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🗓️ 9 October 2025
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| 0:00.0 | So if you were feeling whiplash, if you have some form of deja vu, is definitely not you. |
| 0:05.7 | It's the news. And it's this president. Today, Donald Trump's Justice Department indicted yet |
| 0:10.6 | another of Trump's perceived enemies. This time, New York Attorney General Lettisha James, |
| 0:15.7 | who just last year became one of Trump's favorite targets after she successfully sued Trump for civil fraud. |
| 0:22.8 | And this new indictment comes just a day after Trump's other perceived enemy, former FBI director |
| 0:28.2 | James Comey, was arraigned on charges of his own. It's all pretty chilling in such a small |
| 0:34.1 | period of time. I mean, both James and Comey deny the charges, of course, against them, |
| 0:38.6 | and in both cases, the charges appear to be weak and baseless. But in both cases, the charges |
| 0:43.7 | were brought anyway. And to be absolutely clear, the charges were brought because the president |
| 0:49.6 | wanted them to be brought. And he wanted them to be brought because he is thin-skinned and petty and weak. |
| 0:56.8 | So yes, he is weaponizing the Justice Department. That's what he is doing. But that is why he is weaponizing the Justice Department. |
| 1:04.5 | Now, if I could pick the smartest and most informed guests who have actually prosecuted cases, these three would absolutely be at the top of my list. |
| 1:12.3 | And I'm so grateful I'm in New York to talk to them in person tonight. We have Congressman Dan Goldman, who used to be an assistant U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York. We have his old boss, the former U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York, pre-Berrara. And we have former Secretary of Homeland Security, Jay Johnson, |
| 1:33.3 | who among many other things in his career was also a former federal prosecutor specializing in public corruption cases. All of them are standing by to discuss the story that is evolving |
| 1:38.3 | very quickly and also breaking our Justice Department in the process. |
| 1:48.5 | Now, an important part of the context of all of this is how we arrived at this moment. |
| 1:54.6 | I talked about these two, the Comey case and also the James indictment within about 36 hours. |
| 1:56.2 | But it's more than that. |
| 1:58.6 | Over the past couple of weeks, even months, it goes back. I mean, less than a month ago, ABC News was first |
| 2:02.0 | to report that Trump officials had been pressuring the U.S. attorney, then U.S. attorney, I should say, |
| 2:06.7 | for the Eastern District of Virginia, Eric Siebert to bring criminal charges against Letitia James. |
| 2:11.8 | But he refused. He wouldn't do it. Now, after five months of investigation in interviews |
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