Tonight, we're tracking fast-moving developments on everything from another high-profile resignation at the Department of Justice to peace talks with Russia that leave out Ukraine.

Then, money power politics, how a new executive order could impact the banks you do business with.

Plus, the government workers fighting waste, fraud, and abuse while actually showing their work

why inspectors general should be protected, not fired, as the 11th hour gets underway on this

Tuesday night.

Good evening once again.

I'm Stephanie Ruhl, and it is day 30 of the second Trump administration. And from the jump, there has been a fire hose of news out of the West Wing.

But a lot has changed in just the last 24 hours alone. Here's the latest. The head of the criminal division of the U.S. Attorney's Office in Washington, D.C., resigned today after refusing to

comply with the Trump administration order to freeze assets of a Biden administration grant.

The acting Deputy AG requested she opened a criminal investigation that she felt was unsupported

by evidence. Also, the food safety chief at the Food and Drug Administration resigned,

writing that indiscriminate layoffs would make it fruitless for him to continue in the job.

And those layoffs are now impacting our response to the bird flu.

The Department of Agriculture accidentally fired several employees working on the outbreak and is now trying to rehire them.

That is the opposite of government efficiency.

All of that comes as the Senate advanced Trump's controversial choice for FBI director,

Cash Patel. His final vote is expected on Thursday. And earlier tonight, the Senate confirmed Howard Lutnik on a party-line vote to be Commerce Secretary. But we want to pay particular attention to this story

tonight. The United States and Russia agreed to work on an end to the war in Ukraine at a high-level

meeting that took place in Saudi Arabia, notably missing any representatives from Ukraine.

And NBC is now reporting that intelligence shows Russian president Vladimir Putin

has no interest in a real peace deal. We've got a lot to cover. So let's get smarter with

the help of our lead off panel this evening. Jeff Mason is here, White House correspondent for

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