I'm about to speak with House Democratic leader, Hakeem Jeffries.

He's going to be here with me at the table in just a minute.

And I have approximately, as I'm sure you do, too, a million questions for him about the shutdown, of course, but also about Donald Trump's post-untruth social that Israel and Hamas have agreed to the first phase of a deal.

But it was, as I was just talking about with Chris,

an incredibly spicy day on Capitol Hill today,

where literal shouting matches between lawmakers

broke out in the halls of Congress

while the government remained shut down.

And the president and the Speaker of the House,

while that is all going on,

don't appear to be any more engaged and

bring it all to an end.

That's a lot of what I'm going to talk with Leader Jeffries about in just a second.

But before we get there, I just want to start with Donald Trump's increasingly frantic

efforts to have his political enemies locked up, because there was a lot of evidence on that

today as well.

I mean, today, former FBI director James Comey appeared in court for the first time since he was

charged in a two-page indictment that was notably scant on evidence and vague on the details.

Now, of course, you may remember that indictment came down just five days after Trump publicly

demanded that Pam Bondi bring charges against Comey and his other political targets.

Well, tonight, new reporting suggests the Post was less of a public demand and more of a, I guess you could call it, a private order.

Officials familiar with the matter tell the Wall Street Journal.

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