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 Correspondent Program 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 adhered to and they want to pressure and provoke them to get out of the deal. If that happens though were in a terrible place because then were faced with a really bad choice between allowing iran to get the bomb or actually taking action against them and maybe starting a war. Thats a terrible choice. Not a good place to be. Tony blinken, thank you. President trump is looking to force another vacancy hand this time he wants the director of the secret service out. We have our Kaitlan Collins at the white house. Lets go back to her. Shes there on the north lawn. This breaking just now. Tell us about about this, that the secret Service Director is going to be is being removed from his position according to multiple sources. Thats right, brianna. One day after the homestand security secretary was forced to resign from her position, were now learning that the secret Service Director randolph text alice is being removed from his position. Mick mulvaney has been instructed to fire alice and he still remains in this position. While still there, hes on the way out, brianna, and they have asked him to leave the secret service. Now, an official told cnn, quote, there is as near systematic purge happening at the nations second largest National Security agency because, of course, you cant ignore that this is coming the news of this is coming one day after Kirstjen Nielsen walked into the white house yesterday, sat down with President Trump for half an hour and he demanded her resignation as hes grown from us Interest Rate trace with immigration numbers in recent days. This also comes as were being told by other sources that Steven Miller, who is chief and critical in pushing out nielsen also wants several other dhs officials to leave dhs as well. Of course, brianna, you know secret Service Falls under dhs so this is, of course, under nielsens perview as shes still there leading the agency until wednesday, but we are being told that now the secret Service Direct zor going to be removed from his position. And we dont know at this point exactly what has prompted this firing, kaitlan, but if if you can check in with your sources, i want to bring in for analysis cnn Law Enforcement analyst who is joining me by phone. What do you make of this . This is someone who has does report to the ousted Homeland Security secretary but what does this mean to you that the director of the secret service is being kicked out . Well, what this is its actually following a pattern here. I mean, everyone who is associated with the staff, general kell, including the outgoing dhs secretary and now director hale, theres a pattern, cleaning house, anyone associated with general kell the at that point in time. For the strategy of the secret service for to happen now, probably in terms of timing, the best time it could happen. Just prior to kick off the 2020 campaign, president ial campaign, so having a new fresh look at, you know, leading the secret service in terms of timing, this is probably the best timing possible. The director is then in position for just about two years, but hes actually failed to move the needle in terms of a lot of the reputational issues that the service had in the past, a lot of managerial issues, so this is this is i think an appropriate call by the president to make at this time. And theres also this issue of someone illegally entering maralago, right . They didnt get through obviously sort of to the inner ring of security, but this was a woman who was carrying chinese passports, phones. She had a flash drive that contained malware. Do you see that playing into any of this or no . You know, i think its its tangential to the overall issue thats plagued the secret service for a long time which, you know, the appropriate level of governance and oversight that came from the Senior Leadership thats pushed down into, you know, the operational execution for the service. Again, listen, the secret service has some longstanding problems around people, process and technology. They have failed to, you know, have a solid strategy on how to address the very dynamic threat environment that the president faces by executing and encouraging, you know, the budget, the expansion, the expansion of technology. How do they keep pace with these growing, you know, global threats, so i think, that you know, the director was the first outside leadership choice for the service in its well over is 50year leg circumstances and there was a lot of hope that was built around a new fresh set of thinking would be brought in and management for the secret service, and obviously, you know, we havent seen the needle move at all during his tenure, and i think that this was an appropriate time as the direction is changing at dhs, you know, changing the direction of some of the components, you know, just falls in line with that. Thank you so much so much, and speaking of security concerns, were just getting news on that maralago breach acts suspect appears in court right now. Stand by. If youre turning 65, youre probably learning about medicare and supplemental insurance. Medicare is great, but it doesnt cover everything only about 80 of your part b medicare costs, which means you may have to pay for the rest. 