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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...

we've got it, we've got it, it comes out tomorrow, but we've got it here is how it starts. miley deputy, robert crews, army resolved in urgent phone call from the top of the u.s. services department. the midterm elections were less than two months ago weighing. house and senate, but the next two years of the trump -- investigations. he spoke with eduardo callahan, a high-level trump political appointees at the justice department his message to cause army was then ambiguous. it was time for me, jeffrey berman, the u.s. attorney for the southern district of new york and lifelong republ...

>> that's how it starts. that's the very beginning. this was written by jeffrey berman who ran sdny in southern district of new york for half of trump's time in office. he was fired from that job at sdny and fired loudly in a way that made a difference. we'll have more on that in a second. that's important. but now since he is the former u.s. attorney, he has written this book. to put it in the public record how trump and his administration tried to force federal prosecutors to go after trump's political enemies to go after democrats, to help trump's allies. regardless of the law. r...

Instrument for him became information rather than an indictment. berman says, quote, it was about 40 pages long, and it referenced a person identified as individual one, as having acted in concert with cohen. there was zero doubt as to the identity of individual one, it was donald trump. after they sent the information to main justice, quote, the next day, robert kuzami received a call from edward o'callaghan. he was aggressive. why the length, he wanted to know? he argued that now that cohen was pleading guilty, we don't need all this description. he responded, what exactly are you concerned ...

Trump's justice department tells sdny not only that they want to evaluate the basis of cohen's plea and they want sdny to stop investigating anybody else who might have been involved in those crimes committed by the trump campaign to try to cover up evidence of alleged affairs. sdny also was contacted by trump's justice department, senior officials, and they were told that they needed to get rid of all mentions of individual one in the michael cohen indictment. sdny said no to that, they resisted. but sdny officials did take out of the michael cohen related court filings the most direct langua...