throw at them. nick watt on the scene for us. later this hour, i ll be speaking with latoya cantrell, the mayor of new orleans. let s go to the white house right now. where president trump has another cabinet vacancy, and there could be more in the days ahead. the labor secretary is on his way out, and the director of national intelligence may be on very shaky ground. that s right, well, president trump has another acting member of his cabinet as alex acosta announced he s stepping down, a senior administration official said the president had been stewing over secretary acosta s fate after he was dragged into the jeffrey epstein scandal, there may be another top official heading for the exiting. dan coates, we re told the president may be ready to make a change there as well. there wasn t much laboring when it came to the fate of alex acosta, as the president walked the embattled secretary.
being. that was president trump s next chief of staff mick mulvaney about a million years ago calling donald trump a horrible person. that sort of covers the bases, doesn t it? horrible person. mulvaney was named chief of staff, he was desperate to end the story line no one wanted to be his chief of staff according to nbc news. mulvaney understood the president was in a jamb and felt he didn t have much choice, but made clear his intention to serve a limited period of time given his general reluctance to accept the position. the president announced in a tweet interior secretary ryan zinke will leave in ten days 20 days. he faces multiple probes looking into ethical violations which makes him the fourth cabinet secretary to leave his post under such intense scrutiny. ethical scrutiny. zinke s departure makes president trump s 11th cabinet
zinke s departure could prevent him for having to face questions before congress. democrats signaled they were going to look into zinke s various scandals. of course this is the latest vacancy the president has to fill. last night he announced he has a new chief of staff on a temporary basis, and recently he announced his new u.n. ambassador, and there are a lot of senate confirmation battles on the horizon with yet another cabinet vacancy open this morning. let s detail the job, and let s keep this up. he has to find a permanent chief of staff and get his attorney general nominee confirmed, find a new u.n. secretary, and reach a budget deal with the democrats, and grow deal with this growing mueller
surprise to get riled up over the issue. he almosted vetoed the whole omnibus funding over not having enough money for the wall. when running a relatively small company, he can yell at somebody and getting it in line, yelling at your director of homeland security doesn t make anything better and made the relationship worse and almost lead to another cabinet vacancy. which is the last thing they need. let s run a clip of what happened on fox business earlier today. the subject is john mccain and torture. she can t use it anymore because it is we have determined in congress it is not
surprise to see him once again getting riled up over this issue. i mean he almost vetoed the whole omnibus funding bill over not having money for his border wall. i think it shows a little bit of a misunderstanding of how the government works and sort of hearkens back to his business days when running a relatively small company, he could maybe yell at somebody and get something in line. yelling at your director of homeland security doesn t suddenly fix problems along the border, and it sounds like in this situation, it actually made their relationship worse and almost led to another cabinet vacancy, which is the last thing this administration needs right now. peter, i want to show you one thing and read you another. let s run a clip of what happened on fox business earlier today. the subject is john mccain and torture. she can t use it anymore because we have determined in congress that it s not legal.