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Todd Blanche is President Trump’s pick for Attorney General. He’s currently in that role in an acting capacity and hopes to convince lawmakers to give him the job officially.<\/p>\n

But Blanche’s nomination is facing pushback over criticisms that the Department of Justice has become politicized and over his handling of the Epstein files.<\/p>\n

What did we learn after the first day of his confirmation hearings?<\/p>\n

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Email us at\u00a0considerthis@npr.org.<\/p>\n

This episode was produced by Tyler Bartlam, Megan Lim, and Karen Zamora, with audio engineering by Ted Mebane. Our director is Jonas Adams.<\/p>\n

It was edited by\u00a0Anna Yukhananov, Maureen Pao and Tinbete Ermyas.<\/p>\n

Our interim executive producer is Courtney Dorning.<\/p>\n

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Todd Blanche is President Trump’s pick for Attorney General. He’s currently in that role in an acting capacity and hopes to convince lawmakers to give him the job officially.<\/p>\n

But Blanche’s nomination is facing pushback over criticisms that the Department of Justice has become politicized and over his handling of the Epstein files.<\/p>\n

What did we learn after the first day of his confirmation hearings?<\/p>\n

For sponsor-free episodes of\u00a0Consider This,<\/em>\u00a0sign up for Consider This+<\/em>\u00a0via Apple Podcasts or at\u00a0plus.npr.org<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Email us at\u00a0considerthis@npr.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n

This episode was produced by Tyler Bartlam, Megan Lim, and Karen Zamora, with audio engineering by Ted Mebane. Our director is Jonas Adams.<\/p>\n

It was edited by\u00a0Anna Yukhananov, Maureen Pao and Tinbete Ermyas.<\/p>\n

Our interim executive producer is Courtney Dorning.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5642,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[53],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5643","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-consider-this-from-npr"],"yoast_head":"\nAt a fiery hearing, President Trump\u2019s pick for Attorney General faces tough questions - Best USA Movers<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/bestusamoverss.com\/?p=5643\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"At a fiery hearing, President Trump\u2019s pick for Attorney General faces tough questions - Best USA Movers\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Todd Blanche is President Trump's pick for Attorney General. 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