Former FBI director James Comey indicted on two criminal charges
Global News Podcast
BBC
4.3 • 8.2K Ratings
🗓️ 26 September 2025
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
The former FBI boss James Comey has said he is innocent and welcomes a trial after being indicted on two criminal charges. Donald Trump has been seeking retribution after the FBI investigated his 2016 presidential campaign over possible ties to Russia. Also: TikTok avoids shut down with US operations to be handed to a group of investors, use of the party drug mephedrone soars in Russia, and new research suggests humans may have evolved half a million years earlier than previously thought.
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, podcasts. |
| 0:05.6 | This is the Global News podcast from the BBC World Service. |
| 0:11.3 | I'm Alex Ritson and at 0500 GMT on Friday the 26th of September, these are our main stories. |
| 0:19.5 | The former director of the FBI James Comey faces criminal |
| 0:23.0 | charges amid a push by Donald Trump to prosecute his political foes. An oval office executive order |
| 0:29.8 | paves the way for U.S. ownership of the American operations of TikTok. Scientists say a one |
| 0:36.2 | million-year-old skull found in China suggests our species began to |
| 0:40.6 | emerge 500,000 years earlier than previously thought. Also in this podcast, when you come down |
| 0:50.9 | from Mephedron, you can't sleep. You can go for days without eating or sleeping. |
| 0:56.3 | Everything feels terrible, and you feel like dying. |
| 1:00.0 | Use of the illegal party drug mephodrome soars among young people in Russia. |
| 1:08.8 | The former director of the FBI, James Comey, has been in President Trump's sights for some time. |
| 1:16.0 | Now, a federal grand jury has indicted Mr. Comey on charges of making a false statement and obstructing justice. |
| 1:23.9 | He could face up to five years in prison if convicted. |
| 1:27.3 | The indictment comes days after Mr. Trump |
| 1:29.7 | stepped up pressure on the Attorney General, Pam Bondi, to be more aggressive in investigating |
| 1:35.2 | the president's political opponents. Mr. Comey has responded to the indictment in a social media |
| 1:41.1 | post. I'm not afraid. and I hope you're not either. |
| 1:45.4 | I hope instead you are engaged. |
| 1:48.0 | You are paying attention, and you will vote like your beloved country depends upon it, |
| 1:54.6 | which it does. |
| 1:55.8 | My heart is broken for the Department of Justice, but I have great confidence in the federal judicial system |
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