why do why did emil bove fear those notes? in his reply to daniel sassoon today, emil bovÉ claimed that he seized those notes because he's afraid of leaks. in that case, no trump lawyer in the justice department can ever be taken. notes. according to the above rules on notes, danielle sassoon revealed that there was more to come in the case against eric adams. we have proposed a superseding indictment that would add an obstruction conspiracy count, based on evidence that adams destroyed and instructed others to destroy evidence and provide false information to the fbi, and that would add further factual allegations regarding his participation in a fraudulent straw donor scheme. danielle sassoon reminded the attorney general that it is not up to the prosecutors to dismiss a case that is already in court. only a judge can do that, danielle sassoon warned the attorney general, the assigned district judge, the honorable dale e ho, appears likely to conduct a searching inquiry. in this case. that means it is very possible that a se

. >> criminal defense lawyer, emil bove. i sat behind emil bove for weeks when he was the number two defense counsel for donald. trump in the criminal case where a manhattan jury found donald trump guilty of 34 counts of business fraud. there is no reason to equate a criminal defense lawyer with the criminal defendant. the lawyer represents the criminal defense. lawyer is one of the noble callings under the american system of justice. there was nothing in emil bove's representation of donald trump in that courtroom that gave me the slightest reason to disrespect his work in that room as a criminal defense lawyer. in fact, i thought emil bove did a better job in that courtroom than the lead defense counsel, todd blanche, who donald trump has nominated for a position in the justice department that requires senate confirmation. bove formerly served for previously served as a federal prosecutor in the southern district of new york, where he was, we discovered this week, an enthusiastic supporter of the investigations and prosecu

by emil bove logic, then no dismissal in that case. and so this is what danielle sassoon means in her letter when she says it's a quid pro quo. the exchange is right out there. it's overt and it's overtly political. it's the worst thing that can happen to doj. >> so what happens now? do they does emil bove and the department of justice in d.c. just hire somebody else who will sign these documents. >> this is not over because, as cara said, doj has to find somebody. they'll find somebody. there's 6000 prosecutors. beauvais himself will sign it, but doj has to submit a paper to the court saying we want to dismiss. here's why. but then the judge has to sign off. i'm telling you right now, a judge is not going to sign off on this. i don't i'm not big on predictions. there's no way a judge signs off on this. then you get into a situation. what happens? because doj is going to say, all right, judge, but we're not sending anyone to prosecute the case. so it's going to be a showdown ahead on this. >> john miller i mean have you seen anything l

acting deputy attorney general emil bove. so if you're wondering what kind of day it's been thus far at the us department of justice, it's a six resignation kind of day thus far. but just just to get the import here, just back up for a second. the mayor of new york city is eric adams. he's a democrat. he's elected in 2021. the people of new york who elected adams largely on his his tough on crime platform, would soon learn that federal prosecutors at s.d.n.y in the u.s. attorney's office for the southern district of new york. federal prosecutors started investigating him in 2021, even before he took office, because they were looking into what appeared to be serious irregularities in his campaign. fundraising. within a couple of years, the fbi was searching the homes and offices of the mayor's fundraising chief and his top staffers. and this past september, eric adams became the first sitting mayor of new york city to ever be charged with federal crimes. he was indicted on a whole raft of charges involving allegedly fraudulent

emil bove signature is also on the document. this comes after a mass exodus at doj and new york's southern district, which was set to try the case this spring. when anderson signed off last night, six people had resigned over what some of those quitting have criticized as a politically driven deal to coerce adams cooperation with the administration's immigration enforcement policies. today, a seventh step down. here's what the president said about it, while also saying he knows nothing about the case. >> if they had a problem, and these are mostly people from the previous administration, you understand. so they weren't going to be there anyway. they were going to all be gone or dismissed. if not, uh, they know on tuesday they're all being dismissed. you know, the whole country is being because what you do is you come in and you put new people in. so when you say resign, they're going to be gone anyway. but i know nothing about the individual case. >> based on his comments, it sure seems like he does. he did, after all, talk abou

