Pam Bondi will appear again Thursday before the Senate Judiciary Committee for her confirmation hearing to be the next U.S. attorney general. The hearing is scheduled to begin at 10:15 a.m. EST on Thursday, Jan. 16. Watch live in our player above.

Pam Bondi sought to allay the concerns of Democrats who said they feared Trump and his allies would use the Justice Department to target their political enemies.

In his opening statement at the confirmation hearing for Pam Bondi, Senator Dick Durbin, D-Ill., focused on President-elect Trump's vows for retribution against his political opponents and questioned whether Bondi would pursue those vendettas as attorney general.