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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...

>> 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...

Officials then told geoffrey berman and sdny officials to do it. berman refused saying there was no case there. trump justice department officials shopped it to another u.s. attorney, trying to get another prosecutor to bring it. that prosecutor refused to bring the case as well. when the campaign finance hush money case was according to berman purposely stalled out after michael cohen pled guilty in that case, when it was then being investigated by state prosecutors, berman describes the trump guys at the justice department also trying to force berman and sdny into telling federal court in ne...