Welcome to the beat. We have a lot to cover tonight. The crisis engulfing the CDC, dangers to public health, and a new example of how officials who are potentially fake fired are pushing back.

And outrage as ICE agents were seen detaining firefighters as they try to fight fires to protect the public.

And then more Republican lawmakers facing the buzzsaw at voter town halls.

I'm going to say that's lost to the question in Howard?

The pushback to Donald Trump's power grabs is hitting both him, his administration, and these other

Republicans who, according to voters in their own districts, often red-leaning districts, say enough

is enough. Lisa Cook is the Fed governor that Trump posted on social media he is firing, which is a classic

example in Trump's increasingly autocratic efforts

to see what he can get away with. A, that's not a legal way to typically fire someone. But

B, and more importantly, the Fed officials are not part of a Trump cabinet or people who he

picks that way. He does nominate them, their Senate confirmed,

but then unlike, say, the cabinet, we know since the beginning of the Fed, no president has

ever removed a Fed official for no reason. And Ms. Cook is punching back today, filing a lawsuit

against Trump over this unprecedented and illegal removal, as her lawyers put it, and this could be a landmark legal

battle because the Federal Reserve is not just some other little part of the government as far as

Trump or Musk is concerned as they've tested going after parts of the government that whether

it's good policy or not, judges said, yep, well, you can fire certain employees. This is different. The Federal

Reserve was always insulated from exactly this kind of partisan pressure to protect its

independence in the American economy. And even if it sounds like a kind of obtuse thing and you

don't wake up thinking about the Federal Reserve every day, most people don't. That's a good thing because most

days in most parties' administrations, there haven't been these kind of efforts to turn it partisan.

That is a backdrop for the increasing concern and pushback around the country. California

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