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District of new york u.s. attorney berman's recusal, and whether the southern district went too far in pursuing the campaign finance case in which the president was listed as individual number one. >> okay. berman is jeffrey berman, a trump ally. he's the united states attorney for the southern district of new york. so he recused himself from the cohen case. so whitaker, according to nadler, admits he discussed berman's recusal. remember, "the new york times" has reported trump asked whitaker, directly asked whitaker, whether berman could be put in charge of the probe. he's admitting he discus...

Should be more loyal to him than following the facts in the rule of law. >> so just get the sequence of events straight, the cohen case is going on o, the president goes to his acting attorney general whitaker and he says he make as request to put in a new prosecutor to put berman and trump's ally in charge of the prosecution of cohen. what is the response that whiches back to trump and what's the exchange there? >> well, berman -- nothing changed. nothing came of it. this is a theme that happens a lot of times with trump and obstruction. where he tries to do something. he tries to get comey t...

The president sees whitaker as someone who can't do the things he hoped he'd be able to at the justice department. the lim tases of even being an acting attorney general. and this is another thing. the president tries different times to get different folks to go along with whether instilling loyalists here or there and has not always been successful and struggled to damage the investigation. >> is your reporting that when trump was told noabout getting berman in charge of the investigation, that when that didn't happen, you say he soured on whitaker. did he express that explicitly to him that ...

Whitaker and the president. the president concerned about the direction of the investigation and looking at the possibilities and what could be done in terms of that and turning to someone in the u.s. attorney berman, in the hopes that they'll -- whatever relationship they had or whatever loyalty he thought berman may have may be important. in the entire story in which we've looked at obstruction going back to 2017, there's different teams and one of them is loyalty. the president wants loyalty for those over seeing the investigations into him. whether it was jeff sessions, jim comey. whether ...

Sustained, more secretive assault by the machinery of federal law enforcement, that the president has turned into an session. they inform on misinformation about the firing of michael flynn. they report on conversations between the republican law makers about an attempt to attack robert mueller, the spelg special counsel, and that he eattempted to place a loyalist. that last episode occur late last year when they were closing in on the president who they were calling individual one in that case. called matthew whitaker with a question. he asked whether berman, and trump ally could be put in ch...