Mazie Hirono: “At a time when the Department of Justice has lost thousands…”

“Is he going to uphold this so called non binding statement to me to secure today's vote from some of my Republican colleagues? Or the wishes of the President to whom he is loyal above all? At a time when the Department of Justice has lost thousands, thousands of career attorneys with millennia of combined experience, when DOJ's independence from politics is no longer in existence... I cannot vote in favor of someone whose actions so clearly make him ineligible to serve as Attorney General. Even of a department as compromised as this Department of Justice, which basically is a department of retribution and revenge.” (05:12–05:27)

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