There is a certain irony that we had a guy in the Oval Office for four years who totally disrespected the rule of law and thought that the attorney general was his personal lawyer. Didn`t understand the Constitution, didn`t understand that the attorney general did not work for him. He worked for -- with loyalty to the Constitution, and for the American people.
McCaskill discusses the previous administration's disrespect for the rule of law and contrasts it with President Biden's approach to the Department of Justice.
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