Monday, March 9, 2026
The Briefing with Albert Mohler
The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary
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🗓️ 9 March 2026
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Summary
Part I (00:13 – 10:11)
The First Cabinet Firing of Trump’s Second Administration: Kristi Noem is Out, and Sen. Markwayne Mullin is In as Nominee for DHS Secretary
Part II (10:11 – 17:37)
President Trump is Realigning the Global Order: The Consequences of President Trump’s Global Actions are Massive
- As Trump Out-Putins Putin, Russia’s Global Influence Erodes by The New York Times (Paul Sonne)
- For Xi, Trump’s Embrace of War Proves China Needs More Power by The New York Times (David Pierson)
‘This is the Most Offender-Friendly Legislature We’ve Ever Had’: Liberal Colorado Lawmakers Propose Legislation to Redefine Crime and Punishment
- Colorado lawmakers want to carve a new path out of prison in second-look sentencing bill by The Denver Post (Shelly Bradbury)
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| 0:00.0 | It's Monday, March 9, 2006. I'm Albert Moller, and this is the briefing, a daily analysis of news and |
| 0:11.7 | events from a Christian worldview. So many headlines coming at us from around the world as we come |
| 0:16.6 | out of the weekend, but first we need to go back to when we were going into the weekend. |
| 0:21.7 | The big news then was the fact that Christy Noam, the Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security, |
| 0:27.0 | been fired by President Trump, the first cabinet-level firing of his second administration. |
| 0:32.7 | Now, when you look at presidents and you look at the members of the President's Cabinet, |
| 0:36.8 | the fact is that |
| 0:38.1 | virtually no administration has gone without someone being fired. And one of the reasons is that |
| 0:43.6 | you have sometimes a clash of opinions or policies between the president and the member of the |
| 0:48.8 | cabinet. In that case, the cabinet member is out. You could also have events that drive some of these issues and personalities |
| 0:55.9 | that drive some of these issues, even personal styles. And when it came to Christine Nome, |
| 1:00.8 | well, frankly, it probably involved all of those things. But there are some really big issues here. |
| 1:07.0 | First of all, let's just remind ourselves, the Department of Homeland Security is very essential. |
| 1:11.8 | And right now it's also at the center of headlines because the Democrats have led an effort to hold up funding for the entire department. |
| 1:19.0 | There are essential functions that Congress doesn't stop and can't stop under this kind of measure. |
| 1:24.1 | But we already had a face-off between the president and at least the Democrats in the |
| 1:28.8 | Senate over-continued funding for the Department of Homeland Security. Secretary Christine |
| 1:33.8 | Ome was at the center of all of that controversy, and frankly, that turns out to be the biggest |
| 1:38.4 | part of this story. Let's just remind ourselves of how the President's Cabinet came to be in our |
| 1:43.4 | constitutional order. |
| 1:45.2 | Remember that with the separation of powers between the judicial, the legislative, and the |
| 1:49.8 | executive, the president of the United States is the chief executive. That's what we often just use |
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