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Thank you. Welcome to Pod Save America. I'm John Favarra. I'm Dan Fifer.

On today's show, why the Vice President called me a dipshit,

how the White House is using a shooting at an ice facility in Dallas

as another pretext to crack down on the left.

We'll also talk about the return of Jimmy Kimmel,

the government shutdown that's almost here,

MAGA's war against escalators,

what gets Stephen Miller's wife going in the morning,

and Tommy's interview with Georgia Senator John Assoff. Look, those are her words, not mine. No, I know. I know.

But first, the people demanding, we stop calling them authoritarian, are now ordering law

enforcement to charge the president's political enemies with crimes they didn't commit.

The new loyalist Trump installed as U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia is reportedly planning to seek an indictment against former FBI director James Comey,

even though the Trump appointee she replaced and the rest of the prosecutors in the office have told her that the investigation

that they did didn't uncover sufficient evidence of any crimes. What's stopping you though?

You know? Just because you can't find any crimes doesn't mean you can't try to bring an indictment.

Comey is far from the only target here. The fabricated case against New York Attorney General Tish James appears to be coming back from the dead as well. Ed Martin, formerly the lawyer for the violent January 6th rioters, is reportedly advancing that investigation, which had also stalled due to a lack of evidence.

Trump is pressuring the Department of Justice to indict ex-CIA director John Brennan,

though prosecutors are also struggling to find a crime that he committed.

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