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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...

Point, Michael Cohen had a light bulb go off, and in recent times, tried to behave a little bit better and maybe thats whats reflected in the kinder document thats been filed by the Special Counsel. All right. Thanks so much. Our cnn coverage continues right now. This is cnn breaking news. Im wolf blitzer. We welcome our viewers in the United States and around the world. Were following breaking news. We have just received two major filings involving the former trump lawyer, Michael Cohen. One from the Special Counsel, Robert Mueller, and another from federal prosecutors in new york. And were a...

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 ...

Prosecution of former trump attorney michael cohen is leaving. nbc's tom winter is joining us with this story. the sdny is making it sound like typical turnover of staff, if you will. does that sync with your understanding of his departure? >> reporter: that's exactly correct based on the information and reporting from myself and my colleague, it appears this is purely a personal move. he's the deputy -- currently and about to leave on april 12th -- the deputy u.s. attorney for the southern district of new york. that's him pictured on your screen right there. kuzami has led because the u.s. at...