Sources: Deputy FBI Director Considering Resigning

Anderson Cooper 360

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🗓️ 12 July 2025

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Multiple sources say the FBI's number two was a no show at work today. Dan Bongino, the Deputy Director of the FBI, has told people he is considering resigning amid a major clash between the FBI and Justice Department over the continued fallout from the release of the Jeffrey Epstein memo, sources familiar with the matter told CNN. Plus, a week after people in Texas Hill Country woke up to the worst of the flooding, President Trump tours the area and questions continue over FEMA's delayed response. Anderson speaks to Democratic Rep. Jared Moskowitz, who is calling for a formal investigation into FEMA's response to the flooding. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:31.6	Tonight on 360, the FBI's number two is a no show at work today.
0:36.6	Will the former conspiracy peddling podcaster give up his government gig and return to the airwaves?
0:43.1	Also tonight with FEMA's response to the Texas flooding under scrutiny, the president goes to
0:47.3	the scene and dismisses a question about warning systems as something only an evil person
0:51.8	would ask. Also, remembering David Gergen, a fixture on CNN and a friend whose voice of good faith,
0:58.0	good humor, and humanity in politics has sadly gone silent.
1:02.0	Good evening, thanks for joining us.
1:04.0	It is hard to imagine what David Gergen would have made of the lead story tonight.
1:08.0	His Washington was not the kind of place where a former podcaster and conspiracy
1:11.5	theory amplifier would be deputy FBI director. But that is what Dan Bongino is, though for how
1:17.1	much longer isn't very clear. CNN has learned that he's been telling people he might resign. Also,
1:22.3	that he's at odds with Attorney General Ham Bondi over how the Jeffrey Epstein case was being
1:27.2	handled.
1:28.3	They had what sources familiar with the matter say was a heated confrontation earlier
1:32.3	in the week.
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