> 00:12:56,759 be able to deal with the enemy's list, and the 194 00:12:56,759 --> 00:12:59,480 marketing department for your opposition is going to have to 195 00:12:59,480 --> 00:13:02,399 come up with material because that stuff is getting old. 196 00:13:03,440 --> 00:13:08,559 Section seven oh two. You heard Senator Lead talk about 197 00:13:08,600 --> 00:13:11,120 some concerns that he has with seven oh two. I 198 00:13:11,200 --> 00:13:13,600 believe it's one of the most important things that you 199 00:13:13,639 --> 00:13:16,639 can do early into your confirmation you will be confirmed 200 00:13:16,639 --> 00:13:21,480 and hopefully with some Democrat support, that there have been 201 00:13:21,679 --> 00:13:25,440 dramatic reforms to seven oh two. I've set through an 202 00:13:25,440 --> 00:13:29,480 extensive presentation to try and make sure that the abuses 203 00:13:29,600 --> 00:13:32,320 never occur again, and that you have a throat to 204 00:13:32,480 --> 00:13:36,240 choke if somebody abuses the protocol that's in place. I 205 00:13:36,279 --> 00:13:38,320 believe that we need to codify a lot of that. 206 00:13:38,360 --> 00:13:40,080 As a matter of fact, when I went through it, 207 00:13:40,480 --> 00:13:42,720 I felt like there were so many blinding flashes of 208 00:13:42,759 --> 00:13:44,919 the obvious. How could this not have already been a 209 00:13:44,960 --> 00:13:48,559 part of the approval matrix? So can you after your 210 00:13:48,600 --> 00:13:52,120 confirmed commit that you are a designate, will come back 211 00:13:52,240 --> 00:13:55,440 and provide for this committee an update on all of 212 00:13:55,480 --> 00:13:59,919 the protocols that have changed and recommended legislation for CODIFE, 213 00:14:00,399 --> 00:14:03,440 so that when we do go to reauthorization will have 214 00:14:03,600 --> 00:14:06,120 what we need to make sure that that program stays 215 00:14:06,120 --> 00:14:06,559 in place. 216 00:14:07,159 --> 00:14:11,559 Speaker 2: Senator I or designee will review all of seven oh 217 00:14:11,679 --> 00:14:14,320 two before it terms of course in twenty twenty six 218 00:14:14,360 --> 00:14:15,759 and come back and report to you. 219 00:14:16,840 --> 00:14:18,440 Speaker 1: I believe that's the Pizas stuff. 220 00:14:18,440 --> 00:14:21,559 Speaker 3: By the way, you have a great perspective with your 221 00:14:21,600 --> 00:14:23,240 time in the state all. 222 00:14:23,240 --> 00:14:24,759 Speaker 1: Right, I'm gonna stop it there. So I think they're 223 00:14:24,759 --> 00:14:26,840 talking there about if I remember correctly, it was seven 224 00:14:26,879 --> 00:14:28,879 oh two, is the FISA court stuff and how to 225 00:14:28,919 --> 00:14:31,960 get the warrants and all of that. She had a 226 00:14:32,039 --> 00:14:37,799 number of responses that were very awkward for Democrats that 227 00:14:37,960 --> 00:14:40,919 tried to you heard Tillis mention it there. They tried 228 00:14:40,960 --> 00:14:46,320 to smear her with Cash Patel, the FBI director nominee 229 00:14:46,840 --> 00:14:51,279 that Trump has announced trying to smear her with stuff 230 00:14:51,320 --> 00:14:53,639 that Patel said, will you just said they were literally 231 00:14:53,679 --> 00:14:57,120 playing the disavow game with her defender disavow d or 232 00:14:57,159 --> 00:15:01,799 D defender disavow And she's I'm not aware. I don't 233 00:15:01,799 --> 00:15:04,519 know all of that he has said. Those are his comments, like, 234 00:15:06,360 --> 00:15:08,919 and she's like, but I know him, and he will 235 00:15:08,919 --> 00:15:11,360 follow the law. He was a public defender, he was 236 00:15:11,399 --> 00:15:14,080 a prosecutor, He has a lot of experience in the 237 00:15:14,120 --> 00:15:17,440 intelligence community. I have no doubt he will follow the constitution. 