I'm about to speak with House Democratic leader, Hakeem Jeffries.

He's going to be here with me at the table in just a minute.

And I have approximately, as I'm sure you do, too, a million questions for him about the shutdown, of course, but also about Donald Trump's post-untruth social that Israel and Hamas have agreed to the first phase of a deal.

But it was, as I was just talking about with Chris, an incredibly

spicy day on Capitol Hill today, where literal shouting matches between lawmakers

broke out in the halls of Congress while the government remains shut down. And the president and

the Speaker of the House, while that is all going on, don't appear to be any more engaged and bring it all to an end.

That's a lot of what I'm going to talk with Leader Jeffries about in just a second.

But before we get there, I just want to start with Donald Trump's increasingly frantic efforts to have his political enemies locked up because there was a lot of evidence on that today as well.

I mean, today, former FBI

director James Comey appeared in court for the first time since he was charged in a two-page

indictment that was notably scant on evidence and vague on the details. Now, of course, you may

remember that indictment came down just five days after Trump publicly demanded that Pam Bondi

bring charges against Comey and his other political targets.

Well, tonight, new reporting suggests the Post was less of a public demand and more of a, I guess you could call it, a private order.

Officials familiar with the matter tell the Wall Street Journal. This story just came out that Trump believed he had sent Bonnie the message directly and was surprised to learn it was public. Now, I don't know that this is that stunning. I mean, we kind of all knew this was meant to be a DM. But it's one, this development, this revelation is one that will almost certainly help James Comey's defense team argue that

Trump's DOJ brought a vindictive and selective prosecution against him. That's one of the things

that his defense lawyers are talking about. And I'm going to talk with Preparer about that a little

bit later in the show. But just as that hearing was getting underway this morning, Trump was

already announcing a new list of enemies he wants to throw in jail.

This morning, he posted on his social media site, Chicago mayor should be in jail for failing to protect ICE officers, Governor Pritzker, also.

Now, those threats against the mayor of Chicago and the governor of Illinois come as Trump is flooding the city of Chicago

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