A lot of people saw the Comey headlines and assumed it was open-and-shut

Added: 2026-06-02

[00:00:00]If you've been waiting to see James Comey in handcuffs, this Cornell [music] law professor explains why his indictment isn't clear-cut.

[00:00:07]>> Bill, I cannot possibly let you go without asking about this James Comey indictment, and I ask it because look, people who like me who hate James Comey, we see the headlines and we celebrate, but I know a lot of very legal, brilliant legal people who I reached out to, and almost to a man they told me this thing's about as thin as a supermodel. What's going on with this?

[00:00:26]>> Yeah, well, it's him posting, I think it was on Instagram, maybe it was X also, seashells forming 8647, which could be commonly understood to mean kill the 47th president. The question's going to be, a court's going to have to initially rule, is that even a clear enough threat that it falls under the criminal law? And I think that's going to be a toss-up. Maybe the government has other evidence, but just posting that, I think is pretty thin, unless they have something more to show that it was intended as a threat.