Welcome to meet the press now.

I'm Melanie Zanona in Washington, where we are following breaking news.

Sources have confirmed to NBC news that a federal grand jury has indicted former FBI director and outspoken Trump critic James Comey.

The charges summing from this photo he posted on social media last year of seashells on a beach arranged to say 86-47.

Now, we don't know exactly what charges Comey is facing, but we are expecting to hear from

Justice Department officials shortly. You'll remember that administration officials publicly

condemned Comey over the post last year, arguing that it was a call for violence against the

president. 86 is a term frequently used in restaurants to indicate when an item is sold out or has

been removed. And Trump, of course, is the 47th president. Comey later deleted the post, which he called

a political message, not a violent one. Secret Service agents did interview him about the post.

This is now the second time a federal grand jury has

indicted the former FBI director. He was first indicted last September on charges he lied to

Congress during testimony in 2020. Those charges, though, were later dismissed when a federal judge

ruled that the federal prosecutor in the case had been unlawfully appointed.

Comey is one of many Trump critics who the president has demanded face prosecution. A number of

those targets have faced DOJ probes and indictments. Of course, the news of Comey's indictment

comes amid the aftermath of a third assassination attempt against the president at Saturday night's White House Correspondence Dinner.

Joining me now is NBC News, senior justice reporter Ryan Riley.

Thank you so much for joining us to try to put this into some context here.

But I want to start with what we know,

or rather what we don't know, about these charges, because right now we actually don't know

exactly what potential charges he is facing here. That's right, Ryan? Yeah, I mean, we know it's

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