Sen. Mazie Hirono, D-Hawaii, launched a blistering verbal assault on the Trump Justice Department Friday, saying that it has been corrupted by the “moral dead zone” of the White House.

“You enter that dead zone and you end up with an attorney general who can’t even tell me that telling the White House counsel to lie is not okay,” Hirono said in an appearance on MSNBC. “He can’t answer that.”