Praise for Pam Bondi, Another Trump Legal Win, Eliminating the Education Department | Nov. 22

The Daily Signal Podcast

The Daily Signal

News, Government, Politics, Daily News

4.6 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 22 November 2024

⏱️ 10 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

Today's top news: Pam Bondi, a former Florida attorney general and prosecutor for nearly 20 years, is Trump’s new pick for U.S. attorney general. Trump specifically hailed Bondi as a force against the weaponization of the federal government against conservatives. Trump scored a “decisive win” today in a New York courtroom. Judge Juan Merchan won’t hold a sentencing hearing next week as planned. Instead, today the embattled judge granted the Trump legal team’s request to file a motion to dismiss the case. Senator Mike Rounds, a Republican from South Dakota, introduced a bill that would eliminate the U.S. Department of Education. It’s called the Returning Education to Our States Act, and it could serve as the legislative vehicle to carry out Trump’s promise. Plus, coming up tomorrow our special Saturday interview edition, my colleague Virginia Allen speaks with Camille and Emmanuel Kampouris, producers of the new movie about German theologian Dietrich Bonhoeffer. Thanks for making “The Daily Signal Podcast” your trusted source for the day’s top news. Subscribe on your favorite podcast platform and never miss an episode.

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0	President-elect Donald Trump wasted little time in naming another Attorney General after former Congressman Matt Gates withdrew his nomination.
0:10.3	I'm Rob Lewy, and this is the Daily Signal Top News in 10 for Friday, November 22, 2024. Pam Bondi, a former Florida Attorney General and prosecutor for nearly 20 years,
0:31.4	is Trump's new pick for U.S. Attorney General.
0:34.7	Trump specifically hailed Bondi as a force against the weaponization of the
0:38.5	federal government against conservatives. Trump wrote in a statement Thursday that, for too long,
0:44.1	the partisan Department of Justice has been weaponized against me and other Republicans. Not
0:49.5	anymore. Pam will refocus the DOJ to its intended purpose of fighting crime and making America safe again.
0:57.0	I have known Pam for many years. She is smart and tough and is an America first fighter who will do a terrific job as Attorney General.
1:06.0	Bondi served as a prosecutor in Hillsborough County, Florida, served as Florida's 37th Attorney
1:12.3	General from 2011 to 2019, and she was one of Trump's lawyers during his first impeachment trial
1:18.1	in early 2020. Joining me to discuss Bondi's qualifications is Cully Stimson, deputy director
1:24.1	of the Mease Center for Legal and Judicial Studies at the Heritage Foundation and the co-author of the book, Rogue Prosecutors.
1:31.1	Collie, what does Pam Bondi bring to the job of Attorney General?
1:35.3	There have been 86 Attorneys General of this country.
1:39.2	We, two women, we've had senators, Secretary of the Navy, Secretary of the War, governors, all sorts of different people.
1:48.0	Some have been assistant U.S. attorneys.
1:51.0	A couple have been the U.S. attorney.
1:54.0	A couple like Ed Meese, who was the 75th Attorney General, was an Alameda County Deputy District Attorney for eight years.
2:02.5	Janet Reno was a Miami-Dade line prosecutor where she prosecuted no cases, and then she was
2:09.0	the state's attorney there and handled a smattering.
2:11.7	But Pam Bondi has 18 years of criminal line county prosecutor experience, handling everything from domestic
2:23.2	violence to child abuse, to capital cases, to homicide cases. Then she was the elected
	...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from The Daily Signal, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of The Daily Signal and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.