Fox News’ Kerri Urbahn Urges Pam Bondi to ‘Get Rid of Special Counsels Once and for All’ After Jack Smith, Mueller Investigations
Fox News legal editor Kerri Kupec Urbahn urged Pam Bondi, President-elect Donald Trump’s nominee to be attorney general to work with Congress to “get rid of special counsels once and for all” on Tuesday.
After anchor Bill Hemmer noted that the January 6 case brought against Trump by Special Counsel Jack Smith was dismissed at Smith’s request on Monday, he asked Urbahn how things might “change with her in charge of Department of Justice?”
“Well, one thing I really like about Pam Bondi as our next attorney general is her experience as a state attorney general. It’s obviously the closest thing you can get to being A.G.. And what I mean by that is people fundamentally misunderstand the role of attorney general in this country. People don’t like to think of the role of AG as an inherently political position, but it is,” began Urbahn. “But what does that mean? Yes, you have a duty to neutrally and evenhandedly apply the law, but you still are responsible for pushing forward the president’s agenda. So as state A.G., Pam Bondi has great experience in that, working with the governor, and she’ll do that again here in Washington at the Department of Justice, assuming she gets confirmed.”
“But to your question, Bill, I think Pam Bondi has a really great opportunity here to be-, to have a legacy, to leave a legacy of being a reformer of the Department of Justice,” she argued. “And one of the first things I think she should do is work with Congress to get rid of special counsels once and for all. Special counsels are the epitome of prosecutors with unfettered power. And think about this, $100 million later between Bob Mueller and Jack Smith.”
Urbahn continued:
You know, here we are, their country is reeling from what they see as an abuse of justice over a former president upon our now future president. And the way this happened, at least on the federal level, was via these special counsels. This is something that can be eliminated. And the question then becomes, “Okay, well, if there’s an investigation that needs to be done, who will do it?” And the answer to that is one of the 93 U.S. attorneys. That’s their job. And they need to be trusted to be able to do that. When Bill Barr was A.G., he did it on a number with a number of U.S. attorneys, and they did it quietly and they did it well.
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