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A grand jury yesterday indicted former FBI director James Comey on two charges related to his testimony before a Senate committee in 2020.

Put another way, President Donald Trump publicly pressured the Justice Department to help him get revenge on his personal enemy, and the Justice Department did it.

In a post on Truth Social last weekend, Trump told Attorney General Pam Bondi to take action against Comey,

along with New York Attorney General Letitia James and Democratic Senator Adam Schiff of California.

He called them all, quote, guilty as hell. Of what? He didn't say. When the attorney responsible

for the cases said last week that there was not enough evidence to pursue charges against Letitia James, Trump pushed him out and picked an inexperienced loyalist from the White House to step in. Soon after that, came the Comey indictment. What this means, why it matters, we're going to go through it along with other big headlines of the week with our panel. Arthur Delaney is here, senior reporter for HuffPost. Hey, Arthur.

Great to be here. Wendy Benjaminsson is here, Washington Senior Editor for Bloomberg News. Hi, Wendy.

Hey, thanks for having me. And Taylor Poplar's National political reporter at the White House for Spectrum News.

Great to see you, Taylor.

Great to be back.

Arthur Delaney, what are these charges against the former FBI director?

So it's about making a false statement to Congress in 2020 testimony.

And I know that, you know, this is sort of scary moment where it's a clearly political

prosecution and it portends the demise of equal justice in the United States, but there's some

funny stuff about this indictment. Okay. Why are we having it this week? Well, the statements were on

September 30th in 2020. So they're getting it in under the wire on a five-year statute of

limitations. Why is it in the Eastern District of Virginia? Because Comey was testifying via Zoom from his

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