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>> right. the day before he was fired, he received a phone call from donald trump. he did not answer it because he said it would have been inappropriate. then the next day he was abruptly fired by jeff sessions. >> along with everyone. so there's always been a lingering question whether the firing of all of the u.s. attorneys was essentially cover for wanting to get rid of bharara, hot the president had agreed was going to stay on. >> we've never gotten an answer to that. jeff sessions couldn't even remember if he was personally involved, which was very strange for something as high profile as...

President appointing him. you have a president overseeing candidates that can possibly oversee him. >> now, when he held that prosecutor post, i interviewed bharara at the time when he was suppressing his independence in both branches. another added trump is trying to breach the doj wall. i am now joined by that man, matt miller, as well as former federal prosecutor back with me. ronato, when you became u.s. attorney, were you interviewed by the president? >> no, i wasn't, obviously. the question i think the more pertinent question was pat fitzgerald here to my knowledge he was not interviewed...

Columbia. those are the attorneys in new york who would have jurisdiction over wrongdoing that might have occurred at trump tower or his businesses there. the u.s. attorney for the district of columbia would have jurisdiction over anything that happens at the white house. why is it significant? bob mueller has the entire russia probe. anything that is russia related these u.s. attorneys wouldn't handle. but anything else that many companies up, any other crimes that donald trump might have committed in the past or that he might commit in office, these u.s. attorneys would have jurisdiction. th...

Bharara could stay on apparently donald trump said yes. >> they met during the transition, they came out of trump tower, i'm staying on, it's all good. >> right. the day before he was fired, he received a phone call from donald trump. he did not answer it because he said it would have been inappropriate. then the next day he was abruptly fired by jeff sessions. >> along with everyone. so there's always been a lingering question whether the firing of all of the u.s. attorneys was essentially cover for wanting to get rid of bharara, hot the president had agreed was going to stay on. >> we've nev...

Attorneys. and i wouldn't call it traditional with president trump but i don't think any of us see it as unusual anymore when he reverses himself on something like this. and so i don't have any qualms about that other than the qualms i might have about how he reverses himself frequently. there's no legal issue here. i do think given that it's one of the two most important districts along with the eastern district of virginia, which handles a lot of the espionage, national security cases, southern district of new york handles a lot of the finance cases. i think they should be priorities for get...