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| 1. | But the Congress has made the determination that certain kinds of information can be protected even though the American people may want to have access to information. |
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| 2. | I feel very confident that that information should be sufficient for the members of the Senate to make an informed decision about John Roberts' qualifications. |
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| 3. | I have fully cooperated with the investigation and before the grand jury, and I'm quite confident at the end of the day that we'll know what facts are in this particular case. |
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| 4. | I respect very much the role of the media in our society; I think they can be very, very helpful. They serve as a very useful check, sort of a watchdog over the actions of the government, and I respect that. |
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| 5. | I think what we ought to be focusing on is that we are on path for the release of 75,000 pages of documents in connection with John Roberts' work in the White House, as in the counselor's office and as his time working as an assistant in the office of the attorney general. |
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| 6. | I'll leave it to others to try to determine whether or not that was unfair or not. I'm not the nominee. |
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| 7. | I'm focused on doing a very important job for this president and for the American people, and that's to serve as attorney general. |
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| 8. | In this job, you're going to make decisions. You'll say things that some people are going to love them, some people are going to hate them. It's just part of the job. |
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| 9. | Jim, I'm not aware of any formal requests from the Senate Judiciary Committee for these kinds of documents. |
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| 10. | Our hearts and prayers go out to the people in London and in Egypt. We're very concerned about it. We are providing our expertise to aid in the investigation in London. |
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| 11. | There are, for example, exemptions in FOIA in which the government can withhold certain kinds of information, and the courts have recognized that there is certain documentation that do deserve protection, that certain privileges do apply and do deserve protection. |
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| 12. | They report up to the attorney general, who - we all report up to the President of the United States. All of us work in the executive branch. |
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| 13. | This is a very highly charged investigation. People are very interested in this, and we've got a prosecutor, a very well respected prosecutor who's been looking at this issue, this investigation for a long time. |
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| 14. | We respect the role of the Senate. We respect the authority of the Senate to look at the qualifications of Judge Roberts, and at the end of the day I'm optimistic that if given a fair hearing and a fair opportunity, that he will be confirmed. |
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| 15. | We're also looking very carefully and watching and learning about the events in London because we want to take what we learn there and transplant those lessons here in the United States to ensure that we're doing everything we can do to prevent a similar attack from occurring here. |
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| 16. | We're talking about the lawyers for the United States of America. And I think it's very, very important that the lawyers be comfortable being very candid and open about their views on very sensitive issues affecting the United States. |
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| 17. | Well, first of all, let me say that - let me remind your viewers that I am recused from this investigation, and what I said this weekend is not anything new. |
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| 18. | Well, there is an attorney-client privilege here that needs to be respected, and it's a privilege that has been found to be worthy of protection by our courts. |
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