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The Department of Justice has moved to drop the appeal of Judge Cannon's dismissal of the charges against Walt Nauta and Carlos Deo O'Levara in the classified documents case.

The administration has told at least six top FBI officials in charge of cybersecurity,

criminal investigations, and national security to resign or be fired by Monday as Kosh Patel

sits for his confirmation hearing to head the agency.

The administration has also fired DOJ officials who investigated Donald Trump

and has launched a special investigation into January 6th.

And Trump has illegally fired nearly 20 independent inspectors general

and even had one who was investigating Elon Musk physically escorted out of her office.

This is unjustified.

Welcome, everybody.

It's Sunday, February 2, 2025.

I'm Andy McCabe.

And I'm Allison Gill.

Andy, there's so much going on with the DOJ and the intelligence community this week and the federal government, you know, workforce writ large.

Yeah. Due to the firings and OPM memos and executive orders. It's hard to know just where to start, and I think that's by design,

but I thought we should start with this Department of Justice thing, doing exactly what you and I

thought Merrick Garland should have done before he left Maine justice. They have dropped the appeal

to the 11th Circuit filed by Jack Smith's team to oppose the dismissal of the classified documents case.

That's right. And Catherine Foulders and her colleagues at ABC News report,

the Department of Justice, now under new leadership following Donald Trump's inauguration,

has moved to drop its appeal of the classified documents case that once accused Trump of

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