Hi there, everyone. Happy Friday. It's 4 o'clock in the East. If you put the shock of it aside for a minute and try to view the situation dispassionately, the stone cold fact of the matter is. The American people are less safe today than we were 24 hours ago, last month, last week, one year ago.

That is because there is a generational turnover happening in full view at the FBI right now.

A dark transformation whereby Donald Trump scatters top talent vital to the safety of the American

homeland to the winds, all in the name of his

retribution campaign and revenge. The latest victim of the ongoing purge at the FBI, according to two

federal law enforcement sources, is Steve Jensen. He's the assistant director in charge of the

Washington field office. He played a key role in the January 6th investigations.

Remember before Jensen, we reported yesterday that we learned of other terminations this week,

like that of the former acting director of the FBI, Brian Driscoll.

He was a hero among the agency's rank and file for resisting a directive

from the Trump Justice Department earlier this year demanding a list of names of agents who had

worked on cases having to do with, you guessed it, January 6th. NBC's Kandelanian noted this afternoon

that more than 200 people were there to applaud Driscoll today on his way out of the office and out of the FBI for the last time. A source telling Ken Delaney, and quote, people are pissed.

And there's Walter Gerdina. According to the New York Times, quote, Mr. Gerdina had worked on a number of Trump-related investigations, including a case that sent the trade advisor, Peter Navarro, to prison. The Republican chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, Chuck Grassley of Iowa, has criticized Mr. Giordina for what whistleblowers have claimed

is anti-Trump bias. Mr. Giordina, a former Marine who deployed to Iraq after the September

11th attacks, lost his wife last month to cancer. One, two, three that we know about, highly regarded, experienced leaders of the FBI who worked

every day, not for glory, but for us, American people, kicked to the curb for having the audacity

to have been involved with entirely legitimate and righteous investigations that happen to relate to crimes committed by Donald Trump.

Congressman Jamie Raskin, the ranking member of the House Judiciary Committee, put this moment into context like this.

Instead of investigating and stopping child predators, the FBI is now redacting their names

from the Epstein files. Instead of hunting down terrorists and criminals, the FBI is tracking

down state legislators standing up for voting rights. Instead of rewarding agents who love the country

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