that letter. >> from bovÉ. >> 100%. chris.he letter proves the corruption of the deal between trump and adams, between d.o.j. main justice and adams out loud on doj letterhead. it is embarrassing. it is blatant. it is there for everyone to see. and i just want to point out, i'm sure we'll get to some of the letters later. but danielle sassoon, in her letter explaining, you know, why she's not proceeding has it's the contrast is remarkable how eloquent her letter is, which i'm just skimming now. but she she says exactly what you're saying. she says rather than be rewarded, adams advocacy should be called out for what it is an improper offer of immigration enforcement assistance in exchange for a dismissal of his case. yes, exactly. he made the offer by courting trump and, you know, sort of implying that he would not be able to do his duties enforcing the immigration law were he under indictment. and then the doj, beauvais came out, emile bove, and said, yeah, you're right. and so, you know what? we're going to not totally dismi

bove based on this new reporting.and i guess what i'm trying to understand is, are you aware of any fbi leaders or individuals who were fired for less than this, quote, full throated support, end quote, in the words of mr. o'leary, this action quote, bove attended weekly morning meetings about january 6th cases chaired by the senior fbi official in new york, the group of prosecutors and law enforcement agents planned and prioritized efforts to find and arrest the january 6th defendants based on intelligence coming in from all around the country. and this email gave very clear direction to aggressively work to support fbi's efforts to write warrants. pen registers. et cetera. referring to fbi technology that records incoming phone numbers. are you aware of any fbi leadership or agents who were fired for less than that? >> well, the fbi, you know, had the few people in the leadership who have been pushed out right now. it's sort of people wondering who is going to be on the chopping block, because we haven't seen those

she accuses. >> bove of essentially. being part of a quid pro quo with attorneys for eric adams. >> she describes a meeting. >> that happened on january 31st in which she says, uh, i attended a meeting on january 31st with mr. bove, adam's counsel, and members of my team, adam's attorneys repeatedly urge what amounted to a quid pro quo, indicating that adams would be in a position to assist with the department's enforcement priorities. only if this indictment were dismissed. what adams and his attorneys were offering was that he would help with the enforcement of immigration activities in new york city. you know, the sanctuary status, all the things that donald trump wants if they drop this case. and, you know, that's one of the things she makes this accusation. now. bove, for his part, responds today, saying, essentially, we are accepting your resignation. and he also puts on on administrative leave. the attorneys who are running this case in the manhattan u.s. attorney's office. and he's i'll read you just a part of wh

emil bove issued the directive to dismiss this case anyway. and when she refused, the case was transferred to the public integrity section here in washington. but then two people who led that unit resigned, and three others have now followed. tonight, the president, meanwhile, was asked about this question by cnn's kevin liptak today in the oval office and denied having anything to do with it. >> did you personally request the justice department to drop that case? >> no, i didn't know nothing about it. i did not know that u.s. attorney was actually fired. i don't know if he or she resigned, but that u.s. attorney was fired. >> trump had been asked about this and then later came back and said that she was fired. i should note our sources are telling cnn tonight that she resigned before emil bove could carry out the plans to fire her. adams's team is denying tonight that there was any deal, any kind of quid pro quo, saying the idea that there was a quid pro quo is a, quote, total lie. all of this is coming as the mayor, as you can see here, is s

bove proposes dismissing the charges against adams in return for his assistance in enforcing federal immigration laws. analogizing to the prisoner exchange in which the us freed notorious russian arms dealer viktor bout in return for an american prisoner in russia. such an exchange with adams violates common sense beliefs in the equal administration of justice, the justice manual, and the rules of professional conduct. adams has argued in substance, and mr. bove appears prepared to concede that the mayor should receive leniency for federal crimes solely because he occupies an important public position and can use that position to assist in the administration's policy priorities. in your words, she's quoting pam bondi to herself here. quote doj will not tolerate abuses of the criminal justice process, coercive behavior, or other forms of misconduct, danielle sassoon says, then, quote, dismissal of the indictment for no other reason than to influence adams mayoral decision making would be all three. rather than be rewarded, adams's advocacy should be called out for what it is an improp

