Ken Delaney

Shock and sadness, Jen.

Even though you could see this coming, there was some hope that maybe grand jurors in the Eastern District of Virginia would resist and no bill this case and refuse to indict.

That didn't happen, obviously.

I got one text from a longtime source saying this is a sad day for America.

People are saying the Justice Department, as we knew it, is dead, is over.

And that may be a bit of hyperbole because, look, the Justice Department is still going to operate tomorrow.

And most of its functioning as normal.

People are going to go into work.

They're going to investigate, prosecute criminals.

But this thing that has happened here, a president essentially

urging his Justice Department to bring charges against a political opponent and then replacing a U.S.

attorney who refused to do it with a more pliable U.S.

attorney and then making that happen.

That is a watershed.

That is a line that we have crossed now in this country.

And Republicans are going to say, Jen, well, wait a second.

Didn't the Biden administration do that?

Didn't didn't the FBI go after Donald Trump?

That was completely different.

That had no resemblance to what happened here with James Comey.