Attorney General Pam Bondi defends pulling funding from Maine's Department of Corrections.
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00:00Should we take some questions? Questions? Thank you, Attorney General Bondi. I wanted to ask if
00:08there's other states that you're focused on. Which ones are next for these types of abuses,
00:12including men and women's prisons? Well, first we're looking at, for this, we're looking at
00:17Minnesota. We're looking at California. We're looking at many, many states, but they are the
00:22top two that should be on notice because we've been communicating with them. And just like Maine,
00:27we're not going out there. We don't want to be suing people. We want them to comply with the law.
00:33And that's what we're doing. We have given them opportunity, Maine, and opportunity over and over
00:38again. The Department of Education, HHS, they went and sat down with them in person, multiple meetings,
00:44and got nowhere. So now this is where we are because they refuse to protect young women in their state.
00:51So yes, Minnesota, California, multiple states. As far as prisons, had nothing to do with Title IX.
00:58We took away funding from Maine as well. We decided to go a different direction in our grants
01:04because we saw one reason. They allowed a 6'1", 245, giant man who had violently, no murders,
01:14nice, but he had violently murdered his parents with a knife and the family dog,
01:19serving life in prison. And he chose to identify as a woman. So guess where he's being housed? In a
01:25female prison in Maine. So therefore, my office, we don't want to give any more money to the Department
01:31of Corrections.