Trump increasingly upset and his one Senior Administration official put, it quote, unhinged over the immigration situation. Now that led to the sunday surprise. The forced resignation of homestand security secretary Kirstjen Nielsen. She had become the public face of the president s border bashing but apparently couldnt carry out what a Senior Administration source calls the president s unreasonable and impossible requests. She owes going to be replaced now by Kevin Mcaleenan who was the commissioner of customs and Border Protection, and, remember, hes the one who last month declared that the southern border was at the breaking point. Two days later the president threatened to close the border. Kaitlan collins is at the white house. Tell us about these developments. What happened here, kaitlan . Well, brianna, secretary nielsen was not intending on resign when she came to the white house yesterday, but during that facetoface with President Trump he was intent on demanding her resignation, and thats why shes now leaving. Now this comes as the president has been increasingly frustrated with immigration in recent days, blaming nielsen for the spike in border crossings and also as you noted reviving the idea of reinstating that family separation policy, that policy that the president ended last year with an executive order, and debating bringing that back. Now Steven Miller, a key economic or excuse me immigration adviser to the president in the west bank, certainly played a Critical Role in nielsens ouster. He wasnt the only person against her. So was john bolton, the National Security adviser and she butted heads with nick mulvaney, the chief of staff and he played a Critical Role in pushing her out and were told by sources he wants to get rid of several other people currently at the department of Homeland Security. Right now one big question is who is going to be leading that department because you noted that President Trump says he wants the cvb commissioner to take over for nielsen when she officially steps down but theres someone standing in the way that have and thats claire grady who is right now the acting deputy secretary and technically shes in line to take over. Sources i spoke to this morning says she has no intention of resigning in the coming days so essentially she will be force the administration to fire her so that Kevin Mcaleenan can take over on wednesday. Brianna, that hasnt happened yet, but were keeping our years to the ground to wait to see whats happening next and who it is thats going to be in charge of dhs. Reporter Kaitlan Collins on the north lawn there, thank you so much. This depart youre Homeland Security secretary Kirstjen Nielsen highlights the concern about the large number of vacancies that are in the Trump Administration. By the end of the week, theres actually going to be seven highlevel positions with acting officials in charge, and that includes the defense department, the interior department, u. S. Ambassador to the united nations, white house chief of staff and now you have the department of Homeland Security director. The president considers this a potential benefit actually rather than a problem. I sort of like acting, gives me more flexibility, do you like that . I like acting. I like acting. All right. Senior White House CorrespondentProgram Brown is here with us. He likes acting. Yeah. But theres a lot of people with concerns about there being so many actings. One source within dhs said that, look, its exasperating. There are now at least three positions in the department offal Homeland Security now of highlevel positions where officials are in an acting capacity, and what i think that does is lead to a sort of a sense of less stability inside and less stability, not knowing whats next. Even in this situation as kaitlan pointed out, you have an acting deputy secretary who is supposed to be next in line but instead the cvb chief is going to be put there as the acting secretary, so theres just a lot of confusion, brianna. The president clearly likes it because it gives him flexibility, and as we all know he likes flexibility, but within these agencies, particularly dhs, which is important to focus on because dhs is, of course, overseeing the president s priority on immigration, there are so many roles within dhs that havent been filled and now with keelsen gone, resigning, this judgment this makes the problem even worth, brianna. And the reason that you have these actings is in part because theres so much turnover. How is that affecting things . Basically theres a cascading effect because turnover is historically high, sort of like a game of survivor. Think you pointed it out. You look across the administration. Just the White House Communications director. There have been five, and i do think that this gives a sense of chaos within the administration within these different agencies but at the same time thats not something that the president is bothered by clearly. One after another were seeing people resigning, being fired, being pushed out, nominations withdrawn as we saw with the i. C. E. Director last week, and, you know, i think what were were going to see moral of the same. Jake tapper, my colleague, is reporting that Steven Miller is taking more of a leading role at the white house and wants even more firings on dhs on the immigration front. Looks