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And its simple, easy, awesome. Back to our breaking news. President trump has ordered the dismissal of the secret Service Director, this as the woman accused in that breach at maralago just appeared in court. I want to bring in cnn crime and justice reporter Shimon Prokupecz and cnn political director david chalian. Shimon, first to you. Tell us what you know. She is appearing right now. Youll remember she was arrested, brought here to Court Last Week after the secret Service Found her. She was on the property at maralago and when they interviewed her they say she lied so shes been charged with lying to the secret service. Were learning a lot more information today about her from the prosecutor who is just talking in court. He describes her as being essentially a liar, that at every point during this investigation when shes been questioned shes lied, and heres what they found in her hotel room. She was staying at the colony hotel here in palm beach. They say they found over 7,500 in 100 bills in u. S. Currency. They then say they found nine usb drives, five sim cards. They also say that they found a signal detector in her hotel room which the prosecutor said is used to detect hidden cameras. Unclear obviously why she would need any of this, but this is all getting even more bizarre and more puzzling as prosecutors and the phone now also involved in this case are trying to figure out exactly what she was doing here, what she went to maralago for. Remember, they also found on her a usb drive that prosecutors say had malware on it. They found four cell phones, a laptop, but then when they started doing search warrants, when they went to her hotel room, they found even more stuff, so obviously this is still ongoing, and the purpose of todays hearing is that prosecutors want her detained. They say she had a visa, a tourist visa to come to the u. S. From china. She flew through newark. She flew into Newark Airport and then she came to florida. That visa, they say, the state department has revoked that visa so there is an immigration detainer on her so even if she was to be let out today she would not be released. However, theres still a lot more going on in this investigation, and we could see new charges against her before the end of the week, prosecutors say. Right now on the stand is a secret Service Agent who spoke to her, who saw her at maralago. Hes being questioned by Defense Attorneys about their interaction, exactly what she said to them, but essentially what we have here at this point is that prosecutors say she has lied about everything. Shes lied as to why shes here. She has lied to investigators, and in really its all about now trying to figure out exactly why she was here and certainly when you hear about all the different items that she had, these computers, sim card, credit cards, all the cash that she had with her, a signal detector to determine hidden cameras this, becomes a lot more puzzling and certainly, certainly interesting as we move forward here and real for the fbi who now are also involved in this investigation. Brianna . So it begs the question is she a foreign operative . Is she a chinese spy, and where is the answer to that question at this point . Reporter right. At this point we dont have an answer, but youre right, brianna. It does paint a picture of someone who would be here for suspicious reason, right, and it could be that she came here as a spry. Prosecutors are not saying that. They will not go into specific details about her ties to china. They say she has absolutely no connection to the united states. She does not have any family here. She has no friends here. Shes here on her own. She was staying in palm beach at the colony hotel, and certainly very suspicious, because what they are saying is they found even more items that would indicate that perhaps she was on some kind of a spy mission. When you think about a signal detector, they say, to detect hidden cameras, nine usb drives that they found in her hotel room, five sim cards for phones. Already had four cell phones on her so shooes these are additional sim dhards could be used in this phone. The fact that she flew here from china and went to Newark Airport. She did get a tourist waitza, so thats going to be certainly questions that are going to be asked of the state department as to how did they issue this visa to her, but all the items, when you think about everything that they have found in her hotel room, what they found on her and how she has what they say, prosecutors say has lied to investigators time and time again when they have questioned her certainly begs the question is she a spishs and was she sent her by someone to perhaps i mean marx the concern has been this malware that they found on her had they intercepted her at the hotel. What was she going to do with that malware . Was it to be delivered into the system of the hotel, into their wifi system, into their Computer System . Its very unclear, but when you think about everything, it certainly does betting question was she a spy . Sure does. Shimon prokupecz, thanks so much for bring us those very new important details. Lets talk to New Hampshire senator maggie hasan, a democrat on the Homeland Security committee. I want to talk to you first about the secret Service Director who reports to the Homeland Security secretary who is now out. Whats your reaction of the president getting rid of the secret Service Director . Well, higher hi, brianna. Its good to be with you. Look, as your reporting just made clear, we face serious National Security threats, and it is very concerning now with this reporting that the director of secret service is leaving. It indicates even more turnover and turmoil at an agency that absolutely needs to be running at full speed as we deal with threats from international and domestic terrorism to Cyber Security to drug trafficking, and so im very concerned about this news. The president just forced nielsen out the door as i mentioned so as he did that a source is telling cnn that the president wanted to reinstate the controversial Family Separation Program which was something that nielsen had pushed back on. Whats your reaction to the president wanting to reinstate this separation of families at the border thats been so controversial . Well, first of all, lets be clear that Kirstjen Nielsen will be remembered now as the person who implemented this outrageous and inhumane policy of separating children from their families at our border. We do have serious challenges at the border to be sure, but we also have broader challenges on the Homeland Security front, ones that i mentioned just a minute ago, international and domestic terrific, Cyber Security, drug traffic and were seeing an ancreation need for fema to respond to more severe and larger natural disasters, so at a time when we need to be foegeusing on those challenges, again, we see turnovers at the top, and