i'm dave briggs. >> it's wednesday, i'm christine romans. november 14th, 5:00 a.m. in the east. let's begin with the white house, imminent shakeup there. a stunning, unprecedented move by melania trump. the first lady calling for the removal of deputy national security adviser mira ricardel. and president trump said he is ready to fire her. she clashed with mrs. trump during a recent trip to africa. listen to what she told abc news during that trip. >> has he had people that you didn't trust working for him? >> yes. >> did you let him know? >> i let him know. >> what did he do? >> with some people, they don't work there anymore. >> sources tell us ricardel has also butted heads with defense secretary jim mattis and chief of staff john kelly in receipt weeks. so far no official word from the white house on her status. more now from senior white house correspondent pamela brown.

>> reporter: a stunning string of events here at the white house surrounding deputy national security adviser mira ricardel. earlier today, melania trump, the first lady, issued a statement. here's what the statement said, "it is the position of the office of the first lady that ricardel no longer deserves the honor of serving in the white house." the statement came out around the same time that ricardel was at the white house attending a ceremony with president trump. so immediately white house officials began scrambling in the west wing. they were caught offguard, according to sources, that the statement was even going to be released. there had been an ongoing feud behind the scenes between staffers for the first lady and mira ricardel surrounding a trip to africa. there was a dispute over a plane seat and other issues. the fact that this has spilled into public view is extraordinary. in terms of her future, that's unclear. a source telling my colleague, jeff zeleny, that the president has made the decision to fire

her. yet, throughout the day, she was still in her office, according to white house officials who couldn't give a clear answer on what her future holds. we have reached out to ricardel, and she has not responded for comment. all of this raises the question of what will be next for john bolton, the national security adviser, who brought ricardel on board to the nfc. back to you. >> thank you. other senior white house members employed in the next few hours or days. no one feels secure with the exception of ivanka trump and jared kushner. the president is expected to ask for the resignation of homeland security secretary kirstjen nielsen in the coming days. >> and cnn learned he is discussing potential replacements for chief of staff john kelly despite announcing kelly would remain on the job until 2020. in fact, the vice president's chief of staff, nick ayers, has told two friends he is in the running for the position. ayers has grown close to the president and key members of the administration including the

president's daughter and son-in-law. to california. breaking news. 50 lives lost to the california wildfires, and the threat widens that hour. 48 of those fatalities have occurred in northern california where six more victims of the camp fire were found on tuesday. officials are compiling a list of the missing. they're reluctant to say how many people that might be. a new wildfire is burning east of los angeles county in san bernardino county. it's being called the sierra fire. it's approximately 20 acres in size right now, but the high, dry winds are fanning the flames. no evacuations ordered yet at this time. in southern california, as well, the death toll from the woolsey fire stands at two with more than 400 structures destroyed, another 57,000 considered to be in danger. the department of health and human services declaring a public health emergency in california. cnn's scott mclean has more.

>> reporter: there are thousands of firefighters on the front lines trying to stop this fire from spreading. for many in malibu it doesn't get much worse. case in point, we're standing on what was the home of thomas hirsch. he grew up here, his family lived here. when we think of malibu, we often think of the rich and famous. that is not the case for this family. his parents bought the house in 1965 for just $39,000. and they're 94 and 97 years old. so they've accumulated a lifetime worth of things. today thomas was trying to find anything of value that he could salvage. he found a sterling silverware set that had been melted into a blob. he actually just found it right over here. despite the destruction and despite his parents' age, he says he wants to rebuild. >> we're survivors. what we build will come back, take whatever insurance money they came back. clean it up and make it nicer than it was before. i told my dad, and he said,

"tom, you can't make it nicer than it was." >> reporter: conditions are prime for flames to spread quickly or fires to start. as for rain in the forecast, that might be in two weeks maybe. whenever firefighters are able to finally stamp out this fire, it will be with no help from mother nature. dave, christine? >> entire landscapes reduced to ash. thanks. more than 13 million people, 13 million people in california under red flag warnings. want to get straight to meteorologist pedram javaheri. >> good morning. yet another day where we're watching carefully to see how things play out. extreme concern for fire weather behavior includes los angeles county down toward san diego county where humidities will struggle to get above 5%. we know the winds will be gusty at times. weaker than yesterday at least. take a look, containment to the north for the camp fire up to

35%. officials saying november 30th, that's the target date for containment, and fully containment across the region. to the south, we're up to 40% containment. uncertain as far as when conditions will be good enough to put the fire out in its entirety, at least contain it in its entirety. the forecast for this afternoon yet again, 35 to 50 miles per hour. tell you what, that is plenty strong here to cause the fires to continue spreading into new areas. and unfortunately, that's going to be the case at least through today. by tomorrow afternoon into, say, friday, we begin to see winds die down, becoming breezy which is pretty seasonal for this time of year. again, expecting some numbers to improve there as we go in toward friday and saturday. guys? >> thank you. cnn has learned president trump's legal team could submit answers to questions posed by special counsel robert mueller any day now. a source said the president met again with his lawyers monday. they are nearing completion of written answers to mueller's questions.

