independent council statute was not renewed. the special council regulations envision a conflict with the department so so veer that not only is the attorney general recused, but the department of justice itself is not capable of conducting a fair and independent investigation. and that s not a good idea. john, you take umbrage to that, i can tell. yes. umbrage might be strong. but i disagree. the justice department as we now have it is headed by a person who lied to the senate who promised them an explanation, he hasn t given them, who wouldn t even talk to the press today, when they were rolling out the new immigration policy and does america trust that department? that s why you have an independent investigation. there are so many conflicts in every direction. one of the obvious ones, we have comey seeking the department of justice to make an announcement saying there were no wiretaps, nobody there will take responsibility. the department is not working on that simple and compli
into a super hero. he got a worm into the computer of the iranians. he snatched bin laden. he has a kill list and he only makes the decision this is outrageous, this is highly classified information. this is information that puts the lives of people in jeopardy. people are going to be killed as a result of this. one man s in jail already. one man is in great jeopardy over this. who the heck should do business with us? this requires an intense investigation by a special prosecutor. when i wasay associate attorney general of the united states in the early part of the reagan administration, it was my job to oversee the independent council statute. i recommended a special prosecutor twice. i recommended against a special prosecutor once because the evidence was insufficient. and as district attorney, a requested a special prosecutor. these were people in my administration, people higreat respect for, in some cases i
into a super hero. he got a worm into the computer of the iranians. he snatched bin laden. he has a kill list and he only makes the decision this is outrageous, this is highly classified information. this is information that puts the lives of people in jeopardy. people are going to be killed as a result of this. one man s in jail already. one man is in great jeopardy over this. who the heck should do business with us? this requires an intense investigation by a special prosecutor. when i wasay associate attorney general of the united states in the early part of the reagan administration, it was my job to oversee the independent council statute. i recommended a special prosecutor twice. i recommended against a special prosecutor once because the evidence was insufficient. and as district attorney, a requested a special prosecutor. these were people in my administration, people higreat respect for, in some cases i didn t think they did what was
message to the president. we have heard this on his friends sometime dos that to say it would be a bad idea. tell us the legal implications. tell us what this would mean if the president were to fire mueller. well, mostly the implications are political. legally the president, through the deputy attorney general, is lawfully allowed to do this. so it s within his power to do it. so the legal implications in the sense are none. he can do what he s allowed to do by law. the political consequences are much more serious and you have to say to yourself if you are rod rosenstein would you stay in the administration. if you were the fbi designee, would you pull your name from consideration. if you were senator schumer, would you reintroduce the independent council statute to get around all of this? so there are a lot of political
no indictments in either case. the inspectolaw changed ultimately into the independent council law, they changed the name of it, changed it substantively a few times, re-authorized in the 80s and once again in the 90s. the democrats hated the way it was used against democratic administrations and the republicans hated the way it was used against republican administrations. the thing was in and out of court all the time being challenged on substantive constitutional grounds. finally in 1999, they killed it, they let it die. great. everybody hated that. everybody hated that way of dealing with it so the independent council statute, it died. there is still this underlying problem, right? still the underlying existential conflict of interest problem what you do, properly handle it