Some new reporting that is broken since we've been on the air. It's something we've covered for years on this program, and it's happening.

It can only be described as the start of a massive, much larger than expected purge at the FBI of FBI agents and officials.

Many of them, in one way or another, touched the investigations into Donald Trump.

Sources telling NBC News this,

the Office of Acting Deputy Attorney General Emil Bobay asked the FBI for a list of Bureau employees involved in January 6 cases,

sparking panic inside the Bureau by people who fear retribution by the Trump administration amidst an ongoing purge of FBI

leadership.

Meanwhile, my colleague, NBC's Ken Delanyan reports that several top FBI executives were told

to resign or be fired and that the purge includes more than 20 heads of FBI field offices,

including those in Miami and Washington, D.C.

Yeah, this is something I've been sort of chasing all day, and it's tough because there's so many,

you know, rumors and a lot of worry being spread within the Justice Department within the FBI.

You know, so there's this community, obviously, of all of these people who work these January 6 cases,

you know, on the FBI side, on the DOJ side.

And so what we can report is that there was this request for this, you know, list of all these individuals who worked on January 6 cases,

and that that's something that the Washington field office has cooperated with thus far.

You know, the issue here is that it's such a large list. And so the

question is, how are they going to figure out who they're going to be focused and targeted,

focused on and potentially targeting here, right? Because it's just so many people within the

Bureau. This was the largest investigation in FBI history in terms of number of defendants. You're

talking about over 1,500 defendants overall.

And this can't touch basically every field office in the country.

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