Hi there, everyone. It's 4 o'clock here in New York. I'm Alicia Menendez, in for Nicole Wallace.

Donald Trump's campaign to prosecute his political enemies, what could be a watershed moment for our democracy,

is reaching a fever pitch with an indictment against former FBI director

James Comey expected as soon as today. As for the president driving us towards that watershed moment,

here's what he had to say about his former FBI director just today. I can't tell you what's going to

happen because I don't know. You have very professional people headed up by the Attorney General

and Todd, Todd Blanche and Lindsey Allegan, who's very smart, good lawyer, very good lawyer.

They're going to make a determination. I'm not making that determination. I think I'd be allowed to get involved if I want, but I don't really choose to do so.

I can only say that Comey's a bad person.

He's a sick person.

I think he's a sick guy, actually.

He did terrible things at the FBI.

But I don't know.

I have no idea what's going to happen.

Trump's claim to not be involved in a criminal case

against one of his most prominent critics,

well, that does not square up with this reporting from the Wall Street Journal.

Quote, Trump has pushed Bondi repeatedly in private in recent days to bring charges against Comey,

even as she has expressed reservations about the case.

And she's not alone.

At all levels of the Justice Department, there is reportedly a sense that there is simply no there.

MSNBC reporting this, quote, the Justice Department's plan to indict James Comey encountered a last-minute roadblock earlier this week.

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