of them resigning after refusing to carry out an order from trump's acting attorney general, emil bove, who before this job was a personal attorney of president trump's. that order was to drop the corruption case against new york city mayor eric adams. the legal bombshell dropped courtesy of danielle sassoon, who until today was the acting u.s. attorney for the powerful southern district of new york. in her resignation letter to attorney general pam bondi, she makes some explosive allegations against the acting number two at the doj. she alleges that emil bove wanted her office to drop the case against mayor adams because the mayor was going to help the white house with its immigration initiatives. there was a meeting last month where she says, and i'm quoting from her resignation letter. now, adams attorneys repeatedly urged what amounted to a quid pro quo, indicating that adams would be in a position to assist with the department's enforcement priorities. only if the indictment were dismissed. that, and the subsequent order from the doj headquarters to drop the charges, crossed a red

emil bove writing, and i'm quoting him now. any assistant u.s. attorney would know that our laws and traditions do not allow us using the prosecutorial power to influence other citizens, much less elected officials. if no lawyer within earshot of the president is willing to give him that advice, then i expect you will eventually find someone who is enough of a fool or enough of a coward to file your motion. but it was never going to be me in the end. emil bove did find someone, as sources tell us, that he convened a group of prosecutors this morning to give them an order. pick someone, really anyone, to file this. those career prosecutors from the public integrity section then met. they talked about their options, we're told, including a mass resignation. but ultimately they coalesced around picking someone to end this remarkable standoff that has been playing out in the public this week. that is welcome news for mayor adams, who spent his morning doing a joint television interview with president trump's border czar on fox news. it's important to

emil bove did in his letter. it was not about the merits of the case. the prosecutors who brought the case acted properly and with integrity. and it was only about this notion of eric adams being freed up in order to help the trump administration. so that's exactly what it is about. that's why mr. scott and miss soon were so vigorously defending their case and saying that ethically, they were not in a position to seek its dismissal because it wasn't about the the the merits of the case at all. and it would be improper for them to go before a judge and seek dismissal of a grand jury, obtained indictment on that basis. >> elise, assuming doj does find a prosecutor willing. to sign on to this dismissal, the judge in this case would still have to agree to this move. how potentially problematic could. >> that be? >> pamela, that's. >> a great question. >> i mean, typically when the doj moves to dismiss an indictment, there. are good reasons for it. and so. >> it's it's. >> mainly just procedural. and it happens. >> here for all the reasons. >> articulated in

bovÉ. mr. bovÉ concluded this. mr.ovÉ concluded that not. >> it all. >> concluded that we are not saying that we as a u.s. attorneys. >> so they may have been protectors, absolutely. rather than to overuse the word collaborators. yeah. um, i wanted to play what tom homan said today with his appearance on mayor adams on fox. here he is. >> if he doesn't come through, i'll be back in new york city and we won't be sitting on a couch. i'll be in his office up his butt saying, where the hell is the agreement? we came to? >> um. what is he saying there? where the hell is the agreement we came to? if he doesn't come through, i'll be back in new york city. >> yeah. so he's basically. this is the quid pro quo. um, it seems like this is the implicit threat. if you don't come through on your part of the agreement. i'm coming back to claim what we have, which is that we have submitted to the court that the case is still strong, and we're asking the court to dismiss it, but not to throw it completely away. it's still hanging. >> we

