i think cipollone is important because in his place of observation, he told trump there are things he could do and couldn t do. but trump isn t his client. it s the post-watergate white house counsel represents the office of the president. there is a difference. the office is ongoing. the person who holds the office is very temporary, sometimes 4 years, sometimes 8 years. what cipollone needs to do is protect the presidency. he took an oath of office at least three times to my knowledge twice for bar examinations or bar admissions, and once to become white house counsel. he s not honoring that if he shields this with silence, this behavior of trump s. that s why i think he has a moral obligation to come forward, explain what he did. and will it lose him some clients as a republican lawyer? probably.
testifies publicly? well, i assure you my president didn t want me testifying either and did everything he could to try to undercut me before i did. i think cipollone is important because in his place of observation, he told trump there are things he could do and couldn t do. but trump isn t his client. it s the post-watergate white house counsel represents the office of the president. there is a difference. the office is ongoing. the person who holds the office is very temporary, sometimes 4 years, sometimes 8 years. what cipollone needs to do is protect the presidency. he took an oath of office at least three times to my knowledge twice for bar examinations or bar admissions, and once to become white house counsel. he s not honoring that if he shields this with silence, this behavior of trump s. that s why i think he has a moral obligation to come forward, explain what he did.
noisy withdrawal if the client doesn t stop it. and clearly they saw the fraud that was going on the public, and they just zipped it up. they haven t said anything. maybe quietly to the committee, but we ll find out. some of his staff is obviously going to come forward. i think pat s law license could be in jeopardy if he doesn t do the right thing here. the former assistant watergate s prosecutor nick acerman, says cipollone should be subpoenaed. what do you think? well, i think that would force the issue. if he then proceeds to fight it in court, just to delay it, which is a standard trump tactic that will tell us a lot. if he does honor the subpoena, which he should, then we ll get some more information we need. i want to ask you about these new subpoenas issued by the doj
doesn t stop it. and clearly they saw the fraud that was going on the public, and they just zipped it up. they haven t said anything. maybe quietly to the committee, but we ll find out. i think pat s law license could be in jeopardy if he doesn t do the right thing here. the former assistant watergate s prosecutor nick acerman, says cipollone should be subpoenaed. what do you think? well, i think that would force the issue. if he then proceeds to fight it in court, just to delay it, which is a standard trump tactic that will tell us a lot. if he does honor the subpoena, which he should, then we ll get some more information we need. i want to ask you about these new subpoenas issued by the doj related to fake elector scheme pushed by the trump supporters. one of them is for the former ren department david shafer played a role in electing fake
post-watergate attorney general. those norms require that like cases be treated alike. that there not be one rule for democrats and another for republicans, one rule for friends and another for foes, one rule for the powerful and another for the powerless, one rule for the rich and another for the poor or different rules depending upon one s race or ethnicity. to restore the credibility of a department criticized as political under the prior administration, to show the people that it was not a political arm of the president, that justice was blind and it was accountability that mattered, not your politics. the time was now to restore public confidence that no one was above the law. but the timing decisions of attorney general garland have proven to be the great adversary of public confidence. about time has given way to