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Speaker 1: Welcome to the Bloomberg Law Podcast. I'm June Grosso. Every

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Speaker 1: in the headlines when an Associate Attorney General resigns, but

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Speaker 1: these days, when the supervision of Special Counsel Robert Mueller's

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Speaker 1: investigation is the subject of congressional hearings, the importance of

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Speaker 1: the departure of the third highest official in the Justice

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Speaker 1: Department is clear. Rachel Brand is stepping down after less

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Speaker 1: than nine months in the job. She'll be joining walmart

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Speaker 1: as executive vice president of Global Governance. Joining me is

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Speaker 1: Bradley Moss, a partner at Mark Sade brad Deputy Attorney

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Speaker 1: General Rod Rosenston is the only government official with the

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Speaker 1: legal authority to directly fire Mueller. Next in line after

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Speaker 1: him was Rachel Brand, which is why so many of

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Speaker 1: us have come to know her by name. Who is

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Speaker 1: next in line after Rachel Brand? Absolutely so. The next

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Speaker 1: person is right now the Solicitor General um And that's

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Speaker 1: only because the line of secession technically would go to

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Speaker 1: the U. S Attorney for Inficiation North Carolina, but that

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Speaker 1: individual has not been confirmed by the Senate yet, so

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Speaker 1: due to that technicality, the Solicitor General is currently next online.

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Speaker 1: If Mr Rosen sign were fired or dismissed for any reason, now, um,

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Speaker 1: if the President wanted to put someone in that position permanently,

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Speaker 1: would require Senate confirmation. And it goes without saying, just

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Speaker 1: that Senators would absolutely ask about the context of the

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Speaker 1: Special Council investigation and the extent to which these individual

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Speaker 1: Democrats like Congressman Adam Schiff have been reading signals from

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Speaker 1: the White House in recent weeks that Rosenstein is on

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Speaker 1: the line he may be fired, ostensibly because of his

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Speaker 1: surveillance of Carter Page. As outlined in that Republican memo.

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Speaker 1: Does the President need a reason to fire Rosenstein? That?

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Speaker 1: Technically speaking, no, he is a political appointee. The President

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Speaker 1: can fire Mr. Rosenstein just like any other political pointee

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Speaker 1: at any time he wants, without cause. They serve at

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Speaker 1: the pleasure of the President. But there would be an

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Speaker 1: obvious political ramification and backlash if he were to take

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Speaker 1: such an action, especially if he did it in the

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Speaker 1: context of subsequently trying to fire the Special Counsel, would

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Speaker 1: the mid terms. Let's try to put ourselves in Rachel

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Speaker 1: Brand's position. She's only been there nine months. Excuse me.

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Speaker 1: NBC is reporting that she quit partially over fear that

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Speaker 1: Does that seem more likely than that she's leaving for

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Speaker 1: Let's talk a little bit about the pressures that the

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Speaker 1: I'm not surprised that there's the problem staffing, especially with

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Speaker 1: The saga of the dueling memos continues. It's been ten

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Speaker 1: The hypocrisy of this just kind of reaches out and

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Speaker 1: My guest is Jimmy Garule, professor at Notre Dame Law School.

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Speaker 1: Jimmy Trump overroad Justice Department objections when he permitted the

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Speaker 1: Is there a basis for it? Well, they're certainly being

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Speaker 1: noon As Memo. Nonetheless, now with respect to the what

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