emil bove makes his own points. but this all is very simple. you don't need a lawyer to explain what's going on here. sassoon's point is, this is wrong. we should not do this. and emil bove point is, i don't care what you say or what you think. do it or go. that's what this is all about. it's about raw power, and it's about whether or not the decisions that the justice department makes are going to be made on the basis of facts and law, or are they going to be made on the political goals of the white house or the administration? >> well, they won't be made by danielle sassoon, that's for sure. mimi roka, devlin barrett, thank you both so much. you know, some lawmakers are praising the actions of the u.s. attorney who resigned. you've got minnesota senator amy klobuchar calling it a, quote, extraordinary development that sassoon chose to resign instead of doing trump's bidding. and one new york lawmaker and a fellow brooklynite ponders if the mayor of new york is now beholden to trump. >> it is the intention of the trump administration to keep t

and goes on from emil bove. it's incredibly aggressive response there as well from him in this letter, his letter coming out at about eight pages as well. and then continuing as this goes back and forth, i want to emphasize that sassoon is a conservative prosecutor. she is known as that she was named by president trump to be the acting head of the s.d.n.y. last month. right. she was just sworn in. named by trump. she is a member of the conservative federalist society. she once clerked for the supreme court justice. as i mentioned, antonin scalia. this is not some diehard liberal trying to masquerade as an activist, as some in the trump administration may like to say. evan perez is out front. so, evan, you know, this is a stunning letter and a stunning response by the doj to see things like this and these allegations that are laid out. what exactly stands out most here in this back and forth? >> yeah, this is an extraordinary set of letters. and really, it's a spiraling crisis. as you pointed out, erin, we now kn

you emil bove and the doj have not told me that there's anything wrong with my case. you're not disputing any of the facts. you're saying you want me to get rid of it? i'm not going to do that because it's the wrong thing to do. and that i mean that. and saying the notes getting taken away. >> yeah, it's a it's a it's an amazing letter and it's a letter that actually, in my mind summons back to the first part of being an assistant u.s. attorney is interviewing for the job. and in that interview process, you are asked specific ethical, hypothetical questions about something that the u.s. attorney talked about. the duty of candor, being honest with the court. and she said, i can't go into the court and tell judge ho, excuse me, tell judge ho the things that you would like me to tell him. that would be unethical. it would be inconsistent with my obligations as a prosecutor. and so that is your first test. even before you start work, to pass that test of being an ethical prosecutor who will not lie to the court, and she's going back and invoking that obligation in this le

bove saying the case indicted by a grand jury last september and set for trial this coming april has improperly interfered with mayor adams' bid for reelection. the general election still nine months away. bove also suggesting it restricted the mayor from devoting his full attention to the trump administration's priorities on immigration and crime, raising fresh questions about how the doj will treat criminal investigations going forward. >> more serious in the long run is the damage this does to the whole idea of criminal prosecutions being separate and apt from the president's policy-making. and this certainly is a message that any public official who is prosecuted, against whom charges are not dropped, simply hasn't made the right call. >> reporter: adams pled not guilty to charges of taking bribes in exchange for political favors, while president trump appeared sympathetic to his case last year. >> i think that he was traded pretty unfairly. >> reporter: adams later traveled to meet with trump at mar-a-lago days before also attending his inauguration. and it's not just mayor adam

i think emil bove letter today was way over the top, way too dramatic. it's a soap opera to say this is insubordination. what the fbi did is respond in the normal way. that one would respond. so i suppose if you take that view, technically the fbi did not do exactly what emil bove instructed them to do, but for quite good reason. this could have been resolved far short of a public letter saying that there had been insubordination. >> i want you to listen to to something that president trump said today as pam bondi was was being sworn in inside the oval office. >> i know i'm supposed to say she's going to be totally impartial with respect to democrats, and i think she will be as impartial as a person can be. i'm not sure if there's a possibility of totally, but she's going to be as total as you can get. >> we saw her and her her first full day today. first, mostly full day. i guess i should say. ellie, what are you watching for in terms of what the doj looks like under attorney general pam bondi? >> well, the thing that jumped out to me today, caitlin, is

