Attorney General Merrick Garland told 60 Minutes about the process of the special counsel investigations into former President Donald Trump and Hunter Biden on 60 Minutes.
Attorney General Merrick Garland discussed the process behind the federal prosecutions of former President Donald Trump, and explained that the investigation itself determines the timing, disputing allegations theythat aired this week."Justice Department prosecutors are nonpartisan. They don't allow partisan considerations to play any role in their determinations.""Prosecutors, special counsel they follow the facts and the law where they lead," Garland said.
"Well, look. This investigation began under David Weiss," Garland said."David Weiss is a longstanding career prosecutor, and he was appointed by Mr. Trump as the United States attorney for the district of Delaware. I promised at my nomination hearing that I would continue him on in that position and that I would not interfere with his investigation."
"The most important aspect of the regulations is that the special counsel is not subject to the day-to-day supervision of anyone in the Justice Department," Garland told Pelley. "I am sure that that will not happen, but I would not do anything in that regard," Garland said."And if necessary, I would resign. But there is no sense that anything like that will happen.""No," Garland said,"because he has never tried to put hands on these investigations.""I have a good working relationship with the president," Garland said.
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