The Department of Justice Didn't Exist Before You Worked There.

David Rothkopf: I actually do think it's worth running through a little bit of your career background at DOJ. But even at the Department of Justice, frankly, for instance, most people coming out of appellate clerkships don't go into the tax division. They don't work for Ken Starr. How did you make some of these career decisions? He says he was on an independent council investigation from 1995 to 1997 and then became an assistant US attorney in Maryland. The acting attorney general Rod Rosenstein is overseeing the Russia investigation.