justice department. his message was unambiguous. it was time for me, jeffrey berman, the u.s. attorney for the southern district of new york and lifelong republican, it was time for me to take one for the home team. he came into my office and closed the door, quote, you re not going to believe the conversation i just had with o callaghan, before sharing the details. the top leadership at doj wanted me to bring criminal charges against a private attorney who had once been president barack obama s white house counsel and they wanted me to bring those charges before election day. i said, you have got to be f ing kidding me. i wish, he said, but no. doj s rationale for this demand had nothing to do with evidence or law. o callaghan kept reminding him that our office had just prosecuted two high profile trump loyalists, republican congressman chris collins and crump s private attorney, michael cohen. he related that o callaghan told him bluntly, quote, it s time for you guys to ev
a very excited to see that. that s gonna do it for us. alex wagner will be here tomorrow, now is the time for the last word with lawrence o donnell, good evening lawrence. is it okay if i have david corn on two, to talk about american psychosis? the title of his new, i think as of now, his by sign because of the five minutes you spent on it. listen, i love david cohen. personal disclosure, he s a friend, i think is a great journalist, i love the way he thinks and rights. i am so glad that he s done a super readable modern history the right, we keep talking about these things that they haven t happened before and not exactly right, and we just need smart digestible history about this, particularly as we head into the midterms. this is just perfectly timed. we ve all been thinking about it. i remember thinking about it when donald trump got the nomination in 2016, i kind of work my way back to sarah palin, and then it kept going and kept going. but i never did the full
theorists inside their base happy because they don t want to risk alienating them and losing their support, that s what allowed the democratic president in 1964 to make that election a referendum on republican extremism, which led to a landslide victory for democrats and the sort of easy elevator life history about the way we remember these things, isn t always subtle enough to get us to the truth of the hard decisions that were and weren t make back in the day, which can be a lesson to where we are today. all this to, say i m really excited to read s new book which is coming out tomorrow. again, it is called american psycho, seagull beyond chris hayes show we re gonna have him on a couple of weeks to talk about it. again, history is here to help.