Matt Gaetz

No, none.

Right, right.

And I did tell him if he wanted me to do it, I would do my best job.

I would work hard to be confirmed.

And that I thought I could lead the department out of some of its darkest days and towards something better.

I think Pam Bondi has done a very good job.

I know she has her critics.

By the way, I would have too.

Like if I'd have been the attorney general, there probably would be a whole...

ecosystem saying I wasn't doing enough, but I actually think Pambani's done a good job and I'm here to be her supporter and advocate.

And I think Trump also believed that someone who had been unfairly accused of something and who had endured the grind of that.

Would care about justice.

Yes.

Yeah, would be really interested in fixing it.

I mean, I think that's why President Trump asked me to do the job is because he saw that I could empathize with those who had been treated unfairly and that I would approach the position with a true sense of justice.

I love that.

There were a lot of great people I interacted with in the Senate, but at the end of the day, there was a core block of about half a dozen of them who'd said they would never vote for me.

And I could have endeavored to grind that down, maybe win one or two of them possibly over an extended period of time.

But

You saw the way courts started enjoining the actions of this administration right off the bat.