Todd Blanche, well, congratulations on the elevation, at least for now, from deputy to acting. What's the big difference in your job?
Well, I'm four days in, so five days in, so tough to tell. But look, I had a great relationship with Pam. We worked well together. She's a friend, and so it's sad to not have her around. She's a good person to have around.
The big difference right now is just trying to get the department moving forward. We have a limited amount of time to do a lot of work and making sure we're firing on all cylinders.
So that's – it's a full-time job before. It's a full-time job now. Right.
So did you get a deputy?
So we have – someone who's performing like an acting deputy role. It was Colin McDonald who's the newly appointed assistant attorney general for the new fraud task force. And then – so he's helping run things. We have a great staff. You know, things we have.
We are not lacking for great people in the AG's office or in the deputy attorney general's office. Personal question. Sure. I watched you two years ago in court every day right here in New York City. Yep.
And I saw your face every single day and I saw the president would greet the press every day. When you were in that courtroom, were you thinking to yourself, I'm sitting next to the next president? Or were you saying to yourself, I just got to keep this guy out of jail? I was thinking both because I was thinking I had to keep this guy out of jail so he could be the next president. And so it was an extraordinary attack from all fronts, right?
Not only the Manhattan courtroom, but with Jack Smith in D.C. and Florida and Atlanta. And then the civil case across the street where they tried to take everything from him and his family. And then after all that, you had a bunch of states say, you know what? You can't be on the ballot.
So talk about an all-out war to try to keep him from becoming the president. What was your role in that? Were you dealing with your own legal defense team almost for the president? Oh, yes. Yes.
The whole defense team. This was a true team effort. And so we there weren't I mean, because you didn't want to do something in one case that would negatively affect the position of another.
So we worked closely as a group. There was probably 15, 20 lawyers that were really part of the of the group that were trying to make sure we stay aligned. a lot of those folks are working for the president now, by the way. Right, I know. They're in total reversal.
So now we have a situation where people are clamoring because they don't like the president. They're not over the fact that he won again. People like John Brennan saying this yesterday, cut 44. The fact that he's able to do that and members of his party and his MAGA base continue to explain and apologize for more, rationalize what he's doing is just so, so troubling and worrisome that this person who clearly is unhinged and who, I think the 25th Amendment was written with Donald Trump's in mind, because allowing someone like this to continue to be the commander in chief and to control the tremendous capabilities of the U.S. military, including our nuclear weapons capability, which he seemed to allude to when he said he's going to just eliminate an entire civilization.
Again, we really are in very, very troubling times. Does John Brennan, does that rattle you? I mean, it's the same thing he's been saying for probably 10 years now. Doesn't even rattle me a tiny little bit. I mean, if you think someone like him can say that when he was just standing by quietly for the past four years with when Biden was in charge.
And here we have a situation where President Trump is doing exactly what he said he would do to make America safe again. And yes, no surprise.
So it doesn't rattle. It would rattle me if he actually showed even a modicum of support. Mr. Attorney General, the other thing would be, should he be educated in the 25th Amendment? That would have to come from his staff.
100%. Yes. And do you know a staffer that would say to himself, this is not the president who's working 20 hours a day needs to be ousted? I mean, it's the work that President Trump puts in every day. One of the folks that is very close with me that works with the president got a call from him at 2 a.m.
We get calls from him at 7 a.m., 8 a.m., midnight. And these are not joking calls. These are calls where we need to get work done. And so the idea that President Trump is doing anything other than working hard for this country is absurd The word is Chairman Jordan says that the walls are closing in on him What do you know about that investigation into him his role lying under oath the Russian investigation and everything predated you being there?
So I will tell you that there's a lot of public information about what Brennan did, and that's something that the American public can comment on and read for themselves. There are criminal investigations ongoing, as has been reported, and I will not comment on the status of that, but I accept to say the following, that we have very limited time to fix what happened in 2016 going forward. We have very little time to address what happened with Comey and with the entire change of administration from Obama to President Trump and the decisions that were made by individuals to try to stop President Trump before he even took the oath of office. And if you think that has not happened in our history before, that has never happened before. And now that it's 2026 and we're looking back and finally having having a full all government effort to under that.
What I say all government, I mean, the intelligence community, I mean, the Department of Justice, Tulsi, the FBI, all looking inward and saying, what did we do there? I assure you there will be results from that investigation.
Well, I watched Dan Bongino come out and put on social media just discouraging basically how much corruption went on. what he found now that he was at the FBI that went on during the Russia investigation. And then Tulsi Gabbard came out with a press conference, addressed some media about it. But I haven't heard much about it since, about what went on in that transition phase where Barack Obama, Joe Biden, John Brennan, James Comey went ahead and drummed up a Russia collusion scam that was tossed to the side of the road but looked extremely organized.
