Looking at U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara's Political Future

The Leonard Lopate Show | May 5, 2016

Jeffrey Toobin, author, staff writer at The New Yorker and senior legal analyst at CNN, talks about, “The Showman,” his recent profile of U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara. He examines Bharara’s role as Attorney for the Southern District of New York, and looks at the Democrat’s prosecutorial track record, political ambitions, his open dislike for Gov. Andrew Cuomo and his office’s recent investigation into possible unlawful campaign contributions to Mayor Bill de Blasio and to state senate candidates

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