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Why is everybody laughing? [ applause ] >> he knows exactly why everybody is laughing. because while he is running the justice department we've got a president and a republican party in congress that is hellbent on firing him or impeaching him or removing him because they want to fire their way through the justice department in order to make the russia investigation go away. and separation of powers is the only thing that stands in their way. and they know that. and they are very, very prepared to burn that down. and he is the guy on whom the heat is hottest. so he knows why his audience is la...

Not congress. not the president. not the press. nobody. ongoing law enforcement-sensitive materials are kept within the prosecutor's purview. only. during ongoing investigations. you don't even need to go to law school to have that imbued in you as a rule of law american value, right? as soon as monday of next week republicans in the house of representatives may be mounting an effort to impeach rod rosenstein because he will not hand over to them internal documents from the mueller investigation. which they presumably want to use to tip off the white house about what the mueller investigation ...

Wrote it or the circumstances under which those remarks were delivered. but rosenstein recognized it, starts expounding on it ad-lib, who said it, the exact date on which the guy said it, what job he had when he gave those remarks, the building he was in when he gave these remarks, the room he was speaking in, how it has been received across history. he even knows at what point in that speech this quote is taken from. he's like oh, this is the concluding paragraph. hmm. right? and he knows that off the top of his head. the reason rod rosenstein knew all that is because that was a quote from hi...

The 1950s. but interestingly, while he was on the court he took some time off. you never hear of a supreme court justice taking leave. but robert jackson did. he took leave as a justice of the supreme court in 1945 so he could go to germany and be america's lead prosecutor in the nuremberg trials. so a fascinating character in american legal history and somebody who ultimately ends up becoming rod rosenstein's legal hero, up to and including the handsome portrait of robert jackson that looms over rosenstein's right shoulder in the conference room right outside his office every day. and when ro...

I did not give him the name or -- he said april 1st, 1940. i mean, this is right from the top. i just wanted to make sure we credit you for that. >> it is one of my favorite quotes. >> yes, sir. >> and i encourage you to read the whole thing. but this is actually the concluding paragraph. it says, "the qualities of a good prosecutor are as elusive and as impossible to define as those which mark a gentleman." and you should read or woman. "and those who need to be told would not understand it anyway. a sensitiveness to fair play and sportsmanship is perhaps the best protection against the abuse...