Senators today also questioned nominees who will be powerful forces in energy and law enforcement.

Our Lisa Desjardin was on the hill all day and she was in the room for the hearing of

Attorney General nominee Pam Bondi. Lisa, let's start right there with a reminder of who Pam

Bondi is and why her nomination is so important to watch. Well, Bondi is well known in political circles

as a very close ally, longtime friend of President-elect Trump's, but in her own right, she has a lengthy

legal resume. Let's talk about it. 18 years as a prosecutor. She's a former Florida Attorney General

for two terms. Among her priorities then was the fight against the opioid epidemic, as well as some

conservative culture war issues. Now, she served on the first impeachment defense team for President

elect Trump. Then she also more recently has done election-related legal work for pro-Trump groups,

including filing lawsuits in the most recent election.

She's now nominated, of course, to be the top prosecutor in the country and the top law enforcement

agent. She would oversee the FBI itself. Most of all, this hearing was about the Republican

concern and contention that the DOJ has become politically weaponized against the right.

It's a powerful agency, but the thing is Democrats fear that if she was in this office,

that she could weaponize it the other way.

So there's a question of how the politics work here.

Bondi told senators what she sees as her priority.

My overriding objective will be to return the Department of Justice to its core mission

of keeping Americans safe and vigorously prosecuting criminals.

Now, she declined to answer a question specifically about would she prosecute people

like, you know, Jack Smith, the current special counsel who Donald Trump has spoken against.

She said it's still hypothetical, but she did say she would follow the rule of law.

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