Deputy FBI director Dan Bongino did not go into the office Friday and largely excommunicated himself from most of his colleagues after a major fallout with Attorney General Pam Bondi. CNN’s Evan Perez breaks down the situation and how it began over the handling of the Jeffrey Epstein files.

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Deputy FBI director Dan Bongino has not reported to work for several days after a significant disagreement with Attorney General Pam Bondi regarding the handling of files related to the Jeffrey Epstein investigation. The conflict centers on Bondi's earlier public promises to release more information, which were followed by a Justice Department statement denying the existence of an 'Epstein list' previously referenced by Bondi.

The situation has caused frustration among FBI officials, including Bongino, who feel they are bearing the political consequences of decisions made by the attorney general. Despite the ongoing tension, Bondi has not sought Bongino's dismissal, and he is being given time to decide his future. The dispute remains a topic of discussion among conservative political figures, reflecting broader dissatisfaction with the handling of the case.

Breaking down the beef between Bongino and Bondi

Well, the beef is really over the handling of the Epstein investigation. And if you remember, back in February and since then, the attorney general has said publicly that there would be more information forthcoming, there would be more files released promising that all of the things that the MAGA base has been asking for, that they would get it. And then, of course, last Monday, you saw that extraordinary statement, unsigned statement from the Justice Department saying there was nothing to see here, there was no Epstein list, which is something that she said was on her desk previously. And so there's a lot of anger at the FBI, including Kash Patel and Dan Bongino, about having to own something that they believe the attorney general caused and that it's her screw-up, essentially, that they're having to take all of the political hits for. And so that's the essence of this beef. What is extraordinary, though, is we are now on, what, day four of the deputy FBI director not showing up to work, and it's not clear when he's going to come back. At this point, the expectation is that he is going to come back. He hasn't been fired. We're told that the attorney general does not believe that she wants to get rid of him or fire him. They're all giving him, essentially, time for him to come to his own decision-making as to whether or not he wants to stay and how long he wants to stay. It does appear, though, that this is not really going away anytime soon, because as you saw over the weekend at that conference, a conservative conference in Tampa, pretty much every influencer in MAGA World is talking about this still. They want to see more information, and they certainly are not big fans of the attorney general because of the way how this has gone down. What's the effect, Evan, of the deputy director of the FBI being at odds with the attorney general? You know, imagine, Brianna, like you were, you got so mad about the way the CEO of our company was doing something, and you decided you were not going to show up to work anymore until, you know, and you give an ultimatum saying it's either him or me, right? That's really what we have going on here, and I think Bongino has really miscalculated in the sense that, you know, it's really expensive to politically, politically expensive for the president to replace an attorney general. He's not going to find anybody like Pam Bondi. She's very loyal. She's really got everything that Trump wants in an attorney general, and he's not going to get rid of her anytime soon, not certainly over this. And Dan Bongino, frankly, is more expendable. He's a deputy FBI director. He's not even Kash Patel, who's the director. He's not a Senate-confirmed job. So it's one of those things that it's really hard to see how tenable this can be. He cannot last very much longer, but the question is whether they can find a way for him to leave perhaps a little more gracefully than the way the last few days have played out.

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