professional conduct. he ll have a tough time in front of the committee and bragg through in the towel because the committee clearly has jurisdiction. it was a frivolous challenge. pete: and what will they ask him? how political was the investigation? effectively they ll get to the bottom of whether it s driven by evidence or driven by spite. i m going to keep my focus on the courts and i prefer all this to be handled and this is clearly a political prosecution and people on the left said it s a bizarre theory. i don t think that there s any election violation here, which is one of the core elements of these charges. so it s going to have to go through the courts, but i think it s a raw political prosecution and ultimately i think bragg s legacy will be forever tarnished for his taking the step. as for pomeranz, he ll have a heck of a time in front of the committee and i don t know how
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
those are the signs that bragg would stick to those positions new york is a place where d.a.s are expected, like a lot of places, to be very allied and, quote, loyal to the police no matter what. so that in his election, in his public persona was something he had to navigate. he didn t back down off of it. inthe trump case, if some people were surprised that bragg moved first with all these open probes, georgia, they mint have been paying attention to his actual work, because he came into office with that independence, he refused to be pressed by the early holdovers who wanted a speedy trump indictment some of them left, mr. pomeranz and others we reported on that. but bragg continued to methodically work the case of the line i mentioned he beat trump on the foundation case, then the trump organization on the business side, convicting it, and convicting trump s cfo, who got sent to riker s. i know we live in a kind of media heroin environment where
believe that alvin bragg was doing this for audit of pure political motivation and don t believe he has any real purpose and have tried to call alvin bragg to come testify but not just brag. they sent a subpoena last week from mark palm. pomeranz who s was a former attorney in the district attorney s office, asking for documents asking for records and asking for pomeranz is testimony brag, filing a lawsuit saying that that subpoena should not be enforced, calling it unconstitutional, saying it s an effort to intimidate his office and going on to say this congress, lex any valid legislative purpose to engage in a free ranging campaign of harassment in retaliation for the district attorney s investigation and prosecution of mr trump under the laws of new york? that campaign is a direct threat to federalism and the sovereign interests of the state of new york. the court should enjoy the subpoena and put an end to this constitutionally destructive fishing expedition. now he goes on to say
you know, narrower issues relating to trump and those payments to stormy daniels, and to another woman so republicans hope that mark pomeranz is their way in to this investigation, and bragg decided to take a preemptive move going to federal court, interestingly in new york, not down here in washington, d.c., and see if he can halt this subpoena but i do think it s going to be an up hill battle for bragg. yeah, i mean, josh, it looks like republicans are going to come back and hold on a second pomeranz has written the book. this is all out there in public, and so how can you stop him from testifying when people have already read what he has to say? right i mean, that s the trickiest part of this, katty, given that pomeranz wrote the book, it s hard to take the position, i can t say one word to you now, i need to zip my lip because of the current prosecution going on the other thing going on in the suit is turning the tables,