It's Friday, April 3rd.

I'm Jane Koston, and this is what a day.

The show learning that, according to Bloomberg News,

President Donald Trump will announce a budget today with a massive buildup in defense spending,

courtesy of cuts to domestic programs.

Because when your approval is below 40%, why not try to go lower?

On today's show, the world scrambles to figure out how to reopen the straight of Hormuz.

And a poll finds people glued to social media are less likely to think

democracy is the best form of government. I wonder which right-wing influencer told them that.

But let's start with the exit of Attorney General Pam Bondi. Yes, Pam Bondi, Epstein-Binders enthusiast and

Trump-a-toddy, is out of a job. After multiple media reports stating she was headed for the green

pastures of somewhere else, President Trump officially announced her departure on true social Thursday.

He wrote in part, quote, we love Pam and she will be transitioning to a much needed and important

new job in the private sector to be announced at a date in the near future,

which means that unlike former Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristy Noem,

Bondi didn't get another administration position.

Cold.

And that's after she went to the mat for Trump over the Epstein files during a House Judiciary Committee meeting in February.

This administration released over 3 million pages of documents,

over 3 million, and Donald Trump signed that law to release all of those documents.

He is the most transparent president in the nation's history.

And none of them, none of them, ask Merrick Garland over the last four years one word about

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