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We continue forward with this story on the Attorney General Jeff Sessions and of course what will follow on and there's no one better to do that with and

Stephanie Baker our senior writer with Bloomberg Business Week and we talked to her this morning not about

Mr. Manifort not about money laundering but the arcane constitutional

nature of our independent Justice Department.

Stephanie, let us begin with Civics 101.

Why is the Justice Department different from every other Cabinet office?

Why are they supposed to be removed from the White House?

Well, I mean, that has, those measures have been reinforced since Watergate, that you would have an independent attorney general whose job is to enforce the rule of law and the

Constitution.

And yes, the president has the authority to fire his attorney general, but obviously in the situation

that we're in right now, it is clear that he has fired Jeff Sessions because he was annoyed that he'd recused himself

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