HELP WANTED: Trump's Homeland Security purge leaves numerous key roles vacant

To ensure delivery to your inbox add email@mail.msnbc.com to your contacts | [View in browser]( Add MSNBC to your contacts [Unsubscribe from this email](listvar=sub_daily) A housecleaning of President Trump's Homeland Security department appears to be underway. [Secret Service director Randolph Alice]( became the second person fired by the president in less than 24 hours, after Homeland Security secretary Kirstjen Nielsen [resigned under pressure]( on Sunday evening. President Trump has been urging his administration to reinstate large-scale separation of migrant families crossing the border for months, according to three U.S. officials with knowledge of meetings at the White House. Former Sec. Nielsen resisted, which ultimately lead to her departure. If Sec. Nielsen, who is [seen]( as the [person who carried out]( the family separation policy to begin with, wasn’t tough enough for President Trump, [who will be](? Tuesday, AG Barr will testify before Congress about the Justice Department’s fiscal 2020 budget request, but it’s probably not the only thing he'll get asked about. Will he have anything more to share about his timeline for releasing the Mueller report? [Trump’s weekend tweet storm suggests bad news ahead of Mueller report release]( AP’s Jonathan Lemire, former DOJ spox Matt Miller, former Assistant Director of the FBI Frank Figliuzzi, republican strategist Mike Murphy, The Root’s Jason Johnson, and NBC’s Heidi Przybyla on the upcoming public clash expected this week over the Mueller report, when the Attorney General goes in front of Congress [Watch Now]( [Trump consolidates power with staff of 'acting' officials]( Rachel Maddow looks at how Donald Trump has allowed executive staffing to wither down to a collection of "acting" officials who were not subject to Senate confirmation and who are kept aware that their employment is contingent upon fealty to Trump. [Watch Now]( [Trump trying to hand keys to U.S. economy to Herman Cain]( In a special report, MSNBC Chief Legal Correspondent, Ari Melber breaks down how President Trump is moving to give two people who critics say may not be qualified, a great deal of power over the U.S. economy. Melber examines how Trump’s nomination of Pizza magnate and conservative media star, Herman Cain and economic pundit Stephen Moore to positions on the Federal Reserve board breaks with convention and appears to politicize an office that is traditionally independent and nonpartisan. [Watch Now]( ['Nielsen has such a professional stain on her that even being fired by Trump doesn’t help’]( AP’s Jonathan Lemire, former DOJ spox Matt Miller, former Assistant Director of the FBI Frank Figliuzzi, republican strategist Mike Murphy, The Root’s Jason Johnson, and NBC’s Heidi Przybyla and Julia Ainsley on the ‘yes man’ mentality inside the White House that has led to massive absences in top security roles [Watch Now]( [LATEST NEWS]( [Trump suggests U.S. Jews are loyal to Israel]( [Rep. Eric Swalwell launches presidential bid]( [Iran military unit's new terror label ignores past Trump business]( Follow MSNBC [F]( [T]( [I]( [G]( [T]( [R]( This email was sent to: {EMAIL} This email was sent by: MSNBC 30 Rockefeller Plaza New York, NY 10112 This is an automated email. Do not reply directly to this email. [Privacy]( | [Unsubscribe](listvar=sub_daily) | [Manage Subscription]( | [Contact]( [Privacy]( [Unsubscribe](listvar=sub_daily) [Manage Subscription]( [Contact](