I'm Ari Melburgh, and we are tracking the DOJ upheaval, a slew of prosecutors resigning.

One federal prosecutor has also signed now a motion to go ahead and request the dismissal of those

corruption charges against the New York mayor. That has been the focal point of this. It took longer

because of the Trump DOJ's inability to get things done. In this case, things that their own recently departed

aid say are wrong, improper, potentially even unconstitutional. Ed Sullivan is the trial lawyer

with the DOJ public integrity unit who is close to retirement and help this go forward under

serious pressure from Trump officials. And so this is a story that matters, as I've

said this week. It's one of the stories that the Trump White House is not promoting. And it's gotten

far more difficult, messier, take took a much longer time as I mentioned than they intended.

Now, the Trump DOJ official here, Emil Bouvet, reportedly gathered the lawyers in a unusual morning meeting with a lot of pressure.

Now, again, remember, this is not how the DOJ normally works.

It's not even how most of the federal government works, although surely sometimes there are big, tough conversations.

But we're talking about something far more unusual with regard to carrot and stick pressure,

according to this reporting, which also matches the very whistleblowing we got from these recently

departed officials, including the promise of some sort of reward for those who would sign and file

this controversial motion.

He gave them an hour deadline to decide who was going to be the person to put themselves

on the chopping block.

We'll all get fired, but who's going to replace us?

They're going to hire us with loyalists to make sure this never happens again.

The judge, though, has to agree to drop this case

officially. It's very inappropriate for the department to engage that kind of overt political bargaining.

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