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A Pimple on the Rear of an Elephant

Main Justice

MS NOW, Andrew Weissmann, Mary McCord

Versant, Indictment, Trump Indictment, Manhattan D.a., District Attorney, President, Ms Now, Politics, Trump Indicted, Legal, Trump Charged, News, Charges, Msnbc, Mary Mccord, Trump Legal, Andrew Weissmann

4.76.8K Ratings

🗓️ 14 October 2025

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

Letitia James is indicted; James Comey is arraigned. Plus: the courts weigh in on federalizing the National Guard.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hello and welcome back to Maine Justice. It is Tuesday morning, October 14. I am Andrew

0:18.4

Weissman. I am here with as everyone knows. My co-host and Mary, I feel like I just

0:23.1

saw you because we were both on the exact same time with Nicole Wallace yesterday. And then it was

0:32.1

very funny because you said something that I was like, wait a second. I have made the same point. And you know what?

0:40.4

This is like, is it environment or heredity? You know, is it that we've been working together for

0:46.3

two plus years? Or is it that we sort of have the same experiences and makeup from our time in the Department of Justice.

0:56.0

But whatever it is.

0:56.9

Or is it both?

0:57.6

Or is it both?

0:58.9

Right.

0:59.6

This is going to be a really interesting episode because when we were talking about it,

1:03.4

even though there's a flood of information and things to cover, we actually are going

1:08.3

to pull back a little to really talk, but inside baseball

1:12.5

to the department and big picture issues. So it's going to be really a mixture. And it's kind of

1:18.6

nice because there's so much drinking from the fire hose to use a hackneyed expression since

1:23.6

January 20th. So, Mary, what is on our dance card? Yeah, and that's all a lot of foreshadowing

1:30.2

of the first subjects, of course, will be the continued political prosecutions coming out of

1:34.8

the Department of Justice at the direction of the president. And this was, of course,

1:38.9

last week, the indictment of Letitia James, the New York Attorney General. We will talk about

1:44.0

that. We will talk about that. We will talk about

1:45.4

how that came to be. We'll talk also about the arraignment of James Comey and what is coming out of that

1:53.1

and sort of the impact of both of these as well as other investigations of political enemies of

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