Good evening. I'm Omna Nawaz. Jeff Bennett is away. On the news hour tonight, former FBI director James Comey, is arraigned in federal court for allegedly lying to Congress, a case many see as President Trump's attempt to seek political retribution.

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Former FBI director James Comey has pled not guilty after federal prosecutors charged him with lying to Congress five years ago.

The charges were brought against Comey by President Trump's hand-picked U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia, Lindsay Halligan, his former personal attorney.

Halligan's predecessor was ousted for refusing to charge Comey.

NPR's Carrie Johnson was at the courthouse for Comey's arraignment, and she joins us now.

Carrie, it's good to see you.

You too.

So just tell us about what happened in the courtroom today and also what it felt like

in the room.

This was a really solemn moment.

Jim Comey, the former FBI director, former deputy attorney general, was actually in the

courtroom in a courthouse where he once used to work as a criminal defendant.

His family was there, his wife, his daughter, Maureen, who was fired this year by the Justice Department and who was suing to get her job back.

His son-in-law, who quit his job in the same prosecutor's office after Comey was indicted.

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