we see the president reportedly reconsidering doing something that is totally inhumane and really undermines American Values, separating children from their families at the border of the ive been to the border. I was just there last year talking with our front line personnel. What they tell us they need is more personnel, more immigration judges, more roads, enhances fencing and technology in certain places, those are the things that we should be focusing on, and we need a new secretary of Homeland Security who will stand up to the president when necessary to uphold the rule of law and the American Values that have made us so strong you mentioned all of the priorities besides bothered security that fall under the purview of the department of Homeland Security, but its the customs and Border Protection commissioner Kevin Mcaleenan who is the new acting secretary. Moving someone from border sghurt that ro patrol. What are your concerns with that . Im concerned about the turnover. In the first 15 years under president s bush and obama there were only four Homeland Security secretaries and in two years weve see two Permanent Secretaries depart and were on our second acting security. Thats not good for the hard working men and women at the front lines, whether at the border or at our airports, whether its in so many of the other areas where we need to be using smart and effective tools to keep our country safe, and so i just im looking forward to and expecting to meet with and question the president s eventual nominee to be secretary of Homeland Security, and i want to hear from them how they will address these priorities if they have the experience and the character, not only to address these priorities but, again, to stand up to this president and some of thinks advisers who seem so focused on programs and policies that really undermine who we are as americans. I come back to the separation of children from their families. We can keep our country strong. We can address our Homeland Security challenges without hurting children. Senator, when you look the families separation policy has been so extensive in its execution because the people at the border largely are families with children, and as you know, everyone knows, it used to trend more towards single adult males. Thats what the Detention Centers there are really geared towards, not geared towards family but listening to how the president is characterizing the problem and how his customs and Border Protection Deputy Director is characterizing the problem. Some of the roughest people youve ever seen, people that look like they should be fighting for the ufc. The majority of the theme are coming are family units. More than half are family units, and what that has systemically done. 65 , right . 65 . Whats the effect of the president misrepresenting whats going on at the border, the crisis at the border . Well, its very concerning to me that the president seems to be sole focused on mischaracterizing things. We just had a hearing in the committee on Homeland Security in the senate just last week, and we heard from a number of experts who were very careful to say that there are certainly there are families coming with children, but there are other people who do in fact have legitimate claims as some of these families do for asylum, and it really gets to a couple of things, first of all, its important for your viewers to know that even today after the administration supposedly ended the policy of separating children, there are potentially thousand of children who havent been reunited with their families, and the administration has said it could take years to reunite them which is totally unacceptable. Secondly, its real important to understand that we have to get to the root causes. Why are people fleeing the Central American countries like el salvador and honduras and guatemala that they are coming from, and one of the things that we heard from experts last week was that some of the president s rhetoric and policies are actually exacerbating the problem because people from those countries arent sure whether the border is going to remain open for asylum claims so they are accelerating their plans to make these difficult journeys, so i would hope that the administration returns to factbased decisionmaking, listens to the people on the front lines, makes sure that we have policies that will keep us and honor our American Values, but more than anything also continue to provide the kind of aid to those countries that helps them build strong economic infrastructure, strong Law Enforcement, really gets at the root causes that are causing people to flee those countries. We have to do that as well as secure our borders. Im very concerned that the president and his advisers arent focusing on those things and that they seem to be very focused on Campaign Promises rather than policies that will actually work. Senator, thank you for being with us. Thank you for having me. Senator Maggie Hassan from New Hampshire. The president removing the head of the secret service, firing him. This is yet another ouster inside the administration. Since my dvt blood clot i was thinking. Could there be another around the corner . Or could it turn out differently . I wanted to help protect myself. My doctor recommended eliquis. Eliquis is proven to treat and help prevent another dvt or pe blood clot. Almost 98 percent of patients on eliquis didnt experience another. And eliquis has significantly less major bleeding than the standard treatment. Eliquis is fda approved and has both. Dont stop eliquis unless your doctor tells you to. Eliquis can cause serious and in rare cases fatal bleeding. 