So they tried to bring James Comey into court. The case did not go forward. John Brennan has not been brought to court yet. What can you tell us? That investigations should not be rushed.
And that the worst thing that I could do to any investigation is talk about it. Because it not only prejudices the investigation, but it makes for a tough road. Is it on your desk? Is that on your desk? Is that something that's on your desk?
See, Brian, you're very good. You knew this a long time. See, that's talking about it, right? I love it. I love it.
I'm not being critical. I'm being complimentary.
Now, listen, I think that when there is something to say to the American people, you will hear about it. And believe me, I don't say that as a just stand by and let us do our work because I get it. This is something that folks have been extraordinarily focused on for years and years. Because you went to CPAC, and that's probably one thing they bring up to you, right? Yes, yes.
I said the same thing that I'm saying to you, man. Right.
I say the same thing to the president, by the way, okay? Because I don't mind the, come on, what are you doing, DOJ? Let's move faster. Let's move faster. And that's because we have a limited amount of time.
But what folks need to understand is that faster is not always better.
Okay, faster is just faster. And so we are moving apace in all these investigations, not just what you're talking about, but everything that we're doing to make America safe again and to fulfill the president's agenda is something that takes up all of my time every day.
So John Solomon was on with Sean Hannity last night exposing that the DNI, Tulsi Gabbard, has come out and found out about the Ukrainian impeachment. I know they get confused. It was all a sham. The whistleblower was a Democratic operative. Cut 45.
We'll see what the FBI does. But all day today, been really significant reaction. Tulsi Gabbard accused her own former inspector general of the intelligence community of weaponizing a whistleblower to hurt Donald Trump and basically ignoring the instructions of the Justice Department. The inspector general was told this doesn't meet the standard to report to Congress. He did it anyways.
Why would the Justice Department tell him that? Because the government knew all the way back from the moment this allegation was made. This whistleblower had bias. He had lied about a key fact in his interactions with Senator Schiff's or then House member Schiff's staff. And there was deep concerns that he only knew things here Nothing he knew was firsthand He admitted so in his document So they had a whole impeachment vote it took up three and a half weeks of the country time nothing else got done it poisoned the well in my view between zolinski and trump that still exists today and i think is hurting the defense of ukraine dude what could you tell me about this i can tell you exactly what i think what what solomon talked about last night is is exactly true which is that what we see now the question is whether there's anything criminal that happened as opposed to just being disgusting dirty un-American political gross conduct and so i'm responsible for anybody that violates the criminal laws i think there's no doubt that it's everything it's everything else i just said it's disgusting gross anti-american political conduct that should never be um should never happen again but man it goes back to the russia russia russia that was not true okay so a year and a half of the president's other presidency was taken up by something that was completely made up like not Well, there's something there.
No, no, there was nothing there. At the end, Mueller said, oh, maybe Trump obstructed justice, obstructed justice because he said this was not true and to stop it. OK, that's all that investigation showed.
So so then you talk about what happened with the with the with the impeachment. We learned that at the time that it was not even anything that rises anywhere near criminal, much less something that is a high crime and misdemeanor. And this is, look, we are exposing, and by we, I don't just mean me, but Tulsi and the FBI and CIA, a lot of gross conduct that happened a decade ago. And do you realize how it's all related? There was a thought there was something going on with Hunter Biden and Joe Biden in Ukraine.
And that's not unrelated to what we found out that Joe Biden and Hunter Biden were doing in Ukraine. That's right. And then when the FBI gets the laptop, they would confirm it all. They get mad at the guy that dropped it off and they never do anything with it. That's scary to me.
Yeah, it's a culture change. It's scary. And but guess what? Here's the good news. And I try to make sure people understand this.
That is not what this administration is about. The leadership of the FBI, Tulsi, CIA, DOJ, this there is a meaningful change when you hear people complaining. Oh, all these people are leaving or getting fired or they're not able to do what they've done for years and years. Yeah, that's right. You're not.
That's right. We are changing things. Oh, the FBI has been totally over. There's an overhaul happening. Oh, yeah, that's right.
There is. You know, Tulsi talking about the intelligence community and the shortcomings there and doing it in a critical way. That's right. We are looking inward, and we didn't do that the first time around maybe as well as we should. We should have mostly because we were under investigation the whole time.
but we're doing it now and and president trump has greenlit all of this you you ask president trump you go in there say president trump we're thinking we should release this here's what it shows it shows something that happened a long time ago he doesn't even let you finish your sentence release it let the american people see it so so the transparency and it's a flippant word now but transparency is what the american people want what really happened and that's what we're trying to to do acting attorney general uh todd blanchett here for a few more minutes we'll take a short time out and come back. You listen to Brain Kill Me Show. I was targeted because I worked for Turning Point USA because I'm a brown woman who thinks the wrong thing because I am a Christian. They were mocking me for my religion. They were mocking me for my political views.
