Watch. I just want to think the president again for the tremendous opportunity to serve this country. I am forever grateful and proud of the men and women of dhs who worked so hard every day to execute their missions and protect the homeland. I really look forward to continuing to support them from the outside. Harris put 2020 hopeful, president ial hopeful, senator Kamala Harris who sits on the Homeland Security committee and will get to question the new dhs nominee, treated this Kirstjen Nielsen misled the American People and defended trumps inhumane policy of separating children from their parents. It was long past time for her to go. She White House Correspondent john roberts love for us outside the white house now. Good afternoon too. She will indeed have a chance to question the new dhs nominee, whenever that person is named. We dont know if its going to be the person he was the acting or if the president will choose somebody else. Or when that might happen. Kirstjen nielsen will
Reins from nielsen. Plus, never say never unless youre the white house. A new strategy for the administration on how to keep the president s tax returns secret forever. Here with the message not so fast. We have our team here with all of that and much more this morning. We start this morning with that developing news and that new era in one of the administrations most difficult jobs. Kirsjen nielsen out and the president rails against open borders declaring our country is full. Well get to that rhetoric in a minute. But, heres the thing. There is a real crisis at the border that the next secretary will have to tackle. If you add it up, 64 p of bord apprehangzs are minors, trends the u. S. Has not seen before. He has not been quiet about this. Just a couple weeks ago he said the nations Immigration Enforcement system had hit a quote, breaking point. Two weeks ago i briefed the congress that it is at the breaking point. That breaking point has arrived this week at our border. Nbcs hans n
Our reporting begins with Julian Assange who could finally face justice here in the United States after he spent nearly seven years holed up in the Ecuadorian Embassy in london. He was arrested today after he was given the boot. Here he is in up the close. They had to drag him out and push him into a waiting police van. The u. S. Justice department looking to extradite assange after charging him with conspiracy to help a former Army Intelligence analyst, Chelsea Manning, hack into the pentagons Computer System to steal and publish government secrets. Julian assange sporting a dramatic new look and the long beard. We havent seen a lot of him since ecuador cut off his Internet Access more than a year or so ago. Assange flash add peace sign as the cops drove him away. Heres a throw back to when assange looked like this in may of 2017. His attorney is vowing to fight his extradition to america. The editor in chief of wikileaks called as song a journalist that exposed war crimes of the Unit
To cover this monday morning starting with thank you, next. Moment land security secretary Kirstjen Nielsen out following a contentious meeting with the president at the white house. Her ouster coming days after the two visited the u. S. Mexico border and 52 days after the president declared a National Emergency. All or nothing. Democrats demanding to see everything from the full Mueller Report to President Trumps tax returns, while the administration presents a counter offer. Youll get nothing. To be clear, you believe democrats will never see the president s tax returns . Oh, no, never. Nor should they. Keep in mind, thats an issue that was already litigated during the election. No, it actually wasnt. And, an american divided by green. As the stock market sores, more and more investors are beginning to raise the alarm over the widening income gap and what it could do to our economy. Capitalism needs to be reformed. We can do it together or we will do it in conflict. We begin this mor
Watching her relationship with the president crumble. A Senior Administration official telling cnn nielsen, quote, believed the situation was becoming untenable with trump becoming increasingly unhinged about the border crisis and making unreasonable and even impossible requests. This might not be the end of it. The president s top adviser on immigration, Stephen Miller, hes apparently wants to push even more officials out now. Jessica schneider and abby phillip are tracking all of this for us. Abby, first to you. Nielsen is out. Miller wants more to go. Whats happening . Were seeing here, kate, the rise of one of the president s top advisers on immigration, Stephen Miller, and how hes using his influence within the west wing to make some key personnel changes. Now, nielsen was not a sorry, miller was not a fan of nielsen. Also not a fan of a lot of other people in the west wing, according to our sources. That hes eyeing the director of the department of citizenship and Immigration Ser