FBI Director Christopher Wray to resign amid criticism from President-elect Trump
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🗓️ 12 December 2024
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USA TODAY Justice Department Correspondent Bart Jansen looks at the decision by FBI Director Christopher Wray to resign.
House Republicans pass a defense policy bill that includes a contentious provision to ban certain types of medical care for transgender children of military service members.
USA TODAY Investigative Reporter Chris Quintana discusses how post-grad football lures players with a second shot at glory.
The U.S. Preventive Services Task Force recommends self-tests to screen for cervical cancer.
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| 0:00.0 | Wondery Plus subscribers can listen to USA Today's The Excerpt, Ad-Free, right now. |
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| 0:12.6 | Good morning. I'm Taylor Wilson, and today is Thursday, December 12, 2024. |
| 0:18.3 | This is the excerpt. |
| 0:21.6 | Today, what's next for the FBI as Christopher Ray announces his resignation? |
| 0:27.0 | Plus how postgrad football lures players with a second shot at glory. |
| 0:31.4 | And we take a look at new recommendations for cervical cancer self-testing. |
| 0:37.0 | FBI director Christopher Ray is set to resign amid criticism from President-elect Donald Trump. |
| 0:42.7 | I caught up with USA Today Justice Department correspondent Bart Jansen for the latest. |
| 0:47.6 | Hello, Bart. |
| 0:48.3 | Hello. |
| 0:49.2 | So Bart, let's just start with some of the basics. |
| 0:51.5 | Tell us a little bit about Christopher Ray and his tenure as FBI director. |
| 0:55.8 | Well, Ray, he had been FBI director for seven years out of what was anticipated to be a 10-year term. |
| 1:03.6 | Congress created the 10-year terms to try to remove the post from politicization. He was also a Yale-trained |
| 1:10.7 | lawyer who served in the early part of his |
| 1:13.8 | career as a prosecutor in Georgia, and he rose through the ranks in the Justice Department |
| 1:19.5 | before working 17 years for a private law firm and then becoming the FBI director in 2017. |
| 1:26.7 | So this decision now to resign, Bart, |
| 1:30.2 | let's talk through this a little bit. And just as for him and Donald Trump, can you help us |
| 1:34.2 | understand the tensions there and how Trump has previously criticized him? Trump appointed Ray in 2017 to |
| 1:40.1 | succeed Jim Comey, who Trump fired because he didn't consider him loyal enough. So Ray came in. |
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