Hegseth on Noem’s ouster: ‘We all serve at the pleasure of the president’

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said Thursday that Kristi Noem did an “excellent job” at the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), hours after President Trump announced he had tapped Sen. Markwayne Mullin (R-Okla.) to replace her. “We all serve at the pleasure of the president,” Hegseth told reporters during a briefing on the ongoing operation in…