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The Beat with Ari Melber

Nicolle Wallace Discusses Interview with James Comey

The Beat with Ari Melber

Ari Melber, MS NOW

Politics, Government, News, Versant, Ms Now, Daily News, Versant Media

4.64.2K Ratings

🗓️ 12 May 2026

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

MS NOW’s Ari Melber reports on the clash over President Donald Trump’s DOJ making a second bid to build a case against former FBI Director James Comey. Plus, Nicolle Wallace joins to discuss her recent interview with Comey, marking his first interview since being indicted for a second time.

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0:00.0

Hi, Nicole. Very newsworthy interview with James Comey, of course. I want to ask you about one part, and I want to play it actually. I know you just finish it, but Comey says President Trump has finally now found the type of loyalists that he's looking for. I want to just show this part briefly.

0:18.9

He has found the crew that he was looking for.

0:22.8

What does that mean for the country?

0:24.8

It's bad.

0:26.2

You never want time to fly, but it means it's going to be a very difficult two years.

0:32.1

Just that part and anything else that jumped out to you sitting face to face with him,

0:37.7

everything he's been through and now going back down through this.

0:40.5

So I went back.

0:42.5

He'd been on my show after the Seychelles stuff,

0:45.0

and I said, what will you do if you are indicted?

0:48.2

He said, for what this?

0:50.9

He said, yeah.

0:53.4

And he said, you know, I trusted the judiciary will be fair to me, basically,

0:59.8

that if things break down so royally that I am actually indicted for the seashell thing,

1:05.3

you know, he trusted the judiciary. So I felt like I had to come back, right, and say,

1:10.2

well, so this thing happened that you thought was

1:12.5

kind of far-fetched. And I went back and looked at the coverage of the first Trump term,

1:18.5

which I don't do often enough, right? Because you and I are in the, we literally watch the frog be

1:23.6

defrosted and then simmered and then boiled. And so we're staring at the bubbles and we're like,

1:28.4

huh, what are we looking at? But Trump first was reported of wanted to indict Comey in 2017 or 18,

1:34.6

story in the New York Times headline, Trump tells Justice Department to indict Clinton,

1:38.5

Comey, and there was somebody else. And the people who stopped him based on that reporting were

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