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On Monday afternoon, a federal judge threw out the criminal charges that the Trump administration brought against two of the president's biggest enemies —

today, the unexpected technicality that doomed the cases, and what the ruling will mean for Trump's ambitious second-term campaign of retribution.

It's Tuesday, November 25th.

Devlin, thank you for, as you always do, dropping everything and coming into the studio on a breaking news night.

Thanks for having me.

It's old hat for you at this point.

Always tired, never bored.

Amen.

So I think it's fair to say that nothing embodied the progress that President Trump made.

has been making in his campaign of retribution against his enemies so much as the indictments of James Comey, the former FBI director, and Letitia James, the current attorney general of New York.

And just a couple hours ago, a judge tossed out both of them in one fell swoop.

And this may be the first cut, but it's a deep cut to the president when it comes to this idea of retribution.

Right.

The court's reality here is that these cases were deeply flawed.

So to that point, let's talk about how