This is not easy for me.

Tonight, the FBI director announces he will resign at the end of the Biden administration

before Donald Trump has a chance to fire him, our new reporting.

I'll be ready to go on day one.

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The CBS Evening News starts now.

Good evening. I'm Nora O'Donnell, and thank you for joining us.

We want to begin with major news in America's premier law enforcement agency that has far-reaching implications for U.S. national security.

FBI director Christopher Ray told his staff today that he's stepping down in January at the end of Joe Biden's presidency.

The head of the Federal Bureau of Investigation is a profoundly important job. The director oversees 38,000

employees that Ray says take 50 violent criminals off the streets every day. He highlighted the

Bureau's success in seizing enough fentanyl in two years that could kill 270 million people

and thwarting attacks in major American cities. Donald Trump hired Ray in 2017,

but now the president-elect complains that Ray, quote, invaded his home in the search that turned

up those classified documents. And the man set to replace Ray is one of Trump's most fiercely loyal

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