Hello, everyone. I'm Sarah Longwell, publisher of the bulwark. I'm here with Ben Wittes because we have

breaking news. It looks like James Comey is going to be indicted. I have this reporting from MSNBC,

my friend Ben Wittis from Lawfare. I need you to explain this to me because I don't understand

how it's possible that James Comey, like, what could he even be indicted for, is my opening question.

But you at law fair, you guys are deep on this. Tell me everything.

All right. So I have spent the last several days trying to figure out the answer to exactly this question. So the sequence of events

matters here. The background is that the U.S. attorney in Virginia, the acting or interim U.S.

attorney, Eric Zeebert, was assigned this case, which is figure out what you can indict Jim Comey for.

And please indict Letitia James for mortgage fraud. And he comes back sometime last week and says,

you know, there's no case against Jim Comey or Letitia James. And Trump is very angry about this and

tweets that there needs to be justice now. There needs to be action now. For context, that tweet was

also, it was unclear whether it was like supposed to be a DM to Pam Bondi.

Is that the one you're talking about?

Yeah, but there was more than one.

We Need Justice Now was a separate tweet, right?

Yeah, it may have been, one of them may have been supposed to be a DM to Pam Bondi.

By the way, query whether the president and the attorney general should be

communicating by truth social DMs, but that's another matter. And so Eric Siebert gets removed as

U.S. attorney and replaced with yet another Trump personal lawyer aide, somebody with zero

prosecuted horial experience, Lindsey Halligan. So Lindsay Halligan is in that job for exactly

one reason, which is that her predecessor refused to move ahead with cases against either

Letitia James or Jim Comey. There's also an Adam Schiff issue, but for some reason, his name is,

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