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I wonder what Politico said. Maybe I'll check if I have the stomach for it.

My full statement that was provided to @politico regarding their Thanksgiving Day piece of political fiction on military force protection for @DHSgov personnel: pic.twitter.com/zPd2oS8mVs— Sec. Kirstjen Nielsen (@SecNielsen) November 22, 2018

256 posted on 11/22/2018 8:31:02 PM PST by little jeremiah (When we do not punish evildoers we are ripping the foundations of justice from future generations)

To: little jeremiah

This must be it, “embattled aides” my ***! MSMFakeNews always wants Trump’s administration to appear to be in chaos with everyone at everyone else’s throats.

https://www.politico.com/story/2018/11/22/kelly-nielsen-debate-border-troops-1012547

Fiery West Wing meeting led to more power for military at U.S.-Mexico border

Aides squared off against administration immigration hawks over an order they said was beyond the president’s constitutional powers.

By ELIANA JOHNSON 11/22/2018 08:35 AM

President Donald Trump this week presided over an explosive meeting on a new Cabinet order granting the troops deployed at the southern border the right to use lethal force to defend border patrol agents.

Several White House aides and external advisers who have supported the president’s hawkish immigration agenda attended the Monday meeting, which devolved into a melee pitting two of Trump’s embattled aides, White House chief of staff John Kelly and Department of Homeland Security Kirstjen Nielsen, against other attendees, according to three people briefed on the exchange.

Kelly and Nielsen initially argued against signing the declaration, which granted the military broad authority at the border, telling the president that the move was beyond his constitutional powers. They were vocally opposed by, among others, senior policy adviser Stephen Miller; Chris Crane, president of the National Immigration and Customs Enforcement Council; and Brandon Judd, president of the border patrol union. Also present was Vice President Mike Pence, who did not take a stand on the issue, according to one of the people briefed on the debate.