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Welcome to TalkingFeds, a roundtable that brings together prominent former federal officials and special guests for dynamic discussion of the most important political and legal topics of the day.

I'm Harry Littman. Pam Bondi reached new levels of nasty in her appearance before Congress.

Bondi treated House Democrats with asinine contempt, spewing prepackaged put-downs, and praise of Trump

instead of answering her overseers' questions. Her evasions just raised more questions about the administration's

handling of the Jeffrey Epstein disclosures, as victims and legislators fume over the administration's

ranked failures to comply with their legal responsibilities to reveal Epstein's network

and pursue any criminals. Elsewhere, the administration

abruptly announced an end to the horror show in Minnesota that officials there have aptly called

a federal invasion. And news broke that Trump had also quietly withdrawn the Federalized National Guard from various states and cities around the country.

Congress handed Trump another pair of defeats, green-lighting debate on his controversial tariffs and declining to eliminate the filibuster.

That second rebuff likely guarantees that he won't be able to pass the Save Act,

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