Noem Out And Mullin In at DHS, Iran War Timeline Shift, CA Gov Primary Has GOP on Top: AM Update 3/6

Good morning, everyone. I'm Megan Kelly. It's Friday, March 6th, 2026, and this is your

AM update.

Pretty homely when you start thinking about it. It's a little kid from Westville, Oklahoma.

It gets to serve in the President's cabinet.

President Trump taps Senator Mark Wayne Mullin as Homeland Security Secretary, reassigning

Christie Nome amid a series of controversies.

Our timeline is ours and ours alone to control. As long as it takes.

The Trump administration suggesting Operation Epic Fury in Iran is not ending anytime soon.

Virginia Democrats moving to limit cooperation with ICE as critics warn the state may

be crossing a legal line and in California a potential political backfire as party leaders

urge struggling Democrats to drop out of the governor's race.

All that and more coming up in just a moment on your AM update.

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President Trump announcing the first cabinet shake up of his second term yesterday removing

Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Nome amid mounting controversy and nominating Senator

Mark Wayne Mullin of Oklahoma to replace her. Rumors swirling about Nome's imminent

dismissal yesterday morning after reports surfaced the president was unhappy with statements

she made during a Tuesday Senate hearing or at least that was the last draw.

Ms. Nome coming under fire for a glitzy multi-million dollar DHS ad campaign prominently featuring

her.

If you're an illegal alien this runway is your future because you're headed home. I'm Kristi

Nome the United States Secretary of Homeland Security.

Senator John Kennedy a Republican from Louisiana pressing Nome about the ads during Tuesday's

hearing.

No ma'am.

I'm asking you sorry to interrupt but the president approved ahead of time you spending 220 million

dollars running TV ads across the country and which you are featured prominently.

Yes sir we went through the legal processes.

Did it correct?

Did the president work with OMB?

Yes.

He did.

Yes.

Okay.

President Trump himself pushing back on that claim yesterday morning telling Reuters

quote I never knew anything about it yesterday afternoon Mr. Trump making the call posting

to truth social quote secretary Kristi Nome who has served as well and has had numerous

and spectacular results especially on the border will be moving to be special envoy for

the shield of the Americas our new security initiative in the western hemisphere we are

announcing on Saturday in Doral Florida.

I thank Kristi for her service at homeland.

Nome issuing a statement on social media quote thank you president Trump for appointing

me as the special envoy for the shield of the Americas secretary Rubio and secretary

hexeth are incredible leaders and I look forward to working with them closely to dismantle

cartels that have poured drugs into our nation and killed our children and grandchildren.

The newly announced shield of the Americas described by the White House as a regional

coalition of Latin American countries aimed at strengthening security across the western

hemisphere underneath the public facing niceties a source inside the administration telling Fox

news quote it was time replacing Kristi was based on the culmination of her many unfortunate

leadership mishaps including the fallout in Minnesota the 200 million ad campaign the

allegations of infidelity the mismanagement of her staff and her constant feuding with

the heads of other agencies.

Nome also facing questions about her alleged affair with special government employee and former

Trump advisor Corey Lewandowski whom she reportedly also tried to make her chief of staff

and appointment the president blocked.

She was asked multiple times about it on Wednesday in a house hearing without directly denying

the allegation which is an open secret in DC Lewandowski had been serving as one of Nome's

top advisors at DHS while some reports indicate he intends to leave his post on March 31st

along with the secretary Lewandowski telling news nation quote no decisions have been made

Senator Mullin speaking to reporters on the hill after his nomination.

What was your first reaction to just the news that you were nominated for this position

just to miss everything and that's how I mean because I had to call my dad and because

I happened quick right I had to call my wife to call my dad both and it's just you know

pretty humbly when you start thinking about it a little kid from Westville coma gets

served in the president's cabinet that's pretty neat.

The position requires Senate confirmation and even Democrats saying they expect him to

receive the required 50 votes with Vice President JD Vance available to cast the deciding vote

if necessary at least one Democrat already signaling support Pennsylvania Senator John

Federman posting on X he intends to vote in favor of Mullin a hearing date for Mullin

has not yet been set in the Senate.

Secretary of War Pete Hexeth yesterday providing an update on the ongoing operations in Iran

earlier in the day political reporting US Central Command which is overseeing the operation

requesting additional intel officers to support the op quote for at least 100 days but

likely through September that is well beyond President Trump's initial projection that

operation epic fury would last about four weeks.

