'Excuse me!' Indignant Pam Bondi pushes back on Democrat's questioning on Kash​ Patel

Attorney General nominee Pam Bondi grew indignant when Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) questioned her about disavowing unethical acts by President-elect Donald Trump and his nominee for FBI Director, Kash Patel.

Blumenthal suggested that Bondi was tailoring her answers at Wednesday's hearing not out of honesty, but out of a desire to be confirmed.

"Can you say no to the president of United States when he asks you to do something unethical or illegal?" Blumenthal asked.

Bondi shot back, "Senator, first, I need to clarify something that you said: that I have to sit up here and say these things. No, I don't! I sit up here and speak the truth. I'm not going to sit up here and say anything that I need to say to get confirmed by this body. I don't have to say anything. I will answer the questions to the best of my ability."

Blumenthal then asked about Patel's inflammatory comments that he'll pursue the new administration's enemies.

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"Well, let me ask you — an individual who says that he is going to quote, 'come after,' end quote, people he alleges, quote, 'helped Joe Biden rig the presidential elections.' That he has a list of people who are part of this deep state who should be prosecuted. That he's going to close down the FBI building on his first day in office. Is that a person who, appropriately, should be the FBI director? Aren't those comments inappropriate? Shouldn't you disavow them and and ask him to recant them?"

"Senator, I am not familiar with all those comments. I have not discussed those comments with Mr. Patel. What I do know —"

Blumenthal interrupted, "Well, I'm asking you for your view."

"Excuse me!" Bondi shot back. "What I do know is Mr. Patel was a career prosecutor. He was a career public defender defending people. And he also has great experience within the intelligence community. What I can sit here and tell you is, Mr. Patel — if he works with running the FBI, if he is confirmed, and if I am confirmed — he will follow the law if I am the attorney general of the United States of America, and I don't believe he would do anything otherwise."

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