we have jeff berman's word for that in his new book. i also need to tell you that today, in preparation for having mr. bourbon on the show tonight, we were today able to confirm the accuracy of his account of that improper pressure in the gregory craig case. we were able to confirm that with another person who is in a position to know what happened there. so we have ourselves, to our satisfaction confirmed with another source, that improper pressure about the gregory craig case was in fact brought on sdny. permit also says in his book that there is also a repeated demand, then berman sdny bring criminal charges against john kerry, of all people. obama's secretary of state, now biden's climate envoy, trump said on twitter that john kerry should be prosecuted for something, the trump justice department officials told jeffrey berman sdny did to do it. they refused -- they socked into another prosecutor to bring it. that prosecutor refused to bring the case as well. when the campaign finance housemate hush money case was, according to berma

. >> i think we have jeff berman. he is speaking out more now. let's take a listen to jeff berman. >> it was an extraordinary revelation from the department of justice that donald trump and those around donald trump are being investigated not merely for the mishandling of classified information but for obstruction of the subpoena that required the production of that classified information. that is a very, very serious charge. >> now, he's one of trump's hand-picked prosecutors, although he didn't go maybe the way trump wanted. his view is what we were just discussing -- the lawyers lie organize probably lying if you want to be as charitable as possible, could become criminal obstruction. not good for a lawyer to do. and two, he has been speaking out about a book of what were donald trump's demands to do political prosecutions out of sdny. give us your views on that. >> first of all, what he was asked to do is outrageous. asked to create a case on this fellow greg craig who was in the obama administration. investigated and concluded the guy was in

. >> jeff berman's claims about the -- corruption of the justice department make me sick, ayman. i would never claim to speak for all prosecutors, but i actually think any honest, honorable, ethical prosecutor, federal, state county, or local with hear these allegations that are being made by jeff berman and would recoil in horror. this is a gross abuse of the prosecutorial power. and reading jeff berman's book, i wrote down one sentence because i did not want to miss quote him even by one word, he said trump justice department kept demanding that i use the southern district of new york u.s. attorney's office to aid them politically. that is the opposite of how we go about prosecuting without fear, without favor, and without any concern for politics. >> the thing is, david, to glance point, we all kind of knew this, but we didn't know this. we all kind of felt that that was happening during the trump years when he was in office, that he was politicizing and weaponizing in the department of justice, certainly under bill barr to some extent. and it is almost clichÉ at this point,

that's just one allegation that jeff berman has in his books where he gets to other examples where he believes there was political interference. we never knew about this investigation into john kerry. it remained secret, never came out. he described that trump tweeted, justice reacts, they ask to investigate john kerry for potential violations of the logan act. that's something that hasn't been prosecuted in more than 200 years, all for john kerry's work on the iran nuclear deal as a private citizen, just maintaining communications. of course, former president trump ally, rudy giuliani, was doing a whole shadow activity in ukraine. in this interview he talks about the michael cohen case. for the first time we've heard jeff berman respond to why former president trump was noted in the indictment as individual number one but never prosecuted. he said he didn't have enough evidence. he said evidence against one individual doesn't evenly apply against another individual.

>> that is the fundamental truth here and the main point looks like jeff berman tough and other people talking about how this is an unwritten rule at the department of justice, because the department of justice is part of the executive branch. so the president has the power to dictate what they can and cannot do, and in times of general policy, we should prosecute drugs more or less, that is fine. but when it comes to saying we are going to prosecute democrats but not republicans, that actually is antithetical to living in a country where there is a rule of law. and that is a norm, it is not written into the constitution. as you pointed out, jeff sessions of all people who was so loyal to donald trump, he was asked precisely because he adhered to that norm when bill barr was willing to throw it to the wind. >> there is an example here which i thought was a small one but illustrative about the michael cohen charging document. it was changed to remove references to the idea that trump backed in concert and coordinate with cohen to make illegal campaign donations. there was pressure from

