Susie Wiles addresses White House exit: 'HONOR OF A LIFETIME'

Well, Susie Wiles is now stepping down, ending her historic tenure as President Trump's chief of staff. And this makes way for a new chief of staff, Stephen Miller. Alexandria Hoff is in Washington with the details. Good morning, Alex. Good morning. You know, this is certainly going to bring a new leadership style to the West Wing. Miller, we know, is very front facing, animated, while Susie Wiles was known for staying behind the scenes, displaying this. Quiet, disciplined strength, she battled and beat breast cancer just this year and called her tenure at the White House the honor of a lifetime in a post that followed President Trump's announcement yesterday that Wiles would be exiting the White House to take on an external role in Trump political operations. Wiles had steered President Trump's 2024 campaign before making history as the first female White House chief of staff. Here's the president yesterday. She's done a very good job. Great job. But I just wanted to make it. But I just wanted to thank you. This evening's been great. We've got to make we've got to make moves sometimes. Sometimes in life you have to make moves. All right. So a well-placed source tells Fox News that this move was sparked by discussions about potential leadership changes in the administration, including the future of Secretary of War Pete Hegseth. We're told Wiles submitted her resignation Thursday night, the president accepting it yesterday. Now, he in that named longtime policy aide Stephen Miller to the role. Miller previously served as assistant to the president, deputy chief of staff for policy and Homeland Security advisor. This term, he's been really aggressive, too, on the driving the president's immigration policy. And for that, Democrats see Miller's promotion as the White House doubling down on what they call divisive policies, with Senator Chuck Schumer saying that the new Democrat majorities will fight Miller, quote, every step of the way. OK, thanks. Divisive policies that won President Trump the election. So as. As the White House is now thinking about moving forward and going back to what some have been calling the OG of MAGA, Stephen Miller, and what they're going to do moving forward into the future, people are still processing what happened this past week. And it is worthy of processing because it was a devastating, you know, extinction level. Change in political power, at least in the Congress and in many of the state state houses and and and governorships. And so a lot of people going, what happened? How did we lose young people, Hispanics, this multicultural, multiracial coalition that Trump had historically put together, which the Republican Party had never been able to do this before? What happened over the last two years? Somebody was putting up warning signs. A year ago is Charlie Kirk. He sat on our couch and he sort of was telling the people in the party, a lot of boomers who are living comfortably right now saying, don't knock young people for saying that it's a little tough for them right now and wanting access to buying homes and the American dream. And they don't feel that they have that start. Watch. People do not own stuff, and this is the greatest crisis that is facing us. We need to have a national project, and I believe President Trump will be able to accomplish this. How do we get more young people under the age of 35 to have equity in the system? Not the Democrat version of equity where they want to have redistribution, but actually, are they paying a mortgage? Do they own stuff, or are they permanent? Renters, a permanent renting class in this country is the prerequisite, is the leading ingredient for radical politics that nobody wants to see. We need to reinvigorate the ownership economy. And then all of a sudden, when you own stuff, you're less likely to burn down a Wendy's and vote for candidates like Zohran Mamdani. Boy, don't we miss him, you guys. Yeah, it's such it's such a wisdom that he's talking about there. Our country is at, and we've all lived through several elections, we're at a real crossroads in this country. And the shellacking that Republicans took, I put it this way, the dog caught the car. Meaning the progressive left, many democratic socialists caught the car and when they open up the hood, they're going to find a historic economy with GDP growth, with a booming manufacturing sector, with wage growth year over year growing and young people. Particularly, their future is going to depend on continuing to grow that. But yet now, there are only two official DSA candidates that exist in Congress. It's AOC and Rashida Tlaib. They are actual active members. That more than tripled overnight on the election night because now you've got Chevalier. Valdez, Mila Kiros, Chris Robb, so many of them coming in. And you're even seeing in the 2028, you know, and here, this is what I wanted. Look at this. Now you got one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, eight members now quadrupled the number of Democratic Socialists. And that will affect the Democratic caucus and where they want to take the country. You look at what the Democratic Socialist financial impact. on this country and this economy would do. It would likely send us in over the next 10 years into doubling our trillion, $40 trillion debt. And the irony, Rachel, is that, and look at all these proposals, all these proposals intended to do socialist public good programs, Medicare for all M4A, the big ticket, almost 50 trillion. The irony is that if you were to actually do these, The amount of insurance... The interest that we would pay on GDP would be so much that there would be no money left over out of our GDP to pay for any of this. One of the things that Charlie Kirk was also warning about last summer was the war. He was personally. Thank You know, lobbying the White House, saying, don't do it. He went down to the White House, don't do it, in part because he didn't think we could beat Iran. He thought he made a case for why he thought you that would become a quagmire. But more importantly, he understood the economics. He believed in Trump's agenda. you. He believed that Trump was going to transform the economy, which he has. I mean, what's remarkable is, you know, we were talking today about these. job numbers in manufacturing. He has reshored so many of these companies back to the back, these manufacturing companies back to America. Energy independence is extraordinary. But that war meant, you know, it hurt people economically. And so people are now thinking, and that's what we have to process, Charlie, was the war worth. Bringing in all these communists. What was the true threat to America? What was or rather the bigger threat to America ushering in communism and a wave of young people who are voting for communism and socialism for the first time? And what kind of impact that will have? Or or would we have been better just leaving it at midnight hammer? Well, I think one of the, um, again, another silver lining about all of this, uh, is about the elections is that, um, Democrats are now faced with having like not just majorities, but huge majorities that they don't have to, Hakeem Jeffries does not necessarily have to contend with the socialists in his party, uh, head on. He can actually work around them. And that's going to make them even more vocal. And that's