It's Monday, February 17th. I'm Jane Koston, and this is why today. Happy President's Day to all who celebrate.

And since I'm not super into this particular president, I'm thinking about a president I like more,

like President James Garfield, who seems fine, but died in 1881 not because he was shot by Charles Guteau, but because a doctor named

doctor, yes, a doctor named doctor, didn't wash his hands before messing around with the wound.

So Dr. Dr. Willard Bliss killed a president. There's a fun fact for you.

On today's show, thousands more federal workers are fired by the Trump administration,

and phase two of the ceasefire deal between Israel and Hamas is in doubt.

But let's start with the Department of Justice,

because right now, the DOJ isn't a real and very serious crisis. Last week, the Justice Department ordered attorneys to drop corruption charges against New York City Mayor Eric Adams.

Emil Beauvais, the acting U.S. Deputy Attorney General, issued a memo last Monday saying that the charges were getting in the way of Adams' ability to fight illegal immigration and violent crime.

In case you may have forgotten, those charges stemmed from allegedly improper gifts and illegal

campaign contributions Adams got from various entities going back a decade. When federal

prosecutors announced those charges in September, they made it clear that they believed those gifts

were being made in exchange

for preferential treatment from Adams. But according to the Trump administration, that's all good now.

No worries on taking the steeply discounted flights on Turkish Airlines. What really matters is

whether or not Eric Adams can do what the Trump administration wants him to do. That's the argument

Danielle Sassoon, the former acting U.S. That's the argument Danielle Sassoon,

the former acting U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York and a Trump appointee

made in her resignation letter to Attorney General Pam Bondi. She said that Adams' attorneys

wanted a clear quid pro quo, drop the charges, and Adams will do what Trump wants. According to anonymous sources who spoke with multiple media outlets,

when Boeve referred the case to the DOJ's public integrity section,

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