"I have never heard a lawyer get that part wrong until today," the "Last Word" host said of the interim attorney.

Before FBI Director James Comey heads to trial in January over charges of lying to Congress, his team plans to put the prosecutors — and specifically President Donald Trump’s handpicked interim US Attorney Lindsey Halligan — on the defensive.

Trump’s effort to turn the Justice Department into his personal legal weapon shatters norms of law-enforcement independence inculcated in the decades since Watergate, and arguably outstrips any previous abuses of the department at any other point in American history.

An ethics professor from Halligan’s law school warns that if she pursues charges against the former FBI director without probable cause, she could be disciplined by the Florida bar.

Lindsey Halligan replaced Erik Siebert as U.S. Attorney in Virginia after clashes over indicting Letitia James for mortgage fraud.