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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 district's 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 fashioned potential criminal exposure in this investigation. in fact, barr even discussed dismissing coh...

Was now a priority for the department of justice." eddie, again, we sat on the outside, and we had some experts like frank and some great investigative journalism from mike and his colleagues, but what the berman book makes clear is that we were barely scratching at the surface of just how completely and successfully donald trump corrupted the rule of law in this country. >> nicole, you're absolutely right. as i read the piece, i had to close my mouth. it kept falling open as i was reading the details. not only do we see the subverting of the rule of law, we saw the shredding of democratic nor...

Were questions about the stone sentencing and what went on with michael cohen and why was michael cohen put back in prison in the summer of 2020, about his book that there had been some noise that the ig was doing something, but i don't know -- we have not seen the fruits of that yet. but this is certainly revealing. >> grist. >> and in many ways, extraordinary. >> so, let's dive into what we're learning for the first time, because i think viewers of this program are very familiar with a lot of these cases and a lot of these individuals. this is from the "times" reporting. we've seen the book,...

The government has enormous powers to come into someone's life and to not only find out, you know, what's under their bed but put them in prison. and it was the use of that in this book which is -- which makes it different. we've seen donald trump try and obstruct a lot of different things, a lot of different investigations into him. but the proactive use is what's different and distinct here. >> frank, i'll give you the last word. is that -- those proactive targeting and you know, he succeeded. just because jeff berman refused to prosecute greg craig, he still gets prosecuted. a jury found hi...