President Trump ousts his national security advisor, making Mike Waltz the first casualty of

the Signal Gate fiasco. Meanwhile, federal judges across the country called the biggest parts

of Trump's deportation agenda unlawful. Tonight, Trump's motivation for the White House shakeup

and what's ahead on his collision course with the courts. Next.

This is Washington Week with the Atlantic. Good evening and welcome to Washington Week.

I'm Laura Barone Lopez. Jeffrey Goldberg is away. President Trump is looking for a new national security advisor tonight after pushing out Mike Waltz.

It's the first acts to fall after the moderator of this show reported he was mistakenly added by Waltz to a signal chat about military attack plans.

Trump is now nominating Waltz to be the next United Nations ambassador.

And for now, Secretary of State Marco Rubio will take Waltz's place.

Joining me tonight to discuss this and much more are Leanne Caldwell, the chief Washington correspondent

at Puck. Michael Shearer is a staff writer at The Atlantic. Ali Vitale is the host of way too early

on MSNBC, and Alexander Ward is a national security reporter at the Wall Street Journal.

Thank you all for being here tonight. We have a lot to get through. And we have some news tonight

from President Trump's interview with Meet the Press with Kristen Welkler. She asked him if he was

okay with a short-term recession to achieve his long-term goals.

And here's what he said.

Is it okay in the short-term to have a recession?

Look, yeah, everything's okay.

What we are, I said, this is a transition period.

I think we're going to do fantastically.

Michael, you interviewed the president just last week.

Is there any amount of financial chaos that would convince him to reverse course?

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