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  • President Trump's nominee for Attorney General Todd Blanche will go before

  • the Senate Judiciary Committee today during the first day of his confirmation hearings.

  • NPR's Ryan Lucas reports.

  • Senators are expected to press Blanche on his record at the Justice Department,

  • including his handling of the Jeffrey Epstein files, the firing of apolitical career department employees,

  • and the targeting of Trump's perceived foes.

  • Republicans and Democrats alike also have questions about Blanche's role in the controversial settlement

  • of Trump's IRS lawsuit, including the creation of a now-abandoned anti-weaponization fund.

  • Blanche began the second Trump administration as the number two official at the Justice Department.

  • He became acting attorney general in April after Trump pushed Pam Bondi out of the top job.

  • Blanche has a narrow path to confirmation in the Senate where Republicans have a razor-thin majority.

  • Ryan Lucas, NPR News, Washington.

  • The U.S. Military carried out a new wave of strikes against Iran today,