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Dick Durbin: “Mr. Blanche refused to answer how DOJ justified the slush…”

Featuring: Dick Durbin, Democratic | U.S. Senate Illinois

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Dick Durbin Says AG Nominee Blanche Has "No Business" Serving as Attorney General

Published | Video Starts at 00:30

The angel families know it and Americans across the country know it. Today, I'm not only voting to advance Todd Blanche's nomination. I'm voting … Mr. Blanche refused to answer how DOJ justified the slush fund's outrageous $1.776 billion price tag. … and for our history by refusing to admit that the sum was chosen to signal support for the January 6th rioters. And many of us remember when they attacked and invaded the Capitol. (00:30–05:16)

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Asserts that Blanche did not justify the slush fund's price tag.

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