238 00:15:18,120 --> 00:15:22,399 So but I do find it interesting how afraid Democrats are, 239 00:15:22,440 --> 00:15:26,320 at least pretending to be, that Republicans under the Trump 240 00:15:26,360 --> 00:15:29,960 administration might do to them what was done to the 241 00:15:30,039 --> 00:15:34,600 Republicans by them. 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Alrighty, so next up we 263 00:16:43,799 --> 00:16:46,679 have the village idiot who actually I am. I've just 264 00:16:46,799 --> 00:16:52,279 learned this woman graduated law school, Mazie Arono from Hawaii. 265 00:16:55,879 --> 00:16:58,080 All right, well, well listen for yourself. 266 00:16:58,320 --> 00:17:02,440 Speaker 4: Thank you, missus, Chairman. As part of my responsibility to 267 00:17:02,559 --> 00:17:05,079 ensure the fitness of all nominees, I asked the following 268 00:17:05,079 --> 00:17:08,960 two initial questions. First, since you became a legal adult, 269 00:17:09,000 --> 00:17:12,640 have you ever made unwanted requests for sexual favors or 270 00:17:12,759 --> 00:17:16,240 committed any verbal or physical harassment or assault of a 271 00:17:16,279 --> 00:17:17,240 sexual nature? 272 00:17:18,240 --> 00:17:19,640 Speaker 2: No, Senator, Have you ever. 273 00:17:19,480 --> 00:17:22,119 Speaker 4: Faced discipline or entered into a settlement relating to this 274 00:17:22,240 --> 00:17:26,759 kind of conduct, no, Senator, Ms BONDI. I am focused 275 00:17:26,799 --> 00:17:31,640 on two things in my evaluation of President Trump's President 276 00:17:31,680 --> 00:17:35,119 Elect Trump's nominees. The first is whether the nominee is 277 00:17:35,240 --> 00:17:38,240 qualified and experienced enough to do the job. The second 278 00:17:38,400 --> 00:17:41,599 is a fitness to serve, which includes putting loyalty to 279 00:17:41,640 --> 00:17:45,880 the Constitution over loyalty to the president. Unfortunately, my view, 280 00:17:45,920 --> 00:17:50,599 many of President Trump's President Elect Trump's nominees are lacking 281 00:17:50,720 --> 00:17:55,039 in at least one of these two requirements. She's just 282 00:17:55,079 --> 00:17:58,440 reading aperients as a prosecutor is the kind of thing 283 00:17:58,480 --> 00:18:01,880 we would expect to see in a nominee for attorney General. 284 00:18:01,920 --> 00:18:05,960 But I do have questions and concerns about potential conflicts 285 00:18:06,000 --> 00:18:09,400 of interest, about whether you will keep DOJ's law enforcement 286 00:18:09,440 --> 00:18:14,480 responsibilities independent of the president's political whims, and about whether 287 00:18:14,559 --> 00:18:18,240 you will let facts and evidence guide your decisions. So 288 00:18:18,319 --> 00:18:21,559 let's start with the importance of facts, which you say 289 00:18:22,119 --> 00:18:28,640 is important, Ms. Wani. We want an attorney general who 290 00:18:30,519 --> 00:18:35,359 bases decisions on facts. So I want to ask you. 291 00:18:35,640 --> 00:18:38,000 Speaker 1: By the way, when she pauses like that, it's because 292 00:18:38,000 --> 00:18:41,200 she's trying to understand the sentence that she's about to read. 293 00:18:41,559 --> 00:18:43,839 She's literally got sheets of paper in front of her 294 00:18:43,880 --> 00:18:46,960 and she's just reading off of the sheets, and so 295 00:18:47,000 --> 00:18:51,160 when she stumbles and she takes that pause, you can 296 00:18:51,200 --> 00:18:54,480 see she's kind of reading ahead because she's not understanding 297 00:18:55,200 --> 00:19:00,480 the way the sentence is formed. So you'll anyway, just 298 00:19:00,480 --> 00:19:01,039 a heads up. 299 00:19:01,200 --> 00:19:06,319 Speaker 4: A factual question. Who won the twenty twenty presidential election. 