of president donald trump. this seems designed to sweep u as much information about th case against donald trump as possible and remember those two prosecutors who resigned i protest for bragg s office last year? their names were mark pomerant and carrie done. they had them working on a earlier broader investigatio into trump s under sigh vance. like i said the reason for quitting with alvin brag wasn t allegedly being aggressive enough to bring i that larger fraud case against donald trump which means that don and pomerantz probably know a lo about what the state s amassed against don trump. and jim jordan seems fairl obsessed with getting document from done and pomerantz. last week mr. jordan s peanu mr. pomrenze to testify before his committee to testify jordan has also asked da bra to turn over all documents and communications sent orders seized by dunn and pomerantz
to your offices investigatio of president donald trump. this seems designed to sweep u as much information about th case against donald trump as possible and remember those two prosecutors who resigned i protest for bragg s office last year? their names were mark pomerant and carrie done. they had them working on a earlier broader investigatio into trump s under sigh vance. like i said the reason for quitting with alvin brag wasn t allegedly being aggressive enough to bring i that larger fraud case against donald trump which means that don and pomerantz probably know a lo about what the state s amassed against don trump. and jim jordan seems fairl obsessed with getting document from done and pomerantz. last week mr. jordan s peanu mr. pomrenze to testify before
understand. when brag started, he suggeste that the case was not ready. do you believe that is true an what specifically can you tell us about the strength of the evidence that you handed off because you did a lot of wor before you left office, even i there was not an indictmen issue. i brought mark pomerant into the office in 2021. i think very highly of mark an fought very highly of march. and, ultimately, as what mr. bragg had said, ultimately, mr bragg decided that information and the case that mark was presenting him after i left in january of 2022 was not a case he felt comfortable goin forward on at that time. and that is his prerogative as the district attorney, just as it was my prerogative when i was distracted tierney t pursue evidence and further se of an indictment that i felt
that were grabbing americans now it s authoritarian governments, evan is the lates one. there is at least two othe americans, paul whelan has bee held for four years. an american under fals espionage charges. mark, full on american schoo teacher was arrested for havin a small amount of medica marijuana in russia an sentenced to 16 years in prison i work with people who kno evan incredibly, well it greater no list and this is tragedy for him and hi vladimir putin wanting t prevent any independen journalism from occurrin inside russia. david, thanks very much for your coverage and for your analysis this morning. david rohde is executive edito and new yorker.com, and a msnb contributor, he s also the author in deep, the fbi, the cia and the truth about americ deep state quote, the institutions of our democracy and law are unde vicious, on sustainable and on endurable attack and a quote that is the warning from judge michael looting, former judg on the u.s. court of appea
various flaws with legal theories that they sort of tried on and discarded and now having had tha information in the publi domain, donald trump is saying wait one second, mark pomerant told the whole world that this case was nothing and alvin bragg has resuscitated it. that must mean is politicall motivated. i think that narrative i entirely wrong putting aside whether it was proper from mike pomerantz t put that book into the publi domain, i think what happene was alvin bragg came int office he had not been in the manhattan da s offic previously, in fact he had a long career as a prosecutor an federal domain and then the ne york attorney generals offic and said wait one second i just got here. i need some time to familiariz my staff and senior leadership with your investigation. i need to wrap my arms aroun this and by all accounts including according to a new york times story, that s exactly what he did but donald trump is going to seize on the pomerantz book as exemplar s o prosecut