Barbara McQuade

from supporters of political campaigns who wanted to share dirt on their rivals.

They just wanted us to open an investigation so that then there could be a headline.

They'd even say to us in the call, so my rival did X, Y, and Z. Are you going to open an investigation?

Because then they would be the leak in a newspaper report that their rival was under investigation because that's all they really wanted was the specter of an investigation.

And that concept is so consistent with some of the things we've seen from Donald Trump

Remember when he had the exchange with Vladimir Zelensky back in the subject of the first impeachment, where he said, all I want you to do is go on CNN and announce that the Biden family is under investigation.

And then remember when the 2020 election, he was claiming fraud and he asked his Justice Department, just say there was fraud and leave the rest to me and Republicans in Congress.

What it seems to me he really wants is let's just announce this thing because that will dirty them up.

In some ways, it feels like that's what's happening to Jim Comey right now.

Well, you know, it would be laughable if it weren't so dangerous.

But I do think that there are a number of things that are red flags.

I mean, first, the process of it all.

Right.

We've got a Trump appointed interim U.S.

attorney nominated for the permanent position, 15 year career prosecutor who, by all accounts, is a solid award winning public servant declines.

The prosecution says, no, there's just no evidence here.

He gets fired and replaced with a White House loyalist, Lindsay Halligan, an insurance lawyer, someone who's represented Donald Trump in the past, working as an aide at the White House, whose job it is at the moment to scrub the Smithsonian from woke ideology.

That's the person he installs as the new U.S.

attorney.

And within four days, despite a memo from the line prosecutors arguing that there's no probable cause in this case, she says, I'll charge that case.