Speaker 1: Hey, that folks, Thursday, March fifth, and the news just
Speaker 1: keeps oncoming. Christinome is out. Welcome to this breaking news
Speaker 1: episode of Amy and TJ. Just wanted to hop on
Speaker 1: because the news is just coming across. The Secretary of
Speaker 1: Home Land Security, Christinome, who is maybe robes outside the President,
Speaker 1: might have been the most high profile faiths of the
Speaker 1: administration in many days and weeks. She's been fired. No
Speaker 1: other way to put this, is it.
Speaker 2: Yes, I mean she's been demoted. I think maybe would
Speaker 2: be a better way to put it. But she, Yes,
Speaker 2: she has been fired from the position. She has been
Speaker 2: removed from the position of the Department of Homeland Security,
Speaker 2: the secretary of DHS. She's now being given a position
Speaker 2: that is well Son's made up to be honest, but
Speaker 2: it is kind of in a way because it is
Speaker 2: a position that has not existed before.
Speaker 3: Now.
Speaker 1: So yeah, and Christy Nome, we should let you know
Speaker 1: this news is coming to us just a matter of
Speaker 1: minutes before we hopped on here. But she still is
Speaker 1: keeping a commitment she had in Nashville, Tennessee. She had
Speaker 1: a live event and we can actually see a live
Speaker 1: feed of her taking questions. This is a law enforcement event.
Speaker 1: So she is continuing in the role, but it is
Speaker 1: going to be over by the end of this month.
Speaker 1: Christy Nome is the headline, folks. A Department of Homeland
Speaker 1: Security Secretary Christie Nome is out. The President is replacing her,
Speaker 1: putting her somewhere else. We do know. This is from
Speaker 1: the President himself. We put out a pretty long post
Speaker 1: explaining he's removing her and also telling us he already
Speaker 1: has a replacement.
Speaker 2: Yes, he is going to replace Christy Nome with Senator
Speaker 2: Oklahoma Senator Mark Wayne Mullen. He is going to become
Speaker 2: the Department of Homeland Security, but he does have to
Speaker 2: be confirmed by the Senate, so there is that hurdle
Speaker 2: that will still have to take place for he is
Speaker 2: officially named DHS secretary.
Speaker 1: Who knows about that. He's going to be going before
Speaker 1: his colleagues, his fellow colleagues. You can see if he
Speaker 1: can get it across the finish line with the votes.
Speaker 1: I kept trying to think of what the votes and
Speaker 1: when this would happen, and the hearings we have to
Speaker 1: have now and going through all of this so that
Speaker 1: process is to come. But Rove, this is there a
Speaker 1: member of the administration who had been under more fire
Speaker 1: than Secretary Nome. That has to be no, certainly not.
Speaker 2: And in recent days even the President had whispered, and
Speaker 2: there were whispers and rumors and articles being written that
Speaker 2: Christy Nome possibly might be replaced because the President the
Speaker 2: final straw for him was he did not appreciate her
Speaker 2: testimony in front of that committee where she was grilled
Speaker 2: about this expensive ad campaign that we all saw in.
Speaker 3: Airports across this country.
Speaker 2: And she told Senator Kennedy, I believe that President Trump
Speaker 2: okayed it. Well, apparently President Trump said yeah, I did
Speaker 2: not okay, And so for a lot of folks they
Speaker 2: felt like he was.
Speaker 3: Pissed en off.
Speaker 2: Now, given all the events in Minnesota and certainly a
Speaker 2: lot of the headlines that have been going around for weeks,
Speaker 2: this was the final straw.
Speaker 1: And this is what the President said in a post
Speaker 1: on truth social announcing to everyone that yes, she was
Speaker 1: being replaced. Quote, I am pleased to announce the highly
Speaker 1: respected United States Senator from the great state of Oklahoma,
Speaker 1: Mark Wayne Mullen, will become the United States Secretary of
Speaker 1: Homeland Security THEHS, effective March thirty first, twenty twenty six.
Speaker 1: The current Secretary, Christy Nome, who has served us well
Speaker 1: and has had numerous and spectacular results, especially on the border,
Speaker 1: will be moving to Special Envoy for the Shield of
Speaker 1: the Americas, our new security initiative in the Western Hemisphere.
Speaker 1: We are announcing on Saturday in durral Florida. I thank
Speaker 1: Christy for her service at Homeland. Now. He has another
Speaker 1: longer paragraph after that, but just talking about the new guy.
Speaker 1: It was interesting at the top ropes. He didn't announce
Speaker 1: the first thing out of his mouth was the announcement
Speaker 1: of a new person versus saying I'm doing something with
Speaker 1: the other person. She seemed almost like an afterthought in
Speaker 1: the message one.
