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Transcripts For CNNW Anderson Cooper 360 20180106 02:00:00

Let him finish excuse me a minute. The president , of course, was known to be upset about the recusal in the first place. But look, this is on the front side of all the litany of things you heard about. At the same time, as i said, it went way beyond from the Attorney Generals perspective, way beyond wrong the recusal called for under the regulation thats just wrong. That is wrong. That is not the reading of the regulation. Read it. And the ethics rules for lawyers, rule 1. 7 for lawyers, conflicts of interest. He cannot investigate a campaign in which he was a material part of that campaign. He cannot do it under the ethics rules for lawyers or under the ethics regulations. Open and shut. He could not participate there are three types of investigations that investigation the department of justice. There are three types of ken, what are you saying . There are three types of investigations at the department of justice. Criminal and civil are what people think of most, of course. The fir

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attorney general? that s your position, anderson. you ve long held that position, anderson. i would think that most white house counsel certainly think it s their job to protect the president. the attorney general s job is wait. the white house counsel s job to protect the president or the presidency? the office of the president? my understand is don mcgann an excellent distinction. excellent distinction. the presidency, the office of the president serves the president in his official capacity, period, and that s it. that is it. the attorney general has an unusual role as a cabinet member in that unlike the other cabinet members, the term has independent decisionmaking authority. that s part of what we ve talked about here. the attorney general also has, like all the other cabinet secretaries, policy implementation and some political, meaning dealing with capitol hill in particular, responsibilities that genuinely are not independent. they do fall under the direct

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trying to put pressure on jim comey, former fbi director. he used all sorts of people he tried to have twist comey s arm to do what he wanted in terms of allegedly turning down the heat on michael flynn, former national security adviser. he had, for example, dan coates allegedly was asked to do something with comey, as well. we ve seen repeated instances in which donald trump has used multiple people to try and get what he wants. that s fundamentally what the question is here. yes, there s this broader question, broader criminal question of obstruction of justice. what we re seeing is a president who is used to getting his way, came from the private sector where he s a ceo and sort of, you know, active by edict, who comes into the presidency and tries to do the same sort of thing. i think that fundamentally is what these additional sources reveal. yes, once again, this isn t just him saying, hey, mcgann, go and talk to session, try and keep him from recusing. it is donald trump using e

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authority appropriately of the president. just like all the other cabinet secretaries. the piece we re talking about with attorney general sessions is that independent legal authority under the attorney general s office that doesn t exist under any cabinet secretary. that s it. professor, it was appropriate for the president of the united states to not only tell don mcgann to try to get jeff sessions to not recuse himself but also other senior members of the white house? absolutely not. there s not a single authority that s reputable that i heard say jeff sessions was not required to recuse himself from the investigation of russian interference in the election when he worked for the campaign. he was required to under the lawyers ethics rules and the government ethics rules. an open and shut case. and for the white house counsel or anyone else in the white house to pressure the attorney general to violate the law and to violate his ethical obligations as a lawyer, is just flat-out

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