WASHINGTON – Today during the Senate Judiciary Committee’s hearing on the nomination of Pam Bondi to be U.S. Attorney General under the incoming Trump administration, U.S. Senator John Cornyn (R-TX) questioned Bondi on how she will prevent weaponization of the Justice Department and secure the southern border. Excerpts are below, and video can be found here.

On Department of Justice Weaponization:

CORNYN: “Your testimony is music to my ears.”

“One of the things that I have been most concerned about over the last, certainly the last four years and extending back during President Trump’s administration, is the weaponization and politicization of the Department of Justice… That disturbs me greatly, and I know it does you, too.”

On the Biden Administration’s Failed Border Policies:

CORNYN: “I believe President Biden and Vice President Harris had presided over one of the biggest humanitarian and public safety disasters in American history.”

“Will you do everything within your power as Attorney General to enforce the laws on the book, including the President’s executive orders, which I anticipate he will be signing on January 20th when he is sworn in, and help do everything you can and the Department of Justice can… to restore security to our southern border?”

BONDI: “Yes, Senator. Absolutely.”

CORNYN: “Do you believe Laken Riley would be alive today if President Biden and Vice President Harris had enforced the law and secured the border?”

BONDI: “Senator, he should not have been in our country, and then Laken Riley would have been alive.”

“There are so many victims throughout our country. Not only that, we’re all familiar with the violent gangs who are coming into our country, walking into our country freely through the open border.”

“It is my commitment to you on both sides of the aisle that I will do everything in my power with the agencies that fall under me, if I am confirmed, to make America safe again.”