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They're trying to keep control of Congress, but Trump is battling low approval numbers.
In the latest NPR PBS News Marist poll, a majority of Americans say Trump is moving the country in the wrong direction.
Low poll numbers are often a warning sign.
Since World War II, the party controlling the White House historically loses an average of 27 seats in the House and four in the Senate in midterm elections.
Senator Kelly, an outspoken Trump critic, was one of several Democrats who participated in a video posted online last fall urging American service members to refuse illegal orders.
It sparked intense backlash from President Trump and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, who later announced a review of Kelly's retirement grade, which could lead to a demotion and decrease in the senator's retirement pay.
In granting Kelly's request, Judge Richard Leon argued that Hegseth had, quote, trampled on the senator's First Amendment freedoms and threatened the constitutional rights of millions of military retirees.
Republicans on the committee are largely defending Bondi, but many Democrats are focusing on Epstein.
And it's turned combative, with Bondi sidestepping questions and hurling personal attacks.
Like this moment with the committee's top Democrat, Jamie Raskin.
Bondi stood by the DOJ's oversight on the issue and pledged to fight for all survivors.
But Democrats say the agency has done the opposite, over-redacting information to protect powerful individuals instead of survivors.
the Clintons agreed earlier this week to testify, but there's been a war of words since then.
In a statement on X, Hillary Clinton lobbies for their upcoming testimonies to be public instead of videotaped, arguing for transparency and claiming that despite the Clintons engaging in good faith with investigators...
Republicans have, quote, moved the goalposts and turned accountability into an exercise in distraction.