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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. here's more evidence. the question is, what are we going to do with it? we've been asking ourselves all along, what are we going to do with the evidence? >> that's what we've been asking ourselves for fi...

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, who's 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 is back, former fbi assistant director for counterintelligence. frank figliuzzi, there's so much gro...

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. craig's 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 would be unlikely to convict him on a false statement count. a short time later, around mid-septemb...

Had to keep alive was the 2018 prosecution of mr. cohen, the president's 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, detailing the crimes, a justice department official badgered his deputy, mr. kazumi, without success, t...

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...