attorney general. the top person in the justice department can t be true in this case before mueller was appointed, attorney general jeff sessions had to recuse himself from all campaign related matters including the russia investigation following public reports about his own contacts with russian officials during the campaign which he had conveniently forgotten about when asked about them under oath during his confirmation hearing. so jeff sessions recusal from the russia investigation in particular, that has been a repeated target of the president s anger and condemnation. the president tweeted about it and spoken about it to reporters, multiple news organizations reported about the president s continual expresses of anger to jeff sessions and about jeff sessions for having recused himself from the russia matter. the president has been quite blunt about the fact that recuse l he thinks is unfair to him because he expects the attorney general to be in position to protect him from som
big and open a line of inquiry and if he wants to bring charges against a person, he can t just do that on his own and own say so. he has to advise the person overseeing his investigation at the justice department. he has to advise them in advance of his plans to do it and basically has to get their permission. the person in the oversight rule for the investigation is trump s appointed attorney general rod rosenstein. funny, republicans who have been targeting him call him rosenstein. the same way they call the democratic party the democrat party. it s rosenstein to the extent they care. in theory, when there is a special counsel, the person who is supposed to oversee the special counsel s investigation, the person supposed to provide oversight is supposed to be the attorney general. the top person in the justice department can t be true in this case before mueller was appointed, attorney general jeff sessions had to recuse himself from all campaign related
lawyer that gave $6,000 to president obama. i find that very difficult to swallow. and i think to answer your question the way they should pick them is just right names of lawyers on ping-pong balls, put them in the bin like the lottery and point them out neutral. i have a different thought on this. i think this looks bad. it doesn t give confidence right from the get-go. you know, why you want to start investigation by making at least one of the parties feel very uncomfortable, i think the justice department can t go wrong asking how much money did you give north to select how-to-who to investigate. barbara boxerman is a member of the bar. one of the things avoid the appearance of the conflict of interest. not even necessarily the real thing. i actually think that she should have declined. i agree with that i absolutely. i would have in her place. but, of course if there is something going on behind it and we don t know that for sure right nau. but, if this is a political note inv
it s a huge number. they do have a lot. it is enormous. out of all of those. to fix this investigation into the irs scandal. they just happen to pick a lawyer that gave $6,000 to president obama. i find that very difficult to swallow. and i think to answer your question the way they should pick them is just right names of lawyers on ping-pong balls, put them in the bin like the lottery and point them out neutral. i have a different thought on this. i think this looks bad. it doesn t give confidence right from the get-go. you know, why you want to start investigation by making at least one of the parties feel very uncomfortable, i think the justice department can t go wrong asking how much money did you give north to select how-to-who to investigate. barbara boxerman is a member of the bar. one of the things avoid the appearance of the conflict of interest. not even necessarily the real thing. i actually think that she should have declined. i agree with that i absolutely. i woul
more information they already provided 7,000 document if they provide more, that also is progress. that s been two of the main issues. megyn: they are seeking 80,000. there is a big disparity. many of those relate to ongoing enforcement actions which the justice department can t provided by law. megyn: i don t know what the numbers are. but yesterday i think it was on fox news senator grassley granted he s on the senate side he came and said what will satisfy us? 70,000 documents and nothing short of 70,000 documents. that s what we want, otherwise we are going to keep pushing this. you tell me, given your history. you were the chief counsel to this very body in the house another time. do you see this as likely to resolve in the wake of what eric holder just sent?