Ready for go. It was a rift that deepened after he said he did not support using activeduty troops to calm protests nationwide. Kaitlan, what more do you know about the president s decision to fire his defense secretary. White house officials are surprised it took this long. They thought it would only come immediately after tuesday. Yesterday he was distracted, because he was contesting the outcome of this election. The writer had been on the wall for some time. Their relationship had deteriorated. We know they clashed over the summer over the protests, and the president wanting to use activeduty troops to help control them, something that esper publicly said in what i believe was his last briefing, that he did not agree with invoking the insurrection act, even though it was something that floated publicly. The president characterize the him as a yes man, once referring to him as yesper in a press conference. He did not agree with the president on this, but i also think what we are see