Hi, everyone. It is 4 o'clock here in New York. I'm Lisa Menendez, in for Nicole Wallace.

With their case against former FBI director Jim Comey faltering in a court of law,

Team Trump appears to be taking their case to the tabloids.

Speaking out in the pages of the New York Post

today, Trump appointed prosecutor Lindsay Halligan, she has brought the cases against two people

high on Donald Trump's enemies list, Jim Comey and New York Attorney General Tish James. After what

could only be described as a very bad day in court, where Halligan had to admit that she did not present

the two-count indictment against Jim Comey to the full grand jury. Helligan lashed out at the judge

overseeing the case, Michael Knockmanoff. Quote, personal attacks like Judge Nachmanoff referring to me

as a puppet, don't change the facts or the law. Perhaps she should get acquainted with both.

Even the New York Post points out, the judge never actually called her a puppet. He asked Comey's

defense attorney, Michael Dreuben, quote, so your view is that Ms. Halligan is a stocking horse

or a puppet, for want of a better word, doing the president's bidding. And ABC News points out

that the judge, quote, didn't dispute in court when DOJ attorney

Tyler Lemons flatly rejected that characterization.

The Justice Department backed Halligan saying this in a statement, quote, a federal judge

should be neutral and impartial.

Instead, this judge launched an outrageous and unprofessional personal attack yesterday

in open court against U.S. attorney Lindsay Halligan. DoJ will continue to follow the facts and the law.

Now, again, the judge never called Halligan a puppet. He was asking a question so much for following the facts.

Putting that aside, the timing of these attacks on the judge, they cannot be ignored.

These claims of bias come after a week in which practically every aspect of the DOJ's handling

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