Speaker 2: Hundred percent, and you have to think that was by design.
Speaker 2: He just wants her to go away. He doesn't want
Speaker 2: to hear her name, He doesn't want to hear the
Speaker 2: complaints and the uproar about how she led the Department
Speaker 2: of Homeland Security. So I think, yeah, he was like
Speaker 2: out with the old, in with the new, let's start
Speaker 2: with the new. He was producing it like, let's get
Speaker 2: the big announcement here.
Speaker 3: That I really want you to focus on.
Speaker 2: I want you to focus on how excited I am
Speaker 2: about the new Department of Homeland Security.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, that other person.
Speaker 2: Yes, she's gone. We've got her in another position. That
Speaker 2: we're going to have her oversea. That sounds like, honestly
Speaker 2: a Marvel comic book.
Speaker 1: I don't know TuS the Shield of the Americas. We
Speaker 1: don't know what that is. A security initiative in the
Speaker 1: Western hemisphere, a little vague. We'll get the details this weekend.
Speaker 1: I guess she will too about what her new job is.
Speaker 1: Does she have a say in this this job? Is
Speaker 1: she have to just be reassigned? Can she say no,
Speaker 1: thank you for that gig.
Speaker 2: I think she is most likely going to say thank you, sir,
Speaker 2: and I will do I will serve as you ask.
Speaker 2: But it is fascinating to watch her on this podium
Speaker 2: and to listen to some of the anchors wondering because
Speaker 2: no one is asking her. Anyone in that room has
Speaker 2: a microphone, can ask for a question.
Speaker 3: She is literally taking Q and A.
Speaker 2: But these are not journalists, these are law enforcement officials, officers.
Speaker 2: So the speculation was maybe the folks in the room
Speaker 2: don't even know. That's how new this information is. And frankly,
Speaker 2: I was we were done for the day and you said, babe,
Speaker 2: there's breaking news. And look, unless you're paying close attention,
Speaker 2: this is something that could slip by. So she has
Speaker 2: not had to speak on it. Of course, every news
Speaker 2: outlet is closely monitoring this press conference to see if
Speaker 2: anyone asks her about it.
Speaker 1: The President didn't have to do what he did in
Speaker 1: the message either. Yes, she didn't get top billing. Yes,
Speaker 1: maybe she was an afterthought, but he Robes did say
Speaker 1: pleasant things about her, and he didn't have to.
Speaker 3: And he thanked her for her service.
Speaker 1: Yeah, he could have said something nasty. First of all,
Speaker 1: he could have not said anything. He made a choice
Speaker 1: to do that as well. And maybe this will I
Speaker 1: don't know him, maybe just being a nice guy. But
Speaker 1: she has had a rough rough go for the past
Speaker 1: several months, certainly starting in Minneapolis with what happened on
Speaker 1: the streets. But Robes, that's got to be it's got
Speaker 1: to be the start of her undoing the Alex Pretty death,
Speaker 1: not the Renee Good, but Alex Pretty. When she came
Speaker 1: out and called him a domestic terrorist. When we all
Speaker 1: saw video with our plane eyes told us something else.
Speaker 1: That was an awful situation, Robes, and she had an
Speaker 1: opportunity here at these hearings to clear the air, and
Speaker 1: it was not a good look for her.
Speaker 2: Yes, we actually talked about this the only remedy look.
Speaker 3: I think.
Speaker 2: I do believe no matter how you feel about Christinome
Speaker 2: and her policy and even her delivery of her policy
Speaker 2: or the president's policy, I think we all know that
Speaker 2: sometimes something looks or sounds one way, and then once
Speaker 2: you actually see the video you get more information, you
Speaker 2: realize it's another thing. And it would have been such
Speaker 2: a smart move on her part to acknowledge that because
Speaker 2: people we're not dumb, and I think as leaders, when
Speaker 2: you treat the American people like we're stupid, like we
Speaker 2: don't see what we see, or you're telling us what
Speaker 2: we are looking at isn't real or isn't true, or
Speaker 2: is something altogether different, you are now going to completely
Speaker 2: lose all trust with the American people, Republicans and Democrats,
Speaker 2: because when you're saying to us something we know not
Speaker 2: to be true with a smile on your face, and
Speaker 2: then you refuse to apologize for it or say you
Speaker 2: know what, you're right. I didn't characterize that correctly. I
Speaker 2: should have taken more time. You know how far that
Speaker 2: would have gone in re establishing trust. You can make
Speaker 2: a mistake and then say, look, I am going to
Speaker 2: do better and I apologize. She doubled down, and that
Speaker 2: certainly there weren't even Republicans necessarily defending her.
