they have said donald trump committed directed lt commission of very serious felonies with campai campaign finance violations. 600.7 says that mueller asks the attorney general to indict, that the attorney general has to let that go forward unless it s so clearly violates a established justice department policy, that it s unwarranted. and 600.9 if attorney general says that it triggers a report to congress. those provisions taken together say basically that if mueller asks, i think the attorney general cannot say no to an indictment of the president because there is no established department policy for these kind of campaign finance violations. akeel, do you agree? neil wrote the regulation. way back when. or helped write them.
three texts will illuminate that question. one is what career prosecutors have found which is they have said donald trump committed directed the commission of serious felonies of caver vmpai finance regulations. and then 600.7 says if mueller asks the attorney general or the acting attorney general to indict that the attorney general has to let that go forward unless it so clearly violates establish justice department policies that it s unwarranted and 600.9 says if the acting attorney general says that it triggers a report to congress and those provisions taken together say basically that if mueller asks, the attorney general cannot say flo to an indictment of the president because there is no established department policy for these kinds of campaign finance violations. akhil, do you agree with that?
let me say this, it s time for mr. barr or mr. whitaker to act appropriately appropriately under the regulation. 600.7 gives them the authority and the obligation to demand an explanation for every inappropriate investigative or prosecutorial step special counsel has taken. the regulations contemplate up person who give serious thought to reining in an outrageous special counsel. mr. whitaker and mr. barr need to do what mr. rosenstein has refused to do. dan: he seems to be living in a government in and of himself. i don t know if he s some extra constitution of power, and it doesn t want to go up on capitol hill and he doesn t want to talk. is anything going to be done? people said if i did this with my job i d be fired. i hope he has a short shelf life because i would think that
mr. barr or mr. whitaker to act appropriately under the regulations. regulation special counsel regulation 600.7 gives him the authority and obligation to demand an explanation for every inappropriate investigative or prosecutorial step for special counsel has taken. it s time for them to get on board. the regulations contemplate a person who gives it serious thought to reining in an outrageous special counsel. mr. whitaker, mr. barr need to do it mr. rosenstein has refused to do. dan: congressman goodlatte, with regards to rod rosenstein, he seems to be living in a government in and of himself. i don t know if he has extraconstitutional power a member of the justice league, whatever it may be. rod rosenstein seems to be telling you all to he doesn t want to go on capitol hill, doesn t want to talk. is anything going to be done? common sense people say, if i did this in my job, i would be fired. i hope he has a short shelf life because i would think that