>> emil bove should be the one to go. he's the one who cut the deal with alex spiro, the lawyer for eric adams. he is the one who ordered his team to drop the charges. he's the one who then sent the memo to say. i'm now going to investigate the prosecutors who have resigned. so he broke it. he owns it, and yet he's going to send others into court, because i think it'd just be really embarrassing if he's the one getting dressed down by judge dale ho. it's going to be ugly, but it's going to be warranted because you're not supposed to do this. this is a blatant quid pro quo. i mean, don't don't trust me on that. just look at the memo that beauvais sent. he said the quiet part out loud. he said, so. >> why would pam bondi the new attorney general allow this? dave, i mean, you've worked with her. you vouched for her, her confirmation hearing. nothing would go beyond her purview. why? why would she allow what you say is an obvious quid pro quo? >> i don't think she's being served well by the deputy attorney general, who was no

the access to any federal facility has been immediately revoked, according to bove.aises for the first time some concerns that he has with the facts of the case, the way the case was presented to the grand jury and some other issues around it. these are facts and issues that the prosecution had previously strenuously objected to in their court hearings involving the mayor and his counsel and things we've heard. and of course, the backdrop of all this, katie, is that if you told me we had mayor adams news this week, i would have said, well, it was likely that he was facing a superseding indictment because prosecutors were talking about the idea of additional charges in this case, both on conduct that they found in connection with some of the public corruption charges, but also witness tampering, that they say in their court filings previously that they uncovered involving the mayor. now, we have an eight page memo from bove effectively attacking certain parts of this prosecution, noted that sassoon, in her meetings in washington, dc, brought in assistant u.s. attorney

and bove, for the uninitiated. along with todd, blanche was led trump's criminal defense team, adding to what ryan was saying. and i would urge everyone to get his excellent book, sedition. >> hunters. >> which speaks which. which really documents, i think, in very clear terms, the extent. >> to which. >> these individuals who were convicted committed crimes. i think what's going on internally now in. >> both the department. >> and the bureau is damage that cannot be repaired, regardless of what the outcome. let's say if we turn around tomorrow and like so many other initiatives, folks back off. and a lot of these. >> agents and prosecutors get to. keep their jobs. well. >> there is now the message that has been sent indelibly not. >> to pursue these kinds of. >> cases. >> not to go. >> not to venture into an area where you could potentially. >> find yourself. >> the. >> subject of an internal witch hunt. >> so apart. >> from. >> all of the. >> changes that are taking place, the. structural changes that trump wants

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bove clearly stated to defense counsel during our meeting, the government is not offering to exchange for the southern district of new york, where she was deputy chief of the criminal division. and she joins me now. as a legal matter, if i go to a politician, he's going to give me a good municipal contract. i have a suitcase of cash. i give him the suitcase of cash, and i say, i want to be really clear here. this gift is for you because i like your family so much. it has nothing to do with the contract you're giving me. does that put you in the clear? >> i mean, it defies logic, right? like you can say, oh, it's not a quid pro quo, but it's listed here as one of the two reasons why this direction is being given to drop the case, that there's a concern that this case is impeding the mayor's ability to help with violent crime and immigration initiatives. so. okay, so the expectation clearly, and it's for a temporary dismissal. that is what justifies a temporary dismissal until after the election. so the expectation is between now and the mayoral election that mayor adams is going to be

remember emil bove, trump's former defense attorney, wanted to dismiss this case not because of a lack of merit when it comes to the case against adams. instead, beauvais is arguing that the investigation will prevent mayor adams from cooperating with trump's crackdown on undocumented immigrants. let's go to cnn's kara. kara. kara, how is emil bove responding to these fiery resignations from impressive prosecutors with impressive conservative credentials? >> yeah, jake. so sources tell. >> us that. >> this morning. >> beauvais met with the remaining members of the. >> public integrity section in washington, dc. remember, five of them resigned. yesterday when they refused to sign a motion to dismiss these corruption charges. so he met with them this morning, and he told them that he needed just one of them to agree to sign the papers. now, after that meeting, the team, the these remaining prosecutors met again. and while there was no explicit threat during the meeting with beauvais. sources say that people were aware of what it could mean. those prosecutors in new york who wouldn't sign

