government decision or law based on something subjective like an argument i think this is unreasonable. and so there are limitations on this. this is what you have in all democracies. this is presented by our opponents as a being this awful end to democracy. at that s a case you have no democracy anywhere else on earth. and of course you have to remember the court has a lot of other checks they can disqualify apartments by saying there s conflict of interest or undue process, you name it. you do say you cannot disqualify things simply because you find it unreasonable. i think that is long overdue. this comes after we put forward a much more encompassing reform and we sort of trimmed it down in order to try to reach consensus. three months of negotiations got nowhere with the opposition that
here to testifying against me. i feel like the leverage they used was highly destructive to me and my family but thank god for redemption and restoration. the other thing that is important is we had 13 amicus briefs in this case. we had the five previous white house counsel from every president, from ronald reagan to barack obama. eighty-three former attorneys general s of the states they all said the same thing this is wrong, this is destructive it is a bipartisan condemnation of the theory of the government. i think some of that carried and john roberts a unanimous opinion about why this was harmful to the american political system to do what they did. i set up meetings for a donor that s essentially what happened and they criminalized it. will be asked of this if you are the attorney general of the united states you can pick from any lawyer you want to be special counsel in a matter that involves a former president whos the leading republican nominee
citizens from the district of columbia. 5% of whom voted for donald trump. since why the grand jury was used in washington d.c. you take out trump. this is why all of the original charges were brought by the grand jury in washington d.c. because where they were supposed to go and where this grand jury was supposed to be working and investigating all of these months was in florida. here s the united states department of justice manual with the u.s. attorney. you look at nine 11.121. venue limitations. this is required. venue limitations one sentence that case should not be presented to a grand jury in a district unless venue for the offense lies in the district. the documents cases in florida. all of the work was done washington d.c.
at the time david harber was the lead prosecutors in the case he did the closing argument on jack smith during a five year stretch in 2010 until 15. i had two of the best firms in the world, they went to the justice department the deputy determinate of attorney of the . that extensive brief about why they got it wrong and why i didn t do anything wrong. and yet they persisted and pulled the trigger and the indictment started of course they have got all of the investigators they ve got all the money. they ve got access to the washington post and multiple leaks. it took unanimous supreme court to get right. when he did in the lois lerner case.
as you note mark, as a lawyer the duty of a government lawyer is very different than any other lawyer. you are supposed to seek suit truth and justice not being to convict. that is where mr. smith may be falling down in his judgment about calling balls and strikes. that is what prosecutors are supposed to do just like judges of the facts and the law do not match up to not bring the case. it seems like he has had a habit of bringing cases in order to win that he should not abroad. i listen to you governor and i read these other cases i read the supreme court decision these other juries did, i m the attorney general i sit there as chief of staff to attorney general and if somebody brought to me, this is the guy that should be special counsel i would ve advised the attorney general have they lost their minds? this is one of the last guys should be handling a case like this. do you agree or disagree kuester. i agree. this is historic, never has a