Bondi dodges Democrats’ questions on weaponizing DOJ in Senate hearing
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🗓️ 7 October 2025
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| 0:25.2 | Attorney General Pam Bondi's appearance before the Senate Judiciary Committee today underscored |
| 0:30.2 | the deep partisan divide over the state of justice in America. |
| 0:34.4 | Intense exchanges Bondi and committee members clashed repeatedly, each side accusing |
| 0:39.5 | the other of politicizing and weaponizing the DOJ. Congressional correspondent Lisa Desjardin |
| 0:45.1 | has this report. Inside a Senate office building, a hearing that was combative from the start. |
| 0:51.9 | I wish you love Chicago as much as you hate President Trump. |
| 0:55.0 | And currently, the National Guard are on the way to Chicago. |
| 0:58.5 | If you're not going to protect your citizens, President Trump will. |
| 1:03.1 | I've been on this committee for more than 20 years. |
| 1:04.9 | That's the kind of testimony you expect from this administration. |
| 1:07.7 | A simple question as to whether or not that a legal rationale for deploying |
| 1:11.8 | National Guard troops becomes grounds for personal attack. Democratic senators grilled Attorney General |
| 1:17.5 | Pam Bondi over a litany of issues, including the firing of prosecutors. |
| 1:22.9 | Are you firing career prosecutors solely because they worked on cases like January 6th that the president |
| 1:30.7 | doesn't like? |
| 1:32.3 | A jet gifted to President Trump from Qatar. |
| 1:35.1 | Trump has asked us to leave. |
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