them? i m so glad you got oversight. you guys do not have a grand jury, you cannot impanel a grand jury, you cannot prosecutor put someone in jail. what does the president have to do to get sessions to do his job and get rid of rose tn stein who appointed mueller and all his crazy cabal. what do you tell the president? just on the basic fact, are you conflicted or not? do you have any conflict of interest? based on bar rules, and based on the rules. the president should ask do you have any conflict of interest? and the chief of staff can also do this. general kelly can say do you have a conflict of interest? if there is a conflict, they need to step aside immediately. judge jeanine: so mueller should say immediately he has a conflict. he never told as far as we know was on that uranium one
completely inexperienced in any case involving the white house, inexperienced in criminal law being asked by white house staffers do they need lawyers. and of course they do. and here he is telling them no, no, no, you don t need lawyers. that s clearly in violation of the new york bar s rule about his ability to advise people who might be involved in the case that his client is involved in. laurance, i i m not going to opine on the new york bar rules but think how generally inappropriate this is. if this is an employment related question, their advice ought to come from the white house counsel. mr. kasowitz s only professional obligation is to donald trump. so he cap be giving advice to anyone else. note how this is a piece of the standard process of failing to follow the standard legal procedures that keeps getting this white house into more and more trouble. brief examples that link all
house staff. as i just reported according to the new york times, he told aides gathered in one meeting who asked whether it was time to hire private lawyers it was not yet necessary. we re joined by the founder of d.c. report.org a non-profit that covers the trump administration. and walter dahlinger. walter, you have a lawyer, completely inexperienced in any case involving the white house, inexperienced in criminal law being asked by white house staffers do they need lawyers. and of course they do. and here he is telling them no, no, no, you don t need lawyers. that s clearly in violation of the new york bar s rule about his ability to advise people who might be involved in the case that his client is involved in. laurance, i i m not going to opine on the new york bar rules but think how generally inappropriate this is. if this is an employment related question, their advice ought to come from the white house counsel. mr. kasowitz s only professional obligation is to donald trum
it s led us to where we are right now in many respects. that decision to recuse, do you think it was the proper and appropriate decision by jeff sessions? i do think that that was the right decision given the controversy over his testimony about his own contacts. but he did have a choice, i guess, ultimately, right? there is no one that can tell an attorney general to investigate, though i imagine there s internal doj procedure. yes, there are. there are very good ethics lawyers who advise the attorney general and others about their ethical obligations, and there are bar rules that all attorneys are subject to.
decision. it s led us to where we are right now in many respects. that decision to recuse, do you think it was the proper and appropriate decision by jeff sessions? i do think that that was the right decision given the controversy over his testimony about his own contacts. but he did have a choice, i guess, ultimately, right? there is no one that can tell an attorney general to investigate, though i imagine there s internal doj procedure. yes, there are. there are very good ethics lawyers who advise the attorney general and others about their ethical obligations, and there are bar rules that all attorneys are subject to. so those ethics attorneys probably did give him advice, and he may have made his decision based on their advice. it seems to me a broader theme here is sort of the president versus the lawyers, right? that even someone like jeff sessions, who is obviously ideologically committed to the president s agenda, an early supporter of his vision, he is a lawyer. he s w