Doocy: This is going to be a BIG day

All right. In just a couple of hours, President Trump's pick for Attorney General Todd Blanch is headed to Capitol Hill for his nomination hearing. So the active AG is expected to face harsh questioning from the Senate Judiciary Committee. Senior White House correspondent Peter Doocy joins us now with those details. Hey, Peter. Good morning. And this is going to be a big day because if there is one thing that President Trump envies about former President Barack Obama, it is that Barack Obama, in his opinion, had an Attorney General, Eric Holder, who was a lot more loyal to Obama than any Trump AGs have been so far to Trump. What do you want to hear from Blanch tomorrow during his confirmation? Oh, gosh. Well, his priorities for the department. We can't go back to the days of parents at school board meetings having the Justice Department Anti-Terrorism Unit activated against them. And the biggest one there, of course, for Democrats would be the handling of the Epstein files. The president says Todd Blanch is doing a phenomenal job as acting attorney general of the United States under Todd's incredible leadership at DOJ. Murder is down to the lowest level since 1900, and we just saw the biggest one-year drop in recorded history. Violent crime arrests are up 100 percent. Robberies, carjackings, and assaults are all crashing. More than 500 million deadly doses of drugs have already been seized, saving countless innocent lives. Part of President Trump's issue today with getting Blanch through might be Republicans, including Tom Tillis and John Cornyn, who are on their way out anyways, so they might not have much to lose if they don't back Blanch. According to Politico today, both of those men could vote Blanch down if he cannot assure them that the so-called weaponization fund to pay out people with taxpayer money who think they have been wronged by the federal government is dead. Back to you. All right. Thanks so much, Peter. Thank you, Peter. So, it was a big questioning mark for me, Ainsley, when it came to Todd Blanch initially because I didn't know much about him, but I found him to be an excellent trial lawyer and if you value the rights and your freedoms and you're just this average American, this is the guy that you want as Attorney General because he's going to respect the rights of the people. We saw a Department of Justice that targeted Americans, parents, people, the praying grandmas out there and violated their rights, and he's kind of returned Department of Justice back to his origin. I appreciate that. Yeah. Here's Jonathan Turley on whether it's going to be difficult to confirm him. I knew the Senator well. We worked together for almost 30 years, and what we lost is someone who was able to pierce through a lot of the noise and nonsense on the Hill. We really need him, not just his vote, but his clarity of thought. We have to see how many of these Republican Senators are going to carry through. There's been suggestions that some of them might vote against Todd. I have to emphasize one thing, Todd Blanch is one of the most skillful lawyers in the United States. He has an outstanding career. You can't oppose him on the merits. This guy is really quite remarkable in his skills. This is an alarming situation for the White House as well. It's hard to deal with the strategic aspects because we're all mourning the loss of Lindsey, but we're going to have to focus on that and get him through this process because he deserves to be the Attorney General of the United States. I guess it's a bad season in the Senate for the President to get any confirmation through. You've got some Senators that have lost in the primary that may have a rub. I don't know that either of them have a rub here or even sit on the Judiciary Committee. I'm not sure. You have other Senators that they've already won their primary. They know they're going to win their general, so they can take a risk now maybe that they couldn't take before the primary season. But ultimately, not just losing Lindsey Graham as a vote, but losing Lindsey Graham as someone of influence and someone that both sides of the aisle have said in the last couple of days could get you there, could make you feel okay about it, could bring some levity to a heated situation. I mean, I understand what Jonathan Turley is saying. I don't understand what the big rebuttal would be to Todd Blanch from any Senator, especially on the right. And we're in a day and age now where you need 51 votes. Yeah. A lot. Some people were not in favor of that $1.8 billion fund payout to the victims of law fare, including the J6. And some people have questions about the Epstein files. They'll probably ask him about that and the DOJ's actions against these journalists, the FBI raids and the subpoenas on some of the journalists.