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The big news of the day, Pam Bondi is out at the Department of Justice.

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In a significant shake-up for the Trump administration, Attorney General Pam Bondi was fired on April 2, 2026, ending a turbulent 14-month tenure marked by intense scrutiny of the Department of Justice. While President Trump publicly framed her departure as a "transition" to the private sector, reports indicate he had grown increasingly frustrated with her handling of Jeffrey Epstein's investigative files and her perceived inability to successfully prosecute his political rivals. Bondi, the second Cabinet member ousted in recent weeks following Kristi Noem’s firing, leaves behind a department facing historic turnover and criticism over its loss of institutional independence. Todd Blanche, the Deputy Attorney General and former personal defense attorney for the president, has been tapped to serve as acting attorney general while the administration considers a permanent successor.

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00:08 All right, we have ignition, we have liftoff. 00:13 as the 8th Congressional District of South Carolina has its daily gathering. Welcome to the program. Hope you are doing well. Man, that Artemis thing, going to be, they're still circling the earth right now. I know I'll be an idea about this. This is a complex thing. So Artemis is still circling the earth. And later on tonight, it's going to slingshot out of the earth's orbit and head to the moon. Going to go around and past about four, um 00:43 I don't know, 4,000 miles or kilometers past the moon over to the dark side. We're to see all the spaceships up there that are docked on the dark side of the moon. We're going to take pictures of those. Then we're going to come back and we're going to splash down to Earth. um I think it's April 6th something like that. can't remember. I don't know. Anyway, pretty fascinating to watch. 01:12 I guess the big news of the day, Pam Bondi is out at the Department of Justice. Now, I know that the vast majority of you are heartbroken over this. He said, with a hint of sarcasm, I know you're heartbroken. um 01:37 I'm kind of surprised this didn't happen a little bit sooner actually. Because I believe of all the members of the president's cabinet, Pam Bondi was to me kind of like the weak link in the chain. So that link has snapped. And now Pam Bondi is going to some position within the Trump administration, but in the private sector, let's take a listen to this. 02:04 Kayleigh, just got off the phone with President Trump. We have a big scoop. Pam Bondi will soon leave her job as the attorney general. She is going to get a different job within the administration. It doesn't sound like there is any bad blood between her and President Trump, but it does seem like uh they want her to go and do something else. And in an interim role, she will be replaced by Todd Blanch, who is currently her deputy at the Justice Department. So it doesn't sound like 02:34 Blanche is being elevated uh long term to the attorney general. There might be somebody else that the president wants to go in there. uh But President Trump soon will announce to the entire world that it is uh the end of Pam Bondi's time as the attorney general. He still thinks that she is a great person and that she did a good job. And he still wants her in the fold because she will still be an important part of the administration, he tells me. uh But no longer as the top. 03:03 law enforcement officer of the United States that at least for a little while is going to be Todd Blanch. All right, until possibly Lee Zeldin steps into that that position, all these Democrats are out there gonna lie. Oh, Charlie, the Trump administration is falling apart, Oh, you guys can't keep it. Shut up. I mean, I guarantee you. 03:31 You liberals out there would much rather have Pam Bondi. 03:37 as your attorney general, then you would Lee Zeldin or even Todd Blanch. Hopefully, these people are going to be able to get done what Pam Bondi was not able to get done. here's the thing, though, because remember we had Matt Gaetz. He was up for attorney general. He pulled out of that selection process um pretty early on um because all these people had all these crazy things about him. But 04:08 We need a bulldog. I tell you what, President Trump has not had real good successes. He has not had real good successes with attorney generals, even in the first administration. He didn't have successes with attorney generals. So hopefully he can get this one right. Now, there is a rumor out there. There is a rumor that one of the reasons that Pam Bondi was 04:37 removed from her position as attorney general, and I'll be honest, I cannot verify this at this time. 04:47 But we are hearing that President Trump believed that Pam Bondi 04:55 tipped off Eric Swalwell about the efforts of the FBI to ... 05:02 share investigative documents about his relationship with Fang Fang. The FBI was pr ...

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