300 00:19:07,839 --> 00:19:11,480 Speaker 2: Joe Biden is the president of the United States. Ms. 301 00:19:11,480 --> 00:19:14,119 Speaker 4: Bondy, you know that there is a difference between acknowledging 302 00:19:14,160 --> 00:19:17,160 it and you know I can say that Donald Trump 303 00:19:17,240 --> 00:19:19,839 won the twenty twenty four election. I may not like it, 304 00:19:20,559 --> 00:19:23,000 but I can say it. You cannot say who won 305 00:19:23,079 --> 00:19:24,720 the twenty twenty presidential election. 306 00:19:26,359 --> 00:19:26,559 Speaker 2: Yeah. 307 00:19:27,960 --> 00:19:30,920 Speaker 1: By the way, Pam Bondi said earlier in the hearing 308 00:19:31,839 --> 00:19:36,480 when she was asked this exact question by a different Democrat, 309 00:19:36,880 --> 00:19:39,880 and she gave that exact same answer. And then she 310 00:19:40,039 --> 00:19:43,720 also noted that she was in Pennsylvania working for the 311 00:19:43,759 --> 00:19:48,519 Trump campaign and talked about the irregularities that she saw 312 00:19:48,920 --> 00:19:56,599 in Pennsylvania. And so there's is it reasonable for a 313 00:19:56,640 --> 00:20:02,000 Republican looking at the twenty twenty election to question, to 314 00:20:02,279 --> 00:20:05,839 doubt whether or not Joe Biden did eke out that 315 00:20:06,000 --> 00:20:13,519 victory when you've got Pambondi, lawyer, former attorney general, former prosecutor, 316 00:20:14,599 --> 00:20:22,839 going through the election system in a particular state, noting irregularities, 317 00:20:23,480 --> 00:20:26,400 for her to then question, I'm not really sure about 318 00:20:26,400 --> 00:20:29,000 these results. And I think it was Tom Tillis who 319 00:20:29,079 --> 00:20:34,039 later on said every election has irregularities, every one of them. 320 00:20:34,279 --> 00:20:39,000 So anybody up on that dais who is pretending that 321 00:20:39,759 --> 00:20:42,400 And this ya Tillis was the one who said, if 322 00:20:42,440 --> 00:20:45,119 you're up here and you're pretending that every election is 323 00:20:45,200 --> 00:20:49,000 run perfectly and there aren't any irregularities like you need 324 00:20:49,039 --> 00:20:51,920 to go home, you need to go spend some time 325 00:20:51,960 --> 00:20:56,039 back home. Because there are irregularities. I have been saying 326 00:20:56,039 --> 00:21:00,160 this for years. The question is the scope, whether they 327 00:21:00,200 --> 00:21:05,000 affected particular outcomes? Right, and is there evidence that you 328 00:21:05,039 --> 00:21:11,880 can use to prosecute. Okay, here's that you can't. 329 00:21:12,559 --> 00:21:13,680 Speaker 4: Give voice to that fact. 330 00:21:14,920 --> 00:21:17,480 Speaker 1: Moving on to so there she is again she has 331 00:21:17,519 --> 00:21:19,279 to come up with her own words, and so she 332 00:21:19,319 --> 00:21:22,880 had difficulty there. So now she's back on scripts from politics. 