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Confirmation hearings are underway for President Donald Trump\u2019s nominee for attorney general, his personal attorney Todd Blanche. Blanche is mired in a number of controversies, most notably his mishandling of the administration\u2019s release of the Epstein files while serving as deputy attorney general under Pam Bondi. Washington state Representative Pramila Jayapal, who is co-sponsoring a bill to allow Epstein survivors whose identifying information was improperly publicized by the Department of Justice to sue the federal government for damages, says \u201cTodd Blanche was responsible\u201d for the breach. \u201cHe really wanted to discourage anyone else from coming forward with more information. \u2026 It\u2019s [a] big reason why he shouldn\u2019t be the attorney general.\u201d Jayapal also discusses the Department of Justice\u2019s surveillance of herself and other legislators who viewed Epstein-related documents and Blanche\u2019s longstanding personal and professional connections with Trump.<\/p>\n

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NERMEEN SHAIKH:<\/strong> Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche was grilled by senators during his confirmation hearing Wednesday to become attorney general. Blanche previously served as President Trump\u2019s personal lawyer. He\u2019s headed the Justice Department on an acting basis since Trump fired Pam Bondi as attorney general. It\u2019s unclear if Republicans have enough votes to confirm Blanche.<\/p>\n

During the hearing, outgoing Texas Senator John Cornyn blasted Blanche for his role in proposing a $1.8 billion fund for Trump to give to his allies, including January 6th insurrectionists. Republican Senator John Kennedy of Louisiana questioned Blanche about his ties to Trump.<\/p>\n

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SEN. JOHN KENNEDY:<\/strong> Are you and President Trump friends?<\/p>\n

ACTING ATTORNEY GENERAL TODD BLANCHE:<\/strong> I\u2019m his lawyer \u2014 was his lawyer, and now I\u2019m the deputy attorney general.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

AMY GOODMAN:<\/strong> \u201cI\u2019m his lawyer \u2014 was his lawyer,\u201d Blanche corrected himself. Democratic Senator Dick Durbin criticized Blanche for continuing to act as if he were Trump\u2019s personal attorney.<\/p>\n

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SEN. DICK DURBIN:<\/strong> In less than 18 months at the Department of Justice, you\u2019ve shown you\u2019re still President Trump\u2019s personal attorney. Your tenure can be summed up in the four words you said \u2014 quote, \u201cI love you, sir\u201d \u2014 to President Trump. This was your response when you were asked what you would say to him. This nation deserves an attorney general who loves the Constitution more than any single president, an attorney general focused on keeping America safe and combating corruption, not satisfying the president\u2019s personal grievances or channeling crypto cash to the administration\u2019s MAGA faithful.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

AMY GOODMAN:<\/strong> During the Senate hearing, Blanche also faced questions about his handling of the Epstein files, and we\u2019ll hear his comments in a bit. But for more, we\u2019re joined now from Washington, D.C., by Democratic Congressmember Pramila Jayapal of Washington state. She\u2019s just introduced a bill with Senator Cory Booker to protect Epstein survivors whose personal information was improperly disclosed during the Trump\u2019s DOJ\u2019s recent release of the Epstein files, which Blanche was in charge of. But first, we want to go to the overall questioning of and the possibility that the acting or interim attorney general would become the attorney general.<\/p>\n

Your assessment of Todd Blanche, Congressmember Jayapal?<\/p>\n

REP. PRAMILA JAYAPAL:<\/strong> Well, my assessment, Amy, is that he is not fit to be attorney general. He slipped and said what is true, that he acts as the president\u2019s personal attorney, not as the attorney general for the people of the United States. This is a very important position, and Donald Trump is putting his personal attorney in because he wants him to do all the things that Donald Trump wants to do: the political persecutions that have been happening under Todd Blanche as acting attorney general, the cover-up of the Epstein files. You have to ask: What is he hiding for the president that he is not willing to come out and actually take responsibility for and prosecute the predators that are present throughout the Epstein ring? The slush fund, you know, that he negotiated, now he says it\u2019s not going to happen. I don\u2019t believe him. I don\u2019t think there\u2019s anything in writing around that. The settlement with the IRS that he negotiated for Donald Trump himself. These are all indications of why he cannot be trusted as the top attorney for the people of the United States. He might be trusted as the top attorney for Donald Trump. That\u2019s not the role of attorney general. He should not be confirmed.<\/p>\n

NERMEEN SHAIKH:<\/strong> And, Congressmember Jayapal, if you could clarify? There\u2019s been some reporting that suggests that, in fact, this confirmation hearing may be in part just symbolic, because he could, in principle, be acting attorney general for the duration of Trump\u2019s term.<\/p>\n

