Comey Indictment, Hegseth Summons Military Leaders, Impending Shutdown

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Former FBI Director James Comey is indicted on obstruction and false statement charges after President Trump pressured the Justice Department to pursue a case. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth orders an unprecedented global meeting of top U.S. military commanders, raising questions about what changes are coming. And Democrats accuse the White House of “mafia-style blackmail” as the shutdown fight intensifies over health care funding and the threat of mass federal layoffs. <br/><br/><em>Want more comprehensive analysis of the most important news of the day, plus a little fun? <a href="https://www.npr.org/newsletter/news"target="_blank" >Subscribe</a> to the Up First newsletter.<br></em><p class="readrate" data-rr="17" style="line-height: 1.5;" data-pm-slice="1 1 []">Today’s episode of Up First was edited by Krishnadev Calamur, Andrew Sussman, Kelsey Snell, Mohamad ElBardicy and Alice Woelfle.<p class="readrate" data-rr="17" style="line-height: 1.5;" data-pm-slice="1 1 []">It was produced by Ziad Buchh, Nia Dumas and Lindsay Totty<p class="readrate" data-rr="17" style="line-height: 1.5;"><p class="readrate" data-rr="17" style="line-height: 1.5;">We get engineering support from Stacey Abbott. And our technical director is Carleigh Strange.<p class="readrate" data-rr="17" style="line-height: 1.5;"><p class="readrate" data-rr="17" style="line-height: 1.5;">And our Executive Producer is Jay Shaylor<br/><br/>See <a href="https://pcm.adswizz.com">pcm.adswizz.com</a> for information about our collection and use of personal data for sponsorship and to manage your podcast sponsorship preferences.<br/><br/><a href="https://www.npr.org/about-npr/179878450/privacy-policy">NPR Privacy Policy</a>