Tim Kaine

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.

He also fired the U.S.

attorney in the Western District.

Virginia, get this, a former Republican state legislator and prosecutor who became the Republican speaker of the Virginia House of Delegates, a pro-Trump Republican.

But Donald Trump and the DOJ tried to push him around to demote people in the office who had served under multiple presidents.

And he said, I'm not doing it.

So he's out the door, even though Trump nominated him and appointed him to be the interim.

Eric Siebert is out the door.

Listen, in Virginia, we say Virginia is for lovers.

I also say Virginia is for people who have backbone.

We're not going to get pushed around.

We're not letting Donald Trump push the federal prosecutors around.