. >> and what emil bove happens. >> and that judge. >> has the ability. >> to call everyone in. he can even put them under oath. it is a crime to lie to. >> a federal judge. >> as it should be. and he can, if he makes a determination that emil bovÉ. >> has put. >> forth fictitious and misleading reasons for what he is doing. and danielle sassoon is. >> right. >> he would. both be protecting her rightly, from any investigation and getting to the bottom of. >> what appears. >> to be a really a. >> quid pro quo. >> deal here. and so the judge has enormous power here to do the right thing and to get to the bottom and accord everyone their due process rights. in doing that, because everyone has the ability, you know, to be heard. and to cross-examine. and before the judge makes a decision. >> explain to me. at any point, prosecutors can choose not to prosecute something. the department of justice can decide not to do something. but there's some question about why this all came about. emil beauvais's letter to danielle sassoon and team suggests that there was these charges were politi

and blanche's law partner, emil bove, has shown himself perfectly willing to carry out those mandatesre's no reason to believe blanche won't do that as well. and i think for that reason, we can expect some fireworks today from democrats. >> on one of the big topics for deputy ag in this hearing would be the fbi, which falls under the justice department. so the top democrat on this committee, senator dick durbin, is now accusing the nominee for fbi director, kash patel, who we covered his hearing. he hasn't been confirmed at this point. but outside of actually being. >> confirmed. >> durbin's accusing him of secretly orchestrating the firings of fbi officials that have taken place in. >> this administration. >> and then possibly he lied about. >> it at. >> his confirmation hearing, is what durbin is saying. what more do we know? >> senator durbin says he has credible sources saying that patel was closely. involved in the firings of those top fbi officials, even though he told the committee under oath that he was not aware of any such plan. so durbin believes patel may have perjured him

trump's one-time personal defense attorney emil bove, who now helps run the department of justice, hasa time, ordered top prosecutors in manhattan and washington to intervene and dismiss the case against adams. arguing in part the administration needs adams to be freed from the case to help the president's immigration enforcement efforts in new york city. one after another, those prosecutors have quit in protest. including an assistant u.s. attorney in new york who not only refused to drop the charges against adams, but in a letter announcing his resignation said, "i expect you will eventually find someone who is enough of a fool, or enough of a coward, to file your motion. but it was never going to be me." tom dupree served in george w. bush's department of justice. what do you make of this back and forth, this mass resignation wave? >> well, it's reminiscent of the nixon era, where you saw the president basically try to find someone who would carry out his orders in the justice department. had to go through several officials before he finally was able to find someone who would carry

bove, bove. instructing sassoon to take these measures.stion is, will she personally execute them? or she also has the option to step aside and say that she doesn't want to do this. we're not as of this hour. i haven't checked in. we're not at all certain how that's going to play out. >> i want to remind us of something from the first trump administration, which is we had a us attorney for the southern district of new york. resign because. >> jeff berman. >> jeff berman, because he felt that the president was trying to direct how he should guide his office. it was outrageous then, and this. >> is even more outrageous. >> and it's not only outrageous because the memo itself says the quiet. >> part out loud. >> because it does do our bidding. you'll be fine, don't you will be in trouble. it is because we're also hearing, reporting that eric adams has actually been telling his administration, do not criticize the president, cooperate on immigration. and when you are and i'm a new yorker, too. and i ran for office against eric adams. so full d

