Well, odd I think would be a polite way to describe it. I mean, there is -- it is so -- it is so foreign to me having worked in the White House and knowing how scrupulously people dealt with the Justice Department, the FBI, the notion of a president sending his White House counsel over to persuade the attorney general not to recuse himself.
David Axelrod: “Well, odd I think would be a polite way to describe it. I mean, there is -- it is so -- it is so foreign to me having…”
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David Axelrod discusses the unusual circumstances surrounding the president's involvement with the attorney general.
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