It's Friday, August 29th. I'm Josie Duffy Rice in for Jane Koston, and this is What a Day.

The show listening to the new John Baptiste song, Petrocore, which he described as a climate change warning set to a dance beat.

Appropriate, given that it is the 20th anniversary of Hurricane Katrina.

On today's show, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has a major staffing

shakeup, and the Air Force offers military funeral honors for a January 6th rioter,

four and a half years after she was killed by an officer at the insurrection.

But let's start with cash bail.

This week, Trump signed an executive

order aimed at ending cash bail in Washington, D.C., and other jurisdictions around the country.

The order instructs his administration to withhold federal funds from the district, unless they

change their bail policy, which eliminates cash bail in most cases and has been in effect for over 30 years.

He also ordered Attorney General Pambandi to provide a list of states and localities that have ended cash bail for certain crimes

and instructed agencies to identify the federal grants and contracts and funds that could be withheld from those jurisdictions

unless they bring back cash bail. Here's what Trump, as well-spoken as ever, had to say about

the executive order. One of the executive orders has to do with cashless bail. That was when the

big crime in this country started. And I can tell you who did it, when, but I don't want to do that, because others followed pretty quickly.

But that was what had happened. Somebody killed somebody. They go, and don't worry about it. No cash. Come back in a couple of months. We'll give you a trial. You never see the person again. And, I mean, they kill people and they get out.

As you may not be surprised to hear, this is not accurate. Eliminating cash bail does not mean that people accused of serious crimes like murder can't be detained before trial.

All it means is that their release will not be determined by how much

money is in their wallet. Because in a cash bail system, people who can pay bail are released,

and people who can't are stuck in jail. And over the past 10 years, an increasing number of

jurisdictions have eliminated cash bail entirely. But although bail reform has been largely

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