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
it s got no problem other than it s his competence he is grossly incompetent. you know, they keep saying olds. i know people that are much older than him that are doing unbelievable things, making a fortune. i knew a man that it s 79. he was never a success and he made a billion, billion and a half dollars from 79 to 92 and that s what it is. it s not as age, it s his competence is not respected anywhere in the world. our country is being laughed at all over the world. biden is using the weaponization of his justice department, the fbi, local district attorney s that attorney please general, to try and win an election against his political opponent. that happens to be made, you know who i am something that actually was unthinkable in our nation. but which is very common in third world countries are in banana republics. that s what he s doing. he s using law enforcement to try and hurt his political opponent every one of those things last night, you saw that was all started by
of violent protests near paris erupting over the deadly police shooting of a 17-year-old driver during a traffic stop. multiple cars, town halls, schools, and plaolice stations were set on fire last night. angry protesters shot fireworks. that s some of what you re hearing, and threw stones at police. french officials say 150 people were arrest instead all of this and now france is mobilizing 40,000 police officers and paramilitary to patrol the country as more protest asks unrest are expected. the french interior minister says the move comes after the 9,000 officers they deployed last night weren t enough to quell the widespread violence. wow. happening right now, you re looking at live pictures from cities across the country, milwaukee is on the left, very hazy at this hour, chicago is on the right. it has been ranked as one of the most polluted cities in the world of late. more than 120 million americans are under alerts for dangerous air quality as thick waves of smoke from can