prosecutor on that case, jeff berman, told me that prince andrew was uncooperative to say the least. >> what we wanted was the information. he said he was willing to give it to us. he did not give it to us but he stonewalled us. as of the day i left, he was stonewalling. >> reporter: berman revealing to cnn that he got nowhere with the palace or uk government in his efforts to talk to the prince. >> his lawyers gave us the runaround. we even filed a official request to interview a foreign witness with government officials in the uk, and that got stonewalled. >> now it seems even less likely that prince andrew will ever be held to keep his promise, leaving those seeking justice to wonder what else officials could learn about jeffrey epstein, and his perverse circle of associates. >> our thanks to jake tapper for that report. >>> the washington monument was temporarily closed on tuesday, after being vandalized. the u.s. park police say a man splashed red paint and wrote a profane message on the face of the monument. he was taken into custody a short time later. >> united states park po

just because jeff berman refused to prosecute greg craig, he still gets prosecuted. a jury found him not guilty in five hours. john kerry didn't get prosecuted but he was investigated. are those the sort of things that you think a round of accountable is still called for? >> yeah. there needs to be consequences, and that would be fodder for and a predication we just in our discussion we've established predication to open at least a preliminary inquiry, if not greater. and look, in the last couple of days, on the far-right media platforms, you've seen this allegation that president biden must have ordered the fbi search warrant at mar-a-lago. he must have. well, it's not just disinformation. it's also this mindset that michael speaks of, this kind of imperial presidency mindset of, well, that's how we would have done it. we would have ordered a search warrant on someone who we don't like. so, biden must have done it. that's the operating methodology here, and it needs to be investigated. >> that's so interesting. i mean, it sort of gets back to where we started with t

for the first time we've heard jeff berman respond to why former president trump was noted in the indictment as individual number one but never prosecuted. he said he didn't have enough evidence. he said evidence against one individual doesn't evenly apply against another individual. the first time trump says why he was in the indictment and identified as individual one but not charged. >> kara scannell, a lot in here. thanks so much for being with us. >>> "new day's" special coverage continues right now. >>> good morning to our viewers in the united states and around the world. i'm don lemon live in edinburgh, scotland. a day of sad nsz and reflection in the nng as the people say farewell to their queen and begin to open their arms to the new king. the royal couple arriving in edinburgh moments ago. king charles and his queen concert camilla. they'd lead the procession behind elizabeth's coffin. this afternoon, there will be a service of reflection at st. giles' cathedral. earlier king charles iii addressed parliament for the first time as monarch acknowledging he feels the weight of histor

prosecutor on that case, jeff berman, told me prince andrew was uncooperative to say the least. >> what we wanted was the information. he said he was willing to give it to us. he didn't give it to us. he stonewalled us. as of the day i left, he was stonewalling. >> berman revealing to cnn he got nowhere with the palace or the uk government in his efforts to talk to the prince. >> his lawyers gave us the run-around. we even filed an m lab request, an official request to interview a foreign witness with the government officials in the uk, and that got stonewalled. >> now it seems less likely that prince andrew will be less likely to keep his promise. >> coming up next, why former president trump might be regretting his push for a special master to review those documents seized at his home. stay with us. of her portfolioio and daniel g. she's building a greener future and he's... running a pretetend restaurant. and phil? phil has questions, but none of them are about his portfolio. digital tools so impressive, your money never stops working for you with merrill, a bank of america company.

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. >> earlier this week, i interviewed jeff berman who said that this is a very serious case. an obstruction of justice, the attempt of the justice department to get these documents back cannot just be shunted away, as a lot of the president's defenders have attempted. we just learned a few minutes ago, "the washington post" is reporting that months before these classified documents were found at mar-a-lago, trump's lawyers were telling the national archives that the only thing trump had at mar-a-lago were 12 boxes of news clippings. not the hundreds of classified records that were eventually found down there. i guess it's not a shock that some members of the trump team were lie, but what's your rea reaction. >> that's a shocking report, the question is, did the ex-president's lawyers lie for him or were they lied to and then represent those lies as true? either way, i think they're in big trouble. once again, a lawyer that's become involved with the ex-president end up in legal trouble themselves. obviously, what they represented was not correct. the ex-president himself is n

