Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche assured faith leaders last week that the Justice Department is planning to continue to suppress abortion access in the aftermath of the 2022 Supreme Court ruling striking down Roe v. Wade.“We don’t have complete victory yet, but we will have victory, and victory will be soon, and it will be permanent,” Blanche said, according to a recording of the call posted online Thursday by Intercessors for America, a Christian ministry, and reported by Politico on Monday. The recording of the call, which was available on Monday evening, has since been removed from YouTube. Blanche, who is on track to be confirmed as attorney general, also said that the Trump administration was working on “putting practices and policies in place” to curb the shipment of abortion pills.“If states have said, ‘We are going to protect the unborn and we’re going to protect every life from the moment of conception,’ we’re putting practices and policies in place so that other states and other organizations can’t attack that,” he said. “They can’t do things like they’re doing with mailing in mail-order drugs.”The Department of Justice attempted to downplay Blanche’s remarks in a statement to HuffPost on Tuesday. “These comments have been mischaracterized and need to be understood in their full context, which was with respect to mail order abortion drugs, not a broader expansion of federal control over states,” a DOJ spokesperson said.The DOJ told HuffPost it could not speak as to why the recording of the call was removed from YouTube. Intercessors for America did not immediately respond to HuffPost’s request for comment on the matter.Blanche is President Donald Trump’s former personal attorney and his pick for attorney general. After Trump fired former Attorney General Pam Bondi, Blanche took over as acting attorney general in April, swiftly embracing Trump’s agenda and attacking Trump’s political adversaries.The Senate Judiciary Committee voted 12–10 along party lines to approve his nomination for attorney general on Tuesday, sending the vote to the full Senate.The committee vote came after Blanche on Sunday rescinded his May order to create a $1.8 billion “anti-weaponization fund,” earning him the vote of two Republican holdouts on the committee, Sens. John Cornyn (R-Texas) and Thom Tillis (R-N.C.). The fund would have been used to pay Trump’s allies, possibly including Jan. 6 Capitol rioters. Trump has expressed disappointment over Blanche backpedaling on the fund, but said: “All I know is that Todd Blanche is great.”