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Van Hollen tells Todd Blanche "Don't ever do that again" at a Senate hearing

Behind the clip's "IMPLODES" title are questions about a proposed compensation fund, meetings with Epstein survivors and survivors' leaked personal information.

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Why this story? The video opened at a pace of 240,486 views a day, 35 times a normal first day on this channel (6,792).

Todd Blanche IMPLODES At Senate Hearing: "Don't Ever Do That Again!"

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0:00A preview shows Van Hollen's reprimand of Blanche, the moment the title is built on.
0:33Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse holds up signs criticizing department attorneys and cites judges' condemnation of the department.
0:58At a press briefing, Blanche says his focus is executing the president's agenda and priorities.
2:00Epstein survivors each reject Blanche's claim that the department has no viable cases.
2:50Van Hollen asks who could use the proposed compensation fund, including Capitol attackers, and asks about a Maxwell pardon.
8:11Murray questions the fund and the unredacted release of survivors' data; Blanche says the department apologized and corrected it.

"Don't ever do that again," Sen. Chris Van Hollen tells Todd Blanche, after the acting attorney general accuses him of lying in his question. That exchange gives TYT Investigates its title, "Todd Blanche IMPLODES At Senate Hearing," and it is the busiest new upload on a channel that clips congressional hearings and press briefings rather than producing them.

The video is a compilation, not one continuous hearing. It cuts between the Senate exchanges, a Justice Department press briefing and testimony from survivors of Jeffrey Epstein's abuse. In the briefing footage, Blanche says he works every day "to execute the President's agenda and priorities." In the testimony, a questioner asks the survivors whether they agree with his public claim that the department has no viable cases. Each answers no. "Absolutely not," Jena-Lisa Jones says.

Van Hollen's questions are specific. He asks who could draw money from a proposed compensation fund, including whether people who attacked the Capitol would qualify. He also asks whether the department will meet directly with survivors and whether a pardon for Ghislaine Maxwell is ruled out. Sen. Patty Murray calls the fund a "slush fund" and presses Blanche on the release of survivors' names and photographs without redaction. Blanche says the department apologized and corrected the error at once: "Of course, anytime we release a victim's name that shouldn't be released, we have failed as a Department of Justice."

In its first 15 hours the clip drew roughly 190,000 views, and the comment section moved more than twenty times faster than on a usual first day. A second hearing clip from the same batch, Sen. Raphael Warnock questioning Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent about the economy, also started far ahead of the channel's usual pace.

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