Acting FBI Director Paul Abbate, who took the helm from Christopher Wray, resigned Monday around when President Trump took his oath of office.

Brian Driscoll, who has worked for the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) since 2007, has been named the acting director of the agency. The news came after Paul Abbate retired.

CNN’s Erin Burnett speaks to Jackson Reffitt who turned his father, Guy Reffitt, into the FBI for his role in the January 6, 2021 insurrection. President Donald Trump pardoned more than 1,500 people charged in the attack on the US Capitol and commuted the sentences of leaders of the Proud Boys and Oath Keepers.

Paul Abbate, the deputy director of the FBI who took over temporarily as acting director after the resignation of Christopher Wray, retired from his post on Monday, an FBI official said.

A longtime FBI deputy director who had been expected to replace Director Christopher Wray on an acting basis is retiring from the bureau.

President Trump chose Brian Driscoll, an FBI veteran, to run the agency on an acting basis. The decision came after Paul Abbate, who had been expected to lead the bureau temporarily, said he was retiring Monday.

Attorneys for convicted NXIVM sex trafficker Keith Raniere say defense experts have uncovered "provable" evidence of tampering in their quest for a new trial.

Just moments before leaving office, President Joe Biden commuted the life sentence of Indigenous activist Leonard Peltier, who was convicted in the 1975 killings of two FBI agents.

With his foreign terrorist designation executive order, Donald Trump indicated he is preparing a covert action finding to confront the Mexican drug cartels.

Having been sworn in and after events at the Capitol, President Donald Trump’s inauguration moves to Capital One Arena, where he’ll address supporters and sign a number of executive orders. A desk has been set up on stage for Trump to sign some of the first executive orders of his administration.