[CRAIG NIGRELLI]

PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP HAS SIGNED MORE NEW EXECUTIVE ORDERS — THIS TIME RESHAPING THE NATION’S MILITARY. 

THE ORDERS INCLUDE BANNING TRANSGENDER SERVICE MEMBERS, GETTING RID OF THE MILITARY’S DIVERSITY, EQUITY AND INCLUSION PROGRAMS AND REINSTATING – WITH BACK PAY – SERVICE MEMBERS WHO WERE DISCHARGED FOR REFUSING TO GET A COVID-19 VACCINE. 

ALL OF THIS COMES AS PRESIDENT TRUMP’S NOMINEE TO LEAD THE PENTAGON — PETE HEGSETH — WAS SWORN IN AS SECRETARY OF DEFENSE ON SATURDAY AND HAD HIS FIRST DAY ON THE JOB MONDAY.  

HEGSETH HAS LONG SAID HE WOULD MAKE MAJOR CULTURAL CHANGES TO THE MILITARY — INCLUDING ENDING D-E-I PRACTICES AND REMOVING SO-CALLED “WOKE” SERVICE MEMBERS. 

ON HIS FIRST OFFICIAL DAY ON THE JOB — HEGSETH TOLD REPORTERS TO EXPECT MORE CHANGES. 

PETE HEGSETH | U.S. SECRETARY OF DEFENSE 

“There are more executive on … executive orders coming that we fully support; removing DEI, inside the Pentagon, reinstating troops who were pushed out because of Covid mandates. Iron dome for America. This is happening quickly.” 

TRUMP HAD BANNED TRANSGENDER AMERICANS FORM SERVING IN THE MILITARY DURING HIS FIRST ADMINISTRATION… BUT PRESIDENT JOE BIDEN ISSUED AN ORDER REPEALING THE BAN. 

HOURS AFTER BEING SWORN IN FOR HIS SECOND TERM LAST WEEK — TRUMP SIGNED AN ORDER UNDOING Biden’s. 

THAT ORDER GOES EVEN FURTHER — OUTLINING NEW MILITARY STANDARDS REGARDING GENDER PRONOUNS.

WE’RE ONLY A WEEK INTO TRUMP’S SECOND PRESIDENCY AND ALREADY HIS EFFORTS TO CRACK DOWN ON ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION IN THE U-S HAVE RESULTED IN THE ARRESTS OF MORE THAN 35-HUNDRED MIGRANTS. 

THIS COMES AS THE WASHINGTON POST IS REPORTING PRESIDENT TRUMP WANTS ICE TO INCREASE ITS DAILY ARRESTS FROM A FEW HUNDRED… TO BETWEEN 12 AND 15-HUNDRED. 

IMMIGRATION AND CUSTOMS ENFORCEMENT ANNOUNCED, A MULTI-AGENCY IMMIGRATION OPERATION LED TO MORE THAN 11-HUNDRED ARRESTS **IN A SINGLE DAY** — A RECORD FOR THE NEW ADMINISTRATION, SO FAR. 

ICE SAID ON SUNDAY ALONE — LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICERS ARRESTED 956 PEOPLE AND LODGED 554 DETAINERS — WHICH MEANS QUOTE “THERE’S PROBABLE CAUSE TO BELIEVE THAT THE PERSON IS REMOVABLE FROM THE UNITED STATES UNDER FEDERAL IMMIGRATION LAW.” 

AND IN A WEEKEND INTERVIEW ON A-B-C NEWS, BORDER CZAR TOM HOMAN SAID DAILY DEPORTATION NUMBERS ARE SET TO RISE IN THE COMING WEEKS — AS THE TRUMP ADMINISTRATION BEGINS TO EXPAND ITS OPERATIONS.  HOMAN HIMSELF WENT TO CHICAGO TO OVERSEE HOW THINGS WERE GOING IN THE CITY WHERE THE MAYOR HAS VOWED TO KEEP ITS SANCTUARY STATUS.  

ICE OFFICIALS SAY those CONSIDERED threats to PUBLIC SAFETY AND NATIONAL SECURITY ARE STILL the agency’s TOP PRIORITY. 

ALSO, IMMIGRATIONS OFFICIALS CAN NOW ARREST PEOPLE WHO ARE LIVING IN THE U-S ILLEGALLY IF THEY RUN ACROSS THEM WHILE LOOKING FOR MIGRANTS TARGETED FOR REMOVAL. 

THESE SO-CALLED “COLLATERAL ARRESTS” WERE BANNED DURING THE BIDEN ADMINISTRATION.

