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AG Blanche Slams Democrats: This Is Not Oversight, It's Threats and Intimidation Attorney General Todd Blanche pushed back hard on CNN's State of the Union against claims that Democrats are simply doing their constitutional duty after the midterms. Host Dana Bash pressed him on President Trump's order for the Justice Department to look into Democratic threats of investigations and impeachments. Bash said Democrats are "talking about investigation as part of their oversight role that is prescribed by the Constitution, which you know is very well laid out. Is that what you're concerned about? Or you're concerned about something else?" Blanche interrupted: "Wait, hold on a second. Sorry. Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait. No, no, no, no, no. They have a very unique role in oversight, I agree. Have you been listening to the rhetoric the past couple days? You honestly think that all they're doing is talking about their oversight obligations when they're talking about going after basically every member of the cabinet? They're talking about impeachments, they're talking about going after companies, private companies, who happen to have made investments in this country over the past couple years? That is not oversight. I welcome oversight. Oversight is exactly something they should be doing." When asked if there is a crime and whether the DOJ will investigate, Blanche replied that it "depends on what's said. So yes, there could be. You have free speech in this country. You are allowed to be critical of President Trump, of me, of this administration. But when the threats become so vile and so dangerous that you are telling people in college that they better be careful if they want to work in the Trump administration because somebody will come after them, at some point you have to draw the line." He added that not every case will be prosecuted, but "we have a real problem in this country if a young person in college is getting threatened by a United States senator that if they go to work for President Trump, they're going to be subjected to investigations and lawyers. You have an incoming chairman threatening, they're not even in charge yet, saying lawyer up to anybody in particular. So if that doesn't bother you, if that doesn't bother your viewers, then we really need to kind of wake up in this country because it certainly bothers me." The exchange comes as Democrats, newly in control of Congress, signal aggressive probes of Trump officials and private companies while Blanche and the administration push back that the rhetoric has crossed into intimidation rather than legitimate oversight.