From the New York Times, it's the headlines.

I'm Tracy Mumford.

Today's Friday, April 3rd.

Here's what we're covering.

Attorney General Pam Bondi had a pretty good idea of what was coming.

President Trump had been complaining privately about her for a while,

according to multiple people familiar with the situation. He'd been venting about how she'd

mishandled the Epstein files and how she hadn't been able to prosecute his political enemies

like he wanted. She also wasn't as good on TV as he would have liked. So when Trump dropped

Kristy Knoem from her job as

Secretary of Homeland Security last month, Bondi told a friend she could be next. Then this Wednesday,

Trump had Bondi hop in the car with him for a ride from the White House. There, Trump told her it

was time for a change. He made it official yesterday morning on true social.

We love Pam, he wrote, but she will be transitioning to an important new job in the private sector.

He didn't say what. Her dismissal came despite the fact that she spent her time as Attorney General

repeatedly going to bat for the president. All of you who participated in those

impeachment hearings against Donald Trump, you all should be apologizing. That was on full display at her

most recent appearance in front of Congress when she was called to answer questions about the

administration's handling of the Epstein files and kept deflecting. The Dow, the Dow right now is over $50,000. I don't know why you're laughing.

As Attorney General, Bondi shook up the whole Justice Department trying to fulfill Trump's demands.

She purged longtime lawyers who had worked on cases involving the president. She installed Trump loyalists with little

experience in top prosecutorial jobs around the country, and she launched investigations trying to

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