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Episode 828: Indictment Collapse

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Politics, Charles C. W. Cooke, Conservatism, Conservative, Policy, Government, News, Jim Geraghty, Rich Lowry, Michael Brendan Dougherty, Current Events, Noah Rothman, Madeleine Kearns, Society & Culture, Public Policy, National Review

4.44.6K Ratings

🗓️ 25 November 2025

⏱️ 66 minutes

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So, Jim, the White House did not like what it heard from Judge Curry who says Lindsay Halligan is not qualified to be the U.S. attorney down there lodging these indictments against James Comey and Letitia James because she's a temporary U.S. attorney on top of a temporary U.S. attorney, and that as a

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technical matter just doesn't work. What do you make of it?

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Well, I don't think anyone should be shocked by this, particularly if you read our colleague

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