time. she was on borrowed time from day one. that was something that has been kind of an open secret in washington. reiterated to me this morning from a trump source. the question has been, how long can she last? in her defense, she is in a thankless job in that the president has expectations of his staff, particularly at homeland on fulfilling his campaign promises and doing things at the border that are frankly undoable, particularly without legislation. that s part of his job. even without legislation. she tried to her peril to give the president what he wants rhetorically. she had a blip of a good vibe with the president. ironically over the thing that hurt her reputation more than anything. the child separation and defending it to the nth degree. the president was supportive of
mid-term election results and suggests more changes to his cabinet. including his own chief of staff, john kelly and kelly s protege, secretary of homeland security, nielsen. he is in a bad mood about the election. why does he think his own team has to go? no question the president has been eying replacements for all about everyone in the west wing here and potentially in the cabinet for people who are not related to him. he is not going to replace everyone, but he is open to replacing some people. that is where his mind set is now. he is eying switching things up as he enters the halftime of his first term in office. one person he has been angry at for a long time, he made it publicly clear. homeland security secretary, nielsen. he believes she has not done enough to stop the inflow of a border crossing.
plan he was prepared to shut down the government if he didn t get his full border wall funding. the question is what do democrats do? democrats will push in both chambers. in the senate, they like a lot of appropriations packages and they want to do a deal, but house democrats, a lot of those will hold a line. they do not want to do a deal and give trump his border wall financing. i think we can see democrats potentially fractured in how they handle the situation. there is $1.6 billion approved by the senate. the bipartisan deal for $1.6 billion. trump wants a lot more than that. will he be satisfied? we don t know. the president may want to fight it very hard knowing it s going to get harder with the new congress.
approaches this is a bottom line question about whether donald trump is above the law. they don t think the appointment is legal. there is going to be a dispute. the lawyers handle that after the elections. the lawyers get involved in that. there is the question of is he being brought in to reign in or quash mueller. how far will they go to demand and protect the mueller legislation that passes in the judiciary committee and make it harder on the counsel. there is talk to add that to a spending bill to avoid a government shut down. it needs to be accomplished by early december. other democrats would not go that far. risking the threat of a possible shut down. there is talk of what they can do. the person making these decisions is described by even his closest friends is in a foul place right now. despite his public statements, the election was a complete victory.
will that be determined in broward county or is that a question if you have paper ballots and say the machine didn t count it. will that end up back in court? i think what i can see in court is the deadline. once this deadline for the machine count comes thursday, they have so little time to do the hand recounts of the votes on the ballots that are undervoted or overvoted. a bunch of them are bumping up against that deadline and it s a big fight like 2000 was in terms of should the counting continue. sort of like 2000 was. thanks for that. we will leave this conversation there. if it s like 2000, i suspect we will have a few more in the days and weeks ahead. appreciate your insights. let s bring it into the room. this matters because you should count votes and have elections people can trust. number two matters because if florida swings, the president thought when he had his post