I do want to go to Ryan Riley on this new reporting because he does have some of this new information including a statement from Pit Bajara who is representing Senator Adam Schiff. Ryan, bring us up to speed. What can you tell us.>> Yeah, so there is a intense meeting uh between uh Deputy Attorney General um uh Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanch uh and the US Attorney for Maryland over this uh case. And as we just posted our our story on NBC. com, you know, this case has been going on for a while and obvio ...

Legal & Political Analysis - A grand jury is expected to hear evidence regarding John Bolton's alleged mishandling of classified documents [1][2] - The Justice Department convinced two federal judges to grant search warrants, leading to the FBI searching Bolton's home and office [3][4] - Potential charges against Bolton include violations of the Federal Espionage Act, specifically 18USC 793 and 18USC1924A, related to unlawful possession, transmission, or loss of national defense information and classified information [8][9] - Convicting Bolton requires proving he "willfully intentionally" mishandled classified information, not just a mistake [12] - Bolton could face multiple years in prison for each count if charged, and conspiracy charges could increase the potential punishment [14][15] Investigation Details - The US intelligence community detected a foreign government hacking Bolton's AOL account, raising suspicions of mishandling classified information [4][5] - Investigators were searching for evidence of who else might be involved in the unlawful retention or transmission of national defense or classified information [15] Parallels to Other Cases - One of the charges mentioned in the search warrant affidavit against Bolton is also a charge against President Trump in the Mara Lago documents case [9] - The Justice Department distinguishes the Bolton case from the Biden case based on evidence of willfulness and attempts to hide documents [13]

this latest prosecution of the former director of the FBI. Um, you know, there's a process to secure an indictment. Um, there's a a process of of predication, having some evidence before you do that.um here from and again I only know what I see myself in the media but the career prosecutors the apolitical prosecutors who analyzed this said there wasn't a case and so they brought somebody in who had never been a criminal prosecutor on day's notice to secure an indictment a day before the statute of limitatio ...

Okay. How this all came together was a very bumpy bumpy road. Uh it started with Donald Trump basically publicly calling out for Pam Bondi to please bring his perceived enemies to justice. He has described Leticia James, James Comey, Adam Schiff, and a long list beyond that as you know uh as people that are guilty as hell. But what connects all of them is that they either investigated or questioned Donald Trump's governance and and other actions that he took in his first administration and now in the curren ...

Joining me now, Sher Shinland, who is UN District Judge in the Southern District of New York for 22 years. Katherine Christian is former assistant DA in the Manhattan DA's office and an MSNBC legal analyst. So, I'm curious, Katherine, in court today, do you sense signs of the difference between Lindseay Haligan and Patrick Fitzgerald experientially.Well, I wasn't there, but just the fact that the US attorney was sitting at council's table to me shows that's just not how it's done. and and judge will tell yo ...

We're learning more about how Florida insurance attorney Lindseay Halligan, now an interim US attorney, maybe just barely managed to indict former FBI director James Comey, days before the statute of limitations were set to expire. Last week, Haligan, who had never prosecuted a single case in her entire career, whose only appearances in federal court were as one of Donald Trump's personal lawyers, was abruptly installed to lead one of the country's most important prosecutor's offices. and she got right to w ...

President Trump and his administration are defending the Department of Justice indictment of former FBI director James Comey. In a truth social post over the weekend, the president called Comey a quote dirty cop and claimed FBI agents were happy with these charges being brought. He also thanked current FBI director Cash Patel for his work on this case.It comes as reporting from MSNBC reveals the newly installed US attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia, that's Lindseay Halligan, was forced to present ...

When Lindsey Halligan secured the indictment of ex-FBI Director James Comey, it marked the pinnacle of her rise from insurance lawyer to the person President Trump entrusted with deploying the law to punish an enemy https://t.co/JWxNIxNnKW ...

[Music] If it's Friday, the former FBI director who investigated President Trump now under indictment, accused of lying to Congress and obstruction as President Trump warns more indictments are coming. Plus, shutdown countdown. With just days to go before the government runs out of money, there is no sign of a solution.Lawmakers are at an impass and federal workers brace for mass layoffs. And President Trump tells reporters he thinks he has a deal to end the war in Gaza and release the remaining hostages as ...

Joining us now is Democratic Congressman Glenn Ivy from Maryland, also a former federal prosecutor. So, if I can ask you to put that hat on for a second, what do you see in this indictment. Um, you know, the whole process has been a real shocker to me.I I guess Trump is making good on his effort to turn the Department of Justice into a Department of Vengeance. He's going he's got an enemy's list and he he's going after the people one by one apparently. and James Comey happened to be uh first in line.But it' ...