U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi looks on as she testifies before a Senate Judiciary Committee oversight hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C. on Oct. 7, 2025. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst
A former senator reacted Tuesday to Attorney General Pam Bondi's combative and stumbling responses to questions about the Jeffrey Epstein files before a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing, warning that "juries see that pause."
Attorney and former Missouri Sen. Claire McCaskill (D) told MSNBC's Nicolle Wallace that eventually, more information would come out.
"When I was a courtroom prosecutor and I had a witness on the stand, and they looked the way she looked when he asked that question, what was flashing through her brain was her telling the FBI agents and Kash Patel to go through those records and flag Donald Trump's name," McCaskill said.
"That was what that was. And that was that pause you saw. And you know what? Juries see that pause. And the American people see that pause. And she can come back with yelling and snark and ugly all she wants. It doesn't change the fact that she lied about there not being a list of clients she's lying about," she added.
Bondi refused to answer questions about the Epstein case.
"There nothing being in that file that is important to the victims of these crimes," McCaskill said. "And I do think they're going to be found out. And by the way, you know, all the stuff they're doing right now, I mean, they're prosecuting Comey for lying in front of the Senate. I hope she tries that shirt on and likes how it fits."
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