Hi, everyone. Happy Monday. It's 4 o'clock in New York on a busy day of news, an avalanche of

developments by design, each one more alarming than the next. It amounts to a disruption on a scale

that is darker and more extreme than when

Donald Trump publicly promised from hundreds of billions of dollars of tariffs that threatened

to upend the global economy to the wholesale takeover and in some cases dismantling of entire

government agencies by unbedded outsiders led by Elon Musk.

We have a lot to get to today, but we're going to start with a war being waged by the Trump

administration against the nation's top law enforcement agency at the expense of our national

security, a possible purge by team Trump of agents who worked on the January 6th investigation.

That is the largest investigation in FBI's history.

That internal investigation coming to head this afternoon.

A questionnaire went out asking staffers what, if any role they played in that probe.

It was due this afternoon.

New York Times reports this, quote, the form requires

the employees to say if they collected evidence, provided support services, interviewed witnesses,

executed search warrants, or testified at trial, basic activities of FBI employees during the

normal and lawful course of their duties. The number of employees involved

could be as high as 6,000, about a six of the FBI's entire workforce. Removing all of them at this time

would potentially be a major blow to national security. Here's former Republican governor of New Jersey, former U.S. Attorney Chris Christie.

Understand how long it takes to get a new FBI agent on board. If you fire hundreds, if not thousands,

it be thousands on this list of FBI agents. It takes 12 to 18 months to get them on board.

By the time you go through the interviewing process, the vetting process, then they go to Quantico for their training and then become onboarded as a brand new FBI agent.

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