Kristi Noem tells Congress Trump approved $220 million ad campaign

Fired Homeland Security chief Kristi Noem likely sealed her fate with one answer to the Senate Judiciary Committee Wednesday — and it wasn’t the one about sex with her aide Corey Lewandowski. “How do you square that with the fact that you have spent $220 million running television advertisements that feature you prominently?” the senator asked. Noem replied, “Sir, the president tasked me with getting the message out to the country and to other countries with putting commercials out that if they were in the country illegally, that they needed to leave.” Kennedy seemed gobsmacked by the possibility that President Trump would have approved such an expenditure.