Tonight, explosive new allegations surrounding Maine Democratic Senate candidate Graham Platner.

He responds in an exclusive interview with MS now, calling those claims patently untrue.

Then, the president's former personal lawyer moves closer to a permanent role leading the Justice Department,

but his confirmation is far from certain as the 11th hour gets

underway on this Thursday night.

Good evening. I'm Antonia Hilton in tonight for Stephanie Ruhl. We'll have Maine Senate candidate

Graham Platner's full exclusive interview

with MS Now just ahead. But to begin tonight, we need to talk about Donald Trump's Justice

Department. Trump's former personal attorney, Todd Blanche, is currently running the department

in an acting capacity. But now Trump wants to fully appoint him as Attorney General. Blanche

took the job from Pam Bondi after

Trump fired her. It seemed for not putting enough of his political enemies on trial. Since taking over,

Blanche has managed to get an indictment of James Comey in the infamous seashells on the beach case,

moved to undo the final convictions from January 6th, rolled back gun regulations, pursued investigations

into Trump's unsupported claims of election fraud, and accused the Biden administration of weaponizing

the justice system against conservatives. This week, Blanche made headlines for actually backing

down on Trump's so-called anti-weaponization fund worth

$1.776 billion, saying in word, but not in official writing, that the fund would not be

happening. But Trump might not be on the same page, it seems. Yesterday, the president said he wasn't

sure whether it was dead or on hold, and added that he loved the

fund. Today, Democrats in the Senate tried to officially block the fund from happening,

or Republicans voted that down. Meanwhile, the DOJ has reached a plea deal with one of Trump's

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