going to make a showdown between the old establishment wing of the Democrat Party, which I don't even know how much of that exists anymore, and these left-wing crazies. And they're going to have a real fight on their hands about the direction of the party and whether or not the Democrat Party wants to grow up and become an adult party that actually cares about the things that Charlie Kirk is talking about there Thank you Do they just want to, you know, demonstrate and talk about, you you know, government taking over every aspect of their of our lives? very And I, you know, I for one, I am depressed about a lot of things. much We lost some very good people last week. for But if you want to spend the next two years having this fight, being listening to Democrats have this fight before the 2028 election. here. I'm here for it. I'm ready for it. I love it. I love watching the Democrats in fight, but the reason why Charlie Kirk was so good. At what at his analysis. First of all, he was brilliant. His mind was like he he he just was a genius and he had a photographic memory on top of it all. But the reason he was good is he was in universities on a daily basis. And that is the kind of thing that as we move forward, the president, the Congress, the activists on the conservative side. That's where they need to be. They need to be in touch with young people because in the twenty twenty eight election, the largest demographic that will be voting will be millennials. It will be the first year that boomers are not the majority. And so, you know, as as boomers get older, this these demographics become more important. And if we want to. Show. I mean, as we saw earlier, you people vote into socialism and it's hard to get out when we're on that path right now. And it's very dangerous. Here's the fear, though. And you're so right. Talking about Charlie and his ability to communicate with young people. Guess who else is good at that? The socialists that we all started talking about, which is New York City's mayor, Zohran Mamdani. And he connected social media. He has a very effective messaging. Strategy. And now he's getting asked in the wake of this election about the DSA victories and he's laughing it off. Watch this. I'm proud to be doing so as a mayor who's a member of the Democratic Socialists of America. OK, get rid of borders. No. Get rid of SCOTUS. No. Get rid of jails. No. So do you think DSA is going to kick you out? No. Was that before the election? No, no. It just happened. It just happened. Okay, when was that? Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Thursday, I guess. It was on Thursday, okay. I believe that she did it Thursday or yesterday, but that's for Fox News Sunday. Sit down with Shannon Bream, my point is- When he's on a different network, he might have different answers to that. Well, yeah, I mean, 100%, and we've seen that. I just think it's like he's good at smiling, no, no, no, no, no. But look at the members of Congress, the eight. Plus, that are now there that do believe in getting rid of SCOTUS, the very least shaking it up, do believe in abolishing ICE and opening the borders up, do believe in plunging the country into massive debt. With Medicare for all, which, by the way, isn't even sitting well with all Democrat voters when they're union members that fought so hard for their health care that are now going to lose it in the long laundry list of things. But it is he's like, I'll go on Fox News why he wants to go there to try and bring down the temperature of us. Spewing out facts about the impact of what these policies would do to the country. He's trying to mainstream. That's right. He's trying to normalize. He ran on all these things. And we've already seen a lot of the things that he did run on. Go on. It's something as simple as free buses. He can't even deliver on that. And what we're seeing is sort of like this tour, this burnishing of their reputations because they want to try to be more. acceptable mainstream, but his objective is the same as it's always been. But the thing that's really revealing to me about That interview and the others that we've seen, and we're seeing it with AOC as well, that these people, they don't believe in anything. I think they believe in what they're saying. I think that they really are true communists, but they're the same slimy politicians that everybody is so tired of. They'll say whatever they need to say if they think that it'll advance their own personal political career. Yeah, I think it's really important for Republicans moving forward to get the right Lessons and I do not believe and I've been thinking really hard about about what happened on Tuesday. I do not believe this is a repudiation of Trump's Make America Great movement, I think it was that people felt like it didn't get delivered. And so moving forward, there's a lot of people saying we need to go back to the old establishment Bush years and and and put forward candidates that believed in those in those ideas. I do not think that is the way forward. The way forward is to is is is the America first policies go back to America first. Show that you can be honest and deliver on these messages. Put the economy first. That's why people love President Trump because he's a businessman and he understood how to put an economy together. The only problem was the war stopped the growth and it didn't stop the growth, but it didn't Let me just reword that. It didn't stop the growth. What it did is it shot inflation up because of diesel prices, and people could not... The diesel prices are up for a lot of reasons. Okay, so the war was not the issue. Okay. But we won't believe the exit polls. Yeah, yeah. That's what I said. No, and actually, if you actually look at the exit polls, all the exit polls do not list the war as being a top concern. It was inflation which the war exacerbated. Traffic through the Strait of Hormuz is, oil traffic is basically back to where it was. You have a decades-long assault by Democrats on the oil and gas industry in this country, which is a real problem. You have the war in Russia and Ukraine where they're blowing up refineries. These are all real problems. I'm not defending the war. What I'm saying is that this trying to connect the war to the economy. I think a lot of people are overstating that, and you're exactly right. We need to draw the right lessons from this, but I don't think that that is the right lesson. Well, there are a lot of reasons people didn't like the war. One was the economy, and other people didn't like, you know, how brutally it was executed on the left, especially. That was a problem, and with young people as well. But I think that you cannot deny that had we not gone to war in February. By April, there was going to be a huge economic boom. And then you had the productivity gains of AI on top of that. This would have been a very different midterm had we not gone into the war. I just fundamentally believe that. To Charlie's point, once the Democrats come in, if they lean heavily into the Green New Deal 2.0, it's going to further exacerbate that problem. So we're going to be talking. A great economy and people feeling good economically. Covers a lot of sins and a lot of a lot of other issues that were going on. I think the economy was at the center of it. Be sure to like and subscribe for all the Fox News latest on YouTube and catch full shows streaming now on Fox 1.