A flack for Iowa Sen. Chuck Grassley rejected the CNN reporter's query for the acting attorney general. CNN reporter Manu Raju asked acting Attorney General Todd Blanche about California Gov. Gavin Newsom ’s accusations against the Justice Department , only to be cut off by a spokesperson for Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa). (Watch the video below.) Confused? Don’t be. Raju was in with other reporters during Blanche’s meeting with Grassley, the Senate Judiciary Committee chair, ahead of Blanche’s