REP. PRAMILA JAYAPAL:<\/strong> Well, it\u2019s true that you can stay as an acting. However, I do think that it would be a significant step if the Republicans did not have the votes to confirm him. And, you know, I think that this is something that we need to fix. There is the possibility of people staying if they\u2019ve been confirmed for another position, and then they can stay and transfer that confirmation into a new position. And so, I think there\u2019s work to be done around that.<\/p>\n

But I do believe that John Cornyn, perhaps Thom Tillis \u2014 not clear to me from the questioning \u2014 who are now sort of cut loose because they won\u2019t be continuing in this position as senators, they might have the opportunity now to actually do what is right for the country. That is what I\u2019m hoping for, because I think once he is \u2014 once they refuse to confirm him, there\u2019s much more opportunity for us to ensure that he doesn\u2019t continue in that position.<\/p>\n

NERMEEN SHAIKH:<\/strong> And, Congressmember Jayapal, ahead of Todd Blanche\u2019s confirmation hearing, the group World Without Exploitation released this video featuring Epstein survivors calling on senators to reject Blanche\u2019s nomination because of his role in disclosing their personal information, while protecting the names of alleged abusers during the Department of Justice\u2019s release of records related to the Jeffrey Epstein investigation.<\/p>\n

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SURVIVOR 1:<\/strong> My name was released.<\/p>\n

SURVIVOR 2:<\/strong> My phone number was released.<\/p>\n

SURVIVOR 3:<\/strong> Where I went to school.<\/p>\n

SURVIVOR 4:<\/strong> Where I live.<\/p>\n

SURVIVOR 5:<\/strong> My students can now search me and read about my abuse.<\/p>\n

SURVIVOR 6:<\/strong> I am an Epstein survivor.<\/p>\n

SURVIVOR 7:<\/strong> I am an Epstein survivor.<\/p>\n

SURVIVOR 8:<\/strong> I am an Epstein survivor.<\/p>\n

SURVIVOR 1:<\/strong> We were exposed.<\/p>\n

SURVIVOR 7:<\/strong> Nude pictures of victims were released.<\/p>\n

SURVIVOR 9:<\/strong> Our family\u2019s safety was put at risk.<\/p>\n

SURVIVOR 10:<\/strong> Now Todd Blanche wants to be the attorney general of the United States.<\/p>\n

SURVIVOR 2:<\/strong> Todd Blanche had a duty to protect us.<\/p>\n

SURVIVOR 11:<\/strong> Instead, he protected the people\u2026<\/p>\n

SURVIVOR 12:<\/strong> \u2026who committed crimes against us.<\/p>\n

SURVIVOR 3:<\/strong> Thirty years.<\/p>\n

SURVIVOR 8:<\/strong> Twelve hundred victims.<\/p>\n

SURVIVOR 7:<\/strong> And 6 million files.<\/p>\n

SURVIVOR 13:<\/strong> A mountain of evidence.<\/p>\n

SURVIVOR 4:<\/strong> But Todd Blanche says there are no investigative leads.<\/p>\n

SURVIVOR 7:<\/strong> Todd Blanche failed us.<\/p>\n

SURVIVOR 6:<\/strong> He failed victims everywhere.<\/p>\n

SURVIVOR 8:<\/strong> We deserve better.<\/p>\n

SURVIVOR 9:<\/strong> Our country deserves better.<\/p>\n

SURVIVOR 13:<\/strong> Vote no on Todd Blanche for attorney general.<\/p>\n

SURVIVOR 12:<\/strong> Vote no.<\/p>\n

SURVIVOR 6:<\/strong> No.<\/p>\n

SURVIVOR 2:<\/strong> No.<\/p>\n

SURVIVOR 14:<\/strong> No.<\/p>\n

SURVIVOR 5:<\/strong> Vote no on Todd Blanche for attorney general.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

NERMEEN SHAIKH:<\/strong> And several of Epstein\u2019s accusers were in fact seated in the Senate gallery during the hearing. And at the hearing, Illinois Democratic Senator Dick Durbin had a heated exchange with Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche on whether he would commit to personally meeting with Epstein survivors.<\/p>\n

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SEN. DICK DURBIN:<\/strong> There are 10 individuals who were exploited and abused by Mr. Epstein. They are here today. None of them have had a chance to speak to anyone in the department or FBI, though they\u2019ve asked repeatedly. So, can I get your word, under oath, that within the next 30 days you will personally sit down with these 10 victims and hear their case in terms of what needs to be done by the Department of Justice?<\/p>\n

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ACTING ATTORNEY GENERAL TODD BLANCHE:<\/strong> I \u2014 Chairman, I appreciate them being here today. I also have somebody from my office who\u2019s spent her entire career working on cases like Mr. Epstein\u2019s. She\u2019s in charge of our task force investigating human trafficking. She\u2019s available to talk to them, as soon as today.<\/p>\n

SEN. DICK DURBIN:<\/strong> She can sit right next to you. She can sit right next to you when you meet with these survivors.<\/p>\n

