you were doing, you know you are knew what the job was. you knew that you might be working for an administration with different politics than your own and plenty of people work for administrations with different politics but if everybody resigned every time there was a new president, there would be chaos. i completely agree. i m not advocating that every president should bring in an entire new bureaucracy every time there s a transition. that would be chaos. and you would get people with no qualifications and no experience. of course. as much as people in this administration deride career civil servants, calling them bureaucrats, these are people who develop an expertise in what they re doing. absolutely. so all i can say in response to that question is i couldn t do it anymore for myself. and to me, it felt like kind of this president and working for this president was an extreme kind of frustrating, kind of
administration grants security cleerngss and there is a real public policy issue because there are valid concerns about whether foreign governments have influence over jared kushner because of his many foreign business entanglements. bradley, there is a real public policy issue as ken says. there may not be a legal issue, though. correct, ultimately there is not a legal issue here because what has been said by the white house is true in that the president has the ultimate authority. ali, he could give you a security clearance today. he could give you the most top level security clearance and access to nuclear codes if he wanted to absent impeachment of the 25th amendment being invoked. that s his constitutional authority. but granting security clearance is a time honored sacrosanct process everybody goes through. i go through, my clients have gone through. it is a very standardized process and is supposed to be handled by career civil servants on the investigative side and adjudica
what you just heard from the congressman was his background. before, as you know, before mr. whitaker became the acting attorney general, he did write this op-ed in which he said that the mueller probe was going too far. did you hear anything today from mr. whitaker that would disabuse you of the notion that his goal in being acting attorney general would interfere with the probe. let me take a step back and answer the question. i thought his performance, joy, was disgraceful. i have testified many times in congress. sometimes the questions are good and thoughtful, and sometimes incomprehensible, but you have to answer with civility and that was sorely lacking. your question, so, look, i don t know that he s the right guy for this job. in fact, i know he s the wrong guy for the job. i m heartened by one thing, the department of justice, the fbi, the u.s. attorney s offices are primarily, if not exclusively staffed by career civil
disgraceful. i ve toifred many times in congress. sometimes the questions are good and thoughtful, sometimes they re compound and incomprehensible but you have to answer every one with civility and your question. loox, i don t know that he s the right guy for this job. in fact i know he s the wrong guy for the job. i m heartened by one thing, the u.s. attorney s offices, fbi, are primarily if not exclusively staffed by career civil servants. if someone was messing with their stuff, trying to torpedo their cases, you would hear a human cry from them and you haven t. and he ll be gone soon. and did you get the sense this tactic of saying i understand it s very important and snarky. i think you can say disrespectful.
and end up in places you would least suspect. we do little as releasing as possible but they re coming but the thousands. i ve had zero democrats want them to be released in their districts or states. they know that. that s what we ll discuss. the democrats have been resisted to a wall. nancy pelosi calls it immoral. chuck schumer doesn t want it. i talked with a lot of people and these are career civil servants, custom and border protection. to a person they say that a barrier along the southern border is something that they want because it will slow people down, it will give them time to be able to get to points of intradiction where they can funnel these people or be an prehenced. that s not an argument that the democrats are buying not just