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CNN 5 Things
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🗓️ 29 May 2026
⏱️ 7 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Good morning, everyone. I'm Kate Baldwin. It's Friday. Woohoo! May 29th. Here are your five things. |
| 0:09.2 | Number one, the interview. Former Attorney General Pam Bondi heads to Capitol Hill today for a closed-door |
| 0:14.9 | interview about her handling of the Epstein files. The House Oversight Committee, you'll remember, |
| 0:18.8 | Republicans, Democrats alike. They have spent months pushing to question Bondi about the Justice Department's botched release of the files which she oversaw. |
| 0:26.6 | Over to redactions, under redactions, victims' identities revealed, and more. |
| 0:32.6 | A bipartisan group of lawmakers originally it's subpoenaed Bondi for a formal deposition. |
| 0:38.3 | Then, when Trump fired her as Attorney General last month, DOJ argued that she could no longer appear in her official capacity. |
| 0:45.3 | And Bondi won't be under oath today, but let's be honest, making false statements to Congress is a crime regardless. |
| 0:52.3 | This big moment also comes amidst a personal battle for Pam |
| 0:56.0 | Bondi. She revealed this week that she's been diagnosed with thyroid cancer and is recovering |
| 1:00.0 | from surgery. Bondi also is preparing to take on a new role working for Trump, an advisory |
| 1:05.1 | committee focused on AI policy. Number two, the containment unit. Kenya's highest court says not so fast, stepping in and stopping the U.S. plan to establish |
| 1:16.6 | a quarantine facility for Americans. |
| 1:19.6 | There. |
| 1:20.6 | The facility was supposed to open today. |
| 1:21.6 | The temporary halt now comes amid a wave of backlash from Kenyan doctors and even the U.S. CDC officials over this unusual |
| 1:30.0 | Trump administration move. The plan was to send any Americans exposed to Ebola to the 50-bed |
| 1:36.2 | unit on an Air Force base about 125 miles outside of Nairobi. A few dozen U.S. public |
| 1:42.8 | health officials had already been sent to Kenya to staff it. |
| 1:46.0 | Sources now tell CNN, the CDC director has advised against this. For one, the U.S. has spent |
| 1:52.4 | years developing specialized treatment facilities in the U.S. for this exact type of containment and quarantine. |
| 1:58.0 | In Kenya, a human rights group took the U.S. |
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