Hi, everybody. Happy Friday. It's 4 o'clock in New York. A study in contrast today for the men leaving and going into the country's top law enforcement agency.

On the one hand, a send-off for a top FBI agent who tangled with the Trump

administration as Trump allies now take the helm led by people who talk a whole lot more about

retribution than the kinds of things that the FBI is known for, things like preventing terror attacks,

cybersecurity, gang violence.

The head of the New York field office, James Dennehy, left his office for the last time on Thursday.

We showed you some of this late yesterday to the sound of bagpipes and cheers.

He says he was forced to retire after he pushed back against the Trump administration's demand

that the FBI hand over the names of agents who worked on January 6 cases.

Here's what he had to say to his former colleagues.

There's a motto in the Marine Corps called Semper Fidelis.

And Semper Fidelis means always faithful.

I will always be faithful to this country,

to this organization, and most of all,

I will always be faithful to you.

And I appreciate you being faithful to me,

to this office, and more importantly, our mission.

So thank you, and I will be your best cheerleader on the outside. I appreciate it.

So that man, loyal to the country and the Bureau, had to leave abruptly. And that abrupt departure

moves the Trump DOJ closer to what they talk about doing, closer to what the

far right and Trump's allies have promised to do, a commitment set out loud to make dramatic

revolutionary changes there. And to do what everyone who fears about the future of the rule of law

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