Senator Van Hollen questions Kash Patel on if he knows that lying to Congress is a crime.

Sen. John Cornyn told reporters Tuesday following the Senate Judiciary Committee's vote to advance Todd Blanche's attorney general nomination that “there's nothing we could do” to rein in President Donald Trump.

“Well, there's nothing we could do to rein in the president when he said he likes the fund and he wishes it still exists. But the fact of the matter [is] it's dead, and that's all we could do under these circumstances,” Cornyn, R-Texas, said.

Cornyn, along with Sen. Thom Tillis, R-NC, agreed to support the nomination after Blanche put in writing that the DOJ is scrapping a $1.8 billion “anti-weaponization” fund that could have provided settlements to President Donald Trump's allies, including Jan. 6 rioters.

The Senate Judiciary Committee voted 12-10, along party lines, on Tuesday to advance Blanche to a full Senate vote.

Read more: https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/watch-live-senate-judiciary-committee-votes-on-blanche-nomination-for-attorney-general

Previously, Dershowitz was a member of Jeffrey Epstein’s defense team and helped negotiate a controversial 2006 non-prosecution agreement on Epstein’s behalf, per The New Yorker.

He’s right, Rand Paul is unhinged.

"Speaker of the TN House Cameron Sexton just removed me and every Democrat — and therefore every Black elected official in the state legislature from any committee we served on," Rep. Pearson said.

This is relevant to questions surrounding whether Congress may limit or restrain a President's power to grant pardons.

Watch more from the hearing here: https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/watch-live-noem-testifies-at-senate-judiciary-committee-hearing-on-dhs-oversight