Secretary Hexeth telling reporters on Wednesday it could take up to eight weeks then later

removing the time constraint all together Iran is hoping that we cannot sustain this which

is a really bad miscalculation for the IRGC in Iran you see there's no shortage of American

will here we've got no shortage of munitions our stockpiles of defensive and offensive weapons

allow us to sustain this campaign as long as we need to the dumb politically correct wars

of the past or the opposite of what we're doing here they had vague objectives with restrictive

mental must rules of engagement no more our authorities his authorities sent com's

com authorities through the president and myself are maxed out our timeline is ours and

ours alone to control as long as it takes to ensure the United States of America achieves

these objectives.

Meanwhile President Trump speaking to Reuters yesterday about who will replace the now deceased

supreme leader of Iran Mr. Trump saying quote we are going to have to choose that person

along with Iran we want to be involved in the process of choosing the person who is going

to lead Iran into the future so we don't have to go back every five years and do this again

and again.

The president adding that he thinks the next leader is not likely to be the late Ayatollah's

son who has emerged as a front runner secretary Hexeth yesterday asked if these comments

represent an expansion of the mission now to regime change well there's no expansion

uh ultimately I think the president's having a heck of a say in who runs Iran given the

ongoing operation we have so there's no expansion in our objectives we know exactly we're

trying to achieve since the beginning of the operation Iran conducting retaliatory strikes

against 12 countries Mr. Hexeth addressing questions about concerns over a widening

middle east conflict this idea that the the the war might be expanding or there or there's

chaos and nothing could be further from the truth if anything what Iran is doing by targeting

allied countries that would otherwise want to stay out of this they've actually pulled them

into the American orbit so now you've got UAE and Qatar and Bahrain and Saudi and Kuwait

and others saying hey we're with you here's we'll shoot with you we'll fly with you we'll defend

with you uh we'll allow you more basing and and other opportunities a lot of which you know we

can't talk about won't talk about but it's actually firming up the unity of the resistance in order

to focus exactly where we need to so this idea that it's expanding or going no it's actually it's

actually simplifying in a number of ways exactly what we need to achieve and how we'll achieve it

coming up virginia democrats advancing legislation imposing sweeping new limitations on ice

as critics warn the commonwealth may be crossing the line a political misfire in california

democrat candidates push back after party leadership urges those trailing in the polls to drop

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to get 20 bucks off your first order the Virginia House passing a series of anti ice measures

designed to sharply restrict federal immigration enforcement in the state in a 63 to 34 party line

vote democrats advancing legislation banning state and local law enforcement from assisting

cooperating with or using quote any law enforcement resources to facilitate any operation to

identify arrest or otherwise impose a penalty upon any individual purposes of federal immigration

enforcement the legislation also barring ice agents from making arrests at courthouses schools

and faith-based organizations the bill does include an exception for immigration officers who

obtain a judicial warrant but ice needs only an administrative warrant issued by dhs to arrest a

detainee and to request custody transfers from local jails that's because immigration enforcement

happens primarily under article two of the constitution within the executive branch you don't have

to go to an article three court the legislation also banning ice agents from coming within 40 feet

of a polling location and would criminalize agents wearing face coverings while conducting

enforcement operations a restriction almost certain to be ignored by ice which is already

obtained illegal ruling in federal court blocking a similar mask law in california as barred under

the supremacy clause these being federal officers controlled by federal law the debate comes as dhs

reports an eight thousand percent increase in threats against ice officers and their families

along with a thirteen hundred percent spike in assaults on agents dhs authorizing agents to wear

facial coverings in the field in response to those growing threats with the virginia senate already

passing the bills the legislation now heads to the desk of new democrat governor abby gale span

burger if signed the measure would mark governor span burgers latest step in strengthening virginia's

sanctuary state status shortly after taking office governor span burger terminating a cooperation

agreement with ice that had allowed virginia state police and department of corrections officers

to assist federal immigration authorities the push to pass this newest slate of bills coming just

days after the killing of forty one year old Stephanie mentor at a fair fax county bus stop

police arresting abdual jello and illegal immigrant from west africa's cierra leone

who investigators say had been arrested more than thirty times since entering the us in 2012

republican delegate delores riley oats directly connecting the state's policies to the killing

during debate wednesday on the house floor just weeks after governor span burger chose to end the

commonwealth's cooperation with federal immigration authorities a woman is dead killed by someone

who should never have been free to walk our streets that's not a coincidence governor span

burger now has until april thirteenth to sign a mend or veto the legislation we spoke to attorney

and founder of the article three project mike davis who says these bills if signed into law go far

