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Bye bye Bondi. I'm Tom. Regarding Fox News, Attorney General Pam Bondi is now the outgoing AG as President Trump confirms the job will go to someone else. Fox's Peter Deucey reports from the White House.
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Pam Bondi is actually still on the job as attorney general. She's down in Florida, I believe, shooting a promo in support of one of the DOJ initiatives. But as some of these reports were crossing, I called the president and said what is going on with Pam Bondi? And he explained that he is a fan of hers and that he thinks that she is a good person. He still wants her in the fold, he says, now in a job close to the administration in the private sector, but he feels like it is time for a change. At the top of the Justice Department,
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lawmakers are on vacation, but some are finding the time to react on social media to the firing of Bondi. Fox's Bill Meluginez reaction from Capitol Hill.
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Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer posting quote, good riddance. Pam Bondi was the wrong choice from the start, but the rot at the Department of Justice begins and ends with Donald Trump. House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries posting quote, pam Bonney's tenure as the most corrupt attorney general in modern American history has been a disgraceful affront to our Constitution. This long overdue firing is not enough to restore the credibility of the Justice Department or fix this rotten out of control administration. And it appears House Democrats still plan to go after Pam Bondi about the Epstein files despite her firing. Congressman Robert Garcia, the highest ranking member on the House Oversight Committee. Posted quote, Pam Bondi and Donald Trump may think her firing gets her out of testifying to the Oversight Committee. They are wrong and we, we look forward to hearing from her under oath.
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Deputy Attorney General Tom Blanch will step in to serve as acting AG with current EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin being floated as a possible replacement. On Wall street, stocks ending the day mixed. The Dow lost 61 points, but the Nasdaq eked out a gain of 38 while the S&P 500 was up 7. America's listening to Fox News. President Trump has said the US Is going to bomb Iran back to the stone Age over the next two to three weeks. Fox's Mike Tobin has the latest on the fighting from Tel Aviv.
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The president posted a video claiming the biggest bridge in Iran comes tumbling down. And he threatened it's time for Iran to make a deal before it's too late. That prompted Iran's farce news agency to post a list of bridges in Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, Jordan and Abu Dhabi as possible targets as retaliation. The spokesman for Iran's Revolutionary Guard, always defiant, said the US And Israel so far have only hit insignificant targets. Through all the tough talk. Israel's defense minister told the new secretary general, Hezbollah Naim Kassam, that he's headed to the bottom of hell for firing on Israelis during Passover. And he read off a list of leaders from Iran, from Hezbollah, from Hamas, who Israel has already assassinated.