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The 7
The Washington Post
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🗓️ 12 February 2026
⏱️ 9 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Have you apologized to President Trump, all of you who participated in those impeachment hearings against Donald Trump? |
| 0:10.3 | You all should be apologizing. You sit here and you attack the president, and I am not going to have it. |
| 0:16.8 | I'm not going to put up with it. Attorney General Pam Bondi went on the offensive in testimony on Capitol Hill. |
| 0:24.1 | That's where we're starting The Seven from the Washington Post. |
| 0:27.4 | I'm Hannah Jewell. |
| 0:28.6 | It's Thursday, February 12th. |
| 0:30.8 | Let's get you caught up with today's seven stories. |
| 0:35.9 | Pam Bondi combatively defended her leadership at the Justice Department to House lawmakers yesterday. |
| 0:42.8 | She has faced sharp criticism that she botched the release of the Epstein files |
| 0:47.4 | and has wielded the nation's most powerful law enforcement agency to heed President Donald Trump's calls to prosecute his political foes. |
| 0:56.7 | In heated exchanges, Bondi lobbed brash insults when Democratic lawmakers questioned her decisions. |
| 1:03.6 | You can let her filibuster all day long, but not on our watch. |
| 1:06.5 | We clear. |
| 1:06.9 | Not on our time. |
| 1:08.1 | No way. |
| 1:08.9 | And I told you about that, Attorney General, before you started. |
| 1:11.6 | You don't tell me anything. Yeah, I did tell you because we saw what you did in the Senate. |
| 1:15.2 | This is a lawyer. Not even a lawyer. Committee will be in order. |
| 1:18.3 | That was her exchange with the House Judiciary Committee's top Democrat, Representative Jamie Raskin. |
| 1:24.5 | Bondi frequently attempted to shift attention to her department's efforts to reduce |
| 1:29.4 | violent crime. The committee's Republicans largely praised Bondi for the work of her first year in |
| 1:35.3 | office. But Representative Thomas Massey, a Kentucky Republican and frequent Trump critic, |
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