CBS Evening News host Maurice DuBois and chief Washington analyst Robert Costa collectively mourned on Friday that there does not appear to be any internal White House dissent over the decision to indict former FBI Director James Comey. For Costa in particular, the mood could be described as “shatter norms and carry on.”
DuBois began by asking, “Robert, we know the president has celebrated this indictment. Anybody inside the White House unhappy with this or actually pushing back that you know of?”
Costa started by noticing how times have changed, “Well, based on conversations today with people close to President Trump, there's actually little to no consternation about the indictment. This is not the Trump White House of 2017, where you did have factions battling over whether he was going too far.”
He further declared, “In fact, Trump allies like Stephen Bannon tell me there is anxiety instead among some inside about not moving fast enough to overhaul the Justice Department and ramp up investigations, and the president is telling aides and allies to do more because he's confident he does have the executive power to shatter norms and carry on.”
Was it shattering norms when Democrats, including President Joe Biden, demanded that the Justice Department do more when it came to indicting Trump or when his allies were also charged with lying to Congress?
Here is a transcript for the September 26 show:
CBS Evening News
9/26/2025
6:34 PM ET
MAURICE DUBOIS: Robert, we know the president has celebrated this indictment. Anybody inside the White House unhappy with this or actually pushing back that you know of?
ROBERT COSTA: Well, based on conversations today with people close to President Trump, there's actually little to no consternation about the indictment. This is not the Trump White House of 2017, where you did have factions battling over whether he was going too far. In fact, Trump allies like Stephen Bannon tell me there is anxiety instead among some inside about not moving fast enough to overhaul the Justice Department and ramp up investigations, and the president is telling aides and allies to do more because he's confident he does have the executive power to shatter norms and carry on.