like theres more to come, brianna. Well talk about it when there is. Thanks so much for the report. The white house has defined is defying requests to see the president s tax returns and Mick Mulvaney said voters knew the president would never release them and said it will never happen. Listen to this. Keep in mind, they knew they are not going to get these taxis. They know what the law is. They know that one of the fundamental principles of the irs is to protect the confidentiality of you and me and everybody else who files taxes. To be clear, you believe democrats will never see the president s tax returns . Oh, no, never, nor should they. That is not going to happen and they know it. This is a political stunt. So actually trump said repeatedly he would release his taxes. Listen. If i decide to run for office ill produce my tax returns, absolutely. Im release when were finished with the audit. I will release my tax returns against my lawyers risches. When she released her 33,000 emails. Ill release them when the you had a sit completed. As soon as that is finished, whenever that make, and hopefully it will be before the election. Im fine with it. Well, my next guest is hoping to have the final say on trumps taxes, at least his state taxes. We have a new york state senator brad hillman here with us. Thanks for coming on. Thanks for having me. Youve introduced a bill that would require all politicians would need to make their tax returns public. How would that make in making the president s tax returns public . Well, i think ive introduced legislation that would require those returns to be released to the public. New york state has that authority to do so. Ive also introduced legislation that would require those returns be released only to the Congressional Investigating Committee making such a request. Being o. But a lot of people would say it could very easily become public if it goes toss a Congressional Investigating Committee. What would you say to that . Well, i think there are certainly protections in place in our u. S. Congress to keep that information private, and whats more important is that we stand by the important principle that congress is a coequal branch of government and has that important oversight responsibility. New york state is in a unique position to assist congress in that regard. So how does this work then . Does this work retroactively . Would you have to wait until the president files for reelection . How would this work . No. Heres the thing. If we pass this legislation that would enable the state department of taxation and finance to release those taxes to the house ways and means committee, that could happen as soon as the bill was passed. Its so important that chairman neal has made that request to federal authorities, but now as you understand and as all of the American Public knows they are being rebuffed at every turn by Trump Administration officials. We could officially effectively rather avoid a constitutional showdown by new york providing those returns to the congressional house and ways committee. Do you worry about the politicization of the tax process here even at the state level in new york . Well, lets be clear. The state department of taxation and finance in new york has cooperated with other states, with the federal government and other governmental entities in providing the tax returns of new yorkers for decades, so this in one respect is nothing new. What is new is that we would be working with congressional investigative committees to provide those tax returns to them. What are you looking for, the president s actual net worth, where his money comes from, if hes paid the proper amount of taxes . What would you be interested in . Well, i think, you know, were all taxpayers so we all want to know that the man who holds the highest office in the land is not benefiting personally from his Business Operations nor is his family. Thats an important principle that has been in place for decades, and now this president has essentially thumbed his nose at a long held tradition that so Many Americans look to to make certain that the president is operating within the confines of the law. All right. Brad hoylman, thank you so much. Really appreciate you being with us. Thanks. Now its a waiting game over the Mueller Report. Attorney general bill barr tells congress hes well along in making redactions to the report before releasing it the middle of the month, if not sooner is what he said. Democrats are demanding a full unredacted version, and in the meantime current and former Trump Administration officials who cooperated with the special counsel are increasingly anxious about what will be revealed. We have chief National Correspondent john king with us. Hes, of course, the anchor of inside politics. What are these mueller witnesses worried about . First, they are waiting to see exactly what happens. Will the whole Mueller Report go to congress . What will be redaktd, and will the democrats get what think demanding, the working snaps its that that the current and former officials are more worried about the working papers. Remember, have you highprofile people like Reince Priebus and don mcgahn, Reince Priebus a former chief of staff and john kelly, a lot of past and present officials whose names people dont know who cooperated with the special counsel. They