Lemon LIVE at 5 | Pam Bondi DESTROYED During Oversight Hearing
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How did Don Lemon introduce the Pam Bondi oversight hearing to viewers?
Good evening, Lemonheads, Lemon Legends, Lemon Nation. What a day we have had today. I'm so glad that you're joining us. First order of business. You guys know, put it in the chat. What's the first order of business? It may have something to do with like and thumbs up and make sure you do that because more people become aware of our channel. and more people become aware of our conversation, which is really important. Also, I see San Francisco is in the house. Florida is in the house. Let me know. Vermont is in the house. Vernon, Vermont, someone says. So let us know where you're streaming and you're watching us from. We were here, just so I can tell you, we had our own hearing of sort of our own conference.
We were here at a YouTube conference, which is kind of amazing. Philadelphia, Brooklyn, D.C., Salt Lake, Lancaster, Pennsylvania, not Lancaster, Lancaster. Remember, I used to live there, Toledo and Greensboro and Atlanta, Torrance, all those. The reason that because they're like they are enamored by the success of our show. And so we got to spend some time with folks and we got to today as well be a party to these hearings that were happening on Capitol Hill with Pam Bondi, who is attorney general of the United States. And boy, there were fireworks today. And if you didn't see it, maybe it's good that you didn't see it because we watched it so that you would not have to. And so before we get to all of the mishigas and the madness of it, her not answering questions, going in with a script that basically said Donald Trump is the best president ever and we should be talking about the booming stock market.
I want to bring in someone who was at that committee, at that hearing, got to ask questions. I don't know if he got any answers. And that is Representative Jamie Raskin. He has served Maryland's eighth congressional district since 2017. He's also the ranking member on the House Judiciary Committee. And we are grateful to have him. Thank you for joining us, Representative Raskin. Man, what a day. Pam Bondi, what was the point? She didn't answer any questions.
It was surreal. She was spectacularly disrespectful to the members of the committee, to the victim survivors of the Epstein human trafficking conspiracy who were in the room. She wouldn't apologize to them. She would not commit to meet with them. She would not commit to create a joint federal state local task force to actually investigate the crimes. And while she was extremely passionate and animated And detailed and specific in talking about certain cases, like the Don Lemon case, for example, she had very little to say about the Epstein files and wanted to change the subject immediately. And she did that repeatedly as members tried to pin her down. She would evade. She would dodge. She would change the subject.
She would filibuster. And then she began to resort to ad hominem vilification, demonization, and insults of the members of the committee.
You know, I was just going about my business today and actually was doing some work. I'm here on Capitol Hill doing some work. I got to speak to some members of the media and new media at the Capitol today. John Ossoff was before me. I was the next speaker. And then Cory Booker. And so I got to talk to some folks. But they were telling me, hey, you know, Pam Bondi is just, you know, name checking you on Capitol Hill for no reason because she's trying to avoid questions. Was it that obvious?
Oh, yeah. I mean, you know, it would be a great class for seventh graders in logical and rhetorical fallacies because she'd be asked a question about the Epstein survivors. For example, I said to her, well, Donald Trump wants ten billion dollars. because his tax returns were released by a private contractor, and he's suing the IRS for $10 billion. How much do the Epstein survivors get for your putting their names, their addresses, their phone numbers, in some cases, nude images of them online? And then she would just radically change the subject. People would ask her a substantive question, and then she would start saying, well, the Dow is over...
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Chapters
4 chapters
1
How did Don Lemon introduce the Pam Bondi oversight hearing to viewers?
0:17–8:10
2
What did Representative Jamie Raskin say about Bondi’s testimony and evasive tactics?
8:10–28:21
3
How did Bondi use stock market talking points and scripted responses during questioning?
28:21–56:07
4
What happened when Pramila Jayapal asked the Epstein survivors to stand behind Bondi?
56:07–1:00:27
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