DOJ Nears Comey Decision
The Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer and Pamela Brown
CNN
3.2 • 865 Ratings
🗓️ 25 September 2025
⏱️ 85 minutes
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| 0:27.1 | River. Welcome to our viewers here in the United States and around the world. I'm |
| 0:32.5 | Wolf Blitzer. Pamela Brown is off today and you're in the situation room. |
| 0:55.0 | Happening now, the U.S. Justice Department is nearing a decision on whether to charge the former FBI director James Comey with perjury and has just days to do that. Sources familiar with the matter tell CNN that prosecutors are examining |
| 0:59.0 | whether Comey made false statements to Congress during his 2020 testimony about his |
| 1:05.0 | handling of the probe into the Russian meddling in the 2016 presidential election. |
| 1:11.0 | The five-year statute of limitations on bringing perjury charges is set to expire on Tuesday. |
| 1:17.4 | This coming Tuesday, Comey, for his part, has maintained he's been truthful under oath. |
| 1:23.1 | Comey is a longtime political opponent of President Trump's. |
| 1:27.0 | Let's go live right now to see in the crime and justice correspondent, Caitlin Polance, |
| 1:31.3 | who's working the story for us. |
| 1:32.3 | Caitlin, we're learning that Comey would be charged in the Eastern District of Virginia, where the top |
| 1:38.3 | prosecutor was recently ousted and replaced with a White House advisor and former Trump defense attorney with no |
| 1:46.7 | prosecutor court prosecutorial experience at all. What can you tell us about the timing |
| 1:54.2 | of this potential move? Well, Wolf, there isn't much time if indeed the Justice |
| 1:59.6 | Department wants to bring a perjury case against Jim |
| 2:02.3 | Comey. That's because the testimony that prosecutors we understand we're looking quite closely at |
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