Welcome to the beat. I'm Ari Melbourne. We begin with the kind of breaking news that most presidents do not go through in an entire term.

We have breaking news and here is the context. The FBI director is the only presidential post that serves a 10-year term to protect law enforcement from partisan pressure.

That's why it was such a big deal when

Trump fired James Comey. That was in his very first year in office, and that ousting of a director

in the middle of his term was so suspicious. It actually helped spark the Mueller probe,

which unearthed and convicted many crimes. Trump replaced Comey with Chris Ray. His confirmation hearings included scrutiny

on Trump's bid to try to take more partisan control of the FBI and what Ray thought of the

10-year term, since he would be reporting to the president who wanted to use the threat of another

firing to try to take that partisan control. So while we're going to get into all of the breaking news,

I always try to give you the facts and context first,

and this news only makes sense, if you remember,

that Ray himself testified under oath

that the 10-year term was the right approach for that independence.

I think the FBI director has a 10-year term because there is a judgment made that the role of the

FBI and the role of the FBI director needs to be one that is independent of partisan politics.

Ray saying under oath, you have to be independent. You have to hold strong to the term against those

partisan pressures, which work very clearly on display from then President Trump. So keep that in mind

because the news tonight is that Chris Ray has now announced he is quitting early. He will resign.

He says at the end of President Biden's administration.

And now, I'll show you what he might have hoped you only saw in isolation without the context

in the history I just showed you, Mr. Ray offering a new and opposite rationale of what he said under oath.

Contradicting what he said that the 10-year term is what protects

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