00:00The FBI fired 10 agents and analysts involved with the classified documents prosecution of President Trump under former special counsel
00:07Jack Smith.
00:08FBI Director Cash Patel said agents purposely tried to evade oversight and added, quote,
00:14It is outrageous and deeply alarming that the previous FBI leadership secretly subpoenaed my own phone records, along with those
00:22of now White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles.
00:24Earlier this week, the Post reported the DOJ subpoenaed the phone records of Patel and Wiles as part of a,
00:31quote,
00:32Massive targeting operation undertaken by the Biden administration back in 2022 and 2023 as Trump's presidential campaign was heating up.
00:40The firing of those 10 agents involved was blasted by the FBI Agents Association,
00:45who claim the action violates the due process rights of the agents and weakens the FBI.
00:50An FBI official told the Post the subpoenas were discovered in files labeled prohibited,
00:56similar to those Arctic frost disclosures from the same investigation found in burn bags at FBI headquarters last year.
01:03Transgender drivers in Kansas will have their licenses invalidated under a new law that went into effect Thursday.
01:09The new rule passed by the state legislature's Republican supermajority,
01:13overriding a veto from the state's Democratic governor requires the gender identification listed on licenses to be the same as
01:22the sex drivers were assigned at birth.
01:24About 1700 drivers were mailed a notice to change their gender and were told there was no grace period to
01:30do so.
01:31The notice said, quote,
01:32That means that once the law is officially enacted, your current credentials will be invalid immediately and you may be
01:39subject to additional penalties if you were operating a vehicle without a valid credential.
01:44This is the latest law aimed at transgender Kansans.
01:47Other measures have focused on restricting which bathrooms, locker rooms and single sex facilities transgender people can use.
01:55U.S. military buildup continues in the Middle East, even as talks to avoid a war with Iran progress.
02:01The latest rounds of negotiations in Geneva on Thursday were moderated by Oman's foreign minister,
02:07who, after the talks, posted on X that, quote,
02:10significant progress was made and that discussions would resume Monday in Vienna.
02:15But the reaction from Iran's foreign minister cast a bit of doubt on what significant progress actually means.
02:22He said the discussions were, quote,
02:24one of our most intense and longest rounds of negotiations
02:27and added that Iran clearly laid out what needs to happen to move forward, whatever that means.
02:33But the biggest head scratcher in the whole thing is that, as of this recording,
02:37the White House has not commented on the talks at all.
02:41Axios reported that negotiators Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner left a morning session, quote,
02:46disappointed, but later thought the day's works was, quote, positive.
02:49Secretary Marco Rubio is reportedly traveling to Israel this weekend to brief Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on the talks.
03:19We'll see you next time.
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