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institution. plus, we are just weeks away from the mid-terms, and republicans are feeling the full force of the abortion backlash, and we will take a closer look at the senate race in ohio which republican j.d. vance was supposed to have all sewn up by now. instead, hes losing. we begin tonight across the pond as the world mourns the death of queen elizabeth. today for the first time we heard from the new king of england, king charles iii, pay tribute to his mother paying tribute to ...

last night asked that investigators regain access to 125 documents found in that search of mar-a-lago. that is part of the extraordinary appeal to cannons order which politico puts like this, it aims to a full-throated rebuke of the ruling by cannon, a trump appointee who was confirmed to a seat after trumps defeat in the 2020 election. prosecutors used the filing to describe her ruling as a danger to national security and one ignorant to the counterintelligence work and lacking in an ...

Last hour, i think it was carol leonnig who referred to the january 6th committee as lead material for the department of justice, that, you know, hey, look over here. this book may be serving, by berman, may be serving the same purpose to doj. look over here. we may have had an attorney general that ran a shop that was pressuring prosecutors to do the wrong thing. and maybe thats a case on bill barr. we need to take a look at that. michael cohen and i have had a long conversation about what he i...

In late february, he writes, barr summoned the deputy to challenge the legal basis for cohens plea and the reason behind pursuing similar campaign finance charges against other individuals. you mentioned efforts to put cohen in jail. so, its clear that cohen was this vessel on which they wanted to release pressure when they were worried it would hurt trump, but apply pressure when they were worried he would hurt him. >> yeah. i mean, michael cohen in the summer of 2020 being told that he has to ...

Sounding like a normal person, trying to rehabilitate himself, trying to look like hes normalized, hes not. and what were hearing about from this book is the subverting of our rule of law, and the institution that embodies the rule of law, the department of justice. and so, its worse than we perhaps thought in that its not just that trump appears to have a doj that pressured prosecutors to open cases, but also to not go there in the sense of not pursuing things, and look, michael cohen appears t...

Was the subject of a number of white house pressure campaigns. "the new york times" was one of the first news organizations to get to review a copy of bermans book. its not out yet. its called "holding the line." well have our own opportunity to speak with him on this program on tuesday, but for now, we have what the "times" has written about it. he has anecdote after anecdote, according to the "times," having to do with plots to federally investigate and prosecute donald trumps critics and perc...

Presidency. that is bill barr. and the combination of those two, one in doj, the other leading the executive branch, leading the free world, leads in some ways to the erosion, the very assault on the basic foundations of our democracy. can you imagine deploying the fbi, the doj, to, you know, indict and convict your political opponents? that runs against everything that a democracy stands for. heres more evidence. the question is, what are we going to do with it? weve been asking ourselves all a...

Days, on the far-right media platforms, youve seen this allegation that president biden must have ordered the fbi search warrant at mar-a-lago. he must have. well, its not just disinformation. its also this mindset that michael speaks of, this kind of imperial presidency mindset of, well, thats how we would have done it. we would have ordered a search warrant on someone who we dont like. so, biden must have done it. thats the operating methodology here, and it needs to be investigated. >> thats ...

Obama had concealed work he had done years earlier for the government of ukraine in violation of the foreign agents registration act, sometimes referred to as fara. and whether he had lied to the justice department when questioned about it. after months of investigation, sdny and the justice department met with mr. craigs lawyers. after the lawyers left and prosecutors voiced their opinions, berman said he believed craig was innocent. he believed craig was innocent of the fara charge, so a jury ...

What happened. and so should kerry, who we learned from this reporting was a target of trump. >> kerry was a target for criminal prosecution, and whats made clear in what the "times" is reporting about the berman book, mike schmidt, is something that you reported about the mueller investigation. what trump tweeted very clearly directed his justice department. i mean, trump attacks kerry, the justice department, and sdny is asked to investigate john kerry, i think, for violations of the logan act...