You couldn't find a high school stock boy at Home Depot who could have handled this more ineptly than Lindsay Halligan did, you know, taking out indictment that the grand jury never saw having the foreman sign it and then presenting it to a judge.

That's the height of ineptitude and misconduct.

This is an indictment, though, that it doesn't really have to be dismissed. It doesn't really exist.

It was never properly returned. So I think this is, I think what we heard today, shocking, never

occurred before in American jurisprudence, I think it will be dispositive.

Wow. Hi again, everybody. It's now 5 o'clock in New York. What started as a hearing in court

this morning over whether the Justice Department's targeting a former director of the FBI,

Jim Comey, is indeed of vindictive prosecution, ended with the government, the Trump administration,

admitting a potentially huge error, a procedural error that could bring about the entire collapse

of this case Donald Trump has longed for for nearly a decade.

Donald Trump's hand-picked U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia,

Lindsey Halligan, who has no prosecutorial experience, at least she didn't prior to bringing charges

or trying to bring charges against the former FBI director, admitted that the grand jury

jurors, the full grand jury, never saw the indictment that was returned against Jim Comey.

The government revealed that Halligan presented the original three-count indictment,

but the grand jury rejected one of the counts.

Halligan then drafted a new two-count indictment, but did not present it to the full grand jury.

Only the four-person and one other grand juror even saw it.

And that is the indictment that the judge signed. So the charges that are currently on the court docket were never reviewed by the full

grand jury, meaning that the full grand jury didn't indict Jim Comey, didn't sign off on that.

It's a revelation so shocking and unheard of

in our justice system that according to reporters in the room, the judge himself was stunned in silence.

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