00:00Thank you, Chairman. Thank you, Ranking Member. Thank you, Ranking Member. Thank you, and welcome, Attorney General Bondi.
00:08I just wonder, sincerely wonder, do you hear how hollow your last words sound in light of the pardon of all of the January 6th people, day one of this administration?
00:25I believe you're sincere. You want to protect law enforcement, but your principal, the president, pardoned every single one on January 6th.
00:36It rings hollow when you say these words, that if you spit on a police officer, we're going to go after you.
00:41Talk to my friends who are Capitol Police officers who were here, five of whom are no longer here.
00:48They are dead. And this administration, and I guess I want to ask you, did you have any advice for the president when he came forward with the blanket pardon on January 20th?
00:59What advice did you offer the president?
01:01I am never going to talk about conversations, advice, anyway.
01:07Were you asked for advice?
01:08I'm never going to talk about discussions I've had or have not had.
01:10I can answer it with the president of the United States.
01:13Did you, did you give him any advice? Yes or no?
01:17I am not going to discuss any conversations that I have had with it.
01:22And just put your own words.
01:23I am not going to discuss.
01:24No, I'm going to reveal your own words.
01:25I am not going to discuss conversations that I've had with the president of the United States.
01:31You asked me a question.
01:32I would like to reclaim the last 20 seconds.
01:35I have asked to reclaim my time. Please put 20 seconds back on the clock.
01:39You have an extra 30.
01:41If the general...
01:42She answered and then answered it again and answered it again with a non-answer.
01:47I ask for your consideration of putting time on.
01:50If the general lady will let the witness answer the question, we will...
01:55She answered it by saying no.
01:57Okay.
01:59The three hallmarks of this administration are incompetence, corruption, and cruelty.
02:05I'm going to focus today on corruption.
02:08And in my mind, there are two types of corruption.
02:10Personal, and then the other I'm going to call public, governmental.
02:16Attorney General, have you ever been registered as an agent of a foreign principal under the Foreign Agents Registration Act?
02:23I assume you're talking about when I represented the country of Qatar for a very short time.
02:30The answer is...
02:31No, excuse me.
02:32Hold on, no.
02:32For anti-human trafficking for the World Cup.
02:36Anti-human trafficking for the World Cup.
02:39You can't put words in my mouth.
02:42You want to talk about incompetence.
02:44You're the one that says Joe Biden on PBS was competent.
02:48You had to retract those words.
02:51Mr. Chairman...
02:52Don't insult me publicly.
02:55This is so discourteous.
02:57This is so outside the committee's guidelines.
03:01Taking a personal shot at me while swiping at Biden?
03:05Very strange and very unprofessional of you.
03:09The answer is yes or no.
03:10And the answer is yes.
03:12You were registered as a lobbyist for Qatar.
03:14Is that correct?
03:15Yes.
03:16Never mind.
03:16Don't answer.
03:17Did you disclose that when you went before the Senate for confirmation?
03:24Yes or no?
03:25No, it was not in your documents.
03:27The answer is no.
03:29President Trump...
03:31This was discussed at my confirmation hearings in detail.
03:33Well, it was discussed, but you failed to bring up the conflict that you had.
03:38President Trump recently announced he'd accept that $400 million Qatar airplane because it was just prettier than the one he was flying around in.
03:47Is it true that you gave advice that this was legally permissible?
03:51Yes or no, I will not discuss any advice that my office of legal counsel gives to the President of the United States on any matter.
04:03When you spoke before the Senate, you said you would ask for ethical advice.
04:08Did you recuse yourself from that issue?
04:11And talking about unprofessional, you say the President wanted a jet because it's pretty?
