'It is shocking to me': MSNBC host accuses Pam Bondi of lying about judges' powers

Attorney General Pam Bondi's claim that judges have no business interfering with anything Donald Trump chooses to do got a thorough beat-down on MSNBC on Thursday morning.

During an appearance on Fox News Wednesday night, the Trump appointee expressed outrage that U.S. District Judge James Boasberg, first appointed to the bench by Republican President George W. Bush, has demanded answers about 200 alleged gang members shipped off to El Salvadoran authorities despite his order forbidding the transfer.

According to Bondi, who previously defended Trump during his first impeachment hearings, "He's attempting to meddle in national security and foreign affairs and he can't do it. What he's done is an intrusion on the president's authority. You know this one federal judge, again thinks he can control foreign policy for the entire country and he cannot and right now we're evaluating our options."

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That brought a rebuke and a fact check from MSNBC's Joe Scarborough who prefaced his comments with, "Again I'm going to say this again because they keep saying things that they just know aren't true."

"In 2007, one federal judge stopped George W. Bush's warrantless wiretapping program, the NSA program," he started. "You can't get, like, any deeper into national security in the middle of a war on terror than telling the NSA you can't continue that program –– one judge did that. It got appealed and guess what? He got to continue the program."

"The same thing happened with Barack Obama," he continued. "A judge out of Texas on an immigration issue; one federal judge out of Texas stops the Deferred Action for Parents of Americans program. One federal judge out of Texas stopped a Title IX program about gender identity in the Obama administration. One federal judge out of Texas stopped Joe Biden's vaccine mandates for federal contractors –– it happens."

"One federal judge stops president's programs and it is shocking to me, I will say it is shocking to me, they know this and you actually have people coming out every day saying things they know are wrong," he accused.

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