Williams: We Should Be Clear About Jeanine Pirro, She Certainly ‘Got the Qualifications’ To Be a Top Prosecutor

BASH: “— of things that Judge Jeanine has said over and over, and that’s just kind of the tip of the iceberg, which, again, as we said, is a big reason why she was picked. She’s close with the president, in addition to what she says on camera, and it’s very interesting. And I’ll start with you, Elliot, that — so we definitely got a hint yesterday, when the president was in the Oval Office, of the fact that he would pull Ed Martin and he said he had other people up his sleeve. It kind of seems like what he is saying is, OK, you don’t like Ed Martin? I’ll give you somebody else who is maybe similar, but maybe different, but maybe similar.”

WILLIAMS: “Different, but maybe similar, and maybe more likely to get confirmed. Part of the problem, or the issue, is that Ed Martin was so extreme and so, quite frankly, woefully unprepared or unqualified for the position that virtually anybody is going to seem reasonable thereafter. Now, we should be clear about Jeanine Pirro. She certainly nominally got the qualifications to be a senior government official or a top prosecutor. She’s been an elected prosecutor in Westchester County. She served as a career prosecutor, that’s fine, and that’s great, and you want that at the Justice Department. It’s all the other nonsense. And a lot of what you saw and showed there on air showing a staggering lack of independence, or at least professed lack of independence, from the president of United States, which is quite dangerous in that biggest U.S. Attorney’s Office in the country.”

BASH: “And look, the reason why Ed Martin was pulled is because he didn’t have the votes.”