Page 6 - Guy Robert Jackson News Today : Breaking News, Live Updates & Top Stories | Vimarsana

Attorney general from fdr. so he actually put it up so it's over his own shoulder when he's sitting at the head of the table at that conference table. so other people are meeting with him looking down the table to where rod rosenstein sits, they will see robert jackson looming over rod rosenstein's right shoulder, watching over what rod rosenstein does. he put that portrait up there himself. that's his guy. pride of place for rosenstein. this guy robert jackson was solicitor general under fdr which means he argued supreme court cases for fdr when he was president. he's very good at it. he argu...

>> he's stealing my thunder. but i'm happy to give it to you. so i'd like to hand you a piece of paper with the words of a famous american. i'd like you to just take a look at it. and then if you'd be so kind to read it slowly and aloud to the audien audience. here you go. >> well, this is robert jackson. robert jackson was the attorney general of the united states in the roosevelt administration. his portrait also hangs in the deputy attorney general's conference room. and he gave a speech in the great hall of the department of justice april 1st of 1940. and he spoke about the role of the fed...

Of paper with the words of a famous american. i'd like you to just take a look at it. and then if you'd be so kind to read it slowly and aloud to the audience. here you go. >> well, this is robert jackson. robert jackson was the attorney general of the united states in the roosevelt administration. his portrait also hangs in the deputy attorney general's conference room. and he gave a speech in the great hall of the department of justice april 1st of 1940. and he spoke about the role of the federal prosecutor. and it really is for federal prosecutors, it really is a guidebook. even now many de...

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...