were told to tell the true. A lot of them who said they fiercely defended the president did talk about his work habits did, talk about his foul language did, talk about the way he said lets get rid of comey and sessions and rod rosenstein, why cant we fire bob mueller and they are worried if the Interview Transcripts make their way up to capitol hill or they cited, hell read the good things, things he thinks are bad and in the words of one person who has talked to a number of people, i talked to a couple over the weekend, a person i talked to has talked to a bunch more theres worries that some will have gone bonkers. And with the questions they were asked this,y might not have a chance if they are answering honestly, then they dont choose the questions, right . They dont choose the questions and they say among things they were asked about, what was the president s intention . Again, a lot of them said he was blowing off steam or that he didnt understand the rules, that he used foul language and said very derogatory things about people involved in this investigation whether its comey or mueller himself. This is a house panel on tuesday, Senate Committee on wednesday and the focus is really supposed be to the budget need of the justice department. Good luck. I just dont know if thats what its going to be. Look, there are legitimate questions about a lot of things. Sure. And democrats want to talk about voting rights. Republicans wants to talk ben forcement of a whole lot of things but guess, what he eel get pressed and pushed, where are you on this process . Youve been reading the entour Mueller Report and youre trying to agree on redactions and a public product and the democrats have the continue to push on the questions and havent gotten full answers, answers that they understand on the work product. It will wander away from that. Wont just be democrats but democrats as well but the democrats will push hard on the transparency and one 2020 hopeful, tim ryan, trying have a breakthrough moment and just getting into the race. These hearings have been for those breakthrough members as weve seen. Havent seen much of him on capitol hill so it would be interesting if he took the job. John thank you, thanks so much. More on the forced resignation as the president recently mushed for more movement. And the president escalated the standoff with iran as it named the elite military force a terror organization. Liberty mutual customizes your car insurance, so you only pay for what you need. Nice. But, uh. Whats up with your. Partner . Oh. 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We have tony blinken with husband, deputy National Security adviser in the obama administration, and when you when you hear beto orouke speaking like that, its its not what someone some would say is a nuanced approach to this. What was your reaction . Theres a very big lane between on the one hand opposing the policies that Prime Minister netanyahu adheres to and going for did i investment, sanctions, namecalling. I think what Prime Minister netanyahu is really an opportunist, because this is the eve of an election and this is a desperate play. A hail mary to you. Might use that term hail mary to get his base behind him and to get enough votes so that likud finishes number one and he has the right to norm the next government. Hes done these 11th, 12th hour messages to sway the election. When you hear how democrats are talking about these issues on the campaign trail, using Strong Language like beto orouke used, are do you worry that that plays into republicans who are trying to tag democrats even there is some criticism of israel to be sure within the party, but republicans are trying to tag them as antisemitic, trying to conflate some of the criticism of israel and some would argue they are effectively doing this with, for instance, ilhan owe marks the congresswoman whole had tweets that trafficked in antisemitic trop tropes. When you see someone like beto orouke do you see that playing into it . What weve seen, unfortunately, is republicans trying to turn it into a partisan issue. N return you have to go forward with annexation of the west bank. The white house is officially announcing that the u. S. Is going to designate irans revolutionary guard as a Foreign Terrorist Organization and the first time they have ever named as successive administrations have digsnated iran a state sponsor of terrorism and they have gone after companies that the irgc has been familiar with but they have stopped short of sanctioning the irgc which as you rightly say is the iranian government and theres a reason for that. Most previous administrations, including military and intelligence officials, the gain is not what we would risk if we went forward and did that. Whats the risk . The risk is that the iranians have the ability to retaliate against our forces in iraq and syria. They have mill is that. They could take accepts in the straights of hormuz and when they look at the irgc itself its adding a label, not adding new sanctions so it doesnt get you much, but what it does get you potentially is provoking a retaliation from the iranians and we included previous administrations conclude it wasnt worth it. Whats really going on is i think the administration is trying to provoke the iranians to renege on the Nuclear Agreements which they have