Rachel Maddow

Nick Miroff reports, quote, Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem and her close advisor, Corey Lewandowski, who were Bovino's biggest backers at Homeland Security, are now also at risk of losing their jobs.

Miroff citing two sources to advance that story about Kristi Noem and Lewandowski potentially losing their jobs as well.

Again, reporting from reporter Nick Miroff.

He's formerly of The Washington Post, but he's now at The Atlantic.

Tonight, the Homeland Security Department spokesperson said that Bovino, quote, "...has not been relieved of his duties."

Chief Gregory Bovino has not been relieved of his duties.

It sounds like pushback, but if you think about it, it doesn't exactly answer the question.

I mean, that assertion that he has not been relieved of his duties might in fact be quite consistent with the reporting in The Atlantic that Mr. Bovino has been sent home to California where he is expected to retire soon.

That could also be true, while tonight he has not been relieved of his duties.

I don't know.

We don't know what heads will roll or exactly in which direction they shall roll.

We shall see.

But clearly, President Trump and the Trump administration are in retreat on what had been a violent attack

occupation, I think it's fair to say, of a major American city that they essentially hoped to be the front page news headline that everybody remembered about the Trump administration at this time at the start of Trump's second year in his second term in office.

They went big with this on their own terms.

Nobody asked for this.

Nobody put them up to it.

They decided to launch this in order to show off what they could do.

And now they are in full retreat, with it being viewed both as a practical debacle and a moral debacle, and they are paying a considerable political price for it.

If you were one of millions of Americans who protested ICE out of Minneapolis, you should know tonight you are winning this thing.