Good evening. I'm Amman Abbas. And I'm Jeff Bennett. On the news hour tonight, the U.S.

attorney who brought charges against James Comey and Letitia James faces her own scrutiny over whether

she was unlawfully appointed to her post. More local law enforcement sign up to help with the Trump administration's immigration

crackdown.

We speak with one sheriff about the partnership.

And a small upstate New York community fights an uphill battle for justice after finding

high levels of forever chemicals in drinking water.

The entire community was drinking water that was highly contaminated with a toxic chemical

that industry had known was dangerous for decades.

Welcome to the News Hour.

President Donald Trump's Department of Justice was on defense today in a Northern Virginia courtroom.

A judge is weighing whether to disqualify the prosecutor pursuing charges against former FBI director James Comey and New York's Attorney General Letitia James.

That prosecutor, Lindsay Halligan, is a Trump ally with no prosecutorial experience.

She was sworn in days after the previous U.S. attorney resigned after being pressured to indict Comey and James. President Trump has cast both Comey and James as his political enemies

and called for their prosecutions after they pursued investigations into him.

Glenn Kirshner is a former assistant U.S. attorney for Washington, D.C. He joins us now after

sitting in on today's hearing. It's good to see you. Good to see you, Jeff. So let's start with this.

How unusual is it for a criminal case to hinge on whether the prosecutor was lawfully appointed?

Very unusual. This is a high-stakes motion that we saw litigated today because, you know,

sort of at the bottom of it all, if the judge, Judge Curry, who is presiding

over this motion, decides that Lindsay Halligan was not lawfully appointed because she was

the only person in the grand jury obtaining this indictment, it would very likely result in

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