Conservative CNBC host Joe Kernen got stressed out Tuesday when co-host Andrew Ross Sorkin pressed House Speaker Mike Johnson on the sham indictment of former FBI director James Comey by the Department of Justice.
“My understanding is that the previous prosecutor refused to bring the case because they didn’t think a strong enough case, if you will, to even bring to a grand jury,” Sorkin said. “And so you have the situation where the president effectively directed their own lawyer to bring that case.”
“Well, I wouldn't say that,” Johnson replied. “I think there is a distinction between the prosecutor’s discretion—and they all have that. Different prosecutors look at different cases different ways.”
Johnson continued to ramble, offering little of substance, before Kernen cut in, clearly f