attorney for the southern district of new york jeff berman and he told me that he thought it was basically because of the investigation into igor parnas and the investigation into steve bannon bubbling up but hasn't broken yesterday, that that's the reason he was fired. take a listen. >> bill barr no doubt believed that if he received me and replaced me with someone from the outside who he trusted, he would remove an obstacle from trump's reelection. >> do you agree? >> well, i think that's probably true. i will say this. i -- every time i was in the room with bill barr he gave sound counsel to the former president. hands down stopped him from invoking the insurrection act sooner than he wanted to. that said i very much agree with jeffrey berman's assessment. can we say steve bannon committed fraud. he defrauded republican voters that made a profit. he should have been in jail. he shouldn't have been pardoned. i agree with his assessment. >> thanks so much. appreciate it. join me for a new cnn special report american coup, the january 6th investigation that documentary begins sunday night

berman says, that he refused and then was basically forced out but hung on just long enough to make sure that his deputy, who could not be pressured, would replace him. and then, of course, he was prosecuted by a more willing u.s. attorney in the district of columbia and was then very quickly acquitted by a jury, but with great personal loss. he lost his position in his law firm and how does he get his reputation back? how unusual to have these allegations of meddling from the attorney general of the united states, both in favor of allies and against perceived opponents? >> andrea, the allegations are absolutely unprecedented. it's important to keep an open mind. it's good for the senate to embark on this investigation, because we do need to know the truth. we're only hearing one side here. so investigation is appropriate. but if berman's tales are true, they are very serious. no attorney general can afford to instruct u.s. attorneys or anyone else to even the score, to prosecute one democrat for one republican. that's not how justice works. justice works on pursuit of the facts and

it really just, you know, look, some folks, you have seen one of my successors, jeff berman, former colleague of mine, former u.s. attorney, recently with his book, and he talked about the politicization of the justice department. the last department that that's going to happen to is this one. when it's led by merrick garland, judge garland and when his boss is joe biden. i mean, it's the farthest thing that could possibly happen. so it's not going to have any impact. but it does -- it's not really a surprise, is it? because this is completely consistent with his inciting. it's back to his message to the oath keepers. you know, stand back, stand by. and he's doing really the same thing he did before january 6th, in terms of inciting it. this is almost, if he were going to be tried for the january 6th riots insurrection if you will, i would probably consider using this offering or this statement by trump as consistent with that behavior. >> have you ever heard of a former official like this trying to back channel or threaten the doj? because the times reported that as with so much nowadays, a

and i don't care for jeff berman. and his book that just came out, which i won't buy and i won't read, nevertheless, it validates my book. it is exactly what i've been saying all along that trump, bill barr -- remember, bill barr will do nothing except donald trump told him do it. he was excerpts the pressure. i didn't have the affair. and i was just directed to make the payment, do an mda. >> so you agree with what you understand berman wrote about main doj having a 40 page, i think the charging documents, they wanted to scrub any reference to individual one who was donald trump as unindicted co-conspirator. >> and yet they scrubbed 18 to 20 pages. i don't give him a pass. he sat with this for four, five years for what purpose? he had something to write a book about? destroying my life so you could profit from it is this i don't think so, pal. >> and what do you -- what do you see as still unfinished business? i mean, the criminal investigation and criminal investigators had access to all the same evidence that the a

this is jeff berman talking about what he would have done with a case like this. >> it was an extraordinary revelation by the department of justice that donald trump and those around donald trump were being criminally investigated not just for the mishandling of classified documents, but for obstruction of the subpoena requiring production of those classified documents. that is a very, very serious charge. if the southern district of new york had that charge, it would have our highest priority and we would be moving on it very quickly, and you can see in all of the department of justice's filings in that case there is an urgency to move forward, and i can see that and i believe it's entirely justified given the seriousness of the crime. >> so this is a little different than that philosophical bend that barr and yu and probably christie have go the government, the sort of strength of the executive. this is someone who stared at case and had to decide whether to move forward with them. he hones in on the obstruction of the subpoena. again it an aisle lates the trump argument this is a documen