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>>> QUIETLY ON FRIDAY NIGHT WHEN

>>> QUIETLY ON FRIDAY NIGHT WHEN

THIS SHOW WAS OVER AND PEOPLE

WERE SLIDING INTO THE WEEKEND,

ATTORNEY GENERAL WILLIAM BARR

JUST ISSUED A SURPRISING

STATEMENT OUT OF NOWHERE

ANNOUNCING THAT THE U.S.

ATTORNEY FOR THE SOUTHERN

DISTRICT OF NEW YORK, A GUY

NAMED JEFFREY BERMAN WAS

RESIGNING.

THAT’S A WEIRD THING TO ANNOUNCE

ON FRIDAY AT LIKE 10:00.

THE SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF NEW

YORK IS ARGUABLY ONE OF THE MOST

POWERFUL DISTRICTS IN THE

COUNTRY.

AS YOU MIGHT REMEMBER, IT IS

THAT DISTRICT THAT PUT THE

PRESIDENT’S FORMER LAWYER,

MICHAEL COHEN IN PRISON.

IT IS ALSO THAT DISTRICT THAT IS

REPORTEDLY CURRENTLY

INVESTIGATING THE PRESIDENT’S

PERSONAL LAWYER AND BAGMAN, RUDY

GIULIANI.

IT’S ALSO INVESTIGATING THE

PRESIDENT’S INAUGURAL COMMITTEE,

THE PRESIDENT’S PERSONAL BANK,

DEUTSCHE BANK.

ONE OF THE MOST SURPRISING

THINGS ABOUT THE ATTORNEY

GENERAL’S SUDDEN FRIDAY NIGHT

SUMMER ANNOUNCEMENT IS THAT IT

WAS ALSO APPARENTLY A SURPRISE

TO THE MAN AT ISSUE, THE TOP

PROSECUTOR THAT WILLIAM BARR

CLAIMED HAD RESIGNED BECAUSE

THAT GUY, JEFFREY BERMAN QUICKLY

ISSUED A STATEMENT SAYING, IN

EFFECT, HELL NO.

I LEARNED IN A PRESS RELEASE

THAT I WAS STEPPING DOWN AS

UNITED STATES ATTORNEY.

I HAVE NOT RESIGNED, HAVE NO

INTENTION OF RESIGNING MY

POSITION.

OUR INVESTIGATIONS WILL MOVE

FORWARD WITHOUT DELAY OR

INTERRUPTION.

THAT LAST STATEMENT IMPLIES HIS

REMOVAL OR ATTEMPTED REMOVAL WAS

WILLIAM BARR WANTING HIM TO STOP

DOING SOME OF THOSE

INVESTIGATIONS.

THEN ON SATURDAY AFTERNOON, BARR

THEN UPPED THE ANTE, RELEASING A

PUBLIC LETTER TO BERMAN SAYING,

QUOTE, BECAUSE YOU HAVE DECLARED

YOU HAVE NO INTENTION OF

RESIGNING, I HAVE ASKED THE

PRESIDENT TO REMOVE YOU AS OF

TODAY, AND HE HAS DONE SO.

THE TOP PROSECUTOR FOR THE

SOUTHERN DISTRICT AGREED TO STEP

DOWN AFTER THAT.

BERMAN SAYS UNCLE BUT ONLY AFTER

BARR AGREED TO LET HIS DEPUTY, A

RESPECTED CAREER PROSECUTOR,

TAKE OVER THAT OFFICE AS OPPOSED

TO HAVE IT TAKEN OVER BY THE NEW

JERSEY ATTORNEY GENERAL, WHICH

IS WEIRD.

THE ATTORNEY GENERAL OF THE

UNITED STATES JUST FLAT-OUT LIED

TO THE AMERICAN PEOPLE ON

FRIDAY.

THAT’S WHAT HAPPENED.

HE LIED WHEN HE SAID THAT

FEDERAL PROSECUTOR AGREED TO

RESIGN.

THAT WAS A LIE.

HE LIED TO ALL OF US WITH A

BLACK AND WHITE LIE, AND HE HAS

LIED BEFORE.

NOW, THAT U.S. ATTORNEY -- THAT

DEPARTMENT -- THAT ATTORNEY

GENERAL WHO WAS FIRED, JEFFREY

BERMAN, JEFFREY BERMAN IS NOW

AVAILABLE TO TESTIFY BEFORE

CONGRESS IF ANYBODY WANTS TO

HEAR FROM HIM BECAUSE WE STILL

DON’T REALLY KNOW WHAT THE HECK

HAPPENED HERE.

