GEORGE STEPHANOPOULOS: Dan, this is pretty extraordinary what we’re seeing right here. The president demanded a prosecution. He got it.
DAN ABRAMS: Yeah. And look, what seems like the facts are pretty amazing as well.
It seems this is a case about whether James Comey authorized a leak by his deputy, Andrew McCabe, about Hillary Clinton and about an investigation of the Clinton Foundation, not a leak about Donald Trump.
The inspector general of the Department of Justice investigated this, determined that it was James Comey, who was likely telling the truth about what happened, and not Andrew McCabe.
Comey said, “I didn’t authorize the leak.”.
McCabe said he authorized the leak after the fact. McCabe actually was close to getting indicted for this by the first Trump administration because the Department of Justice Inspector General had determined that McCabe likely lied.
So McCabe almost gets indicted in 2019 over this. They don’t, they’re not able to get an indictment. And now Comey is going to get indicted for the same conversation, which the inspector general believed Comey and not McCabe.
And by the way, even if you believe McCabe’s account, he’s not saying that Comey knew about the leak before it happened. He’s talking about it after the fact.
GEORGE STEPHANOPOULOS: Except for the president’s former personal attorney, every other prosecutor looked at this, said we don’t have the evidence.
DAN ABRAMS: Right, and so she actually had to file this herself. Very unusual that the U.S. Attorney doesn’t have one of the line prosecutors signing off on this, working on this.
She had to literally alter, herself, some of the language in court, which is very unusual and shows you that she’s at this point kind of in this on her own in this U. S. Attorney’s Office.