jeff berman had not resigned, and he said so. he refused to go. and he did that in part because he had just seen what had happened in another important u.s. attorney's office after a total takeover there by trump's justice department. it was b in the d.c. u.s. attorney's office that these schemes went even further. barr in the d.c. u.s. attorney's office had succeeded in ousting the u.s. attorney there and instead installing his own people. that u.s. hattorney's office i d.c. then immediately moved today drop the charges and undue the guilty plea from trump national security advisor mike flynn. they moved to undue the recommended since for roger stone, who had been convict on multiple felonies. this was the same u.s. attorney's office that also folded to the pressure to bring charges against obama's white house council after berman refused to do it because there was no case there. that case was so palpably weak, the jury voted to acquit in less than five hours. that very rarely happens to federal prosecutors, but it happened there because there wa

jeff berman also says he was ordered by trumps justice department to investigate prominent democrats at trump's behest, including john kerry. berman says he was told right before the 2018 midterm elections, that his office should bring charges against a democratic lawyer who had been president obama's white house counsel. berman's office looked into it, decided, not only had obama's white house counsel not done anything to warrant being prosecuted, he actually hadn't done anything at all. he was innocent of what he was being accused of, here. after berman refused to bring those charges, trumps attorney general, bill barr, tried to push berman into resigning. he even put out a late-night press release, in june of 2020, claiming that jeff berman had resigned. jeff berman had not resigned. and he said so. he refused to go. he did that, in part, because he had just seen what had happened and another important u.s. attorney's office, after a total takeover, there, by trumps justice department. it was in the dc u.s. attorney's office, that the schemes went even further. bar, in the dc u.s.

jeff berman had not resigned and he said so. he refused to go. and he did that in part because he had seen what he had done in another u.s. attorney's office. it was in the dc u.s. attorney's office that the schemes went even further. bar and the dc u.s. attorney's office had succeeded in ousting the u.s. attorney there. and instead, installing his own people. that u.s. attorney's office in dc then immediately moved to drop the charges and undue the guilty plea from trump national security adviser mike flynn. they moved the recommended sentence from roger stone who had been convicted of multiple felonies. they also folded to the pressure to bring charges against obama's white house counsel. that case was so palpablely weak, the jury voted to acquit in less than five hours. that very rarely happens to federal prosecutors but it happened there because there was no case. because trump insisted that the prosecution be brought forward. one u.s. attorney's office looked into it and said are you kidding? there's nothing here. the other one went ahead an

not knowing that jeff berman was fighting to the last moment with folks very senior in trump's justiceto try to get the story to be told in as truthful a way as prosecutors wanted it to be. >> blinking in morse code. it didn't do much at the time. let the history books write it however they want. a lot of this, if there was not a criminal trial, it might never have been known to the public and the voters. >> another interesting thing if it come out, michael cohen for all of this period was a salaried employee of the trump organization. we learned that today it was mentioned in the openings, "the new york times" in 2020, a lot of tax information and employment records. and we could see he was a salaried employee. he was being paid a w-2. why did they need to pay him this extra money if he's already on staff? it's not unheard of. you can get a bonus. then you're issued a 1099 form. none of that appears in the tax records. it was brought up today that he was actually a salaried employee during all of this. seemingly there is no reason to pay him all this extra money and it there will be s

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