Speaker 1: I know she could have got you say, it would
Speaker 1: have gone a long way. But it went a long
Speaker 1: way the other direction in making me think that we're
Speaker 1: not dealing with serious people. We're looking at the video.
Speaker 1: It's okay, it's okay. You're an adult. It's okay. You
Speaker 1: know it's adults. Sometimes we have to say I'm sorry.
Speaker 1: Sometimes you say my bad. And even if you don't
Speaker 1: want to apologize, you could at least say I have
Speaker 1: new information now. And that wasn't It's very simple stuff.
Speaker 1: The guy is dead, we saw him shot. You called
Speaker 1: him a terrorist. Okay, you didn't have all the information.
Speaker 1: That's not hard to do. And if for an adult
Speaker 1: under oath sitting in that stage, who is that important
Speaker 1: of a high profile role for the American people to
Speaker 1: not even just be what is the point? What is
Speaker 1: the pride part in politics that you can't say you
Speaker 1: made a mistake.
Speaker 3: I don't know. I don't know the answer to that.
Speaker 1: That was stunning in that hearing room. It's okay, lady,
Speaker 1: it's okay.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Alex pretty had a cell phone in his hands.
Speaker 1: It's okay, I misspoke. I didn't have it all and
Speaker 1: now did I see it? That's not how you know what.
Speaker 1: They didn't even ask for an apology. Can you just
Speaker 1: say that labeling him as a terrorist was wrong? Do
Speaker 1: you think he's a terrorist? As you sit here today?
Speaker 1: She wouldn't even answer that.
Speaker 2: I know these hearings are So you start watching these
Speaker 2: hearings and you say, I don't even want to continue.
Speaker 2: I want to turn this off, because when you can't
Speaker 2: see people speaking the truth, telling the truth, being honest,
Speaker 2: being real, when you just see people refusing to acknowledge reality,
Speaker 2: it's numbing.
Speaker 3: At a certain point.
Speaker 2: And so, look, she is out of a job, but
Speaker 2: she's moving into another one. It'll be really interesting to
Speaker 2: see if this is actually a position where she will
Speaker 2: be visible in any way.
Speaker 1: Highly doubted, highly doubt it. Get a good look at
Speaker 1: this press conference. We will not see her for the
Speaker 1: rest of the month. Probably she has until the thirty first,
Speaker 1: they say ropes, I'd be very surprised if we see her,
Speaker 1: and yes, we talk about what happened in Minneapolis, how
Speaker 1: high profile that was as far as a disaster for her,
Speaker 1: But we saw other things Robes. You just mentioned those
Speaker 1: two hundred million dollars in ads. Well, there's also some
Speaker 1: luxury jets that might have been her undoing. I continuing
Speaker 1: here with the breaking news Christy Nome, DHS Secretary of Robe.
Speaker 1: Some people might have said they saw this coming, but
Speaker 1: the Department of Homeland Security, she has been fired by
Speaker 1: the President, demoted certainly to a new position. We don't
Speaker 1: know exactly what that is yet. The Special Envoy for
Speaker 1: the Shield of the Americans, a new security initiative in
Speaker 1: the Western hemisphere. Not kidding that is he That's what
Speaker 1: it says. Man, She's taken over our hemisphere. So maybe
Speaker 1: this is a new it's an upgrade.
Speaker 3: I was just wondering, was he trying to make it
Speaker 3: sound bigger.
Speaker 1: Sounds bigger. Really, this is a demotion, so she was
Speaker 1: just dealing with the Homeland. Now she's got a hemisphere,
Speaker 1: so maybe he is making it sound.
Speaker 2: But I feel like that is exactly what he was
Speaker 2: trying to do to try and make her feel better
Speaker 2: about getting a lower position.
Speaker 1: Ah and some people you see what was going on
Speaker 1: on the streets of Minneapolis and the job she's done,
Speaker 1: and what's been happening with border agents and okay, take
Speaker 1: issue with her job performance and stuff we can see,
Speaker 1: but rose behind the scenes what might have done her
Speaker 1: in as well. There's been so many reports that she
Speaker 1: likes to roll in luxury. Christine ellm is H has
Speaker 1: been known to not be afraid to spend money to
Speaker 1: upgrade and a couple of jets that were perched to
Speaker 1: the tune of one hundred and fifty plus million I
Speaker 1: think it was one hundred and seventy million dollars for
Speaker 1: the Department of Homeland Security one of them to upgrade
Speaker 1: her own plane that she travels around on. It just
Speaker 1: set off alarm bells. There were tons of reports about
Speaker 1: it's just not again, this is the department, this is
Speaker 1: the administration. What was I can't even remember the name
Speaker 1: of the thing. Elon Musk, what was his department saving
Speaker 1: all this was? Yeah, the part of those department, They
Speaker 1: saving all this money. And now it seems that was
Speaker 1: another issue that seeing brobe to go along with what
Speaker 1: we saw in the hearing. I didn't even realize the
Speaker 1: ads cost that much.
