Tim Kaine

who have had a high standard for integrity for many, many decades, that he doesn't pervert them and turn them into engines of political persecution.

Well, I will tell you, I think Pam Bondi did a very important psychological reveal in the statement that she put out tonight.

If she felt that there was rock solid evidence to indict Jim Comey, she wouldn't have finished her official statement with the line, we will follow the facts in this case.

You know, that's what you do if you're like an investigating officer, right?

or even a prosecutor to decide whether to indict somebody.

You don't indict somebody and then say, well, now we got to figure out what the facts tell us.

She has shown her whole card and kind of revealed that she has deep ambivalence about what Trump is ordering her to do.

She's genuflecting to the boss rather than showing the independence that Americans have come to expect from an attorney general.

That was no indication of your guilty conscience.

I'm deeply worried about it, Jen.

I have worked with this office.

I was a city councilman and mayor in Richmond in the 1990s when Richmond had a horrible homicide problem.

And we worked hand in glove with the U.S.

attorney in the Eastern District, including Jim Comey, who was in the office at the time to try to come up with strategies to bring down our homicide rate.

This district and the Western District of Virginia have stellar reputations for integrity

Donald Trump nominated people for both of these positions after interviewing them and vetting them.

And he not only nominated them, but he even appointed them to be interim U.S.

attorneys.

And he's now fired both of them.

You and I are talking about the Eastern District tonight.