the acting deputy attorney general, a man named emil bove.ehind him for weeks in manhattan's criminal court when then-former president trump was facing a trial. he's as close as anyone to president trump, and he is trying to root out prosecutions, people he views as unhelpful prosecutors from the justice department, and it's rattling that institution tonight, with people resigning at the sdny, including the top prosecutor in the adams case, who alleges that there was a quid pro quo on the table, in the sense that mayor adams has said he wouldn't be able to cooperate with the trump administration unless these charges were dropped, but emil bove has said that's not right, and he is going to investigate those who have resigned. >> maurice: okay, robert costa in d.c. tonight, thank you. >> john: now some of the top stories from around the world in tonight's "evening news" roundup. the governor of louisiana signed an extradition warrant for a new york doctor. she allegedly sent abortion pills into louisiana, where abortion is banned. new york's go

at which point trump's acting deputy attorney general, emil bove.convened all the prosecutors in the justice department's public integrity section. like two dozen or so prosecutors convened them all together in the same place and told them they had one hour to decide which one of them was going to sign the motion, calling for the charges to be dismissed. emil bove apparently made clear that promotions were in the offing for anybody who'd be willing to sign this motion. and if you weren't willing to sign, well, they could all be fired. ultimately, one veteran career prosecutor, who is apparently nearing retirement, said he would volunteer to sign the motion basically under duress, not because he necessarily supported it, but because he was hoping to save all of his colleagues jobs. and so tonight, trump's justice department has filed this motion in federal court in new york tonight, united states of america v eric adams, defendant, quote, the united states respectfully submits this motion seeking dismissal without prejudice of the charges in this cas

emil bove, in his memo says that's the purpose of the list. people who did their job to. to figure out what happened and who's responsible for january. >> 6th. >> cases that. every single judge who has had these cases has said it's righteous. these are people who. >> are being. >> held to that kind of scrutiny. this is really the inmates running the show. >> could anyone at the fbi investigate a case that the director of the fbi didn't direct them to investigate. >> know everything, if. >> that that would be a firable. >> if you did. >> something that was not approved. now, granted, the director is not approving each and every one, but if you did something that was against the senior leadership and against policy, and that, by the way, that's true whether republican or democratic, whatever the policy is, you have to follow it. there's no question the january 6th cases were righteous. just let's remember, and i've said this in lots of people have pointed this out. these cases were ones that republican leadership in congress were supportive of on the day of and the day afte

now, in the response, this is emil bove responding to the resignation letter, he said he accepted her resignation. and he said defending their position, saying the justice department has reached this conclusion about dismissing the case without assessing the strength of the evidence or the legal theories on which the case is based. the pending prosecution has unduly restricted mayor adams ability to devote full attention and resources to the illegal immigration and violent crime that escalated under the policies of the prior administration. now, the thing here, wolf, is that whether who is going to move to dismiss this case now because in addition to sassoon, when emil bove moved this case to main justice, two top officials in the public integrity section offered their resignation, saying that they would not move forward to dismiss the charges based on these issues that have nothing to do with the merits of the case. so bovay himself could move to dismiss it, or will they get someone else to step into that place and move to dismiss it now also? it's not a foregone conclusion. a federa

, calling his refusal to comply with bove's request for the names of agents who investigated.wider request for information, quote, in light of acting leadership's refusal to comply with the narrower request, the written directive was intended to obtain a complete data set that the justice department can reliably pare down to the core team that will be the focus of the weaponization review. pursuant to the executive order referencing trump's executive order to root out what he perceives to be politicization in the intelligence community, bove's recent moves have raised alarm inside the fbi that a mass purge of thousands of employees is possible and near. and as we discussed on this show yesterday, there have already been lawsuits filed to block the use of this list that bove has demanded be created. it's where we start the hour with some of our favorite experts and friends. former assistant attorney general for national security at the department of justice, now an msnbc legal analyst, mary mccord is here and voting rights attorney and founder of the site democracy docket. marc