333 00:21:23,440 --> 00:21:26,000 Speaker 4: Ms BONDI, if you are confirmed as attorney general, you 334 00:21:26,039 --> 00:21:28,200 will take an oath to the Constitution and not to 335 00:21:28,240 --> 00:21:32,160 any individual, including the president. To start, I'd like to 336 00:21:32,200 --> 00:21:34,680 know whether you agree with some of the statements President 337 00:21:34,680 --> 00:21:36,920 elect Trump made during the election. 338 00:21:37,680 --> 00:21:38,799 Speaker 1: Why during the campaign. 339 00:21:38,880 --> 00:21:43,400 Speaker 4: First, are the felons convicted of breaking into the Capitol 340 00:21:43,599 --> 00:21:50,440 on January sixth hostages or patriots including the Trump as 341 00:21:50,759 --> 00:21:53,559 President elect Trump has said repeatedly, do you agree with 342 00:21:53,680 --> 00:21:57,839 his characterization of the felons that I refer to. 343 00:21:58,359 --> 00:22:01,920 Speaker 2: I am not familiar with that statement, Senator, I. 344 00:22:02,079 --> 00:22:04,880 Speaker 4: Just familiarized you with that statement. Do you agree with 345 00:22:04,920 --> 00:22:05,599 that statement? 346 00:22:06,079 --> 00:22:08,200 Speaker 2: I'm not familiar with it, Senator. 347 00:22:07,960 --> 00:22:12,799 Speaker 4: No, answer. He has also said illegal immigration is poisoning 348 00:22:12,839 --> 00:22:16,799 the blood of our nation. He said that in December 349 00:22:16,799 --> 00:22:20,240 twenty twenty three. Do you agree with that statement. 350 00:22:20,640 --> 00:22:23,960 Speaker 2: Senator, I am not familiar with that statement, but what 351 00:22:24,039 --> 00:22:26,559 I can tell you is I went to the border 352 00:22:26,680 --> 00:22:30,480 a few months ago. I went to Yuma, Arizona, and 353 00:22:30,519 --> 00:22:34,440 what I saw at that border was horrific, Senator, it 354 00:22:34,480 --> 00:22:38,039 was horrific. I went to a rape crisis center. 355 00:22:38,200 --> 00:22:39,400 Speaker 4: That is not my question. 356 00:22:39,759 --> 00:22:42,079 Speaker 2: I went to a rape crisis center. Well, I'm not 357 00:22:42,119 --> 00:22:44,359 familiar with the statement, but I went to a rape 358 00:22:44,400 --> 00:22:48,359 crisis center. I met with border patrol agents. I'm sure 359 00:22:48,400 --> 00:22:48,920 you've been to. 360 00:22:48,880 --> 00:22:50,720 Speaker 4: The border as well, so I want to get to 361 00:22:50,759 --> 00:22:51,559 my next question. 362 00:22:55,279 --> 00:22:57,400 Speaker 1: I'm sure you've been to the border as well, so 363 00:22:57,519 --> 00:23:02,240 you can answer that right show of fans, How many 364 00:23:02,279 --> 00:23:05,000 people think Maizie Herono has made a border visit? Uh 365 00:23:05,119 --> 00:23:08,319 huh yeah, no nobody. I'd be surprised if she has. 366 00:23:09,319 --> 00:23:13,000 What is the point of this? This is like asking 367 00:23:13,559 --> 00:23:19,519 the Attorney general nominee about random pull quotes from Trump 368 00:23:19,960 --> 00:23:23,880 to find out if she agrees, like how like this 369 00:23:23,920 --> 00:23:27,759 isn't even good faith or sorry, this isn't even bad faith? 370 00:23:28,519 --> 00:23:28,640 Speaker 2: Uh? 371 00:23:28,799 --> 00:23:33,759 Speaker 1: Questioning right, bad faith questioning. I would expect to be 372 00:23:33,880 --> 00:23:38,559 constructed in a better way. This is just dumb assery. 373 00:23:39,319 --> 00:23:41,680 This is a bunch of staffers thinking that they're writing 374 00:23:41,720 --> 00:23:44,079 gotcha questions, where you know, when did you stop beating 375 00:23:44,119 --> 00:23:49,759 your wife type questions. Trump said they were felons and patriots. 