MS NOW legal analyst, former lead prosecutor in the Mueller Probe, and former FBI general counsel Andrew Weissmann weighed in on news that six prosecutors at the Department of Justice quit on the push to investigate Renee Good’s widow.

NICOLLE WALLACE, MS NOW HOST: Andrew Weissmann, Kristi Noem was confronted with the double standard. And I guess if you could just explain for someone who’s never worked in law enforcement or never been inside the FBI, what is the distinction? I mean, Officer Fanone described getting tased with his own gun. In his sworn testimony, he said he believed he was going to die. In video that’s been released, some of it I think is his body cam video. Some of it is other footage from the January 6th insurrection. He’s talking about his kids and asking them not to kill him. And those officers, I mean, what is the standard? What should people understand? What is so black and white to Todd Blanche that we should understand that isn’t available on that tape to people with eyes? ANDREW WEISSMANN, FORMER FBI GENERAL COUNSEL, FORMER MUELLER SPECIAL COUNSEL ASSISTANT: So what is important for people to understand, and Michael knows this very well, but I dealt with this all the time, unfortunately, when I was general counsel at the FBI, is when there is a shooting like this, there’s an investigation. Whether it is a civil rights investigation that the Department of Justice does, or the FBI itself does, or the agency involved does, because you need to make sure you know what happened. If it’s a justified shooting and all internal rules and procedures and training was followed, you need to know that. If there was a failure, you need to know that. It’s not just routine. It is what happens in every administration, Democratic or Republican. It has nothing to do with politics. It has everything to do with running a tight ship and making sure that you are acting within the law and you’re acting within your own agency’s regulations in terms of good stewardship of the enormous power that you have. What Todd Blanche is saying is he is just an amanuensis for the decision that was already announced by the President and Vice President of the United States here. There is nothing to see here. That is the line that is going to be drawn. In the same way that they did not open an investigation into Tom Homans, they did not open an investigation to Pete Hegseth and Signalgate, they will open an investigation into the victims to tar them. It is completely beyond the pale. I think one sign of that, Nicole, is that in your opening, one of the things that you had to say, this is the largest group of people that have resigned, and then you said, in months. The other thing that is not normal is that people do not resign, not in Republican or Democratic administrations. It does not happen. People understand that there are policy differences, that politics have consequences. That is not what is going on here. This is really an upending of the rule of law, and that is why you are seeing so many people resign, and you’re seeing such an uproar in terms of what has happened here yet again with this administration.

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