MEANWHILE, THE DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY IS FACING LAWSUITS FROM FIVE QUAKER CONGREGATIONS — OVER LAST WEEK’S POLICY REVERSAL ALLOWING IMMIGRATION AGENTS TO CONDUCT SEARCHES AND ARRESTS IN “SENSITIVE AREAS”, SUCH AS CHURCHES AND SCHOOLS. 

THE QUAKER GROUPS — KNOWN AS THE RELIGIOUS SOCIETY OF FRIENDS — SAY THE POLICY CHANGE HARMS THEIR CONGREGATIONS BY DETERRING IMMIGRANTS FROM WORSHIPPING IN-PERSON, THUS VIOLATING THEIR FIRST AMENDMENT RIGHTS. 

THE LAWSUIT, FILED YESTERDAY, SAYS QUAKER WORSHIP INVOLVES MULTIPLE CONGREGANTS SITTING TOGETHER IN SILENCE TO AWAIT A MESSAGE FROM GOD. 

THE QUAKERS APPEAR TO BE THE FIRST RELIGIOUS ORGANIZATION TO CHALLENGE THE NEW POLICY. 

THE DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY, NOW LED BY NEWLY CONFIRMED FORMER SOUTH DAKOTA GOVERNOR KRISTI NOEM, SAYS IT DOES NOT COMMENT ON PENDING LITIGATION.

THE TRUMP ADMINISTRATION HAS STARTED A SO-CALLED “SPECIAL PROJECT” TO INVESTIGATE PROSECUTORS WHO CHARGED SOME JANUARY 6-TH CAPITOL RIOTERS WITH OBSTRUCTION. 

IN A MEMO ISSUED MONDAY — INTERIM U-S ATTORNEY IN WASHINGTON, D-C, ED MARTIN, ORDERED the prosecutors TO HAND OVER INFORMATION RELATED TO THE CHARGES TO TWO officials he appointed,  WHO MUST issue A REPORT ON THE PROBE BY FRIDAY. 

THIS MOVE COMES AS THE TRUMP ADMINISTRATION HAS FIRED MORE THAN A DOZEN FEDERAL EMPLOYEES WHO WORKED ON CRIMINAL INVESTIGATIONS INTO THE PRESIDENT. 

STRAIGHT ARROW NEWS REPORTER LAUREN TAYLOR EXPLAINS HOW THAT’S RELATED TO THIS “SPECIAL PROJECT.” 

LAURENT AYLOR 

SPECIAL COUNSEL JACK SMITH RESIGNED BEFORE PRESIDENT TRUMP TOOK OFFICE. 

AND NOW, UNDER THE NEW TRUMP ADMINISTRATION — 

THE JUSTICE DEPARTMENT FIRED MORE THAN A DOZEN CAREER OFFICIALS — 

WHO WORKED TO PROSECUTE THE FORMER PRESIDENT. 

SMITH’S SPEAR-HEADED THE EFFORT TO CHARGE  DONALD TRUMP — WITH MISHANDLING CLASSIFIED DOCUMENTS– 

AND FOR HIS ROLE IN THE LEAD-UP TO THE JANUARY 6TH, 2021, ATTACK ON THE U-S CAPITOL. 

COURTS LATER DISMISSED BOTH CASES. 

MANY OF THE FIRED EMPLOYEES WERE CAREER OFFICIALS,  ASSIGNED TO THE INVESTIGATIONS. 

IN HIS LETTER TO THEM, ACTING ATTORNEY GENERAL JAMES MCHENRY TOLD THE OUTGOING EMPLOYEES — 

THAT HE BELIEVED THEIR PRIOR WORK COMPROMISED HIS TRUST IN THEM. 

“GIVEN YOUR SIGNIFICANT ROLE IN PROSECUTING THE PRESIDENT,” HE WROTE, 

“I DO NOT BELIEVE THAT THE LEADERSHIP OF THE DEPARTMENT CAN TRUST YOU — 

TO ASSIST IN IMPLEMENTING THE PRESIDENT’S AGENDA FAITHFULLY.” 

MCHENRY’S MENTION OF THE PRESIDENT’S AGENDA IS SOMETHING THAT’S BECOME A SOURCE OF POLITICAL DISCOURSE. 

THE JUSTICE DEPARTMENT’S MISSION STATEMENT INCLUDES “INDEPENDENCE AND IMPARTIALITY” AS PART OF ITS HISTORIC VALUES.  

BUT BOTH DEMOCRATS AND REPUBLICANS HAVE ACCUSED EACH OTHER OF POLITICIZING 

OR WEAPONIZING THE DEPARTMENT WITH THEIR ACTIONS IN RECENT YEARS. 

