Sunday shows preview: Comey indictment consumes Washington as shutdown deadline nears
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Former FBI Director James Comey was slapped with a two-count indictment on Thursday, a development that has consumed Washington but was welcomed by President Trump, administration officials and their allies. 

The charges come from Comey’s 2020 testimony in front of the Senate when the chamber was investigating probes into alleged ties between Trump’s 2016 campaign and Russia, which the president has slammed as a “witch hunt.” 

The indictment against Comey marked the first set of criminal charges against the perceived political foe of the president. Comey proclaimed his innocence late Thursday, saying his “heart is broken” for the Justice Department. 

Comey is scheduled to be arraigned in Alexandria, Va., on Oct. 9 in federal court. The case will be overseen by a former President Biden appointee, U.S. District Judge Michael Nachmanoff. 

On Friday, Trump said he hopes there will be other officials who face changes apart from Comey. 

“It’s not a list, but I think there will be others. They’re corrupt,” the president told reporters. 

“It’s about justice,” he added.

Attorney General Pam Bondi is scheduled to be on Fox News’s “Sunday Morning Futures,” where she will likely touch on Comey’s indictment. 

Meanwhile, on Capitol Hill, Democratic and Republican leadership appear far apart from reaching a deal on passing a short-term spending measure to avoid a government shutdown. 

With Trump not willing to negotiate, Democrats are left with a handful of options, but none of them are ideal for the party in the minority. 

Democrats could support the GOP-led spending bill that passed the House earlier this month. Or they could hold the line, refuse to support the Republican continuing resolution (CR) and see the government shut down late Tuesday night. 

Senate Republicans will need backing from at least eight Democrats in the upper chamber to pass the measure, assuming Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) will not support the stopgap. 

Paul is slated to be on CBS’s “Face the Nation,” where he will likely give his thoughts on the GOP-led CR. 

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) and House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) have said that the GOP will be hard-pressed to garner support among Democrats if there’s no action taken on Affordable Care Act subsidies, which will expire at the end of the year. 

Schumer will be on NBC’s “Meet the Press,” where he will likely weigh in on the ongoing debate among Democrats about the potential government shutdown. 

Below is a full list of guests on the Sunday morning shows:

NewsNation’s “The Hill Sunday”: House Appropriations Committee Chair and Rep. Tom Cole (R-Okla.), Rep. Emilia Sykes (D-Ohio) and UC Berkeley law professor John Yoo

Fox News’s “Fox News Sunday”: Vice President JD Vance and Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian

Fox News’s “Sunday Morning Futures”: Attorney General Pam Bondi, House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.), Trump Media CEO Devin Nunes, Sen. John Fetterman (D-Pa.) and Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) 

ABC’s “This Week”: House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.), House Majority Leader Steve Scalise (R-La.), former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie (R) and former Republican Party executive Reince Priebus

NBC’s “Meet the Press”: Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-S.D.), Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.), and New York City independent mayoral candidate and former Democratic New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo

CBS’s “Face The Nation”: Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.), Rep. Mike Turner (R-Ohio), Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.), former White House attorney Ty Cobb and Sen. Tim Kaine (D-Va.)

CNN’s “State of the Union”: Sen. Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.) and House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) 

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