, right next guest. is one of those nights. it s one of those, nights have a great show lawrence. thank you alex thank you. it was just about two years and two months ago on a monday night that i will never forget, after a weekend and i will never forget, when rachel maddow and i were here marveling and i mean just marveling at a weekend of breaking news like we had never seen before involving the united states department of justice, attorney general william barr tried to fire the manhattan district attorney geoffrey berman and this is the part that was so stunning. geoffrey berman fought back in a way that we did not know is even possible. just when you think you can t be shocked, the friday night attempted firing of the u.s. attorney general the southern district of new york was starting and then geoffrey berman come back, you can t fire me was even more stunning, and ultimately jeffrey berman s in that hour you described it just kind of indescribably important. wh
good evening, everyone. so glad you re with us. i m poppy harlow in tonight for erin burnett. outfront tonight, faceoff, the justice department taking aim at trump s argument for a special master. today, announcing fbi agents have already sorted through those documents and weeded out any material that may be covered by attorney/client privilege. trump s team has argued much of the seized material contained presidential communications and therefore in their view is protected. the former president s attorney today making it clear that trump is not leaving it up to doj to sort the documents. listen to this. now, they are trying to suggest with this pleading, judge, don t be surprised we have already taken care of all this. nothing to see here. well, we re not in a position where we can really have a lot of faith in that. we still need judicial intervention. we need a judge to monitor our access to these documents. also tonight, another court deadline looming. this one fo
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
a very excited to see that. that s gonna do it for us. alex wagner will be here tomorrow, now is the time for the last word with lawrence o donnell, good evening lawrence. is it okay if i have david corn on two, to talk about american psychosis? the title of his new, i think as of now, his by sign because of the five minutes you spent on it. listen, i love david cohen. personal disclosure, he s a friend, i think is a great journalist, i love the way he thinks and rights. i am so glad that he s done a super readable modern history the right, we keep talking about these things that they haven t happened before and not exactly right, and we just need smart digestible history about this, particularly as we head into the midterms. this is just perfectly timed. we ve all been thinking about it. i remember thinking about it when donald trump got the nomination in 2016, i kind of work my way back to sarah palin, and then it kept going and kept going. but i never did the full