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Submitted his resignation to the white house. he is the fourth person to serve in that position for president trump. here with more tonight is cnn's kaitlan collins. kaitlan, good evening to you. what's behind the latest high-profile departure? >> reporter: well, don, i got to say it's not that surprising to people in the white house who never thought kevin mcaleenan was going to get the permanent job. but of course this resignation is coming after he's been in that acting position for several dozen -- hundreds of days now, in this position, never really had a replacement on the horizon so far...

That the acting secretary felt he had accomplished all he could given the political realities of today, specifically the unlikelihood that any legislative deal on immigration will happen in an election year. he is the fourth person now to serve in that post since the trump presidency began. in comparison over the last two presidencies, six people have served as homeland security secretary. i want to bring in cnn national security analyst juliette juliette kayyem. you served for the assistant secretary for intergovernmental affairs at the department of homeland security. what does this new resi...

The position or he's essentially in an acting position. the big question remains, he's in a difficult position. he has never been confirmed by the senate. donald trump could at any point say i want a new u.s. attorney. and you have to think at some point he's going to look at what's going on up there. >> now that ruf said that, he will definitely do it. >> our legal analyst, these two guys, parnas and fruman, how serious are the charges in terms of could this result, if they're convicted, am jail time? >> absolutely. they're serious charges. conspiracy, for example, maximum of fiefb years in p...

Amazing. >> the president also spoke about the sudden departure of his personal assistant madeleine. apparently some of the things she said to reporters behind closed doors. kaitlan collins has reporting on that but i want to start off with the storm and what the president had to say about it. >> going to camp david. that's where he's going to monitor the developments throughout the weekend and will coal ba come back to washington on sunday where he'll do a briefing at the fema head quarters and make decisions whether people need to be evacuated. a lot of the people surrounding him through the...

Confirmed fema administrator resigned in february after he clashed with then homeland security secretary kirstjen nielsen. the president picked someone else but his nomination was sent to capitol hill to be confirmed and has essentially come to a standstill up there and right now fema, the agency, is being run by this acting director, pete gainer, who we should note while he does have essentially a decade of experience overseeing natural disasters, this is going to be his first hurricane since he's been running fema in this acting position. now, of course he's not the only person in an acting ...