Hi, everyone.

It's four o'clock in New York.

News of a decision appears to be imminent at any moment.

We are expecting word on the fate of John Bolton.

John Bolton is a former national security visor to Donald Trump from his first term as

president. Now, evidently, he is one of his targets for retribution here in the second. A grand jury

in Greenbelt, Maryland, has spent the last few hours listening to presentations from federal

prosecutors. It follows an investigation into John Bolton's handling

of classified information after he left the White House. That decision, again, is expected at any

moment if this morning's reported schedule for the grand jury's deliberations and activities holds.

It will undoubtedly draw on, at least in part, the results of a search that was conducted

in August of John Bolton's home, less than a half hours' drive from where the grand jury

convened today. If Bolton is indicted in the next few minutes or hours, it will represent the latest

in what now appears to be a pattern, a series of politically

motivated or inspired investigations and prosecutions. To date, Donald Trump's Justice Department

in a rather disjointed and perhaps amateurish fashion has succeeded in bringing formal charges

against two of Donald Trump's much talked

about political adversaries, former director of the FBI Jim Comey and New York's Attorney

General Letitia James. But a Bolton indictment this afternoon would not mark an end to that list and this pattern now of

targeting perceived political enemies, but a continuation. Because yesterday, from the Oval

Office on live television flanked by America's law enforcement officials, America's director

of the FBI, the country's attorney general, and her

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