ACTING ATTORNEY GENERAL TODD BLANCHE:<\/strong> I am \u2014 I have never said I will not meet with survivors. I am \u2014 so \u2014 <\/p>\n

SEN. DICK DURBIN:<\/strong> Will you meet with these 10 survivors? I\u2019m asking you, on the record.<\/p>\n

ACTING ATTORNEY GENERAL TODD BLANCHE:<\/strong> If they have lawyers, as you know, I\u2019m prohibited from meeting directly with them.<\/p>\n

SEN. DICK DURBIN:<\/strong> I think you ought to be in the room, because you ought to hear this. You had singular responsibility for these files. There was a delay in meeting the statutory requirement of disclosure. You were involved in that. I think you ought to be part of this.<\/p>\n

ACTING ATTORNEY GENERAL TODD BLANCHE:<\/strong> I am definitely part of it, and I have been from day one.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

NERMEEN SHAIKH:<\/strong> And, Congressmember Jayapal, you\u2019ve just introduced a bill with Senator Cory Booker to protect Epstein survivors whose personal information was improperly disclosed during the Trump DOJ\u2019s recent release of the Epstein files. So, if you could talk about what exactly you\u2019ve called for?<\/p>\n

REP. PRAMILA JAYAPAL:<\/strong> Yes, we just introduced the REDACT Act, and this comes really from the whole experience of the Epstein survivors over the last year and a half under this Trump administration DOJ and Todd Blanche\u2019s overseeing. And you might remember that when Pam Bondi, then the attorney general, was before us in the Judiciary Committee, where I sit, I did the first line of questioning. And the most powerful moment was when I asked the survivors to stand up, and they all stood up behind Pam Bondi, and I asked Pam Bondi to turn and to acknowledge them and to apologize for the fact that the Department of Justice, under her leadership and Todd Blanche\u2019s leadership \u2014 he was really the one who was managing the Epstein files; they\u2019re both responsible \u2014 they released the names of these survivors. They released personal information. And in some cases, the survivors had not even told their families about the abuse that they had experienced at the hands of these powerful predators and criminals in the Epstein ring. And at the same time that their personal information was released, they also redacted the \u2014 Todd Blanche and Pam Bondi redacted the names of the powerful predators, which was clearly \u2014 both things were against the Epstein Transparency Act. The damage that was done out of the release of that personal information \u2014 their addresses, their phone numbers, pictures of them, all of the details of the abuse that they had suffered \u2014 they have not had any way to get recompense for that. And so, the REDACT Act essentially allows survivors a private right of action to sue the Department of Justice, including for monetary damages, because their information was released.<\/p>\n

I have spent hours and hours and hours with the survivors. I have gotten to know them incredibly well. They are so brave, so courageous. They are taking so many risks in continuing to stand up. They are inspiring people across the country to stand up and speak out about the abuse that other women have experienced at the hands of traffickers and predators. And it is really remarkable to me that to this day they have not been able to sit down with Todd Blanche.<\/p>\n

And I will just say also that after that hearing, I was invited to meet with Pam Bondi, because she had personally spied on me and had a document that showcased the files that I had looked at when I was reviewing the Epstein files. And so, I made a \u2014 you know, I made a big stink about it.<\/p>\n

AMY GOODMAN:<\/strong> I mean, this is a big deal, Congressmember Jayapal. Just to explain, for people to understand, you have to go into a room and look at the files, and they were filming you? They were surveilling you looking at the files?<\/p>\n

REP. PRAMILA JAYAPAL:<\/strong> They were surveilling me, not with film, but what they did is they had a password-protected account, so you had to sign in. And what they did is they downloaded my search history. And I only found out, Amy, because a photographer \u2014 I think it was AP photographer \u2014 took a picture of her binder when she was testifying, and and it said \u201cRepresentative Pramila Jayapal\u2019s search history,\u201d and it had all of the files that I had looked at documented on that piece of paper. So, yes, they were surveilling members of Congress and what we searched for, in preparation for her hearing before us on the Judiciary Committee.<\/p>\n

So, I met with her. It was supposed to be one on one. And, of course, Todd Blanche walks in five minutes after. I spent an hour with both of them, and I grilled them on the surveillance of members of Congress and also on all of the things that they had done to hurt survivors and to protect the president. And I have to tell you, Todd Blanche was responsible for all of that. It was very clear to me that he was the one who was making the decisions, who was acting, essentially, as the president\u2019s personal attorney in redacting the names of powerful predators and allowing for the release of the names of these victims, who \u2014 of these survivors. He really, I think, wanted to discourage anyone else from coming forward with more information. He failed at that. They are continuing to come forward. But it\u2019s just another reason why he shouldn\u2019t be \u2014 a big reason why he shouldn\u2019t be the attorney general.<\/p>\n

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