Confirmation hearings and tough questions for the men President Trump wants in two critical and sensitive jobs, Attorney General and Director of National Intelligence.

John King here in for Anderson. The acting Attorney General Todd Blanche and Director of National Intelligence nominee Jay Clayton, both, as you see, facing Senate committees today.

Neither one a shoe in for confirmation. Blanche is

already leaving one Republican Judiciary Committee member lukewarm at best on his vote.

And remember, just one GOP defection could be enough to keep that nomination from progressing to the Senate floor.

Blanche is a tough sell to some senators because he had a big role in a good number of Trump

controversies. One is Blanche's record at the Justice Department in connection with the Epstein

files and Epstein accomplice Galane Maxwell's transfer to a low security prison camp. Also, the January

6th pardons, the president's lawsuit against the IRS, which a federal judge this week

ruled was self-dealing, and that so-called slush fund and tax immunity deal that sprang from

that lawsuit. Blanche had a hand in all of it and was asked about all of it today. He was also the

president's criminal defense attorney before joining the government, though for a brief moment today,

the was became his.

Are you in President Trump, France?

I'm his lawyer, was his lawyer, and now I'm the deputy attorney general.

A slip quickly corrected, but a fascinating moment, nonetheless, it is no secret the president believes

even the Attorney General should be loyal to Trump above all else.

Blanche did assure senators.

Some Democrats were skeptical, but Blanche assured them he knows the Constitution comes first.

Blanche today defended his handling of the Epstein affair.

He acknowledged failures in redacting some of the victim's identities, but offered nothing

new when asked about an issue absolutely critical to Epstein survivors. Does the government have

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