Andrew Weissmann

There's so much here, but let's start with we do not know, and the indictment doesn't tell us exactly what the specifics are as to why the government and now the grand jury believes that there's probable cause for these two charges.

And so...

We really have to await that.

In other words, let's see whether there are any facts to support what has happened here.

And by the way, if there were, the crime of making false statements to Congress or obstructing Congress, those are serious.

And it doesn't matter that it's the former head of the FBI any more than it mattered

when it was Donald Trump as the former president who was indicted himself for obstructing justice not once but twice in the Florida case.

So that's sort of to one side.

But the real story, I agree with you, Jen, is about the process here.

Let me just take you inside what would normally happen.

Leave aside the whole part about that you now have a new U.S.

attorney.

You've covered that.

But let me just tell you what a new U.S.

attorney would want to do and would happen in any major case, which is you would sit down and look at the evidence.

You would meet with your prosecutors and understand their reservations.

The reporting is that the career people did not think that there was enough to go forward here, right?

Remember, they have to be able to prove their case beyond a reasonable doubt.

You'd also want to afford the opportunity to Jim Comey and his legal team to hear their position.

And only after that would you make a decision.