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The Briefing with Jen Psaki

Pam Bondi makes an absolute fool of herself frantically ducking Epstein questions

The Briefing with Jen Psaki

MS NOW, Jen Psaki

Politics, News, Ms Now, Versant Media, Versant

4.4975 Ratings

🗓️ 13 February 2026

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

Jen Psaki shares highlights from the most bizarre and obnoxious testimony before the House Judiciary Committee, or any committee, in recent memory in which Pam Bondi blurted and shouted like a deranged A.I. bot in a desperate effort to avoid addressing her department's Epstein scandal.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Okay, as you all know, it has been one hell of a newsday, and we have an unbelievable group of guests to help us make sense of it with.

0:08.3

Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro was here tonight. My bet is he has some thoughts on Donald Trump's plans to try and steal the next election in his state, which is one of the favorite states that Donald Trump likes to target.

0:20.9

And speaking of humiliating defeats, one of the Democratic lawmakers who Trump's Justice

0:24.7

Department just tried and failed to indict on baseless charges of seditious conspiracy is going

0:29.8

to join me tonight as well.

0:31.6

And I just mentioned this to Chris, but Congressman Jamie Raskin, who grilled Attorney General

0:35.4

Pam Bondi today in a way that really only he can.

0:38.8

I almost think he enjoys these many-hour, multi-hour hearings, is sitting here. He's going to

0:44.1

join me at the table for an exclusive interview about one of the wildest congressional hearings

0:49.9

I have ever seen. And, you know, don't just take that from me, because the reviews are in for

0:55.4

Bondi's one-woman wild crazy show on Capitol Hill today. And this AP headline, there were a lot,

1:01.5

but this AP headline kind of summed it up if you didn't see it. Bondi deflected questions on Epstein

1:07.1

files across five-hour hearing. It wasn't really, that's just the headline, because

1:11.9

it wasn't just that she deflected. It was how she deflected that made it so embarrassing for her.

1:18.5

In fact, at times Bondi was so obnoxious and so disruptive that she had to be repeatedly,

1:25.5

if gently blocked by Jim Jordan from shouting over her questioners,

1:30.2

and that is how it was covered.

1:33.1

I mean, Jim Jordan is the voice of reason.

1:34.9

You kind of know things are going off the rails.

1:38.5

Even Pam Bondi's typical cheerleaders tried to literally look away.

1:43.5

I mean, according to mediaite, Fox News declined

1:46.5

to carry almost all of the proceedings live or give them the kind of sustained real-time attention

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