NCS senior authorized analyst Elie Honig known as Attorney General Pam Bondi’s look earlier than the House Judiciary Committee a “fiasco” and “embarrassment to the Justice Department” as Bondi threw down with a number of lawmakers.
Honig joined Dana Bash on Inside Politics to debate the hearing getting fairly heated, particularly on the subject of DOJ’s ongoing launch of files associated to convicted little one intercourse predator Jeffrey Epstein.
Honig, a former federal prosecutor, argued that Bondi prioritized insults and a confrontation with lawmakers fairly than getting throughout something substantive on points like Epstein, alleged widespread fraud in Minnesota, and extra.
“This is a fiasco. I wish I had a nicer way to put it,” Honig advised Bash.
There are important questions that the American public wants transparency, wants substantive solutions on. Instead, what can we get? Accusations of Trump Derangement Syndrome, identify calling, you’re a loser lawyer, this and that. I imply, coming from the AG of the United States within the U.S. Senate…did we get any significant readability on the Epstein investigations on Epstein recordsdata? To your level, do the victims really feel, to what you have been saying earlier, like they’ve been given any transparency, any readability on any of this? Have we realized something new about what DOJ is doing to research in Minnesota? Have we realized something new in regards to the search warrant in Fulton County? Have we realized something new about the truth that dozens of judges throughout this nation have discovered that this DOJ lacks credibility? No, it’s been identify calling. It’s been amateurish. It’s a humiliation to the Justice Department what we’re seeing from Pam Bondi.
Bondi and lawmakers obtained particularly heated over Epstein. At one level, Bondi blasted Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD) as a “washed up lawyer.” She additionally stated she refused to “go in the gutter” with Rep. Pramila Jayapal (D-WA) after Jayapal urged her to apologize to Epstein victims within the room.