# Is Donald Trump using South Korea to distract from Iran? | BBC Americast

https://mins.news/en/video/28810

- BBC News, 2026-08-21 20:00 UTC
- Politics
- Original: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AtgPH0WHgZQ

> Attorney General Todd Blanche declined to promise that he would act independently of the White House in an interview with NBC’s Meet the Press. Trump’s former personal lawyer argued that no attorney general should make such a pledge, while assuring the public that the president would never ask him to do anything illegal. His remarks have fueled debate over how free the Justice Department should be from White House control.

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