376 00:23:49,759 --> 00:23:53,079 Do you agree? Well, like, who were you talking about? 377 00:23:53,079 --> 00:23:55,680 Who was he talking about? Every single person like that? 378 00:23:56,200 --> 00:23:58,440 So she just says, I'm not familiar with that statement. 379 00:24:00,119 --> 00:24:03,400 And this was a this was a pattern that Democrats 380 00:24:03,440 --> 00:24:07,240 were engaged in pull quotes, do you agree? Pull quote? 381 00:24:07,240 --> 00:24:10,519 Do you agree? And Bondi kept saying basically the same thing, 382 00:24:10,640 --> 00:24:12,960 I'm not familiar with the quote. And then in one 383 00:24:13,000 --> 00:24:19,079 exchange with Dick Durbin, she says something on to the 384 00:24:19,079 --> 00:24:21,400 effect of, well, like, what's the full context of that, 385 00:24:21,480 --> 00:24:23,759 because he was asking about the phone call to the 386 00:24:23,799 --> 00:24:27,599 Georgia Secretary of State Raffensburger, you know, find me the votes, 387 00:24:28,759 --> 00:24:30,400 And she's like, I have not listened to the whole 388 00:24:30,480 --> 00:24:33,319 I have not listened to that whole phone call, Like, well, 389 00:24:33,319 --> 00:24:35,000 I just told you what it was, Yeah, but I 390 00:24:35,039 --> 00:24:36,839 don't trust you. That's what I mean. That's what they 391 00:24:36,839 --> 00:24:38,799 should say, that's what I wish some of these people 392 00:24:38,839 --> 00:24:41,559 would say. I don't trust you are giving me the 393 00:24:42,559 --> 00:24:45,079 full context of that quote. I suspect you're pulling a 394 00:24:45,160 --> 00:24:49,200 quote in order to find the most outrageous thing to 395 00:24:49,319 --> 00:24:52,079 generate the outrage, uh, and then get me to go 396 00:24:52,920 --> 00:24:56,039 on the record supporting some outrageous statement, when in fact, 397 00:24:56,119 --> 00:24:57,839 if you look at the full context, sort of like 398 00:24:57,880 --> 00:25:00,839 the good people on both sides thing, then you find 399 00:25:00,839 --> 00:25:04,960 out that the context illustrates something completely opposite of what 400 00:25:05,000 --> 00:25:10,119 you are trying to provoke. Right, that's my that would 401 00:25:10,119 --> 00:25:12,839 be my preference. I would like to see some nominees say. 402 00:25:12,720 --> 00:25:13,079 Speaker 2: It like that. 403 00:25:13,279 --> 00:25:15,480 Speaker 1: But what do I know? 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Pambondi, former Attorney General for the state of Florida. 425 00:26:25,039 --> 00:26:27,559 By the way, just two notes that are of very 426 00:26:27,599 --> 00:26:33,519 little value. She's pronouncing it fentanyl, and like I would 427 00:26:33,519 --> 00:26:40,640 oppose her nomination just for that. I hate It's not fentanyl, 428 00:26:41,319 --> 00:26:44,440 DeSantis does it? Maybe it's a Florida thing fentanyl. It's 429 00:26:44,480 --> 00:26:53,559 fentanyl anyway. Pambondi. Also she calls it Mexico Mexico, which 430 00:26:53,640 --> 00:26:56,200 may be also the reason why Trump says he wants 431 00:26:56,240 --> 00:26:58,680 to rename the Gulf of Mexico so this way he 432 00:26:58,720 --> 00:27:05,400 doesn't have to hear Mexico, Mexico, Mexico. But anyway, maybe 433 00:27:05,440 --> 00:27:07,839 I'm wrong on that too, I don't know anyway. She 434 00:27:08,319 --> 00:27:11,839 then gets questioned by Senator Richard Blumenthal, who spent his 435 00:27:12,000 --> 00:27:17,680 entire adult life lying about Vietnam service. But he well, here, 436 00:27:17,759 --> 00:27:18,720 you just listen, Senator. 