Today, Deputy FBI Director Dan Bongino apparently did not show up to work.

And at this point, we really have no idea if he will be back at work on Monday, as I was just

saying to Chris.

And if not, whether he's gone for good or whether anyone else from this Trump-era soap opera

will be exiting with him.

Who knows?

We'll see.

And if there's anything we learn over the next hour, and you never know, we may, we will be let, we will be sure to let you know, I promise.

And we don't know exactly where Dan Bongino was. We do have a pretty good sense of why he went MIA.

And before we get into all the nitty gritty here, I know you've probably been following a lot of it.

But let me just say this is a very messy,

dysfunctional MAGA family drama.

It involves hurt feelings and big personalities, and I would say some important lessons about

what can happen when you're in a party with a growing addiction to conspiracy theorists and making sure they love you.

So I just want to go back to the beginning of the second Trump administration

because it's important here.

I mean, the MAGA faithful were eager to finally get their hands on all the secret Jeffrey Epstein files

that they had led themselves to believe were purposely being hidden from them,

from all the evil people in the Biden administration,

I suppose.

Files that were convinced, they were convinced,

would implicate members of the deep state

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