. >> acting deputy attorney general emil bove would dismiss. all charges. >> against mayor adams without. >> prejudice, meaning they could be refiled in the future. adams was charged with one count of conspiracy to receive campaign contributions from. foreign nationals, and to commit. wire fraud and. >> bribery. >> two counts of. soliciting campaign contributions from foreign nationals, and one count of. >> soliciting and. >> accepting a. >> bribe, nbc reports. in a memo, bove argued that the indictment of adams in september came too. >> close to. >> this year's mayoral primary in june, and that it limited. >> adams's ability to. >> aid president donald trump's crackdown on immigrants and to fight crime, both without citing specific evidence, also suggested the charges were politically motivated. it cannot be ignored that mayor. >> adams criticized. >> the prior administration's. immigration policies before the charges were filed. >> he wrote. >> bove said adams case would be reviewed by a trump appointed u.s. attorney, but not until after the

but i think the memo from deputy acting deputy attorney general emil bove is dripping with political implications in every line because it talks about the weaponization of government, that this only happened to adams after he criticized the biden administration. it talks about the migrant problem in new york and that, you know, he's needed to be focused and fighting on that. so it joins a lot of trump issues together. but taking the wider aperture here. um, eric adams, in some way, with this case being thrown out at the request of the department of justice, becomes a validator for the narrative of the weaponized government that went after critics. so in that way, it helps donald trump with his story line as well as, as jennifer pointed out, the mayor is going to be owing to the president and the administration that made this happen. and remember, it was dismissed without prejudice, subject to review by president trump's u.s. attorney appointee after the election. so what it says is, if eric adams suddenly goes south politically on the white house, they can bring the case back. >> mhm

, and bove himself worked on january 6th cases at the s.d.n.y.urse, he was a part of the new york case as well, the so-called hush money trial. as a defense attorney. are you concerned about a conflict of interest here? >> well, let's make this one really clear. he represented january 6th. defendants. he didn't withdraw as defense counsel in at least one, maybe more cases. he takes on the position as the acting u.s. attorney for the district of columbia. and he dismisses his own case. before he had left it. so that's a pretty clear conflict of interest. and in fact, there's already been pushback on that. i think at least one federal judge, if i am remembering correctly, or at least an oversight authority, has already pushed back on him, saying, look, clearly that is inappropriate to do. i mean, what can. >> they do? >> it just seems like law school ethics 101. >> it's like a first week of classes in law school, by the way, on that notion. but then the big question for americans is, are we going to do about it? >> haha. well, that's that's that's

bovÉ's memo.he is basically saying there were like quid pro quo discussions here, and the justice department was part of it. chan. >> yeah. and i think, john, the really. >> disturbing part of it is. >> really on the receiving end. >> of that offer. >> so adams attorneys. >> are, of course, going to dispute that there's some sort of corrupt motive. they're just trying to pitch things for their client, and there's a little bit of a question as to what is the thing of value that they'd be offering under this sort of bribery type notion here. but what's really disturbing is the reaction of doj, uh, for example, the idea that, as miss sassoon also notes that both borrowed any note taking, uh, during that session and then actually collected the notes like a, you know, schoolteacher collecting, you know, drawings from kids, it's quite obvious that it looks as though he wants to suppress any record of that exchange. uh, and it is very inappropriate. uh, don't know if it rises to the level of criminality.

yeah. >> you know, this is just emil bove trying to turn the fbi into the bad guys. like he looks terrible as a result of that email that he sent out last friday demanding these names, an email that i should remind everyone was the subject line of the email was termination. so for him to try to send this message out today, pretending that that was not his intent and that only those people who were seen to have like, intentionally weaponized the authority of the fbi against the president are going to be sought after. it's absolutely, patently ridiculous. i should also say that his comment in the in the message today that, you know, rank and file members of the fbi won't be won't be punished or subjected to termination unless they believe that they've engaged in some partisan activity and intentionally weaponized the fbi. the idea that there is some massive group of fbi agents out there in the field who are deeply partisan, left leaning, anti-republican people who intentionally ignored the directives of doj and went after january 6th, rioters unlawfully is absurd. that