jessie liu's office, the u.s. attorney's office in d.c., has also taken the lead on the president's longtime political adviser roger stone. jessie lui's office has also been involved in the d.c. prosecution of the president's campaign chair paul manafort. there may be others as well. those are the ones i can do just off the top of my head. and obviously all of those cases i just mentioned, they're all ongoing in one way or another. but as of tonight, that u.s. attorney in d.c., the u.s. attorney heading up that key office that's been involved in all of those cases related to the president, as of tonight that u.s. attorney, jessie liu is out. "the wall street journal" first to report tonight that u.s. attorney jessie liu is being moved out of the u.s. attorney's office in d.c. she's being moved over instead to what they call main justice. they're going to try to give her the number three job in the whole justice department. it's a job that has been vacant now under the trump administration for more than a year. if

jessie liu's office in d.c. has been involved in the criminal cases against sam patton, who is now cooperating with investigators among other things. patton has links to cambridge and prosecutors say he helped funnel foreign donations into the trump inaugural. the u.s. attorney's office in d.c. pursued the maria butina case. she's cooperating with federal prosecutors after charged as acting as a secret agent of the russian government. she was charged as working here in this country to infiltrate the american conservative movement and republican party ahead of the 2016 presidential election. she was working according to prosecutors as an unregistered undeclared secret agent of the russian federation when she was enacting that plan. jessie liu's office, the u.s. attorney's office in d.c. has taken the lead on the criminal case involving the president's long-time political advisor roger stone. jessie liu's office has been involved in the d.c. prosecutions of the president's campaign chair, paul manafort and there m

sadie got that scoop about jessie liu being moved out. credit to her and the journal for being first on the story but boy, this seems like a big deal. at least potentially a big deal since the journal first broke that news today, i should tell you it has been confirmed by nbc news and by other news outlets and now as of tonight, as of a short while ago, it has just been formally announced by the white house. so it looks like this is in fact happening. meanwhile, the president's campaign chairman paul manafort is due to be sentenced in d.c. federal court as of next week before he even gets to that sentencing in d.c. next week, though, paul manafort is going to be sentenced first in the other federal jurisdiction where he was charged with multiple felonies. manafort's sentencing in federal court in the eastern district of virginia takes place the day after tomorrow and tonight, prosecutors from mueller's office submitted this filing to the judge in manafort's case in virginia basically telling the

. >> jessie liu is currently the head of the district of columbia. she spent years in that role and then had department of justice roles. she was personally interviewed by trump in 2017 before he nominated her to that job, and we immediately laeheard from a of former justice department officials at that point who said, hey, that's not at all uncommon for a president to interview a candidate for a united states attorney position. that's normally done perhaps by the white house counsel's office and people at the justice department. so that's an interesting resume or background experience now being tapped for this number 3 slot which the administration is under some pressure, i think, to fill at this point. it's been vacant for more than a year since rachel brand left, i think, in february of last year. >> for folks watching, does the number 3 job at justice require senate confirmation? >> yes, it does require senate confirmation, but it's also going to be interesting to see how they delegate the responsibilities for that. it's not typically a job that

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