Deputy FBI Director Dan Bongino has told people he is considering resigning amid a major clash between the FBI and DOJ over the continued fallout from the release of the Jeffrey Epstein memo, several sources familiar with the matter told CNN.

Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche took to social media Friday to defend the Justice Department’s handling of the Epstein memo released earlier this week.

A top Justice Department (DOJ) official pushed back Friday on speculation that there was a gap between Attorney General Pam Bondi and FBI leadership over the handling of files related to disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein,

There is new tension between the U.S. attorney general and the number two at the FBI over the handling of the Jeffrey Epstein investigation. The FBI's deputy director, Dan Bongino, did not show up to work Friday,