Kristi Noem Is Fired - For Making Trump Look Bad | News Round-Up

In this news round-up of the week for Friday March 6th 2026. The first of Trump's Cabinet Secretaries to be fired is Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem. Trump declares that he will only accept Unconditional Surrender from Iran, but don't worry - it's not REALLY a war. We discuss something you may not have noticed, sparked by the appearance of German Chancellor Friedrich Merz in the Oval Office. And Anthropic is officially designated a risk to national security - and yet Claude is now number one in the Apple app store. Support Mallen's work on Patreon! https://patreon.com/mallenbaker [ please use the website, not Apple IOS Patreon app, as Apple takes a big slice of money from the latter ] Support Mallen via Paypal https://paypal.me/mallenbaker The ‘Faultlines’ channel by Mallen Baker covers news, current affairs, science and politics. A rational, reasoned and non-partisan approach to some of the difficult issues of our time, looking for how we can best survive and thrive in the modern world. Prefer it on podcast? Audio versions are available wherever you get your podcasts, or see https://the-mallen-baker-podcast.simplecast.com/ Quotes reported in this video should not be taken as an implication of their author’s endorsement or involvement in this video.