Andrew Weissmann

He's the person that actually set up the fund.

And so he had the power to set up those rules.

Also, the senator, it was totally right to point out that here, the Department of Justice went out of its way not to submit the settlement papers to the federal judge overseeing this case.

And the judge pointed that out, that there was no settlement papers, no settlement agreements that were before her

that she could adjudicate.

Instead, the government moved to dismiss the case.

And obviously they thought, you know what?

We probably should never even brought this case.

We should have just done this as a private agreement.

And so there is no independent authority

That has approved this.

And that is why, to go back to what we initially were saying, this seems so collusive because you have the government on both sides with the same interests.

And the thing that seems so apparent is that you have embodied in the Department of Justice somebody who is the personal defense lawyer with a continuing duty of loyalty to the President of the United States as his personal attorney.

I think that it's fair.

I think I would broaden that to say he did an end run around his oath of office to all of us to represent our interest.

And that's why there have been so many reports that the

head of legal ethics at the Department of Justice, who is summarily removed.

But he gave advice, which happens all the time, saying that Todd Blanch should not be sitting on things that are directly related to his prior representation of the president.

And obviously, in my view, that obviously was not followed because we're seeing an action here where the actions that are taken by the Department of Justice are in the interest of the president personally, but they are not, in my view, in the interest of the public.

Well, let's see.