1 00:00:00,080 --> 00:00:02,880 Speaker 1: Now it's time for our daily Bloomberg Law Brief, exploring 2 00:00:03,000 --> 00:00:05,600 Speaker 1: legal issues in the news. And Today, Bloomberg Law host 3 00:00:05,600 --> 00:00:09,000 Speaker 1: Doing Grosso and Michael Best discuss why President Trump is 4 00:00:09,039 --> 00:00:13,240 Speaker 1: delaying legal action against James Comey for leaking documents about 5 00:00:13,240 --> 00:00:15,720 Speaker 1: his meetings with President Trump while he was still the 6 00:00:15,720 --> 00:00:19,360 Speaker 1: director of the FBI. They speak with Richard Painter, professor 7 00:00:19,400 --> 00:00:22,480 Speaker 1: at University of Minnesota Law School and former White House 8 00:00:22,480 --> 00:00:26,040 Speaker 1: ethics lawyer. The source who talked to Bloomberg said that 9 00:00:26,079 --> 00:00:30,200 Speaker 1: the President was postponing his complaint as a professional courtesy 10 00:00:30,280 --> 00:00:34,879 Speaker 1: to Independent Council Robert Mueller to give Mueller time to 11 00:00:35,800 --> 00:00:39,240 Speaker 1: and breathing space to do his investigation. Uh and get 12 00:00:39,280 --> 00:00:41,680 Speaker 1: things going. I suppose what do you make of that 13 00:00:41,720 --> 00:00:46,360 Speaker 1: explanation for postponing the filing of this complaint. Well, I 14 00:00:46,400 --> 00:00:50,080 Speaker 1: don't know why they post boned it, but uh, there 15 00:00:50,200 --> 00:00:55,440 Speaker 1: is nothing to complain about. UH called me, did nothing wrong. 16 00:00:56,080 --> 00:01:00,080 Speaker 1: UM needed nothing illegal, nothing that would be appropriate it 17 00:01:00,240 --> 00:01:05,279 Speaker 1: to investigate. Could a president uh summarily fired FBI director 18 00:01:05,360 --> 00:01:09,160 Speaker 1: or someone else for taking notes of a conversation and 19 00:01:10,040 --> 00:01:13,039 Speaker 1: with the president giving them somebody else, Well maybe because 20 00:01:13,040 --> 00:01:17,880 Speaker 1: the president could fire the FBI Director. But uh uh, 21 00:01:17,920 --> 00:01:21,080 Speaker 1: you know, I think that there would be no complaint 22 00:01:21,080 --> 00:01:24,760 Speaker 1: here best conduct on the part of Comy. There's nothing 23 00:01:24,920 --> 00:01:29,880 Speaker 1: illegal about being a leaker unless you lead classified information. 24 00:01:30,360 --> 00:01:33,760 Speaker 1: And this administration has consistently failed to distinguish between the 25 00:01:33,800 --> 00:01:39,120 Speaker 1: illegal league, which are classified information, and other uh disclosures 26 00:01:39,120 --> 00:01:43,319 Speaker 1: of what's going on in government to the press, which 27 00:01:43,319 --> 00:01:47,680 Speaker 1: are that's part of the democratic process. Richard Comy has 28 00:01:47,680 --> 00:01:52,080 Speaker 1: already been fired. Even if the Justice Department did investigate 29 00:01:52,120 --> 00:01:55,720 Speaker 1: and found out that he followed the rules besides putting 30 00:01:55,760 --> 00:01:58,520 Speaker 1: a note in his file, what could the Justice Department do? 31 00:01:58,640 --> 00:02:03,440 Speaker 1: What kind of jurisdiction doesn't have over former employees, Well, 32 00:02:03,600 --> 00:02:05,960 Speaker 1: not very much. They don't see any evidence of this 33 00:02:06,160 --> 00:02:09,880 Speaker 1: compact from part of Director of former Dirk Camy. To 34 00:02:10,000 --> 00:02:14,120 Speaker 1: begin with, keeping notes of a conversation with a president, 35 00:02:14,639 --> 00:02:18,359 Speaker 1: disclosing those notes. He's not the president's lawyer, doesn't have 36 00:02:18,400 --> 00:02:22,040 Speaker 1: an attorney client privilege with a president U and disclosing 37 00:02:22,080 --> 00:02:26,799 Speaker 1: those notes, uh in a context where his own credibility 38 00:02:26,880 --> 00:02:30,160 Speaker 1: is being brought into questions by the president. There is 39 00:02:30,160 --> 00:02:34,200 Speaker 1: no classified information in these communications. I just don't see 40 00:02:34,200 --> 00:02:37,519 Speaker 1: the evidence that he did anything wrong. That's Richard Painter, 41 00:02:37,639 --> 00:02:40,920 Speaker 1: a professor at University of Minnesota Law School and former 42 00:02:40,960 --> 00:02:43,519 Speaker 1: White House Ethics a lawyer speaking with the Bloomberg The 43 00:02:43,600 --> 00:02:46,200 Speaker 1: Law host Student Grosso and Michael Best. 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