On Face the Nation, Attorney General Todd Blanche refused to say whether President Trump told the DOJ to file the Alaska Senate race lawsuit. "I will not talk about communications I have with the president of the United States," he said, adding that the suit came from the department's "own research under the law" and its civil rights unit.
The receipt
- Who
- Todd Blanche
- Where
- interview - Face the Nation (CBS News segment)
- Original footage
- Face the Nation · watch the full video from this moment
- Length
- 37 seconds, unedited within the cut
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- 45 on Instagram
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So on Face the Nation yesterday, Attorney General Todd Blanche refused to say whether or not President Trump told the DOJ and who at the DOJ to file this lawsuit. He said, I told them to do it. Did he tell that to you? No, that wasn't your question. No, he didn't say it on camera. He said he told them to do that. I said I will not talk ever about, no, that wasn't your question, I said. I said, what your question was to me is, did he tell me? And I said to you, I will not talk about communications I have with the president of the United States. I haven't ever and I won't ever. But I will tell you this. This is the Department of Justice doing our own research under the law, the civil rights unit and the Department of Justice, drafting this lawsuit and then
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