MSNBC was the first to break the news today that the Trump administration is officially preparing to indict former FBI director James Comey.

Now, in just a second, as I just mentioned with Chris, I'm going to talk to Pete Barrar. He's standing by.

He's a longtime friend of Comey's, and he also, of course, succeeded him as the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York.

Now, to state the complete obvious, what we're all thinking, indicting the former director

of the FBI in a transparent attempt to settle a political score is an absolutely brazen

abuse of political power.

It's also one that we kind of knew was coming.

It doesn't make it any better, but we kind of knew it was coming.

Because Trump has few political enemies he loosed more than James Comey.

I mean, in some ways his hatred of Comey, and I was thinking about this earlier, has always been a little ironic.

I mean, given Comey's decision to reopen the investigation into Hillary Clinton's emails just weeks before

for the 2016 election. Remember that?

A development that pretty clearly had an impact on the outcome of that election.

But that couldn't make up for the fact that just days into Trump's first term, Comey made

it clear that he would not bow to Trump's demands for absolute loyalty.

I mean, Comey repeatedly refused Trump's demand that he absolved Trump of any

blame during the earliest days of the Russia investigation. And within months, Trump fired

Comey specifically because of that investigation.

Regardless of recommendation, I was going to fire Comey, knowing there was no good time to do it.

And in fact, when I decided to just do it, I said to myself, I said, you know, this Russia thing

with Trump and Russia is a made up story.

The man always says the quiet part out loud, which is sort of a theme of part of what we're

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