bush pardoned caspar weinberger.o prevent him from poining the finger at him. we live in an imperfect world because we have a very schizophrenic justice department. no other western democracy merges the two roles of the attorney general. "a," he's the minister of justice, adviser to the president, the cabinet member and also a chief law enforcement official. in england, they have a separate office. in israel, a separate office. many other countries, separate offices, so we don't have that problem, but in our country, we do have that problem. i wish we could eliminate it and we could eliminate it if we created a new department, a department of public prosecution, which would be generally operated out of the courts and not by the executive. but right now, presidents throughout history have put a thumb on the scale, have helped their friends, hurt their enemies and it's -- it's not a good system. i wish we didn't have it. in this case, of course, the sentence, of course, i hope americans really pay attention to this bec