WATCH: Sen. Ted Cruz secures a commitment from Pam Bondi to investigate 300,000 missing children

"There are over 300,000 children that this administration has lost, little girls and little boys who came here unaccompanied were in this administration's custody," Cruz said. Bondi wants answers.

President Donald Trump’s attorney general pick Pam Bondi’s relatively uneventful confirmation hearing bolstered Hill sources’ predictions that Bondi would be confirmed easily. One important commitment she made came in response to questioning from Sen. Ted Cruz (R., Texas).

“One statistic that every American should know is the number 300,000,” Cruz said. “There are over 300,000 children that this administration has lost, little girls and little boys who came here unaccompanied were in this administration's custody. They handed them over to adults, many of them not blood relatives, and they don't know where they are. I've never seen a single Democrat in this committee ask one question about the 300,000 children. I want to ask you a commitment. Will you as Attorney General investigate and make every effort to find those children, and if they are subject to abuse, get them out of those abusive situations that the federal government has put them into?”

“Yes,” Bondi replied.