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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 ...

Some baseball game on some childs rec league where we have to make things fair, you know, got to -- we have to give them a few runs. no. theres -- thats not how it works. theres nothing normal about this. i think people are going to be liable, because theyre outside the scope of their employment when they do this kind of thing. i think, and hope, they will be sued. >> eddie glaude, i want to bring you in. we learned from mr. berman that john kerry was also targeted for investigation and prosecut...

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...

Criminal investigation, donald trump, accusing the department of justice of unfair political targeting in the classified material investigation at mar-a-lago. but given a wave of new revelations on trumps conduct in office, freshly in our hands today, that political targeting accusation sounds more and more definitively like projection. extraordinary revelations today, courtesy of one of trumps own top federal prosecutors. his name is jeffery burrman and he was the u.s. attorney for the southern...

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...

Department kept demanding that i use my office to aid them politically. and i kept declining. i walked this tight rope for two and a half years," writes mr. berman, whos now in private practice. "eventually, the rope snapped." that is where we begin today with some of our favorite reporters and friends. mike schmidt is back, "new york times" washington correspondent, also joining us, eddie glaude, he chairs the department of african american studies at princeton university, and frank figliuzzi i...

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 ...

Had to keep alive was the 2018 prosecution of mr. cohen, the presidents former lawyer that august cohen pleaded guilty to campaign finance violations over payments he arranged before the 2016 election to keep two women from disclosing affairs they had with trump. berman did not participate in the investigation because he had volunteered for the campaign, but he was later briefed on the interference in the case. before the plea, berman writes, as his office was preparing a charging document, deta...

Or anything close to by the book. consider this from our friend and colleague, barbara mcquade, who reviewed the book in the "washington post." "berman reserved his strongest criticism for barr, calling him a bully, and his behavior, thuggish. upon taking office, barr tried to kill the southern districts ongoing investigations relating to the campaign finance crimes to which michael cohen had already pleaded guilty. the reference in plea documents to individual one made apparent that trump fashi...