Jeff Flake Takes Another Stand
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🗓️ 17 November 2018
⏱️ 21 minutes
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| 0:30.0 | Earlier this week, Republican Senator Jeff Flake held a press conference. |
| 0:35.0 | Thank you for being here. |
| 0:37.0 | We've just asked for unanimous consent on the floor of the Senate to bring the special council independence and integrity act to the floor. |
| 0:45.0 | This was legislation that passed the Judiciary Committee on April 26th. |
| 0:49.0 | He was trying to revive a bill that the Senate first considered back in the spring. |
| 0:54.0 | It would protect special council Robert Mueller from political interference. |
| 0:58.0 | So this is a legislation that would have codified justice department rules saying that you can only fire the special council for good cause. |
| 1:07.0 | Galle Luthwick covers the courts first late. |
| 1:10.0 | She was watching this moment closely. |
| 1:12.0 | It was voted on in committee last April and it's just been sort of moldering on the shelves since then. |
| 1:18.0 | But when the president fired his attorney general last week and replaced him with a hardline loyalist, |
| 1:23.0 | many Washington insiders started to worry about Mueller's future. |
| 1:26.0 | So here's Flake saying comes forward with Chris Coons and says, |
| 1:30.0 | Damn it, no, now we're going to vote on this. |
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