After observing that the grand jury declined to indict on one charge, POLITICO’s Playbook goes on to note:

“POLITICO legal columnist Ankush Khardori writes in to say that he’s ‘honestly surprised that the DOJ managed to get this past a grand jury, given all of the very public drama of the last week involving prosecutors at the department and the fact that Trump himself publicly announced to the world that he wanted them to charge Comey.’”