Good evening. I'm Omna Nawaz.

And I'm Jeff Bennett. On the news hour tonight, a federal prosecutor agrees to drop charges against New York City's mayor, complying with the Justice Department order that sparked mass resignations and accusations of a quid pro quo.

Then...

If you're running in fear of your own voters,

there is nothing America can do for you.

Vice President J.D. Vance lectures European allies on democracy

at a summit largely meant to focus on the security of Ukraine.

And David Brooks and Jonathan Capehart give their takes on the week's headlines,

from Elon Musk's expanding influence to the White House. A wave of resignations is shaking up the U.S. Justice Department after the Trump administration gave orders to drop the corruption case against New York City Mayor Eric Adams.

So far, at least seven officials have quit, and Adams is facing increasingly loud calls to step down.

The exodus began yesterday with one of New York's top federal prosecutors, and it's already being dubbed the Thursday afternoon massacre, recalling the famous Saturday night massacre during

the Watergate scandal. William Brigham begins our coverage.

Throughout this entire ordeal, which I think...

Today, New York City Mayor Eric Adams was playing defense.

I had to endure for something I didn't do. I didn't do anything wrong.

Including a PR blitz on Fox News.

All the while, the U.S. Department of Justice is in upheaval over the fate of the corruption case it brought against the mayor.

Yesterday, six DOJ officials resigned after refusing an order from the Department in Washington to dismiss the case.

Acting U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York, Danielle Sassoon, a Republican who

clerked for the late Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, started the exodus.

Writing to Trump's new Attorney General, Pam Bondi, Sassoon accused Mayor Adams and officials in the DOJ of what amounted to a quid pro quo,

that Adams would aid Trump's immigration enforcement if the DOJ dropped his case.

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