The Nightcap: FBI Director James Comey expected to be indicted tomorrow

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🗓️ 25 September 2025

⏱️ 42 minutes

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On tonight’s Nightcap: Former FBI Director James Comey is reportedly expected to be indicted just days after Trump's former personal lawyer was sworn in as the interim U.S. attorney in Virginia. Then, Trump’s long-awaited TikTok deal is set to be signed tomorrow, and concerns are shifting from China to the app's potential billionaire investors. Plus, Gavin Newsom warns about the future of the country’s democracy as a Republican Senator suggests he would support a third Trump term. Ken Dilanian, David Litt, Katie Drummond, Evan McMorris-Santoro, and Ron Insana join the Nightcap crew this Wednesday night.

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0:00.0	Good evening once again. I am Stephanie Ruhl and welcome to the midweek nightcap. It is day 248 of the second Trump administration. And tonight, MSNBC is reporting that former FBI director, Jim Comey, on your screen right there, is expected to be indicted in the Eastern
0:22.5	District of Virginia. According to our reporters, if it goes forward, sources believe the
0:27.8	Justice Department will accuse Comey of lying to Congress in 2020 about whether he authorized
0:33.8	leaks of information. In the five-year statute of limitations runs out next week.
0:38.7	It comes as Trump has renewed pressure on Attorney General Pam Bondi to investigate his political rivals,
0:45.1	including, of course, the former FBI director.
0:47.6	Just this Saturday, Trump said Comey, along with California Senator Adam Schiff and New York Attorney General, Letitia James,
0:54.9	were, quote,
1:00.4	guilty as hell and that nothing was being done about it. And please remember, the top prosecutor, this couldn't be more important, the top prosecutor in the Eastern District of Virginia was
1:05.7	fired and replaced with one of Trump's personal lawyers after he refused to indict New York's Attorney General.
1:13.5	Joining me now to discuss is one of the superstar reporters who got this scoop.
1:17.4	My dear friend Ken Delaney and MSNBC, an intelligence correspondent.
1:21.8	Ken, walk us through this.
1:23.4	This is your reporting.
1:24.2	What do we need to know?
1:25.9	Like, what is he?
1:27.4	Walk us through what they're even
1:28.8	accusing him from, accusing him of specifically. It's not really clear to us because these are
1:35.9	facts that have been known for a long time. They've been the subject of Inspector General
1:39.4	reports and Senate testimony. What we think they are focusing on is an answer that he gave to Ted Cruz in
1:46.2	that September 2020 hearing that you mentioned, the statute of limitations lapses on Tuesday for
1:51.5	this, where Cruz asked him about a previous question that had been put to him by Senator Grassley
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