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The Lead with Jake Tapper

President Trump Fires Pam Bondi as Attorney General

The Lead with Jake Tapper

CNN

News

3.51.7K Ratings

🗓️ 3 April 2026

⏱️ 82 minutes

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Summary

Sources tell CNN that President Trump had a tough conversation with now former Attorney General Pam Bondi. Plus, hear from the head of one state election office vowing to take legal action against Trump’s crackdown on mail-in voting.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Pam Bondi, you're fired.

0:04.0

The lead starts right now.

0:06.0

Sources tell on CNN that the president had a tough conversation with now

0:11.0

former Attorney General Pam Bondi just yesterday.

0:14.0

And of course today, she's out.

0:17.0

For law and justice lovers out there, though, don't get too excited.

0:20.0

Part of the president's

0:21.0

problem with her was that she was not successful enough in going after Trump's perceived

0:25.9

enemies. And Trump's crackdown on mail-in voting here from the head of one state election

0:31.8

office vowing to take legal action against the Trump administration. And the new body cam video showing the arrest of golf legend Tiger Woods, what he told deputies

0:42.1

just moments before he was put in those platinum bracelets.

0:51.7

Welcome to the lead, and I'm Jake Tapper.

0:55.5

Let's get right to the breaking news tonight.

1:00.5

Pam Bondi fired as President Trump's U.S. Attorney General. Another massive shakeup for the Trump administration,

1:06.1

as the president grapples with some of the lowest approval ratings of his presidency. His announcement calls Bondi a great American patriot and a loyal friend. He adds that Bondi is moving into the private sector, though he does not specify where or what

1:16.6

that job, that alleged job, is.

1:20.6

Unlike former Secretary of Homeland Security, Christy Noam, who purportedly remains in Trump's administration,

1:25.6

Noam and Bondi both served Trump loyally, perhaps even to a fault, both taking major heat

1:31.7

over the Trump administration's handling of key issues to Trump's base, just as the president's

1:36.8

patience with both of these ladies wore thin.

1:40.5

For Bondi, sources tell us that the president's main problem with her has been her failure to successfully prosecute his perceived political enemies.

1:49.0

The U.S. Justice Department had indicted former FBI director James Comey and current New York Attorney General Letitia James, but both cases were tossed out.

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