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| 0:00.0 | This week on Consider This, amid the Trump administration's overhaul of the Justice Department, a whistleblower who worked there for 15 years speaks to NPR about what he says is happening inside. |
| 0:11.7 | Judges say, where's the evidence? |
| 0:13.4 | And we have no evidence because there is no evidence. |
| 0:16.8 | That's this week on Consider This. Listen each weekday afternoon on the NPR app or wherever you get your podcasts. |
| 0:24.9 | Live from NPR News, I'm Janine Hurst. President Trump is firing the head of the Bureau of Labor Statistics. |
| 0:32.5 | This comes hours after the federal agency released weaker than expected jobs numbers. |
| 0:37.9 | In Pyrr's Hansi Lo Wong has more. |
| 0:39.9 | In a post on his social media platform about Commissioner of Labor Statistics, Erica McIntyre, |
| 0:44.3 | President Trump says he has, quote, directed my team to fire this Biden political appointee |
| 0:49.1 | immediately, unquote. |
| 0:50.8 | McIntyre is a labor economist whose term at the Bureau of Labor Statistics was not set to end until early 2028. |
| 0:56.9 | Federal law, however, allows presidents to remove commissioners of labor statistics before their four-year term is up. |
| 1:02.5 | Hours before Trump's announcement, the Bureau of Labor Statistics released new numbers showing a slowdown in the job market that many economists fear would be driven by uncertainty over Trump's push for |
| 1:11.2 | more import taxes through his tariff policy. Data experts have also raised concerns about the |
| 1:15.8 | integrity of U.S. government statistics under this Trump administration, which has been |
| 1:19.3 | slashing positions and programs as statistical agencies. Hansi Luong and Pierre News, Washington. |
| 1:24.5 | Jeffrey Epstein's longtime accomplice and former girlfriend, Golan Maxwell, |
| 1:29.3 | has been moved from a federal prison in Florida to a prison camp in Texas. This comes a week |
| 1:34.8 | after she met with a top Justice Department official, and P.R.'s Ryan Lucas has more. |
| 1:39.2 | Maxwell is serving a 20-year sentence for helping Jeffrey Epstein sexually exploit underage girls. |
| 1:44.4 | She had been held at a federal lockup in Florida, but the federal Bureau of Prison says Maxwell |
| 1:48.7 | has now been transferred to a lower security prison camp in Bryan, Texas. No reason was given |
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