Markwayne Mullin says Trump called him ‘right before the statement went out’

From Associated Press.

Republican Sen. Markwayne Mullin of Oklahoma is President Donald Trump’s nominee for Homeland Security Secretary, following the firing of Kristi Noem. Mullin told reporters at the Capitol on Thursday that he would get DHS “focused on protecting the homeland.”

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