437 00:27:18,759 --> 00:27:21,759 Speaker 2: First, I need to clarify something that you said that 438 00:27:21,960 --> 00:27:24,400 I have to sit up here and say these things. No, 439 00:27:24,519 --> 00:27:27,799 I don't I sit up here and speak the truth. 440 00:27:28,400 --> 00:27:30,519 I'm not going to sit up here and say anything 441 00:27:30,920 --> 00:27:34,920 that I need to say to get confirmed by this body. 442 00:27:35,000 --> 00:27:37,640 I don't have to say anything. I will answer the 443 00:27:37,759 --> 00:27:40,279 questions to the best of my ability. 444 00:27:41,079 --> 00:27:44,119 Speaker 1: And want to ask you. Yeah, all right, so yeah, 445 00:27:44,559 --> 00:27:46,240 and that's what he did say. I know you have 446 00:27:46,319 --> 00:27:48,599 to sit up there and say these things. She says, 447 00:27:48,640 --> 00:27:52,319 I don't have to be here at all. And that's like, 448 00:27:52,400 --> 00:27:54,799 that's true. She doesn't have to answer a single thing 449 00:27:54,839 --> 00:27:58,880 that you ask of her. She's not getting your vote, right, 450 00:27:59,599 --> 00:28:03,279 Bloom's not going to vote to confirm her. Maybe I 451 00:28:03,319 --> 00:28:09,720 don't know, Maybe he does. This was the line of 452 00:28:09,799 --> 00:28:13,359 questioning with Mike Lee speaking of unacceptable. Oh, hang on 453 00:28:13,400 --> 00:28:14,799 a second, I'm not going to have time for that 454 00:28:14,799 --> 00:28:17,599 that's fine. I'll tell you what she said. They were 455 00:28:17,599 --> 00:28:20,519 talking about the weaponization of the DOJ, and Bondie said, 456 00:28:20,559 --> 00:28:25,599 going after parents for attending a school board meeting has 457 00:28:25,680 --> 00:28:31,680 got to stop, has got to stop. And Shelley Whitehouse, 458 00:28:31,880 --> 00:28:35,960 when he's not attending his No Blacks Allowed country club 459 00:28:36,200 --> 00:28:39,759 up in Rhode Island, he's at these hearings, and he asked, 460 00:28:39,839 --> 00:28:46,000 under what circumstances do you prosecute journalists? She says, well, 461 00:28:46,039 --> 00:28:51,440 if they violated the law. Right, if they have violated 462 00:28:51,480 --> 00:28:54,559 the law is when you would do that. And by 463 00:28:54,599 --> 00:28:57,880 the way, she then turns around and says, and when 464 00:28:57,920 --> 00:29:01,960 giving examples of weaponization that Shelley is very concerned that 465 00:29:02,279 --> 00:29:04,559 Trump is going to do. She said, you know, we 466 00:29:04,599 --> 00:29:07,480 have a lot of great prosecutors in the Justice Department, 467 00:29:07,599 --> 00:29:09,480 but I'll give you like so, no, we're not talking 468 00:29:09,480 --> 00:29:11,799 about the good ones, but there are bad ones. And 469 00:29:11,880 --> 00:29:15,279 here's a bad one. Klein Smith, the guy that lied 470 00:29:15,440 --> 00:29:20,599 on the FISA warrant. Right, that guy broke the law. 471 00:29:22,400 --> 00:29:24,839 And Shelley didn't have a response for that. All right, 472 00:29:24,839 --> 00:29:27,200 that'll do it for this episode. Thank you so much 473 00:29:27,200 --> 00:29:29,279 for listening. I could not do the show without your 474 00:29:29,319 --> 00:29:32,079 support and the support of the businesses that advertise on 475 00:29:32,119 --> 00:29:34,920 the podcast, so if you'd like, please support them too 476 00:29:34,960 --> 00:29:36,640 and tell them you heard it here. 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