Former federal prosecutor Andrew Weissmann talks with Jen Psaki about the legal issues inherent in the indictment of former FBI Director James Comey, and the procedural steps that have been skipped in Donald Trump's rush to have his political enemies prosecuted. Weissmann points out that having a trial that gives Comey a platform to mount a defense may be a move Donald Trump comes to regret.Senator Tim Kaine talks with Jen Psaki about the indictment of former FBI Director James Comey, and what seems like glaring weaknesses in the apparently politically motivated case. Senator Kaine notes that Attorney General Pam Bondi says they are still following the facts, suggesting that means they don't already have the facts for a conviction. Who's next in Donald Trump's revenge tour? Jen talks with White House correspondent Vaughn Hillyard. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.
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As I think you are all following, we are continuing to follow very closely and we're continuing to learn more about the breaking news that former FBI Director James Comey has been indicted on two criminal counts by a grand jury in the Eastern District of Virginia. That, of course, just happened in the last couple of hours.
And we have a lot of people standing by who are going to help us break down the story and every detail of it and what it means and where we go from here. We have Congressman Jamie Raskin standing by. Andrew Weissman is going to join us. Virginia Senator Tim Kaine is going to join me as well.
And I know all of them are going to have a lot to say because the news of Comey's indictment comes just days after President Trump said that the attorney general should prosecute his political enemies.
Now, as for the details of the charges, and some of you may have read this already, they are linked to testimony Comey gave virtually at a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on September 30th, 2020, which is, of course, five years ago next Tuesday. That's an important detail. Now, today, Comey was charged with one count of making false statements and another count of obstruction.
Both counts are related to allegations that Comey lied to Congress, and those charges have a five-year statute of limitations, hence the rush by Trump and his lackeys to get this done before the five-year mark next Tuesday. So today's indictment appears to have come really just in under the wire. And that's kind of the point. That's all the rush here.
That's all the craziness of the last week, and we're going to dig into all of that. And Donald Trump is super happy about that. Justice in America. One of the worst human beings this country has ever been exposed to is James Comey, the former corrupt head of the FBI. Today, he was indicted by a grand jury on two felony counts for various illegal and unlawful acts.
He has been so bad for a country for so long and is now at the beginning of being held responsible for his crimes against Americans. Our nation make America great again.
And I only read that because it's important to understand the absurdity of how he's approaching this and how much he has been saying the quiet part out loud about what he wants to happen here for not just the last week, but long before that. Let me just back up for just a second, because we have no reason to believe Comey actually broke any laws here.
And we have no reason to believe that prosecutors in the Eastern District of Virginia have any evidence that suggests he did. In fact, we have reason to believe the exact opposite. I mean, today's charges were brought by the brand new U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia, Lindsay Halligan. Brand new as in a couple days brand new. She was just sworn into the position on Monday.
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