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Listen to what the president said about the secret Service Director just last week. Secret service is fantastic. These are fantastic people. I would say i could not be happier with secret service. Secret service has done a fantastic job from day one. Very happy with them. I want to bring in cnn justice reporter evan perez. Gloria borger and political director david chalian. This is part of a larger thing going on with the ousters and potentially other ones that are coming. What do you make of this . Well, i think that around these immigration and security issues, the president is clearly indicating to us this is what he sees as his path to reelection in 2020. Thats what were seeing. Steven miller, you have evan and teams reporting this is all part of this near systemic purge in the department of Homeland Security. Theres reporting that Steven Miller has more things hed like to accomplish as the chief domestic policy adviser and this is the area of his focus. I read clearly donald trump thinks t these issues that gived him to the white house and he plans on utilizing these issues and setting up a team that he thinks is not soft on these issues Going Forward to try to get reelected. Kirstjen nielsen executed the family separation plan and having troops on the southern border. How is this someone who is soft on this issue for the president . Because that is how she is going to be remembered for her time as the dhs secretary. Right. And service Jeff Sessions policy, dont forget, that started all of this, and i think its your reporting, evan, that he was being asked to do things that she thought was illegal, and that she couldnt do them. And there were constitutional issues. And the president , evan can talk more about that, but the president doesnt like to be told no. I mean, i just want to share with you some statistics i was looking at. Roughly two out of three of the 18 senior level advisers in this administration are gone. Now, this is over two years, a little more. And as for cabinet level jobs, 11 departures. This is not the way governing is really done at the white house. Kirstjen nielsen went before congress and defended the policy as the this is just the administration following the letter of the law. This is just the way its been done which she was misrepresenting . She was. But she was this loyal soldier. She was trying to be a good soldier. Right . For the president , trying as best she could to see from the same song sheet. Increasingly there were clashes and increasingly she was pushing back at the president and in some cases visibly in front of other people. One of the clashes i was told about recently had to do with the president pushing for Homeland Security department to reinstate the child separation policy. Thats the policy you were talking about that kooirstjen nielsen wasnt really behind it. It was the brain child of Steven Miller and Jeff Sessions but she had to endorse it and put it into place. This was one of those examples where she finally said look, we cant do that. First, there courts looking at this. There a lot of political damage from it. The president rescinded the policy, dont forget. I think thats what is going on behind the scenes. I was told that by one official the president just fundamentally does not understand the limitations constitutionally, under the law, that not just him but every president has on the border and immigration. Politically, i cant stress enough about this policy. You remember last june when this was front pages everywhere. The images were across. I could not find a republican operative working on 2018 races that didnt say to me of all the noise, of all the stuff that the press covers about donald trump, this is the thing that bottomed us out. More so than the Helsinki Press Conference with putin or the comparison to john mccain and his death. This policy was something that totally resonated with the American Public in a way that led to 41 seats being flipped to democrats and the democrats winning control. When you say there are political cross currents, its so much say his own daughter, ivanka trump, was critical about getting him to sign the rescinding of it. And now hes looking to implement something that every republican thought was touching just a toxic thing in american politics. Add to that his Health Care Position which he has since changed but republicans freaked out about the idea that hey, were going to get rid of obama care through the courts and come up with another plan. Those things together which seem to have a blind spot to which republicans need electorally, what does that tell you . It tells you that hes thinking about himself and not the republican party, but i just got off the phone with somebody who has known trump for decades. What this source said to me is all of this, and its sort of interesting given what were talking about now, has to do with his level of entertainment of himself. That means hes doing the opposite of what everyone suggests and then showing, i was right. So this is the source says and who has known trump for some time says this is whats going on through his own mind. You tell him he cant do something and hell say to you yes, i can, and dont worry about the legality of it. Dont worry about the norms. Dont worry about the republican party. Im telling you, this is going to work. I will say our last poll, last month, had the president s Approval Rating on immigration at 39 . One of the lower issues that we tested for him, but among republicans, again, like we see with the overall Approval Rating, 87 Approval Rating. Well have more on this plus new details on the breach at maralago. Or joints. But do you take something for your brain. With an ingredient originally discovered in jellyfish, prevagen has been shown in Clinical Trials to improve shortterm memory. Prevagen. Healthier brain. Better life. New lower price. Wow. Thats a lot of asparagus. Yeah, you said get a bunch of asparagus. Oh, you. A bunch. I. Thought you kinda. Hello. Youre watching cnn. Thanks for being with us. We begin with breaking news in washington where the Trump Administration once again appears to be cleaning house. Multiple officials telling cnn the secret Service Director is now being removed from his position. He reports directly to the secretary of Homeland Security, Kirstjen Nielsen who was forced to resign less than 24 hours ago. Nielsen was the face of an immigration policy that ripped undocumented families apart and sparked legal and moral backlash for the president s white house. The
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