It's Thursday, January 29th.
I'm Janie Houston, and this is What A Day, a show that says Nicki Minaj, I know times are tough.
Making music people like is hard,
and your husband and your brother might want pardons for sex crimes.
But girl,
there is never a time that is literally hold hands with President Donald Trump and get made into a meme by the GOP Twitter account,
Tough.
On today's show, Fed chair Jerome Powell stands up for truth,
justice, and a conservative approach to interest rates during Wednesday's Fed rate meeting.
And the FBI raids a Georgia election office infamous to conspiracy theorists for its role in rigging the 2020 election.
Either FBI director Kashpatel is bored,
or his 27-year-old girlfriend is performing a country music concert nearby and he needed an excuse to take the jet.
But let's start with Minneapolis.
The federal officers involved in the Saturday killing of Alex Pretti have been placed on administrative leave,
according to an announcement by an official with the Department of Homeland Security on Wednesday.
That is, of course,
not what border patrol official Gregory Bovino said on Saturday when he alleged that the officers were still working just in a different city.
That's just one small sample of the wildly vacillating stories we've gotten from the federal government over the last few days about what's going on in Minnesota.
Remember how White House Deputy Chief of Staff and worst person alive Stephen Miller said Alex Pretty was a,
quote, assassin and domestic terrorist?