resignation to the president effective seven days from today, effective one week from today, earlier this morning. >> now, this comes as president trump also trying to distance himself from his one-time social relationship that he reportedly had with epstein, acknowledging that he kicked jeffrey epstein out of his mar-a-lago club, saying that he had some sort of unspecified falling out with epstein. so president trump trying to put some distance between him and that relationship as well. this comes after president trump requested that acosta do that press conference earlier this year to come out and explain the details of that case. although it certainly wasn't enough to persuade those who had been calling for acosta's resignation that this was an okay deal, and obviously we know what happens next. now the president will have yet another vacancy in his cabinet with high-level across his administration at the moment, kate. >> and now mounting. thanks so much. joining me right now the cnn chief political analyst dana