Tulsi Gabbard Resigns, Fed’s New Era, Trump Jr.’s Wedding and more
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🗓️ 22 May 2026
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, from CNN. I'm Afamadiki with the five things you need to know for Friday, May 22nd. |
| 0:07.0 | Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard says she's resigning at the end of June, citing her husband's cancer diagnosis. |
| 0:15.0 | On truth social, President Donald Trump said Gabbard has done, quote, an incredible job and we will miss her. |
| 0:21.3 | He added that principal deputy director |
| 0:23.2 | of national intelligence, Aaron Lucas, |
| 0:25.0 | will be her temporary replacement. |
| 0:27.2 | Here's CNN political and national security analyst David Sanger. |
| 0:31.0 | People in Washington believed it was only a matter of time |
| 0:34.8 | before she was forced out. |
| 0:36.4 | So this may have avoided a confrontation |
| 0:40.3 | that was coming. She never really got her arms around this job, I think, was the sense. |
| 0:47.3 | In the discussions over Iran and before that, Venezuela, she was rarely in the room. It is also interesting to note that |
| 0:58.2 | this is the fourth woman to leave the administration in the past few months. I was just making |
| 1:04.7 | a little list here before. Christy Noem, of course, left as the head of Department of Homeland Security. |
| 1:11.1 | Pam Bondi was removed as Attorney General, |
| 1:15.7 | and Laurie Chavez de Riemer as the Secretary of Labor |
| 1:19.4 | amid a number of investigations. |
| 1:23.2 | When we come back, a new era for the Fed. |
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