Todd Blanche Declines DOJ Pledge

On NBC’s "Meet the Press," Attorney General Todd Blanche declined to pledge Justice Department independence from the White House, saying no attorney general should. Blanche said he would consider Trump’s views on prosecutions, while saying Trump had not and would not ask him to cross a legal or ethical line. He said Trump’s January 6 pardons, including for 172 people who pleaded guilty to assaulting police officers, were not inconsistent with protecting law enforcement. Blanche also backed U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro’s dismissal of the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool vandalism case.