Tim Kaine

The shutdown started on January 20.

I need a moratorium on the punishing of the federal workforce.

That's what I need.

And so I joined this group to make sure that we could get important protections for federal employees.

Well, Donald Trump has just installed a political hack to do his bidding.

Since we talked, Jen, last week, Trump tweeted out essentially a challenge slash threat to Pam Bondi saying, you're not going after my political enemies enough.

I think that was supposed to be a private message and it went out to tens of millions of people and he deleted it because it's the kind of thing that gets cases thrown out of court for malicious prosecution.

So he put in a loyalist as interim Eastern District of Virginia U.S.

attorney who has no Virginia experience, who has no prosecutorial experience, and clearly

He's told her, you've got to go after my enemies, but I'll raise it up one level.

If you've looked at our Attorney General Pam Bondi's statement tonight, her statement on the indictment says, you know, we've indicted for the following reasons.

And then the last line is, we will follow the facts in this case.

Did Pam Bondi go to law school?

You follow the facts before you indict someone for a crime.

You do not indict them and say, well, now we got to go look for some facts.

Her statement shows this thing is a complete political hatchet job.

And I think it's going to blow up in the Trump administration's face because having practiced law in the Eastern District of Virginia for 17 years, I don't see any of the judges

in this district dignifying this political persecution in any way.

Well, it looks like there's motions to dismiss the case for malicious prosecution.

There may be some motion to dismiss it on the grounds that the U.S.