# Blanche Confirmation Battle Continues Page: https://stenobird.com/podcast/cnn-inside-politics-471976/blanche-confirmation-battle-continues Text version: https://stenobird.com/podcast/cnn-inside-politics-471976/blanche-confirmation-battle-continues.md Podcast: [CNN Inside Politics](https://stenobird.com/podcast/cnn-inside-politics-471976) Published: 2026-07-31T17:39:00+00:00 Episode link: https://www.podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mp3/pdst.fm/e/swap.fm/track/2nzGkisFXQswLYT5s325/traffic.megaphone.fm/WMHY3370039517.mp3 Audio file: https://www.podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mp3/pdst.fm/e/swap.fm/track/2nzGkisFXQswLYT5s325/traffic.megaphone.fm/WMHY3370039517.mp3 Processing state: not_requested JSON: https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/cnn-inside-politics-471976/episodes/blanche-confirmation-battle-continues Duration seconds: 2409 ## Resource As today's show begins, President Trump is holding a Cabinet meeting at Camp David. Among the participants is Todd Blanche, the acting attorney general. He wants to drop the "acting" from his title and get confirmed by the Senate. But two Republican senators are blocking Blanche because the White House won't commit to killing the president's so-called anti-weaponization fund. And, rather than compromise, Trump says he'll pull the nomination for now and wait till next year.    Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices ## Actions - request_transcript: `POST https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/cnn-inside-politics-471976/episodes/blanche-confirmation-battle-continues/transcription-requests` — Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode. - read_markdown: `GET https://stenobird.com/podcast/cnn-inside-politics-471976/blanche-confirmation-battle-continues.md` — Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource. A page view does not enqueue transcription. Agents should invoke `request_transcript` explicitly when they need this episode processed. ## Transcript Full transcripts are not published on public pages unless there is a clear rights basis.