AFTER TAKING OFFICE LAST WEEK, TRUMP SIGNED AN EXECUTIVE ORDER 

ENDING WHAT HE DESCRIBED AS THE “WEAPONIZING OF THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT.” 

IT’S PART OF A BROADER EFFORT BY PRESIDENT TRUMP TO INVESTIGATE PROSECUTORS — 

INVOLVED IN BRINGING CHARGES AGAINST HIM AND HIS ALLIES, A KEY PROMISE HE MADE ON THE CAMPAIGN TRAIL. 

THE INVESTIGATION EXTENDS TO CHARGES AGAINST PARTICIPANTS IN THE JANUARY 6TH ATTACK — 

WITH INTERIM U.S. ATTORNEY FOR WASHINGTON D-C  ED MARTIN LOOKING INTO THE ORIGINS OF 

OBSTRUCTION CHARGES AGAINST SOME RIOTERS. 

THE SUPREME COURT THREW OUT THOSE CHARGES IN A RULING LAST SUMMER. 

THE EMPLOYEES SET TO LOSE THEIR JOBS DO HAVE A MECHANISM TO APPEAL THE DECISION. 

THE LETTER NOTED THEY CAN APPEAL TO THE MERIT SYSTEMS PROTECTION BOARD — 

WHICH REVIEWS CASES WHERE GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES ALLEGE ILLEGAL WORKPLACE PRACTICES — 

OR PARTISAN POLITICAL INTERFERENCE WITH NONPARTISAN JOBS. 

CRAIG NIGRELLI 

OUR LAUREN TAYLOR REPORTING.  

MEANWHILE, THE TRUMP ADMINISTRATION PLACED AT LEAST 56 SENIOR OFFICIALS IN THE U-S AGENCY FOR INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT on administration leave YESTERDAY — AMID AN INVESTIGATION INTO AN ALLEGED EFFORTS TO IGNORE the president’s EXECUTIVE ORDER LAST WEEK.  IT  STIPULATED A 90-DAY PAUSE ON **MOST** AMERICAN  FOREIGN ASSISTANCE DISBURSED THROUGH THE STATE DEPARTMENT.

THIS MORNING, LOTS OF EYES WILL BE ON THE STOCK MARKET TO SEE IF THE NASDAQ CAN REBOUND FROM A MANIC MONDAY. 

A SURPRISE ADVANCEMENT BY THE CHINESE STARTUP ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE COMPANY – DEEPSEEK – SENT SHOCK-WAVES THROUGH THE TECH MARKET.  

DEEPSEEK RELEASED ITS LARGE LANGUAGE CHAT-GPT-LIKE MODEL CALLED R-1. 

IT SUPPOSEDLY HAS ALL THE CAPABILITIES AS OPEN AI, AS WELL AS GOOGLE’S AND META’S AI MODELS. 

HOWEVER – THE CHINESE VERSION CAN OPERATE AT A FRACTION OF THE COST, COMPARED TO ITS AMERICAN COUNTER-PARTS. 

THAT SENT THE NASDAQ SPIRALING DOWNWARD ON MONDAY, AS CHIPMAKER NVIDIA LOST ALMOST 600 BILLION DOLLARS IN VALUE AS DEEPSEEK MAKES IN-ROADS IN THE TECH INDUSTRY. 

THE NASDAQ FELL BY 600 POINTS. 

THIS MORNING, FUTURES ARE UP.

FINALLY THIS MORNING — GOOGLE IS GETTING BEHIND PRESIDENT TRUMP’S PLAN TO CHANGE THE NAMES OF SOME OF AMERICA’S MOST ICONIC LANDMARKS. 

THE SEARCH ENGINE GIANT ANNOUNCED YESTERDAY IT WILL BE CHANGING THE NAMES OF THE GULF OF MEXICO AND DENALI ON ITS MAPS FOR AMERICAN USERS,  AS SOON AS THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT MAKES THE SWITCH. 

UNDER AN EXECUTIVE ORDER SIGNED BY PRESIDENT TRUMP ON HIS FIRST DAY IN OFFICE, THE GULF OF MEXICO WOULD BECOME THE GULF OF AMERICA  AND DENALI — MOUNT MCKINLEY IN ALASKA,  IT IS THE THE HIGHEST MOUNTAIN IN NORTH AMERICA,  AT 20,310 FEET. 

THE PRESIDENT DIRECTED THE INTERIOR SECRETARY TO MAKE THE CHANGES WITHIN 30 DAYS. 

TRUMP DOES NOT YET HAVE AN OFFICIAL INTERIOR SECRETARY — BUT THE SENATE IS CONSIDERING HIS NOMINEE, NORTH DAKOTA GOVERNOR DOUG BURGUM.