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Attorneys with acosta's old law firm, kirkland and ellis. they were all alumnus of this, you know, very powerful law firm. you know, he was friends with these lawyers and he respected these lawyers. kenneth starr was among them. kenneth starr was a mentor for alex acosta. so, i think a lot of it, at least initially, had to do with being in this circle of republican lawyers. >> one of the guys, so to speak. >> yeah. >> acosta had been said to be on the short list for attorney general. now, of course, democrats are demanding he be fired from his current job and not promoted. here's what the pres...

Attorney general countermand. that is special counsel wanted do and attorney general blocked because it would violate justice department regulations. it's not going to be the starr report. you know, talking to senior justice department officials about the fact this is not the first special counsel under these new post-ken starr independent counsel rules. the first one was actually john danforth, who did a long study about what happened on waco and disastrous fire in the death of the branch davidians. he put out two reports, all of them public, and the message i get from the justice department ...

Must notify congress when the special counsel's work is done and about any decision that the attorney general countermand. that is special counsel wanted do and attorney general blocked because it would violate justice department regulations. it's not going to be the starr report. you know, talking to senior justice department officials about the fact this is not the first special counsel under these new post-ken starr independent counsel rules. the first one was actually john danforth, who did a long study about what happened on waco and disastrous fire in the death of the branch davidians. h...