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Anderson Cooper 360

President Trump Fires Pam Bondi as Attorney General

Anderson Cooper 360

CNN

News

3.73.8K Ratings

🗓️ 3 April 2026

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

President Donald Trump has fired Pam Bondi as attorney general. The president announced it online posting "We love Pam, and she will be transitioning to a much needed and important new job in the private sector, to be announced at a date in the near future." She will be replaced for now by Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche, who will serve as acting attorney general, Trump said. Plus, after completing the critical translunar injection burn, the Orion spacecraft and the Artemis II crew are officially on their way to the moon. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Breaking news tonight on three fronts, exclusive new reporting that even as American forces

0:07.5

strike the first major civilian target of the war, Iran still maintains roughly half of its

0:13.6

missile launching capability and about the same percentage of drones, and that's more than

0:17.7

a month into the war. Also, the crew of Artemis II after yesterday's

0:21.5

picture-perfect liftoff has just finished firing their rockets again and is now headed for a

0:26.3

rendezvous with the moon and history. John Berman here in for Anderson. More on those stories

0:31.7

ahead. We begin, though, with today's launch of Attorney General Pam Bondi back into private life. The president announced it online,

0:39.6

quote, we love Pam. His message reads, and she will be transitioning to a much needed and important

0:44.9

new job in the private sector to be announced at a date in the near future. He goes on to say

0:50.8

our deputy attorney general in a very talented and respected legal mind, Todd Blanche, will step into service acting attorney general.

0:58.0

Bondi lost her job in spite of being one of the president's loudest defenders and deflectors.

1:03.4

Here she is doing both to a lawmakers' question about Jeffrey Epstein.

1:08.5

None of them ask Merrick Garland over the last four years one word about Jeffrey Epstein.

1:17.8

How ironic is that?

1:18.8

You know why?

1:20.4

Because Donald Trump, the Dow, the Dow right now is over, the Dow is over $50,000.

1:29.1

I don't know why you're laughing.

1:32.1

Since then, the market has fallen and so apparently has her stock with the president.

1:37.2

But even though she has been effectively canned, lawmakers on both sides of the aisle say that does not erase her obligation to testify before the House Oversight

1:45.0

Committee. She is scheduled to appear in less than two weeks. South Carolina Republican committee

1:49.5

member Nancy Mace, who wants to make sure Bondi does appear, said today that Bondi, quote,

1:53.8

handled the Epstein files in a terrible manner and seriously undermine President Trump.

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