beyond simply declining to cooperate with federal immigration enforcement these states are not

required to cooperate with federal law enforcement but these states certainly could not

obstruct federal law enforcement and when you have these virginia democrats in the house

in the senate conspiring with the new virginia governor avigil span burger and her administration

to obstruct federal immigration enforcement that is a federal crime you have the issue of obstruction

of law enforcement conspiracy barbering illegal aliens assaults if they touch federal law enforcement

in the line of duty even kidnapping if they if they follow through on these arrests of federal

ice agents governor span burger and these democrats they are engaging in a seditious conspiracy

davis warning if state and local officials attempt to interfere with federal immigration authorities

the consequences could be deadly this is a very dangerous path that governor abigil span burger

is going down this is confederates white behavior it's like these democrats and the south

are returning to their confederates roots and if anyone gets killed during this confederates

standoff by these virginia democrats against federal immigration enforcement anymore if anyone gets

killed those democratic officials in virginia could face federal felony murder charges they are on a

very very dangerous path with what they're doing by creating this illegal unconstitutional

very dangerous criminal conflicts between the state of virginia and the federal governments

we ask davis about the so-called exception in these bills allowing cooperation with ice

but only when federal agents obtain a judicial warrant from an article three court he tells us that

flies in the face of the constitution federal immigration law is written by congress there is

not any requirements for a an article three court judicial warrants to enforce our federal immigration

laws our immigration laws are set up where we have federal immigration officials who go to us

immigration immigration judges immigration enforcement is simple not criminal and so there is no

need to get a judicial warrant to enforce our federal immigration laws any states that tries to impose

these burgues on the federal government are violating federal law it is a it's a direct violation of

the u.s constitution which makes clear that congress writes our immigration laws and those

immigration laws are the supreme law of the land if this legislation were to become law davis tells us

the trump administration has legal options the trump administration can and should bring a

civil action against virginia and virginia tries to disrupt obstruct federal law enforcement

executing federal law these courts are going to strike this down immediately the justice

department should explore bringing criminal charges against these democrats including governor

a spam burger who are engaged in a seditious conspiracy right now by plotting to use force

and arrest to stop to obstruct federal agents carrying out federal law that is textbook

seditious conspiracy and they could be charged right now for that if they actually are dub enough

to try to move forward with these arrests of federal agents doing their jobs then they should

the justice department can ensure to bring charges against all the virginia democrats involved

including the governor for insurrection in california a push by democratic party leadership to

thin the crowded field in the race for governor now appearing to backfire state democrat party chair

rusty hicks earlier this week urging candidates who quote do not have a viable path to drop out

of the race by april 15th warning a fractured democratic field could allow to republicans to

advance to the general election and only two will advance california operates under a top two

primary system with candidates from all parties appearing on the same ballot and the two highest

vote getters move on to november regardless of party a new poll from tultian research

finding the two candidates leading now are both republicans riverside county sheriff Chad Bianco

and former fox news host steve hilton each polling at fifteen percent meantime democrats support

remains fractured across the crowded field including congressman erick swallwell who has fourteen

percent former congresswoman and angry angry lady katie porter at thirteen billionaire tom styer at

ten and several others trailing behind but instead of agreeing to thin the field as requested

several democrats doubling down on their candidacies among them former biden hhs secretary

javier basera state schools superintendent tony thurmond and former state controller betty ye

basera asking any candidate forum earlier this week quote isn't it interesting that the candidates

they're asking to get out of the race are the candidates of color shots fired

thurmond echoing that criticism saying in a statement the party was telling quote every candidate

of color in the race for governor to drop out ye who filed her paperwork on wednesday telling

politico voters choose the next governor not political gatekeepers state party chair hicks pushing

back on the criticism wednesday my letter is simply calling upon candidates to be thoughtful to be

responsible in honest with themselves and with all of us in assessing their campaign and their

decision to move forward the reality is is that there has been poll after poll after poll

that place some candidates in one place and place other candidates in other places as it

regards to the rankings that that we see and if you're at the bottom of that time and time again

my hope is is that you believe and can showcase a clear path to being able to get to the top

of that list and so you know only only time will tell governor nusum asked on Tuesday by cbs

about the crowded field right now you have just two republican candidates and you've got so

many democratic candidates and it's just a percentage game and as a consequence of that the more

there are with a fixed number of likely voters within that pool to choose this could be a problem

that said i'm not putting my thumb on anything at the moment the primary set for june second

and that'll do it for your a m update i'm maegan kelly join me back here for the mk show live

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