are both dominating the parties divide heading into the midterms. and former homeland security secretary jeh johnson will be here to discuss the mar-a-lago document fight and the january 6th investigations. but we begin in london with nbc s molly hunter, msnbc royal commentator daisy mcandrew. molly, let s talk about what we ve seen from the royal family today as the citizens throughout that country are finally getting their say, their chance to say goodbye to queen elizabeth in person. yeah, andrea, that s exactly right. the coffin today is moving from the family to the people. we are actually across from westminster hall. the queen is lying in state just across the river from where i am right now. and people line the streets of london for that procession. it was incredibly moving, and daisy can speak to being outside of buckingham palace when everyone went by. everyone was huddled around their mobile phones to watch that procession. police estimate between 700,000 and 1
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, you have got to be f ing kidding me. i wish, he said, but no. doj s rationale for this demand had nothing to do with evidence or law. o callaghan kept reminding him that our office had just prosecuted two high profile trump loyalists, republican congressman chris collins and crump s private attorney, michael cohen. he related that o callaghan told him bluntly, quote, it s time for you guys to ev
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 republican, time for me to take one for the home team. it came into my office, closed the door, quote, you re not going to believe the conversation i had without callahan, he said. before sharing the details of the top leadership at doj wanted me to bring criminal charges against gregory craig, a private attorney who had lunched bennett council. they wanted me to bring those charges before election day i
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. regardless of the crimes committed or lack thereof. geoff berman was told to bring the prosecution before the midterm elections. told to do so because some republicans had been prosecuted and so now it was time to prosecute a democrat. he was told to even things out. berman refused to do it. he didn t bring that prosecution. so, yea rule of law for a second. what happened after geoff berman refused
the department of justice reveals it has already complete its review of documents seized. in other words, they re now finished with what a special master would be designed to accomplish in the first place. they say that a privileged review team, quote, identified a limited set of materials that potentially contain attorney-client information and is following the procedure set forth in paragraph affidavit for disputes if any. that filing, and it started a classification review of all of the materials seized at mar-a-lago. in the second, the odni, the office of the director of national intelligence is indeed leading an assessment, basically an evaluation of threats to national security associated to trump s decision to keep whatever it is that he took and kept. remember, the affidavit released on friday showed the government s concern with how those important documents were stored at mar-a-lago. in addition to the room we ve all heard so much about these past few weeks, the ne