Attorney General Fired, Astronauts Speak, Tiger's Arrest and more

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Good morning, everyone. I'm Kate Baldwin. It's Friday, April 3rd. Here are the five things you need to know to start your day. Number one, the AG is out. President Trump has now fired his Attorney General, Pam Bondi, making her tenure the shortest for any confirmed U.S. Attorney General in 60 years. Sources say the president told her earlier this week that this could be coming.

Her tenure did see indictments of the former FBI director, James Comey, and the New York Attorney General Letitia James, but those fell apart. Pam Bondi is still scheduled to appear before lawmakers for a deposition about the Epstein files in a couple weeks, which House Democrats, they're still pushing to make happen. Just because her employment status changed doesn't mean she automatically forgets everything that she did to cover up on the Epstein files and forgets everything she was told to do. So it's still important that she come and speak to us. Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche will now temporarily lead the Justice Department. Number two, the intel, the new intel. President Trump posted new video of a huge plume of smoke

rising after a strike on one of Iran's largest bridges, one of more than 12,000 targets that U.S. Central Command says that it has hit so far. But there is also new CNN reporting, suggesting they have more work to do if taking out Iran's missile capability is actually a goal. Roughly half of Iran's missile launchers are still intact and roughly half of Iran's drone capability is still existing. According to multiple sources and recent U.S. intelligence assessments, that equals thousands of one-way attack drones in Iran's reserves. All of this now raises fresh questions about the president's stated timeline that the U.S. will be done with this Iran war in two to three.

more weeks. One source told CNN, well, quite bluntly, this. We can keep effing them up. I don't doubt it. But you're out of your mind if you think this will be done in two weeks. Yesterday, more than 40 countries meant to try and figure a way to reopen the straight-of-war moves to shipping traffic. This has become such a central problem in this fight. The UN Security Council is expected to vote soon on a resolution from Bahrain, allowing countries to use, quote, all defensive means necessary to traverse the critical waterway. Number three, the moon mission. The four astronauts on the Artemis II mission have officially left Earth's orbit.

They are now on their way to the moon. Late last night, the crew completed an important maneuver called the Transluner Injection Burn to set them up to slingshot the Orion spacecraft around the moon, even to the south side of the lunar surface, and then bring them back to Earth for a splash down. Here's the pilot, Victor Glover. Amazing things that humans do moonshots for a reason, because this brought a together and showed us what we can do when we put, not just putting our differences aside, when we bring our differences together and use all the strengths to accomplish something great.

The historic mission will mark the first time astronauts returned to the vicinity of the moon in more than 50 years. It could take them farther from Earth than any human ever has, breaking the Apollo program's distance record. As and as they orbit, they also have a mascot on board. This plushy named Rise was actually designed by a second grader from California. to be the official zero gravity indicator. That is super cool. It also has a micro SD card tucked inside with the names of more than 5 million people

who entered a contest to have their names sent on the mission. Number four, the body camp footage. Police in Florida have now released videos of their interaction with Tiger Woods on the day of his latest DUI arrest. He's seen kneeling near his SUV. He's heard telling deputies. He looked down at his phone and was changing the radio

right before he hit that truck that had the trailer behind it. The video also shows the field sobriety test that the deputies say Tiger Woods failed. In one, he's asked to follow an object with his eyes without moving his head. In the arrest affidavit, the deputy's right, Tiger Woods had bloodshot glassy eyes and was in no condition to drive. They found two pills in his pocket and you can hear Woods identify them on video as a narco, meaning narcotics. The affidavit says they were hydrocodone. Video also shows Woods in handcuffs and in the back seat of a patrol car. He's pleaded not guilty and has requested a jury trial.

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One last thing. The twisted tale of how the world's oldest tortoise got wrapped up in a crypto scan. Stay with me here. This is Jonathan, the tortoise. He's believed to be about 194 years old. And man has he lived a wildlife on a remote British island in the South Atlantic Ocean. He has seen a lot in those years. He even met with King George the 6th and Queen Elizabeth the second during a royal visit back in 1947. But this week, a social media account purporting to be his caretaker, posted that Jonathan had died.

Several media outlets even went with it. But it turns out the account was fake. And the person behind that account was just trying to solicit crypto donations, prompting the real caretaker to speak up and call it out as a con. The tourism board on the island posted that Jonathan is alive and well and continues to be St. Helena's most famous resident.

The governor's office on the island took it a step further and posted an actual proof-of-life photo with Thursday's edition of the BBC website on a tablet in the background. I mean, I like it when you take it to 11 on anything, and I love this. So keep calm friends and carry on, Jonathan. I'm Kate Baldwin.

Those are the five things you need to know to get your day going. No, get going.

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