Good Monday morning. I'm Anna Palmer and welcome to your Politico Playbook audio briefing, sponsored by AARP.

And I'm Jake Sherman. Kirsten Nielsen was spotted at the Waterside Hummingbird Bar and Kitchen in Alexandria Sunday night around 8 p.m.

just after stories were published saying she would resign from the Trump administration.

She was with an entourage seated at an outdoor table.

This was after President

Donald Trump announced Sunday night that Nielsen would be leaving her position as head of the DHS.

The New York Times reports that Nielsen had met with Trump to try to plan a way forward on the border.

While the 30-minute meeting was cordial, the Times reports that Trump wanted her resignation.

After the meeting, she submitted it. The president was

tweeting last night at 8.45 p.m. writing, more apprehensions, captures at the southern border than in

many years. Border patrol amazing. Country is full. System has been broken for many years. Democrats

in Congress must agree to fix loopholes. No open borders,

crimes, and drugs will close southern border if necessary. And then at 903 p.m. Mexico must

apprehend all illegals and not let them make the long march up to the United States, or we will have

no other choice than to close the border and or institute

tariffs. Our country is full. Our colleagues, Anita Kumar, Gabby, or Daniel Lipman have the latest

on Stephen Miller playing an even bigger role amid this shakeup. Miller has been pushing for more

hardliners to join the administration and has been demanding more be done to stop the flow of

immigrants into the U.S. Wait a second. President Donald Trump's view that the U.S. needs to get tough on immigration

is well known, but he needs to find somebody that can work with a Democratic House to change laws.

That seems at this point like a long shot. And we've got some buzz this morning, looking for

freshmen at the House Democrats' retreat this week.

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