Barbara McQuade

It also protects the leader from criticism that they fired this person while they resigned.

What else could I do?

I think the facts on the Eric Siebert departure from the U.S.

Attorney's Office are a little murky.

He said that he was resigning, but then President Trump took credit in a –

Truth Social post a few days later to say, you know, he was a woke rhino who was never going to do the job.

He didn't resign.

I fired him.

So I don't know what the facts are there.

But I think it's fair to say he was forced to leave over his decision.

And it may be the Comey case.

It may be the Letitia James case.

But over some of these decisions where President Trump was urging criminal charges and a seasoned professional prosecutor declined to do so.

Sure.

So after Watergate, when we saw President Nixon abuse his authority in a couple of ways, I mean, one certainly was in an effort to stop the FBI's investigation into his own involvement in

the Watergate break-in, he directed that the FBI be told that the CIA was investigating and that they needed to stand down.

And so that kind of meddling by the president was seen as politically based and inappropriate.

Now, norms were put in place to prevent that kind of thing.

One is a limit on communications between the White House and the Justice Department.

They are not supposed to talk about cases.