{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://www.welch.senate.gov/welch-grills-attorney-general-on-dismissal-of-trump-border-czar-investigation/", "Welch Grills Attorney General on Dismissal of Trump Border Czar Investigation", "2025-10-07", "2025", "2025-10", "Democrat", "Senate", "VT", "Peter Welch", "W000800", "www.welch.senate.gov", "welch", "https://www.welch.senate.gov/category/press-release/page/", "scraper", "Sen. Welch: \u201cI do want to go back to [Tom] Homan. There\u2019s a tape, right, with Mr. Homan? I mean, first of all: is there a tape that has audio and video of the transfer of the $50,000?\u201d\n\nBondi: \u201cYou would have to talk to Director Patel about that.\u201d\n\nSen. Welch: \u201cNo, I\u2019m talking to you.\u201d\n\nBondi: \u201cI don\u2019t know the answer, Senator.\u201d\n\nSen. Welch: \u201cYou do know the answer to that.\u201d\n\nBondi: \u201cDon\u2019t call me liar!\u201d\n\nSen. Welch: \u201cI didn\u2019t call you a liar.\u201d\n\nBondi: \u201cYou just said I know the answer. I said I don\u2019t know the answer. You have to talk to Director Patel. What I said is that investigation was closed.\u201d\n\nSen. Welch: \u201cLet me put it another way. If you don\u2019t know, why don\u2019t you know whether there was a tape and video?\u201d\n\nBondi: \u201cSenator, I believe that was resolved prior to my confirmation as Attorney General.\u201d\n\nSen. Welch: \u201cDo you think it is of public interest for the people to know what happened to the $50,000 that the FBI turned over to Homan?\u201d\n\nBondi: \u201cDid you hear what I just said? That was resolved prior to my confirmation as Attorney General. That\u2019s why I said I would not go.\u201d\n\nSen. Welch: \u201cIt\u2019s not resolved. There\u2019s $50,000\u2014Homan has it, or somebody has it. Do you have no interest in knowing where it is?\u201d\n\nBondi: \u201cYou\u2019re not going to sit here and slander Tom Homan. The FBI and Deputy Director Blanche said there was nothing\u2014\u201d", 1, "2026-03-30T01:40:41Z", "2026-04-06T19:32:54Z"]], "columns": ["url", "title", "date", "year", "month", "party", "chamber", "state", "member_name", "bioguide_id", "domain", "scraper", "source", "date_source", "text", "has_text", "collected_at", "updated_at"], "primary_keys": ["url"], "primary_key_values": ["https://www.welch.senate.gov/welch-grills-attorney-general-on-dismissal-of-trump-border-czar-investigation/"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 0.8353979792445898, "source": "dwillis/congress-press", "source_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press", "license": "MIT", "license_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press/blob/main/LICENSE"}