James Comey wants 'vindictive' case dropped and Trump's prosecutor disqualified

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Joe Scarborough, Mika Brzezinski, MS NOW, Willie Geist

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🗓️ 21 October 2025

⏱️ 59 minutes

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James Comey wants 'vindictive' case dropped and Trump's prosecutor disqualified

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0:00.0	A group of thieves broke into the Louvre and stole priceless Napoleon-era jewels in a seven-minute daytime heist.
0:09.8	It's not good when the deodorant at CBS has better security than the Louvre.
0:14.9	Can I just get the deodorant? I'm going to get a key for my manager.
0:20.3	Jimmy Fallon on The Manhunt, still underway for the robbers in France.
0:24.9	That's just one of the stories we're tracking this morning.
0:27.5	Another big story is the major trouble facing the nation's airports,
0:31.7	as staffing shortages force widespread delays.
0:35.8	The government shutdown is not helping that at all.
0:40.1	As both parties dig in for the fight.
0:43.4	We'll have the latest.
0:44.6	This comes as President Trump takes a wrecking ball to part of the White House,
0:51.8	while his hand-picked prosecutor faces a new challenge in her criminal
0:57.1	case against James Comey. We'll have the latest on that. Good morning. And welcome to morning,
1:03.3	Joe. It is Tuesday, October 21st. With us, we have the co-host of our fourth hour, staff
1:08.5	writer at the Atlantic, Jonathan Lemire, co-founder and CEO of Axis, Jim Van de High, staff writer at the Atlantic, Frank
1:16.3	4 and opinion writer at the New York Times. Mara Gaye is with us this morning. Joe, a lot to get to
1:22.8	this morning and some sports. A little bit of sports, a lot of sports.
1:28.8	I mean, Jonathan Lemire, we were talking about yesterday,
1:33.7	possibly the greatest single performance
1:36.7	by any player in history with Otani.
1:41.3	But last night, man, one for the ages.
1:44.5	That was an incredible, incredible ALCS.
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