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It is Wednesday, the 19th of November 2025.

It is 4 o'clock p.m. in Washington.

And you are watching Lawfare Live the now.

I'm Benjamin Wittes, editor-in-chief of Lawfare, and I am here with not one, not two,

but three Lawfare senior editors who attended the hearing in the Jim Comey case,

and one Lawfare senior editor who attended a subsequent oral argument in the JGG case before Judge Bozberg.

And folks, we're going to talk about it all. There was a lot of fireworks today. With me are Anna Bauer, Molly Roberts, and Roger Parloff. Welcome all.

Thank you. Roger, get us started. I thought we were going to have a hearing today on Jim Comey's

motion for selective and dismissal for selective and vindictive prosecution.

But once again, this is now the second time this week where things have got a little bit, got ahead of us a little bit.

What happened at today's hearing in the Eastern District of

Virginia? Yeah, in Alexandria. It began with, it's a motion for, to dismiss based on vindictive

and selective prosecution. we spoke almost only about

vindictive today. I think it was only about vindictive. Um, and, uh, Michael Drebin, the former,

the former deputy solicitor general was presenting for Comey, quite, uh, quite a powerful presentation.

And it was obvious that the judge was, you know, there was a lot of discussion of direct,

actual vindictive prosecution.

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