The last word starts right now with Ali Velshean for Lawrence.

Hey, Ali.

I learned a lot from your interview with one of those leaders from the CDC who left.

I actually came out of that little more hopeful.

Yeah.

And it's really inspiring that he and others are coming out and trying to share accurate information with the public.

It is a travesty that

they had to felt the need to walk out. They're such important people in the building, but it's powerful

what they're doing. It's also incredibly powerful to see hundreds of CDC employees give them a clap

out today. Because there's videos and there's cameras and this administration, all they ever talk about is how we're going to find you and we're going to go after you.

So everybody who did that did so at risk to themselves in the defense of fairness, science, and the way things should go.

So thank you for a very informative interview.

Hope you have a great night.

Thank you, Allie.

Have a great show.

Tonight, news of the Trump administration's assault on competency and the independence of federal agencies is breaking on two different fronts.

Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook has sued Donald Trump over his attempts to remove her from the Central Bank's Board of Governors,

calling the move unprecedented and illegal in her lawsuit filed today.

A judge has scheduled a hearing on Lisa Cook's temporary restraining order for 10 a.m. tomorrow. We'll have more on the lawsuit

and tomorrow's hearing when Andrew Weissman and Gene Sperling join us later in the hour.

But we begin with the absolute chaos that Donald Trump has created at the place tasked with being this nation's

frontline defense against life-threatening diseases. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention,

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