They like I said, they told me that I had no right to be on a public street and they made sure to run me out and brutally assault me multiple times as I was trying to leave.
So that's the United States of America in 2026. And my main question is, how was this allowed to happen in President Trump's America? And that's why Savannah Hernandez, Turning Point USA contributor, wanted to, went up to the Minneapolis protesters, anti-Its protesters to ask a few questions. And you see it on camera. She's getting beat up.
The acting attorney general, I'm lucky enough to have him in studio. Todd Blanche is here. I'm sure you heard a little bit about this case. You can't keep everything in the air. But that's not okay.
It's not okay. Have you guys taken this up? Yes, absolutely. Listen, putting aside the assault, the idea that it's okay in this country. To have a, quote, peaceful protester blowing a whistle in somebody's face knowing full well local law enforcement will stand by doing nothing.
Not because there's anything wrong with those young men and women, but because their leadership has ordered them to do nothing. And then no shock it leads to violence And by the way if that was an ICE officer that did that if that was somebody that was on the other side then you would have the liberal left media would be going nuts right now over that conduct But instead, it's downplayed as no big deal. And the video is all over. It's everywhere. And it's exactly what we are going after is that type of conduct to try to turn the tide to say that you can't do that.
So we heard about the Black Lives Matter. We've got millions upon millions of dollars. The money's gone. the people are gone what happened to that money are you investigating any of that yes we are investigating all kinds of of of ngo money that is taking advantage of our laws that give them tax-free status that give the the people that donate the money a tax-free donation and then gives the people that receive the money the ability to to spend it without you know in ways that are potentially illegal so we have a multiple investigations of that you've already seen some cases that we've brought over the past couple months in that space and and we're going to continue to investigate.
So you do that. I also think the foreign money that's putting into these protesters that show up next thing you know, they're anti Iran, then they're anti Israel, then they're pro Palestinian, or they're always negative Trump. Where are they coming from? We know they're outside entities. What's the challenge in tracking that down?
That's another big part of our investigations to stop that that flow of illegal money. I mean, the challenge is that these guys are good at hiding their funds and getting the money into the hands of people that Their only goal is anti-American rhetoric. And so all they're trying to do is destroy the fabric of this nation. And it's Chinese in a lot of cases because they know what the hot buttons are in America. Sure.
And it's also – by the way, all they want to do is destroy the fabric of our country.
So how do you do that today? You attack President Trump and you attack ICE. American people don't want that. American people put them into office. American people overwhelmingly voted for somebody who's going to fix the immigration problem.
And yet here we are being led around by these external forces. And all of a sudden, there's this view of this country that President Trump is doing something horrible around illegal immigration. It's pure influence by foreigners, for sure.
So Eric Swalwell would find himself in a bunch of trouble. And today is a press conference with another accuser coming forward. I know that's necessarily not federal crimes. But in what way might this cross your desk? Because just on a side note, that shouldn't matter for his legal case.
He was one of the leading antagonists when it came to the Russia investigation. As you know, making up things in whole cloth, going out and profiting off the president. Actually, he thought he was going to be a presidential candidate if he fell flat on his face. But now, does that interest the Department of Justice at all? Listen, we are always interested in any sort of crimes committed by anybody, especially against the most vulnerable.
And if we learn anything that of any of the folks that come forward, that there's a federal crime that should be investigated, I assure you the FBI and HSI will without a doubt investigate. I've been watching like you have been over the past several days with what's happening to him. And we'll see what happens. Right.
You said rape charges are state crimes if that do in fact come forward. But what is not a state crime is the nanny hiring an illegal. Right.
You can't pay somebody. You can't hire somebody illegal. You can't pay somebody off the books. You can't transport women across state lines for the purpose of prostitution.
So, yes, a lot of the alleged conduct is not necessarily federal crime, but we'll see. Todd Blanche, have you let the president know you like this job? I have shouted it from the rooftops to anybody that asks that I love working for this administration. But I'll tell you, I would do anything in this administration if President Trump called me and said he had something else he wanted me to do. If he wanted me to do something from the outside, this is the honor of representing him as a private lawyer was the honor of my lifetime.
Being asked to serve in this administration is the honor of my lifetime. Whatever job he asks me to do, I'm going to put my head down and do it. What would you do differently than Pam Bondi? Pam Bondi and I are very close, like I said. And what has to be done differently by not just Pam Bondi or me, by anybody, is we need to make sure that the entire Department of Justice is working full steam ahead every day because we don't have a lot of time.
And you just got to make sure, too, as acting director, you always come on our show, if that's okay. That's done. Done, Brian. All right, thank you. Tom Blanche, congratulations on all you've done.
Great seeing you in person, getting a chance. And thanks so much for giving the audience 30 minutes of your time. Thank you very much, Brian. I appreciate it.
