“Bondi’s out. What next?”
Deadline: White House
Nicolle Wallace, MS NOW
4.5 • 6.4K Ratings
🗓️ 2 April 2026
⏱️ 42 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | We see our most activist judges that we lose to every single day are without a doubt, nothing more than an extension of the partisan arm of which they came from. |
| 0:20.0 | There's a lot of ways that we can |
| 0:21.2 | work within that to get some of our cases where we want them to be, where we're going to have a |
| 0:25.7 | judge that we know is going to be fair. Hi again, everyone. It is 5 o'clock now in New York. Ladies and |
| 0:32.9 | gentlemen of the United States, that as of this very afternoon, is expected to be your new acting attorney general. Just one of the United States that, as of this very afternoon, is expected to be your new acting Attorney General, |
| 0:40.8 | just one of the immediate after effects of that breaking news we've been covering today. |
| 0:45.9 | And as we've been reporting, Pam Bondi is now out as U.S. Attorney General, a shock to some, |
| 0:51.5 | sure, but not necessarily a surprise, at least for those of us who've been following |
| 0:55.4 | the reporting of our MS Now colleagues in recent days. So why? And why now? Bondi's 422 days on the job |
| 1:03.6 | were a lesson in Trumpism. She fired officials who prosecuted her boss and prosecuted officials |
| 1:09.2 | who crossed him. She gutted her agency's civil rights division and oversaw a broader generational brain drain |
| 1:15.9 | from some of the most essential positions. |
| 1:18.8 | To quote one former official, Bondi took a sledgehammer to the Justice Department and its workforce. |
| 1:24.9 | Not to mention under her leadership, the DOJ very literally hung Donald Trump's |
| 1:29.9 | face from its headquarters. And yet, somehow, none of it appears to have been enough for Trump. |
| 1:36.8 | Sources tell our colleague Ken Delaney and that Bondi was fired largely because Trump grew |
| 1:41.2 | dissatisfied with her inability to deliver on prosecuting his perceived |
| 1:45.8 | enemies. But again, not for lack of trying. There was just never enough there there. Which begs |
| 1:53.1 | the question, what's the now acting attorney general, Todd Blanche, supposed to do differently? |
| 1:58.8 | In what way can Bondi's eventual replacement go further to |
| 2:02.3 | properly satisfy a president evidently hell-bent on political revenge? Trump may not like the answer, |
| 2:09.6 | and perhaps the American people won't either. And that is where we start this hour. Former Chief of |
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