Andrew Weissmann

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.

And there's no evidence that that entire process happened in the New York minute that Ms.

Halligan has been in her position.

So that's just one more possibility.

I would say significant sort of due process foul that's going on here.

And I think the proof in the pudding here is going to be in sort of looking forward is I think there's a really good chance that James Comey and his legal team will ask for a speedy trial.

They have a right to a trial within 30 days of today.

And they could ask for a speedy trial.

I did note that Jim Comey has already been on Instagram and said, let's have a trial.

And to me, that suggests that if they really think that there is no there there, we don't know the answer to that.

But if that's they presumably do, we could see in 30 days all of this blowing up in Donald Trump's face and everything that he thinks is a victory now is going to

really show that this is the emperor has no clothes, that this is the abuse that it appears to be.

So those are very hard arguments to make.

But what I would say is if it's ever going to work for vindictive prosecution, this looks like it.