Speaker 2: I didn't either, and apparently there was limited it was
Speaker 2: a limited competitive bid.
Speaker 1: And oh yeah, oh god.
Speaker 2: Yeah, so there was all of that, and then they
Speaker 2: made a point to say she was prominently featured throughout
Speaker 2: the entire att It was basically a Christie Noome. It
Speaker 2: was adah where Christi Nome looked powerful and beautiful, Yes,
Speaker 2: earning her nickname.
Speaker 3: Ice Barby, name Ice Barby. But yeah, so there was
Speaker 3: a lot.
Speaker 2: Of finger pointing when it came to all of those
Speaker 2: choices she made.
Speaker 3: In addition to yes, what happened Minneapolis, it wasn't just Minneapolis.
Speaker 3: There were a number of issues.
Speaker 1: But the reports are in several places that the thing
Speaker 1: that did her in Robes in fact, was those ads
Speaker 1: and her not just the ads, but how she performed
Speaker 1: at the hearing when she's questioned about it by a
Speaker 1: Republican up there, Louisiana Senator Kennedy was questioning her, and look,
Speaker 1: if it was a Democrat, he would have been yelling
Speaker 1: at her, but he was asking her very pointed question
Speaker 1: Robes about why this has happened, why this much money,
Speaker 1: and who gave you the okay? And the problem is
Speaker 1: who she said okay?
Speaker 2: Did Yeah, she said President Trump did, and I believe
Speaker 2: Senator Kennedy said, mister Trump called him and said, just
Speaker 2: so you know, that's not what happened. So he verbally
Speaker 2: contradicted Christy Nome, or you could say Christy Nome said
Speaker 2: something that either wasn't true or President Trump didn't appreciate
Speaker 2: or both.
Speaker 1: It was a bad It was one of the worst
Speaker 1: moments of the hearing to hear him question her about
Speaker 1: why do we need to see your face and spend
Speaker 1: two hundred million dollars to promote you? Will to promote you?
Speaker 1: She said, well, the President said it was okay, and
Speaker 1: that might have been her undoing robes. This is a
Speaker 1: huge story because she has been a huge name in
Speaker 1: the middle of a huge topic in this country and
Speaker 1: now she's out. And by the way, robes the Department
Speaker 1: of Homeland Security seems pretty damn important right now.
Speaker 3: It certainly does.
Speaker 1: It's not funded. It's not funded, and it's not lead.
Speaker 3: No, it's not.
Speaker 2: But we did get as the second part of President
Speaker 2: Trump's truth social post, he went on to talk about
Speaker 2: the person who he wants to take Christy Nome's place,
Speaker 2: and I say that because he does have to be
Speaker 2: confirmed by the Senate. But here is what he said
Speaker 2: about Mark Wayne. He said, serving ten years in the
Speaker 2: United States House of Representative and three in the Senate,
Speaker 2: Mark Wayne has done a tremendous job representing the wonderful
Speaker 2: people of Oklahoma, where I won all seventy seven out
Speaker 2: of seventy seven counties in twenty sixteen, twenty twenty, and
Speaker 2: twenty twenty four. A MAGA warrior and former undefeated professional
Speaker 2: MMA fighter, Mark Wayne truly gets along well with people
Speaker 2: and knows the wisdom and courage required to advance our
Speaker 2: America First agenda. As the only Native American in the Senate,
Speaker 2: Mark Wayne is a fantastic advocate for our incredible tribal communities.
Speaker 2: Mark Wayne will work tirelessly to keep our border secure,
Speaker 2: stop migrant crime, murderers and other criminals from illegally entering
Speaker 2: our country, and the scourge of illegal drugs.
Speaker 3: And make America safe again.
Speaker 2: Mark Wayne will make a spectacular Secretary of Homeland Security.
Speaker 2: Thank you for your attention to this matter.
Speaker 1: All so, we'll say he gets approved. Haking get approval
Speaker 1: through the Senate, but a shakeup, for sure, one that
Speaker 1: many maybe saw coming, one that many maybe were hoping for.
Speaker 1: For quite some time, but Christ you know, is out
Speaker 1: at the Department of Homeland Security again. Folks didn't expect
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