The Deputy FBI Director resigns.

President Trump gives his State of the Union address tonight.

Oh, happy, happy day.

And we'll talk about the release of the memo and the crackin.

I'm Ben Shapiro. This is the Ben Shapiro show.

Lots of news to get to today.

I will also have some thoughts on Black Panther.

I haven't seen it yet, but I just have a feeling that it will be the greatest movie ever, and that critics will love it more than any movie has ever been loved by anyone at any time at any place in history. I think it's just going to be that good. Or maybe it won't, and we'll never find out about it. That's possible as well. We'll talk about a lot of that sort of stuff in deconstructing the culture a little bit later in the show. But before we get to any of the myriad topics upon which we must opine, first, I want to say thank you to our sponsors over at Policy Genius. So every year, 30% of people make a resolution to be more financially responsible. And then those people don't do anything. Well, don't be one of those people. Make that resolution and then go out and make sure that you are covered for life insurance.

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James Comey. And then for a short period of time, he was the interim FBI director before Christopher

Ray was appointed to head that organization. Well, yesterday, Andrew McCabe finally stepped down from his

position. It was unclear. There's a lot of talk about whether he was ousted or whether he stepped down

voluntarily. Whether he had been basically told that it's going to be your brains or your signature on this piece of paper or whether he just decided I've had enough of President Trump making fun of me, and I'm leaving. So here is what, I believe, it's Guy Benson over at town hall writes. He says, as you already know, FBI deputy director Andrew McCabe against whom the president has fulminated in tweets is no longer occupying his position. CNN's Jim Acosta reported the departure was mutual and done on McCabe's terms, but a lot of other networks are now confirming that McCabe had been ousted. So why did that happen? Well, there are a few different explanations. First off, the McCabe, he's a month and a half away from his announced retirement and he

decided that he had enough accrued time off to leave so that's that's

possibility number one possibility number two is that there's an IG report

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