Rudy Giuliani has been rumored to be at or near the top of any list of potential replacements for current Attorney General Loretta Lynch. | AP Photo Giuliani on being attorney general: Nobody knows the DOJ better than me

Former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani made his case to be the next attorney general Thursday morning, telling CNN’s “New Day” that “there's probably nobody that knows the Justice Department better than me.”

Along with New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, Giuliani has been rumored to be at or near the top of any list of potential replacements for current Attorney General Loretta Lynch. The former mayor refused to say outright that he would accept the job, telling CNN anchor Chris Cuomo that he would take it only “if it really was just me and I couldn't point to three others that would be just as good or better.”


But moments later, Giuliani seemed to say that such candidates do not exist when he told Cuomo that his knowledge of the Department of Justice is unmatched. The former mayor did not argue when Cuomo pointed that out to him, instead detailing his résumé as a former U.S. attorney and associate attorney general. He said “I certainly have the energy” to be attorney general.

In an earlier interview on Fox News’s “Fox & Friends,” Giuliani said he is immensely happy in the private-sector work he has done since leaving the public sphere, which includes traveling around the world to advise foreign governments on security issues and serving as a partner at the law firm Greenberg Traurig. He told Fox News’ panel of hosts that “you can't find a happier guy at what he’s doing than me.”

A job Giuliani said unequivocally he would not accept would be an appointment as special prosecutor to investigate Hillary Clinton, offering Cuomo a flat “no” when asked whether he would take on such a role. He reiterated on Fox News that he did not think President Barack Obama should offer a pardon to the former secretary of state for any crime she might eventually be charged with related to the FBI investigation into her use of a private email server or another rumored investigation into the Clinton Foundation.

But Giuliani was more measured in his attacks against what he believes to have been criminal activity on the part of Clinton. While he said not prosecuting the former secretary of state could set a bad precedent, he also admitted that “I don't like to see America become a country in which we prosecute people, you know, about politics.”

One issue Giuliani said he is eager to tackle is cybersecurity, something he could address in another role he’s been rumored to be under consideration for, secretary of homeland security. He told “Fox & Friends” that “I would like to invent the real overall holistic solution to cyber security.”

If asked to take on any role in Trump’s upcoming administration, Giuliani said he would feel a responsibility to at least consider it.

“Now, when you talk to a president of the United States and he wants to you do a job, I certainly would not go into that conversation with a firm ‘no’ in my mind,” he said. “But I would want to talk about maybe three or four other people that might be better for it. And if there aren’t, maybe I would do it.”