Name: 'I’m not going to be bullied by you': Pam Bondi clashes with Dem Senators Schiff and Padilla
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Do you have any evidence of election fraud or irregularities in the 2020 election?

You pointed your finger at me and said you were speaking.

You did not seem to be familiar with the citizenship clause, the 14th amendment.

I'm here to answer your questions. I'm not here to do your homework and study for you.

Senator, no one has asked me to investigate Liz Cheney. That is a hypothetical.

The president has called for it publicly. You are aware of that, aren't you?

We're also worried about Liz Cheney, senator.

You know what we should be worried about?

The crime rate in California right now is three of the roof.

Your robberies are 87% higher than the national average.

That's what I want to be focused on, senator.

Do you have the power to say no to the president?

Senator, what I can tell you is I will never play politics.

If you can speak truth to power, so let me ask you another.

Like you did leaking your colleague Devin Nunez's memo.

I just want to remind us all for the record that the 34 convictions, not indictments, convictions of former president, incoming president Trump were by a jury of his peers.

Thank you, Ms. Bondi, for being here today.

And I, too, would like to welcome your family and friends who are here.

Appreciate the opportunity to meet yesterday to learn about your priorities and discuss a number of issues that are important to me.

But I got to tell you, as I reflected on our conversation yesterday, and as I've observed the hearing today,

I continue to have significant reservations on your ability to function as a truly independent attorney general for your friend.

Let's say you keep referring to him, your friend, president elect Trump.

So I hope you can address some of these concerns through your responses to my questions here.

Now, the first issue area is something that we didn't get a chance to touch on yesterday.

So I actually want to follow up on some of Senator Durbin's questions from earlier about the 2020 election.

And to be specific, on the day after the 2020 presidential general election, you traveled to Philadelphia to appear alongside

President Trump's then attorney, Rudy Giuliani.

And together, you falsely asserted that President Trump had, quote, won Pennsylvania in that election.

And I want to be clear, at that moment, there were still at least a million ballots left to be counted in Pennsylvania.

Of course, President Biden went on to win the state by more than 80,000 votes.

But in the following days, even after the results were clear, you continued to double down on the big lie, promoting falsehoods about election fraud and cheating without offering any actual evidence.

And I remember it clearly because I served as California Secretary of State at the time, and I invited anybody associated with the Trump campaign who was making these claims to come forward with evidence of irregularities in the election or massive voter fraud.

Four years later, I still have seen none.

So I ask you today, do you have any evidence of election fraud or irregularities in the 2020 election?

I'm so sorry about the fires to you and Senator Schiff and what you're going through in your states.

All of our hearts go out to everyone in California for what you're facing right now.

I'm glad you asked the question about Pennsylvania.

Senator, I was hoping you'd ask the question.

If you have no evidence to offer, let me ask you this.

Will you now retract your previous statements that Trump won Pennsylvania in the 2020 election?

And let me tell you what I saw firsthand.

I didn't talk about California because I was not in California.

I talked about Pennsylvania because I was there.

I'm going to move on because she's clearly not answering my questions.

And I want to know, colleagues, for everybody, for everybody, members of the committee and everybody watching, that the other, the attorney who stood beside Mr. Giuliani was making very similar statements.

And he has since been disbarred from multiple jurisdictions for making these false claims about the 2020 election in court.

And like Mr. Giuliani, as you've noted today, you've taken an oath to uphold the Constitution just as an attorney.

And now you're asking us to consider you to serve as the chief law enforcement officer in our country.

So it's imperative, Ms. Bondi, that you subscribe to facts and evidence and not politically convenient conspiracy theories.

Your job will be, I'm speaking, your job will be to protect voters and election workers, not to undermine and dox them.

Now, I know that earlier you agreed that Joe Biden is, in fact, president, but many of the president-elect's inner circle continue to spread the big lie about the 2020 election.

I'm going to ask you the next question, you can speak, and I hope you answer, Ms. Bondi.

Well, I'd like to answer the previous one, Senator.

You did not seem to be familiar with the citizenship clause...

I'm not going to be bullied by you, Senator Padilla.

...the 14th Amendment of the United States of America, which was deeply disappointing.

I guess you didn't want to hear my answer about Pennsylvania.

And I'm hoping you're more familiar with it today after I gave an opportunity to study overnight.

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'I’m not going to be bullied by you': Pam Bondi clashes with Dem Senators Schiff and Padilla

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