Good morning and welcome to Morning Joe. It's Friday, September 26th. Former FBI Director James Comey has been indicted by a federal grand jury in Virginia.The former bureau chief is charged with one count of making a false statement and one count of obstruction of congressional proceedings. Come is denied any wrongdoing. If convicted, he faces up to 5 years in prison.The case was brought by Lindseay Halagan, the president's newly sworn in, handpicked replacement for the US attorney for the Eastern District ...

So, Ken Delaneian, what happens from here. Uh, we just said the arraignment will be October 9th, but what happens to James Comey today, this weekend, over the next several days. Where does this case go.We're still reporting this out, Willie. There was some talk last night that Comey was going to surrender for processing at an FBI office in the Eastern District of Virginia today, this morning. Uh we're still trying to figure out whether that's going to happen because it's not necessarily true that he has to ...

got a great group to work through this story for us. Good morning to you all. Ken, I want to start with you and you've got some new reporting this morning on kind of the timeline about how this all went down with the new US attorney, Lindseay Hall. Yeah, that's right, Willie. My colleagues Carol Lennig, Von Hillyard, and I have learned that uh Lindseay Halligan, the newly installed US attorney who is an associate secretary at the White House and Donald Trump's former defense attorney and has never prosecute ...

President Trump will impose a new round of tariffs on imported heavy duty trucks, branded medications, kitchen cabinets, and upholstered furniture. Trump announced the change will take effect on October 1st, writing on Truth Social last night that the large-scale flooding of the products into the US by other countries is unfair to local manufacturers. He also cited national security concerns.But the US Chamber of Commerce denies those concerns, saying the top five import sources of these products are close ...

We have major breaking legal news. The Trump Justice Department has now indicted former FBI Director James Comey. This is in Virginia by a grand jury tonight.He is charged with two criminal counts. MSNBC reporting those charges. ABC News reporting the two counts are false statements and obstruction of justice.We do not have the actual indictment paper yet and this is a developing breaking story. It also comes after reports of unusual and extreme pressure from the president on that department's office. Basic ...

Former FBI Director James Comey has been indicted by a federal grand jury in Virginia. The former bureau chief is charged with one count of making a false statement and one count of obstruction of a congressional proceeding. Comey has denied any wrongdoing, but if convicted, he faces up to 5 years in prison.This case stems from this 2020 judiciary committee hearing with Senator Ted Cruz asking Comey about this. Chairman Grassly asked you point blank, quote, "Have you ever been an anonymous source in news re ...

Tonight, the Department of Justice secured an indictment of former FBI Director James Comey, and it happened just days after President Trump publicly pushed his attorney general to go after him. Comey responded in an Instagram video earlier tonight. And one thing that was noteworthy is that he didn't seem surprised.And to be clear, Comey has been a target of Donald Trump for years. Just listen to what he told my colleague Nicole Wallace in May. >> It's not my first rodeo.I I would hate something like this o ...

It is day 249 of the second Trump administration and tonight Donald Trump's Department of Justice has secured an indictment of former FBI Director James Comey. Now, the charges are for obstruction and false statements and is tied to testimony that he gave on Capitol Hill in 2020. The arraignment for former Director Comey is set for two weeks from today.Now, just days ago, Trump publicly pushed his attorney general, really the people's attorney general, to go after Comey, who he sees as an enemy and has seen ...

One thing has been very very clear over the last week and probably even before then. Donald Trump wasn't going to stop until he found someone who would go ahead with his plan to indict James Comey. And he found that someone in Lindseay Hallan.Now, if you did not know who Lindseay Hallan was before today, I don't really blame you. Maybe you'd heard her name, but you don't maybe you don't know a lot about her. She was only just sworn in as the US attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia on Monday.Up unti ...

The case that should be called Donald Trump versus James Comey has been randomly assigned to federal judge Michael Knackmanov who was appointed by President Biden. The judge in the case, Judge Nakonov, has scheduled an arraignment for Thursday, October 9th at 10:00 a. m.in the Alexandria, Virginia courtroom when James Comey will first appear in court in that case. Joining us now is Democratic Congressman Daniel Goldman of New York. He's a member of the House Judiciary Committee with jurisdiction over the Tr ...