Former U.S. attorney details Trump, Barr efforts to corrupt DOJ with political agenda

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🗓️ 13 September 2022

⏱️ 53 minutes

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...Plus, Ukraine makes remarkable gains in driving back Russian invasion

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0:00.0	Very happy to have you here.
0:02.0	We've got it.
0:03.4	We've got it.
0:05.3	It comes out tomorrow, but we've got it.
0:07.6	Here's how it starts.
0:09.3	My lead deputy, Robert Kuzami, received an urgent phone call
0:13.0	from a top official at the US Justice Department.
0:15.3	The midterm elections were less than two months away.
0:18.2	The results would determine not just which party
0:20.5	controlled the House and Senate, but also
0:22.3	if the next two years of the Trump presidency
0:24.2	would be dogged by congressional investigations.
0:27.0	Kuzami spoke with Edward O'Callahan,
0:29.5	a high-level Trump political appointee
0:31.2	at the Justice Department.
0:32.6	O'Callahan's message to Kuzami was an ambiguous.
0:35.9	It was time for me, Jeffrey Burman, the US attorney
0:38.7	for the Southern District of New York,
0:40.4	and lifelong Republican.
0:42.0	It was time for me to take one for the home team.
0:46.3	Kuzami came into my office and closed the door.
0:48.8	Quote, you're not going to believe the conversation I just
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