'She’s embarrassing you!' Dem calls out Jim Jordan for letting Trump AG run House hearing

Attorney General Pam Bondi clashed with Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-Md.) during the Wednesday committee hearing before the House Judiciary Committee.

While many Democrats wanted to talk about failures of the Justice Department around the investigation files of Jeffrey Epstein, Bondi reacted defensively, trying instead to change the topic or sling mud at others.

At one point, a Democrat called it a "Jekyll and Hyde" routine, a reference Bondi appeared not to understand. He explained that she was acting sweet to Republicans and answering their questions, but when Democrats asked questions, she could only attack.

"How much do you think the claims of these survivors are worth, as the good congressman from Kentucky just pointed out?" Raskin asked. "There were lots of survivors who had decided, for reasons of their own, never to release their names. That determination was represented to people in Congress, and we built it into our federal law that their names could not be released. And yet you published their names, their phone numbers, their addresses personally identifying information. If Donald Trump can get $10 billion theoretically from the Department of Justice, how much should these people get? For a far worse violation of their privacy rights and a far greater danger established to them in their lives?"

Bondi refused to address Raskin's concerns, asking instead: "Do you even know who Chase Mulligan is?"

"You're so obsessed with — you, don't, do you? I'm going to teach you," Bondi said before relaying the Mulligan story.

"You're the attorney general of the United States. We have rules here," Raskin began saying before Bondi alleged that he had "Trump Derangement Syndrome."

Raskin asked for his time to be restored.

Bondi said that Mulligan was in Raskin's own district, and alleged he didn't even know who he was.

"I want the whole country to look at this, because this is the attorney general of the United States, whose job is law enforcement. We've never had a witness who has misunderstood our rules and been unable to conform his or her conduct to our rules before," said Raskin. "We have only five minutes. And so we use our time to ask you specific questions."

"How long are you giving me to?" asked Bondi.

"Excuse me? I'm not yielding to you right now. I'd like that second restored too," Raskin said. "So, Miss Bondi, the way it works is we ask you a question, and you answer it. And if you go off on a wild goose chase, another tangent. You start reading statistics or you start talking about stuff going on our district. And by the way, I invite you to my district. Come to my district. But that's not what we're here to do today."

This was the second time Raskin had to explain the rules to Bondi.

He wanted to know if Bondi was willing to establish the task force that would allow the DOJ "to investigate the crimes that have taken place against these victims and more than a thousand like them. The DOJ is not doing its job. Will you create a task force with state and local law enforcement to make that happen?" Raskin asked.

Bondi pivoted to talk about Mulligan again.

"Well, you know what? If he were part of the Epstein investigation, you wouldn't do anything," Raskin clapped back at Bondi about Mulligan.

Bondi continued to talk over Raskin about Mulligan.

"She's embarrassing you. This is your committee, and she is embarrassing you," Raskin said to Jordan.

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