00:00Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche's confirmation hearing was filled with
00:03fiery exchanges, emotional testimonies, intense back-and-forths. From intense
00:09grillings to outside witnesses breaking down in tears, here are the five most
00:13shocking moments. In one fiery moment, Blanche appeared to be ticked off by a
00:18question from Democratic Senator Sheldon Whitehouse over the conduct of FBI
00:23Director Kash Patel, who works under the DOJ.
00:27How long do you intend to put up with that Kash Patel character? Are you good
00:32with his airplane jaunts? Are you confident he's not drinking on the job?
00:35Are you sure none of his travel is a pretext for vacation activities like
00:39snorkeling Olympics and visiting girlfriends? Are you sure he knows what
00:43he's doing? Do you vouch for him? Are you willing to look at whether he lied to
00:47this committee? That's an extraordinarily obnoxious question, Senator, and I have
00:52full faith in Director Patel and the work that he's doing every day.
00:56Great. You get to own that.
00:58In another heated exchange, Senator Adam Schiff suggested that the former
01:02prosecutor's allegiance has shifted and now lies with Trump rather than the
01:07Department of Justice.
01:08What I don't understand, Todd Blanche, what happened to the Todd Blanche who was a
01:13prosecutor in the Southern District of New York? What happened to the prosecutor
01:16people had respect for? What happened to the prosecutor who once respected the rule of law?
01:20What happened to the prosecutor who said that there wouldn't be a whiff of political
01:24partisanship and then prosecutes the president's enemies over seashells,
01:28cases, over making a video stating the plain law and constitution?
01:33What happened to the Todd Blanche of the Southern District of New York
01:36that could convert him into you?
01:39Someone willing to say the president has both the right and the duty to prosecute his
01:45political enemies. I can't imagine the Todd Blanche of the old days would have ever done that.
01:51What happened to you, Todd Blanche?
01:54You asked me what happened to Todd Blanche. I am still here. I am the same exact person I was
02:02when I was a federal prosecutor in the SDNY, which is do the right thing and do everything you can
02:08to keep the community safe. One outside witness, angel mother Jennifer Boss, whose daughter was murdered
02:14by an illegal immigrant, emotionally delivered heartbreaking testimony in support of Blanche's confirmation.
02:19She was stuffed upside down in a garbage can for 51 days soaking in bleach.
02:29This is why victims don't care about partisan victories.
02:33We care whether the dangerous criminals and drug traffickers and cartels are stopped
02:39before another loved one is buried and another family's life is shattered.
02:43In another fierce moment, Republican Senator Josh Hawley bluntly expressed his astonishment
02:50that Democrats called former pardoned attorney Elizabeth Oyer to the Senate Judiciary Committee
02:55as a witness against Blanche.
02:57And you recommended clemency for this individual and now he'll live his life at the expense of
03:04taxpayers because you substituted your judgment for that of the American judicial system.
03:10Jury judges the whole lot and yet you're here to tell us that you're somehow a victim?
03:15I don't think so, Ms. Oyer. I think your judgment is astoundingly terrible.
03:21Another emotional outside witness testimony saw Jeffrey Epstein survivor Danny Bensky break down in tears
03:27as she admonished Blanche and the DOJ for releasing identifying information of victims in case files related to the late
03:34pedophile.
03:35Todd Blanche has been at the helm of the release of nude images of survivors,
03:41the outing of Jane Doe's, and the exposure of more than 100 victims identifying information
03:47and documents describing horrific acts of abuse, including my own.
03:53They were available not only for the entire world to see, but my child, my students, my friends,
03:59my employers, my colleagues, and my family. It was humiliating.
04:04Worse, my FBI 302 exposed a Jane Doe who had fought for decades to conceal her identity.
04:12It's been absolutely devastating.
04:16Outing survivors causes real and irrevocable harm while coping with our emotional distress and psychological trauma.
04:24Blanche apologized for redaction errors during his testimony on the first day of hearings.
04:29The earliest possible vote on Blanche's nomination is in two weeks.
04:33The best possible vote on Blanche's nomination is in two weeks.
04:35It has been on multiple occasions for kids with the
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