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It truly would be Todd Blanch who decides if Pam Bondi gets charged with a crime.
That's not even in the fan fiction version of what happens next.
So they're without a lot of leverage here other than public pressure.
And because, Ben, the Epstein Files coalition is bipartisan and unique in nature because it's a unicorn, they really can apply some political pressure here on Trump,
on his team and on Pam Bondi to get her here eventually.
Jesse Waters, of all people.
Todd Blanche can want this to be over.
He can want to turn the page the same way my 15-year-old son can want to borrow dad's car.
It ain't happening, but you can want it.
That's wonderful.
This is not so much a legal distinction as a political one.
I'm sitting in the Capitol, Ben.
This is a political animal.
And though Todd Blanche thinks he may have a legal ground to stand on by withholding 3 million pages of these records, 3 million,
That's not quite how it works here.
There are political pushes and political shoves, and he's on the wrong side of an issue
vis-a-vis his own party.
Remember, that Epstein Transparency Act passed 434 to 1, basically.
One dissenting vote only.
The Republicans voted in a wave to support the release of these files.