In the day's other headlines, President Trump will fire several members of his National Security Council, according to people familiar.

The firings involve at least three unnamed senior NSC officials and several other lower-ranking aides.

National Security Advisor Mike Waltz is not among them.

The dismissals come after Trump met in the Oval Office yesterday with

conservative activist and conspiracy theorist Laura Lumer. She reportedly brought a list of

staff she deemed insufficiently loyal to the Trump agenda and urged the president to remove them.

The president, on Air Force One today, denied Lumer had anything to do with the ousters.

She is a very strong person, and I saw her yesterday for a little while. She makes recommendations of things and people, and sometimes I listen to those recommendations

like I do with everybody.

I listen to everybody, and then I make a decision. Also tonight, the Pentagon's acting

inspector general says he will review defense secretary Pete Hegzsett's use of the signal messaging

app. He'll look to determine whether Hegset and other defense officials complied with DOD

policies and procedures when they use the app to discuss attack plans against

Houthi militants in Yemen. The Senate has confirmed Dr. Mehmet Oz to lead the centers for

Medicare and Medicaid services after a vote along party lines. The agency he's stepping into provides

health insurance to more than half of all Americans through

Medicare, Medicaid, and the Obamacare exchanges. He'll oversee annual spending of more than

two and a half trillion dollars. Dr. Oz, a former surgeon, TV personality and Senate candidate,

sidestep questions in his confirmation hearing about whether he would cut Medicaid to accommodate

Republican plans to cut spending. President Trump has been adamant he will not do so. A string of

violent storms across the Midwest and South has killed at least six people, and there's more weather

on the way. Oh my God. Oh, my God.

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