We saw that weaponization coming from the last administration. They would go back even to prior administrations, but maybe you could, without breaking confidence, sort of pull us in. I mean, You never got a call from the president, United States, saying, Mr. Attorney General, I want you to do X, Y and Z. That never happened. That never happened. We had what's called a contacts policy that describes the people in the White House who can talk to which people in the Justice Department. (04:30–04:38)
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