Good evening. I'm Amna Nawaz. Jeff Bennett is away. On the news hour tonight, Pam Bondi steps in as Donald Trump's new pick to lead the Justice Department, her record as Florida's Attorney General and as a Trump loyalist. The Texas Board of Education moves forward with a plan

to incorporate Bible stories into school curriculum.

And stolen childhoods in Haiti,

where girls face sexual violence

and boys are recruited into gangs

that have overrun the country.

It makes me so scared.

I tell my mother I want to leave the neighborhood, but she has no money, so we have to stay.

Welcome to the News Hour. President-elect Donald Trump's new pick to lead the Department of Justice

is receiving a much warmer reception on Capitol Hill and within the Republican Party.

Trump announced former Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi just hours after his first choice,

scandal-plagued former Congressman Matt Gates, withdrew his name from consideration.

Laura Brown-Lopez is here with more on Bondi's backgrounds.

Laura, who is Pam Bondi? What should we know?

Well, she has a long resume and a lot of experience working with Donald Trump.

So let's start from the beginning.

From 2011 to 2019, she was the first female Florida

Attorney General in that state. And then in 2019, she worked on Donald Trump's first

impeachment defense team. From 2019 to 2023, Bondi was a lobbyist with Ballard Partners,

which is the firm of a top Republican fundraiser. And it's also where Donald

Trump's chief of staff, Susie Wiles, used to work. And then in 2024, Bondi chaired the legal

arm of the Trump-of-the-Trump-aligned America First Policy Institute. So she's overseen, being

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