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Dick Durbin: “The prospective Attorney General, the new One we're…”

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

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Durbin Sounds Alarm On President Trump's Crypto Cash Grab

Published | Video Starts at 01:58

… annual appropriation, which Congress will decide after they've gone through election cycles with their money being spread around, is pretty obvious to me. I might also say to you that The prospective Attorney General, the new One we're considering, Mr. Blanche, testified before the Judiciary Committee about his own circumstance last year. He had over $150,000 in crypto investments. He felt that he had to get rid of that. How did he divest himself, do you know? Ms. Kantor? (01:58–02:14)

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