Back in the days when I was writing television drama and casting actors in a couple of TV

series, I could tell you the moment when the actor got the part. With Arthur McDonald,

who was already a Tony winner, it was when she walked in. She owned the room before speaking a

word. With another actor, it was when he leaned on a word in a line in a very surprising way that I

didn't expect when I wrote it.

And with someone else, it was when she smiled through lines when others were fighting

back tears over those same lines.

And so, leaning on my now very much faded authority about the audition process,

I have the strong suspicion that in Todd Blanche's audition,

he got the part when he said this. As to whether or not I want this job, I did not

ask for this job. I love working for President Trump. It's the greatest honor of a lifetime.

And if President Trump chooses to keep me as acting, that's an honor.

If he chooses to nominate me, that's an honor.

If he chooses to nominate somebody else and I go back to being the DAG, that's an honor.

If he chooses to nominate somebody else and asks me to go do something else, I will say,

thank you very much.

I love you, sir.

I don't know that I've ever seen anyone more afraid in front of a Justice Department

microphone. I mean, he sounded kind of terrified there, but I love you, sir. That was the moment.

That was Todd Blanche's audition moment that got him the job because that was the moment with Todd Blanche, Donald Trump's former criminal defense lawyer, now is acting Attorney General.

And as of late last night, Donald Trump's nominee to be the next Senate confirmed attorney General. That was Todd Blanche saying to Donald Trump,

I will do anything for you. I mean anything. That was Todd Blanche debasing himself publicly in his

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