Michelle Hackman

And so what's happening over the last few months is that contracts were just piling up on Kristi Noem's desk to the point where, you know, all sorts of things very nearly expired or did expire.

She, you know, for months, she had been promoting, again, a sort of really showy, confrontational form of immigration enforcement.

She engaged, you know, this guy named Greg Bovino in the Border Patrol to lead these operations where he would send agents out in huge roving bands to look for people.

I mean, very different from how

traditional immigration enforcement is done, where you have sort of specific targets and it's kind of limited.

And you saw that sort of extremely over-the-top confrontational approach culminate in two deadly shootings of American citizens

who were, you know, Renee Goode was driving a car and Alex Preddy was out protesting.

And you immediately have Kristi Noem go on TV and say, you know, Alex Preddy committed an act of domestic terrorism.

And then, you know, a video comes out of him and he's on his knees getting shot from behind his head.

I mean, it was extremely incongruous with what Americans saw with their own eyes.

And we were told that most people in the White House by that point wanted her gone.

And they just felt like they needed to convince the president that it was the right time.

And so there was a lot of attention paid to these hearings and how well she would perform.

What we've seen is a disaster.

Under your leadership, Ms.

Noem, a disaster.

And that's what doomed her.

The hearings were crazy.

You know, it's one thing if Democrats are ambushing Kristi Noem and she doesn't do well.

It's another if Republicans go after her.