Trump fires Kristi Noem.
Tangle
Isaac Saul
4.7 • 817 Ratings
🗓️ 9 March 2026
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Summary
On Thursday, President Donald Trump announced that he will reassign Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Kristi Noem and nominate Sen. Markwayne Mullin (R-OK) to replace her as secretary. The decision marks the first announced departure of a cabinet secretary in the second Trump administration. Noem will be reassigned to the new anti-drug-trafficking office position of special envoy for the Shield of the Americas.
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| 0:00.0 | From executive producer Isaac Saul, this is Tangle. |
| 0:08.4 | This is Tangle. |
| 0:09.0 | Good morning, good afternoon and good evening and welcome to the Tangle podcast, a place we get views from across the political spectrum, some independent thinking, and a little bit of my take. |
| 0:27.7 | I'm your host, Isaac Saul. Today is Monday, March 9th. And obviously, all eyes are on Iran right now. |
| 0:36.3 | There was a ton of breaking news over the weekend. We're starting |
| 0:39.2 | to see some downstream impacts of the war here in the U.S. with the price of fuel rising across the |
| 0:45.8 | country. But today, we're actually going to be talking about what happened on Thursday, which was |
| 0:51.6 | President Donald Trump announcing that he will reassign DHS Secretary |
| 0:56.5 | Christine Nellum. |
| 0:57.8 | Before we jump into that main story, though, I do want to give a quick plug for our Friday |
| 1:01.5 | edition this week. |
| 1:02.9 | It was written by Associated Editor Audrey Moorhead, and it was Audrey taking stock of |
| 1:08.5 | U.S. literacy education and her case for a national reading revival. |
| 1:14.9 | I love this piece. I thought it was super authentically, Audrey, it's a topic I've heard her talk about in person. |
| 1:21.6 | And it's something I didn't know a ton about or have a huge depth of knowledge on, so I learned a lot about it. |
| 1:27.1 | And I also realized |
| 1:28.4 | how big the body of evidence is that we are in a literacy crisis in the United States, which |
| 1:35.1 | obviously has huge cascading implication. So I highly recommend that episode. If you scroll back a few |
| 1:42.6 | episodes in our feed, you'll find a preview of it if you're a |
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