Thank you all for joining us tonight. We have a lot to get to in the next hour of the readout,

including the latest on Trump's tariff threats and the fear of mass firings at the FBI,

as the Trump administration demands the names of every agent who worked on the January 6th investigations.

And I know many of you are feeling pretty down about all the terrible things happening to our country, which is why tonight we begin bringing you good news amid all the horror. We call it our moment of joy. And that's coming up later in the show. But we begin tonight with a full on crisis in our democracy. As federal workers are literally locked out of their offices while operatives

working for a private citizen essentially take over our government. Their tactics

include turning off our federal websites, deleting government-funded research that you, the taxpayer

paid for to impose speech codes, bullying news organizations

by demanding interview transcripts, implementing an FBI purge, locking federal workers

out of their computers, and even turning them away at their offices while giving themselves

without congressional or any other authorization full access to the personal data of tens of millions

of Americans, including social security recipients, FBI agents and officials, military and government

contractors, and every single employee of the federal government. All of that data in private hands that you did not authorize,

even if you voted for Donald Trump. This, as Trump installs unqualified minions at the heads

of every federal agency, knowing that they wouldn't stop this even if they knew how,

at least when he's not threatening multiple

trade wars or vowing to launch a new age of American imperialism by colonizing the indigenous

people of Greenland and the Panama Canal, all while congressional Democrats issue

strongly worded letters, plus holding a press conference today and congressional Republicans

sit back and let the federal

government they work for collapse all around them while they occasionally beg Trump for

tariff mercy for their states.

If this were happening in any other country right now, I promise you, I'd be on the air

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