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Speaker 1: dr dot org. Today Bloomberg La host Jun Grasso and

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Speaker 1: Michael Best discussed the firing of former U S Attorney

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Speaker 1: Breed Barra, who was relieved of his position after refusing

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Speaker 1: the Department of Justice's request for his resignation. They speak

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Speaker 1: with Robert Mints, a partner at mcarter and English, and

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Speaker 1: Carry Cohen, a partner at Morrison Forster. Bob. There is

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Speaker 1: a distinction, though it may seem trivial, between resigning at

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Speaker 1: the president's request and forcing the president to fire. You

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Speaker 1: explain what the difference is. Basically, all the U S

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Speaker 1: attorneys around the country serve at the pleasure of the

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Speaker 1: president and its typical for there to be a change

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Speaker 1: in office when there is a change in administration. So

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Speaker 1: what has happened in the pass is that when a

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Speaker 1: new president comes in um particularly from a different political

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Speaker 1: party that the existing U S Attorneys are expected to

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Speaker 1: at some point submit their resignations. There have been some

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Speaker 1: instances where people in the Department of Justice have refused

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Speaker 1: to submit their resignations when requested, and that forces the

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Speaker 1: Department of Justice to fire them. That has generally happened

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Speaker 1: where they are trying to make a statement of on principle,

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Speaker 1: where they believe they're being asked to do something that

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Speaker 1: they know the result will be the same that they

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Speaker 1: will lose their job, they believe this is now speaking broadly,

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Speaker 1: but in most instaces, the individuals believe that if they resign,

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Speaker 1: they are somehow complicit in enforcing some type of policy

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Speaker 1: that they that they disagree with, so they force the

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Speaker 1: Department of Justice the Attorney General to fire them rather

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Speaker 1: than submit their resignation willingly carry This situation is a

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Speaker 1: little bit unusual in that it was widely publicized that

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Speaker 1: President Trump had asked pre Berard to stay on, and

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Speaker 1: now you have the Justice Department asked him to resign

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Speaker 1: him refusing to do so. Is the President's change of

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Speaker 1: my apparent change of mind here good enough reason for

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Speaker 1: somebody like Berrar to say, I just refused to submit

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Speaker 1: my resignation. I think this is a unique circumstance where

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Speaker 1: pre was specifically asked by this president if he would

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Speaker 1: stay on, was asked to tell the media at Trump

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Speaker 1: Tower that he was asked to stay on, and then

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Speaker 1: you know, abrupt change of course a few months later,

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Speaker 1: which gives I think the public a sense what would

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Speaker 1: change your mind and intervening months and is worrisome to

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Speaker 1: the public because of course politics should not play any

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Speaker 1: role in the Justice Department and in choosing U S

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Speaker 1: attorneys as Karrie Cohen, a partner at Morrison Forrester, and

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Speaker 1: Robert Mints, a partner at McCarter and English speaking with

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Speaker 1: Bloomberg Law host you Grosso. You can listen to Bloomberg

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Speaker 1: Bloomberg Radio and Now. Among the top legal stories from

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Speaker 1: Bloomberg Law, the Obama administration in its final year in office,

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Speaker 1: spent a record thirty six million dollars on legal costs

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Speaker 1: defending its refusal to turnover federal records out of the

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Speaker 1: Freedom of Information Act. That's according to the Associated Press,

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Speaker 1: which says the administration set a record for times. Federal

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Speaker 1: employees told citizens, journalists, and others that they couldn't find

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Speaker 1: a single page of files that were requested. Washington State

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Speaker 1: has foiled a motion to help President Trump's new travel ban.

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Speaker 1: The state's attorney general argues that the president was stopped

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Speaker 1: from enforcing the original ban, so an amended version should

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Speaker 1: also be stopped by the court. Washington State has been

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Speaker 1: joined by Hawaii, New York, California, and Massachusetts and trying

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Speaker 1: to block the travel order. The ban is scheduled to

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