{"id":370831,"date":"2026-08-17T19:00:07","date_gmt":"2026-08-17T18:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsisc.com\/videos\/ag-blanche-refuses-to-pledge-independence-from-trump\/"},"modified":"2026-08-17T19:00:07","modified_gmt":"2026-08-17T18:00:07","slug":"ag-blanche-refuses-to-pledge-independence-from-trump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsisc.com\/videos\/ag-blanche-refuses-to-pledge-independence-from-trump\/","title":{"rendered":"AG Blanche refuses to pledge independence from Trump"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i2.ytimg.com\/vi\/iVYvDHSmrqg\/hqdefault.jpg\" alt=\"AG Blanche refuses to pledge independence from Trump\"><br \/> <iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/iVYvDHSmrqg\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p>Attorney General Todd Blanche on Sunday declined to commit to always acting independently of the White House, a concern among critics who worry the Justice Department is carrying out President Donald Trump\u2019s political agenda.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo, I\u2019m not going to pledge that, and no attorney general should ever pledge that,\u201d Blanche told NBC\u2019s Kristen Welker on \u201cMeet the Press,\u201d going on to say Trump has not and never will ask him to cross a legal or ethical line and that the Justice Department will \u201cprosecute without fear or any sort of favor.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>0:00 Will the new DOJ act independently from the White House?<br \/>\n3:10 Sarah Krissoff, the Fmr. 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US Attorney for SDNY, shares her views<br \/>\n5:35 CNN\u2019s Audie Cornish on the mission and values of the DOJ<br \/>\n8:16 Panelists react to the news of AG Blanche tying himself to Trump<\/p>\n<p>Watch 24\/7 live news with CNN Headlines: https:\/\/bit.ly\/4eIvlTr<\/p>\n<p>#News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Attorney General Todd Blanche on Sunday declined to commit to always acting independently of the White House, a concern among critics who worry the Justice Department is carrying out President Donald Trump\u2019s political agenda. \u201cNo, I\u2019m not going to pledge that, and no attorney general should ever pledge that,\u201d Blanche told NBC\u2019s Kristen Welker on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":370832,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[128809],"tags":[],"actors":[],"class_list":["post-370831","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cnn"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>AG Blanche refuses to pledge independence from Trump | News ISC Videos<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Watch AG Blanche refuses to pledge independence from Trump for free, here on News ISC. 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