Good evening once again. I am Stephanie Ruhl and welcome to the nightcap. Check your calendar

because we are now 332 days away from the midterms and it has been a week of pure chaos for

the president's administration and really his whole party. Defense Secretary Pete Hagseth has faced

concerns over

his leadership. Concerns is a nice way to put it. The Pentagon has been fielded in questions

about the military's deadly strikes on alleged drugboats in the Caribbean. Meanwhile, Pam Bondi's

Justice Department failed to secure a second indictment against New York Attorney General Tish James

less than two weeks after the original

case was dismissed. FBI director Cash would tell he is now facing growing controversy after

reports about his use of agency resources. That's a nice way to put it. Because three sources

tell MS now that he ordered FBI agents to give his girlfriend's friend a ride home after a night out. Those sources

also say that it is not the first time it happened. Now, a spokesperson for the FBI officially says

this is all made up, never happened at all. And things on Capitol Hill are not going much better for

Trump's closest ally in the House. House Speaker Mike Johnson is facing open revolt from some

GOP women in his caucus who are not happy with his leadership. So what is the common thread here?

Heggseth, Bondi, Patel, and Johnson all pledge their loyalty to Trump. Now in the first administration,

we saw Trump give the boot to people who disagreed with him. Remember,

Attorney General Jeffrey Beauregard Sessions, he was fired for appointing special counsel Bob

Mueller. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson lost his job after contradicting the president

won too many times, and of course our reporting that Tillerson had called Trump a moron.

And defense secretary Mark Esper Esper, was terminated

full on for telling Trump that there was no legal grounds to deploy troops in U.S. cities during

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