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Speaker 1: Well, now it's time for our daily Bloomberg Law Brief,

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Speaker 1: exploring legal issues in the news, and Today, Bloomberg Law

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Speaker 1: host Jun Grosso and Michael Best discussed whether Attorney General

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Speaker 1: Jeff's Sessions will be able to keep his job amid

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Speaker 1: mounting criticism from President Trump. They speak with William Banks,

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Speaker 1: director of the Institute for National Security and counter Terrorism

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Speaker 1: at Syracuse University Law, and Stephen Giller, is a professor

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Speaker 1: at n y U Law School. Bill, you know a

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Speaker 1: lot of people are speculating that the President wants Sessions

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Speaker 1: to resign or is setting him up to fire him.

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Speaker 1: What would be the game plan here? Why would he

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Speaker 1: want his own hand pick at Attorney general to resign? Well, unfortunately,

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Speaker 1: I'm afraid it has pririmarily to do with sessions judgment

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Speaker 1: early on to recuse himself from the investigation that we're

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Speaker 1: all riveted by. So, you know, getting rid of Sessions

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Speaker 1: is a is a way to get rid of Muller.

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Speaker 1: I think it's a pretty clear game plan if it

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Speaker 1: goes ord into this script, Stephen, what's the downside of

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Speaker 1: this for Trump in the coming days. The downside is

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Speaker 1: that Trump failed to remove Sessions or if he succeeds

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Speaker 1: in removing Sessions fails to remove Mueller. The upside is

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Speaker 1: that the country maintains the primacy of the rule of law. Bill.

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Speaker 1: If he what happens if he if he removes Sessions

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Speaker 1: from our Sessions resigned, Is he going to be able

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Speaker 1: to get somebody more pliant into that job. Well, you

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Speaker 1: know that, of course remains to be seen. But there

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Speaker 1: there a few ways that this could occur. There is

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Speaker 1: a there is a succession statute inside the Department of Justice,

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Speaker 1: and an executive order as well, which would would elevate

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Speaker 1: the Deputy Attorney General, who's Rod Rosenstein, to become the

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Speaker 1: acting Attorney General pending confirmation of someone to be Sessions successor.

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Speaker 1: There is another law called the Federal Vacancies Reform Act

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Speaker 1: that would allow the president to direct the person to

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Speaker 1: serve who somebody of a of a senior level of

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Speaker 1: presidential appointment to serve as an acting Attorney general for

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Speaker 1: a number of days. And then of course, finally those

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Speaker 1: those the old recess appointment technique which presidents have sometimes

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Speaker 1: used to try to fill a position that's going to

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Speaker 1: be hard to fill in Congress and is go on

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Speaker 1: the Senate whether as in session, the senators recess, the

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Speaker 1: president may have an opportunity to appoint someone uh while

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Speaker 1: they're out of town, even this August. That's William Banks,

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Speaker 1: director of the Institute for National Security and counter Terrorism

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Speaker 1: at Syracuse University Law School, and Stephen Giller, is a

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Speaker 1: professor at n y U Law School, speaking with Bloomberg

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Speaker 1: Law host Jun Grasso and Michael Best. You can listen

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Speaker 1: stories from Bloomberg Law. In New York, prosecutors have wrapped

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Speaker 1: up their fraud case against Martin Schacrelli after weeks of testimony.

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Speaker 1: hedge fund investors to start the company. Scully has said

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Speaker 1: he won't testify in his own defense. And that's this

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