JOINING ME NOW FOR MORE ON THE

REMOVAL OF JEFFREY BERMAN IS A

MEMBER OF THE SENATE JUDICIARY

COMMITTEE.

HE PREVIOUSLY SERVED AS A U.S.

ATTORNEY HIMSELF, THE U.S.

ATTORNEY FOR RODEHODE ISLAND.

AS A MAN WHO HELD A JOB SIMILAR

TO JEFFREY BERMAN’S, WHAT DID

YOU MAKE OF THIS WHEN YOU HEARD

THIS FRIDAY NIGHT?

WHAT IS THIS?

>> I DON’T KNOW.

IT’S SOMEWHERE BETWEEN THE GONG

SHOW AND THAT BLACK COMEDY "THE

DEATH OF STALIN."

IT IS JUST AN ARRAY OF MISFIRES.

FIRST OF ALL, THERE IS THE LIE

ABOUT THE U.S. ATTORNEY

RESIGNING.

THEN IT TURNS OUT THAT NOBODY

BOTHERED TO TELL BARR OR THEY

HAD FORGOTTEN THAT THIS WAS A

JUDICIALLY APPOINTED U.S.

ATTORNEY, A RARE THING.

SO IT IS ACTUALLY NOT CLEAR THAT

BARR CAN FIRE HIM.

>> RIGHT.

>> WHICH GAVE HIM THE LEVERAGE

TO HOLD OUT AND DEMAND THAT

INSTEAD OF THE NEW JERSEY U.S.

ATTORNEY COMING IN THAT HIS OWN

SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF NEW YORK

DEPUTY TAKE OVER, AGAIN, IN THE

ORDINARY COURSE.

AND THEN THEY ALSO FORGOT THAT

THERE IS A BLUE SLIP IN THE

SENATE JUDICIARY COMMITTEE, SO

ACTUALLY THE NEW APPOINTEE WHO

THEY SUPPOSEDLY WANTED TO BE JAY

CLAYTON WOULD HAVE TO GO THROUGH

CHUCK SCHUMER AND CHRISTIAN

GILLIBRAND BEFORE THEY COULD GET

THERE.

SO THE AMATEURNESS AND THE

OBVIOUS OVERSIGHT, IT IS LIKE A

FIRE THE ASSOCIATE QUALITY WORK

HERE.

ALL OF THAT SUGGESTS THAT

BECAUSE BARR IS NOT AN IDIOT

THAT THERE IS SOME VERY POWERFUL

FORCES WORKING JUST BENEATH THE

SURFACE TO EXPLAIN ALL THIS

PECULIARITY.

>> WELL, I MEAN, THAT’S -- THERE

IS A MYSTERY HERE THAT IS TO ME

UNSOLVED.

CLEARLY SOMETHING HAPPENED.

THERE WAS SOME PREDICATE FOR

THIS.

THERE WAS A PRECIPITATING

INCIDENT.

THERE WAS REPORTING TODAY ABOUT

IT BEING AN OPEN LETTER ON BILL

de BLASIO’S OPENING.

I DON’T QUITE BUY THAT.

BUT IT SEEMS TO ME THAT IT’S

SOMEONE’S JOB, I DON’T KNOW THE

HOUSE JUDICIARY COMMITTEE, TO

ACTUALLY GET TO THE BOTTOM.

LIKE WE SHOULD KNOW WHAT

HAPPENED HERE, RIGHT?

>> YES, WE SHOULD KNOW WHAT

HAPPENED HERE.

AND IF WE HAD GAVELS IN THE

SENATE, WE WOULD FIND OUT.

CHAIRMAN NADLER DOES HAVE THE

GAVEL IN THE HOUSE, AND I HOPE

AND EXPECT HE WILL CONTINUE TO

LOOK INTO THIS BECAUSE IT ALL

JUST SMELLS REALLY RANCID.

I THINK PART OF IT MIGHT BE THAT

THEY WANT TO HUMBLE THE FAMOUS

SOVEREIGN DISTRICT OF NEW YORK,

WHICH IS WHY YOU BRING A NEW

JERSEY U.S. ATTORNEY TO OVERSEE

IT.

>> RIGHT.

>> AS A PART-TIME JOB.

THERE HAS ALWAYS BEEN A RIVALRY

BETWEEN MAIN JUSTICE AND THE

SO-CALLED SOVEREIGN DISTRICT.

BUT JUST THE BAD LAWYERING HERE

AND THE SLIP SHOT FACTS AND

BEING CAUGHT LYING TWICE FIRST

BY BERMAN AND SECOND BY THE

PRESIDENT SAYING, HEY, I HAVE

NOTHING TO DO WITH THIS WHEN