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For more on the indictment and its implications, we're joined now by Ty Cobb.

He was a White House attorney in the first Trump administration,

managing the response to the special counsel Robert Mueller's probe

into alleged Russian election interference.

Thanks for being with us.

My pleasure. Thank you for having me.

And I want to start with your reaction to the indictment of former FBI director James Comey

and to the way these charges were brought, both the substance and the process.

So I think the process is more important than this, than the substance.

You know, this, this process was worse than unusual. It was wholly un-American and really

despicable in the way it was done.

America's long been a country where even handed justice has been the standard and the

goal, and that's all been abandoned under this president and his willing assistant attorney general.

Keep in mind that career prosecutors, including a seasoned prosecutor of Trump's own appointment,

as the U.S. attorney in the Eastern District, Virginia, had concluded at the

end of a long process, along with the FBI, that there was just insufficient evidence with

which to proceed against the former FBI director, Mr. Comey. In response, in response, Trump fired that prosecutor.

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