The ouster of former president Barack Obama’s federal prosecutors is about asserting who’s in power, these people said. In that conversation, Trump brought up Bharara, and said he was thinking of keeping him in his job, these people said. Schumer praised Bharara and Trump then arranged a meeting with Bharara at Trump Tower. During the conversation, Trump told Bharara to call Sessions, his nominee for attorney general, who also asked Bharara to stay. (Reuters)When Bharara was leaving, according to one person familiar with the meeting, he asked the president-elect what he should tell the reporters in the lobby.

Source: Washington Post March 11, 2017 18:46 UTC