Ken Delaney

Shock and sadness, Jen.

Even though you could see this coming, there was some hope that maybe grand jurors in the Eastern District of Virginia would resist and no bill this case and refuse to indict.

That didn't happen, obviously.

I got one text from a longtime source saying this is a sad day for America.

People are saying the Justice Department, as we knew it, is dead, is over.

And that may be a bit of hyperbole because, look, the Justice Department is still going to operate tomorrow.

And most of its functioning as normal.

People are going to go into work.

They're going to investigate, prosecute criminals.

But this thing that has happened here, a president essentially

urging his Justice Department to bring charges against a political opponent and then replacing a U.S.

attorney who refused to do it with a more pliable U.S.

attorney and then making that happen.

That is a watershed.

That is a line that we have crossed now in this country.

And Republicans are going to say, Jen, well, wait a second.

Didn't the Biden administration do that?

Didn't didn't the FBI go after Donald Trump?

That was completely different.

That had no resemblance to what happened here with James Comey.

Those were investigations based on the facts and the law pursued by career FBI agents and career prosecutors overseen by a special counsel totally walled off by any of the political leadership in the Biden administration.

Millions of Republicans do not believe this.

And that is one of the reasons we are where we are.

But it is a fact that.

And this what happened with Comey is so much different.

The testimony to the Senate at issue has been parsed over by inspectors general and others.

And if there is evidence that proves decisively that James Comey intentionally lied to Congress, I've never seen it.

This is a bare bones indictment.

So we don't know everything that they have.

We don't know everything that they presented to the grand jury, but the indictment on its face does not make the case that he lied.

And so, look, a lot of shock and sadness from many people inside and outside the Justice Department tonight, Jim.

Yeah, that's right.

James Comey's son-in-law, Troy Edwards, one of his sons-in-law, actually was a prosecutor in the National Security Division in this very office, the Eastern District of Virginia.

And tonight he submitted his resignation, effective immediately, saying that he needed to do so to uphold his constitutional rights.

This is a family of public servants.

As you said, James Comey's daughter, a longtime prosecutor in the Southern District, actually prosecuted the Jeffrey Epstein case and the case against Delaine Maxwell, his associate, and was unceremoniously fired and is now suing the Justice Department, alleging that that firing was illegal.

And now you have a son-in-law of James Comey who had been serving his country in this office resigning over this.

So real impact here, Jen.

Ken, how is this going to play out in the next few days? Andrea, this is going to be a really tough thing, as you saw there, for those Republican lawmakers to defend, particularly because many of them have called for the prosecution of people who attacked police officers.

Ken, how is this going to play out in the next few days? Andrea, this is going to be a really tough thing, as you saw there, for those Republican lawmakers to defend, particularly because many of them have called for the prosecution of people who attacked police officers.

Ken, how is this going to play out in the next few days? Andrea, this is going to be a really tough thing, as you saw there, for those Republican lawmakers to defend, particularly because many of them have called for the prosecution of people who attacked police officers.

And look, we knew Donald Trump was going to pardon some January 6th defendants, but it is a shock that he pardoned people who are on video attacking law enforcement defendants. And it is a real body blow to this building where I'm standing inside the Justice Department, because this was the single biggest criminal investigation in American history.

And look, we knew Donald Trump was going to pardon some January 6th defendants, but it is a shock that he pardoned people who are on video attacking law enforcement defendants. And it is a real body blow to this building where I'm standing inside the Justice Department, because this was the single biggest criminal investigation in American history.

And look, we knew Donald Trump was going to pardon some January 6th defendants, but it is a shock that he pardoned people who are on video attacking law enforcement defendants. And it is a real body blow to this building where I'm standing inside the Justice Department, because this was the single biggest criminal investigation in American history.

Nearly every field office, FBI field office and every U.S. attorney's office participated in trying to bring these January 6th attackers to justice. It was one of the highest priorities of the Justice Department. They put intensive resources into it.

Nearly every field office, FBI field office and every U.S. attorney's office participated in trying to bring these January 6th attackers to justice. It was one of the highest priorities of the Justice Department. They put intensive resources into it.

Nearly every field office, FBI field office and every U.S. attorney's office participated in trying to bring these January 6th attackers to justice. It was one of the highest priorities of the Justice Department. They put intensive resources into it.