Miles Taylor

It's Maitlis.

And it's Miles.

And last night, friends, the U.S. House of Representatives took a vote to table a resolution to impeach U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth.

Now, that impeachment didn't come from the new Democratic majority.

It would kick it over to the US Senate to decide whether to actually take him out.

But the perception was if the political damage was that bad, Trump might throw him overboard and try to confirm a replacement before Democrats take power.

Yeah, and we should bring you the numbers on that vote because, as Miles says, it was pretty tight.

It was 211 to no versus 204.

Coming up, as the Trump administration prepares for an avalanche of investigations, we got new reporting today that whistleblowers are alleging documents are already being destroyed.

Former Trump White House official Miles Taylor knows a lot of things, standing by, and he joins us next.

Great meeting.

Who took notes? Anyone?

That's just the tidbits of what we've learned in the last week.

After winning control of Congress, Democrats are vowing to take on and investigate the enormous web of corruption entangling the Trump White House.

The question is, with so much of it, where should they look first? Where do they begin? Joining me now is Miles Taylor.

He's the former DHS chief of staff during the first Trump administration and producer of the documentary Corruption Land, now streaming on YouTube, which tackles the scale of Trump's corruption in Washington.

Yeah, I mean, I think there is no need to get into payback because there is so much legitimate stuff that needs to be investigated.

But certainly if you're using your power to just randomly go after people you don't like with no evidence or basis for doing so, that's basically what the administration has been doing with the Department of Justice and even with executive orders against people like Miles Taylor.

That is arbitrary behavior.

That is the opposite of the rule of law.

Let's turn now to a former colleague of Stephen Miller.

Miles Taylor served as chief of staff at the Department of Homeland Security during the first Trump administration.

He wrote an anonymous op-ed about resisting Trump from the inside.

He later expanded that into a book, then publicly backed Joe Biden for president in 2020.

During this Trump administration, the president revoked Taylor's security clearance and ordered DHS to investigate him.

Miles Taylor, good morning and welcome to the program.

Hi, Layla.

Good morning.

I mean, this Stephen Miller thing, it's his typical double, triple, quadrupling down, right? Andrew Weinstein said, naming Stephen Miller chief of staff is like looking at a five-alarm fire or deciding the problem is a shortage of gasoline.

I mean, Miles Taylor, our friend, right, who worked with him in the first, he said, I spent two years working with Stephen Miller.

His appointment as White House chief of staff is among the most dangerous personnel decisions in the history of our republic.

I say that without reservation.