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race. it expands across any race in 2020, so she has evidence of that, and it will be interesting to see if it factors in it all potential charging decisions. we know she s building a re go casey conspiracy case that could have multiple defendants will see if this plays into any charging decisions that might come. all right. zack cohen. a very important story. thank you very much. we know you ll stay on top of it for us, the manhattan district attorney s office and the house judiciary committee have come to an agreement to allow congressional testimony from a former manhattan prosecutor. it s part of the gop led investigation into alvin brags indictment of trump bragged previously brought a lawsuit seeking to block this testimony and cnn senior legal analyst elie honig joins us now, ellie first can you give us a little insight into who mark pomerantz is? that s what we talking about here. jamison. mark palmer hands was a prosecutor with the manhattan d a. he s now jim jordans star witn
federal prosecutor at the southern district of new york, where later i would work along with alvin bragg. actually who was a colleague of mine. pomeranz came out of retirement a couple of years ago to join the manhattan d. a s investigation of donald trump by his own statement. since then, pomerantz has said he was essentially obsessed with nailing donald trump. now alvin bragg takes over as the d a. about a year ago and early 2022 pomerantz brings alvin bragg a half baked case relating to donald trump s valuation of assets and brag, says it s not ready yet. what is pomerance do ? he doesn t do more work he quits and he goes on a publicity tour, and he writes a book giving away all sorts of stuff that s happening inside the d. a s office now. alvin bragg, many other former prosecutors, prosecutors associations came out and said pomerantz is undermining the investigation. he s giving away inside secrets . his book is called an inside account. and now sure enough, as a result of that jim