those questions said to focus on russia conclusions and not obstruction of justice. still unresolved, whether mr. trump will sit down for an interview with the special counsel. cnn has reported that mueller's team has begun writing its final report. later this morning, matthew whitaker will speak publicly for the first time since president trump appointed him acting attorney general. he'll be appearing at a justice department summit in his home state of iowa. at the same time, the state of the art maryland arguing in court that the president bypassed the constitution and illegally appointed whitaker. the state asking a federal judge to replace him with deputy attorney general rod rosenstein. senate judiciary committee chairman chuck grassley downplaying concerns raised by democrats that whitaker might interfere in the special counsel's investigation. >> the president said that he wasn't going to do that. so doesn't matter what whitaker

thinks. the president said it isn't going to be done. >> officials saying the president is in no rush to nominate a permanent replacement for ousted attorney general jeff sessions and that whitaker appears poised to remain in the position for weeks if not months. at a white house event today, president trump's expected to announce his support for new criminal justice reform legislation. the bill is backed by his son-in-law and senior advisor jared kushner along with a bipartisan group of senators. proponents made some changes to the bill to gain support of law enforcement groups. changes like stiffer sentencing guidelines for fentanyl-related crimes and expanding the definition of a serious violent crime. senate majority leader mitch mcconnell has pledged to bring the bill to the floor if he has the 60 votes needed. the question is wherther enough department will support the compromise or will hold out for a more ambitious overhaul. this is the final day for

election officials to count the ballots from three statewide races. bill nelson's campaign filed a lawsuit in federal court claiming that the deadlines are arbitrary and impose a severe burden on the right to vote. >> they will need a lot more time to get the voting done in palm delaware beach county. voting machines are overheating and malfunctioning. officials will have to start over with the recount of nearly 200,000 early ballots. in broward county, embattled supervisor brenda snipes is suggesting she may step down after all the criticism and controversy. >> i've not made any decisions. whatever i do, i will contemplate it very carefully and make what i think is the correct decision for me. >> miami-dade and broward county insist they will meet tomorrow's recount deadline. house democrats leading a rebellion against nancy pelosi say they're confident they have enough commitments to block her from reclaiming the speaker's gavel. they have been gathering

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a new wildfire sparking in southern california overnight and spreading quickly. the death toll rising to 50 people statewide. an air force jet crashes in texas overnight killing one pilot, sending another to the hospital. we have the latest on the crash and the investigation. welcome back to "early start" this wednesday morning. i'm christine romans. >> i'm dave briggs. good morning, everyone. 2:31 out there in california. scott mclean reporting from california where millions are under red flag warnings and thousands have lost their homes. we start in d.c., an imminent shakeup at the white house. in a stunning, unprecedented move by melania trump. the first lady calling for the removal of deputy national security adviser mira ricardel. and cnn learned president trump has told people he is prepared to fire her. ricardel clashed with the east wing staff during mrs. trump's recent trip to africa. listen to what she told abc news during that trip. >> reporter: has he had people that you didn't trust working

for him? >> yes. >> reporter: did you let him know? >> i let him know. >> reporter: and what did he do? >> well, some people, they don't work there anymore. >> sources tell us ricardel has also butted heads with defense secretary jim mattis and chief of staff john kelly in recent weeks. so far no official word from the white house on her status. more now from senior white house correspondent pamela brown. >> reporter: a stunning string of events here at the white house surrounding deputy national security adviser mira ricardel. earlier today, melania trump, the first lady, issued a statement. here's what the statement said, "it is the position of the office of the first lady that ricardel no longer deserves the honor of serving in the white house." the statement came out around the same time that ricardel was at the white house attending a ceremony with president trump. so immediately white house officials began scrambling in the west wing. they were caught offguard, according to sources, that the statement was even going to be released.

there had been an ongoing feud behind the scenes between staffers for the first lady and mira ricardel surrounding a trip to africa. there was a dispute over a plane seat and other issues. the fact that this has spilled into public view is extraordinary. in terms of her future, that's unclear. a source telling my colleague, jeff zeleny, that the president has made the decision to fire her. yet, throughout the day, she was still in her office, according to white house officials who couldn't give a clear answer on what her future holds. we have reached out to ricardel, and she has not responded for comment. all of this raises the question of what will be next for john bolton, the national security adviser, who brought ricardel on board to the nfc. back to you. >> thank you. several other senior white house members could be employed in the next few days or the next few hours even. sources tell cnn virtually no one feels completely secure with the exception of ivanka trump

and jared kushner. the president is expected to ask for the resignation of homeland security secretary kirstjen nielsen soon. cnn has also learned he's also discussing potential replacements for chief of staff john kelly despite announcing kelly would remain on the job until 2020. the vice president's chief of staff nick ayers told two friends he is in the running for the position. he's grown close to the president and key members of the administration including once again the president's daughter and son-in-law. now to digital director zachary wolf. good morning, wednesday, how are you? >> good morning, great. >> do you feel relatively secure in your job, can i ask you that, this morning? it sounds like the washington in white house there's not a lot of job security. >> you put me on the spot there. >> i don't mean to laugh about it. at the end -- after a midterm election, especially when you've lost a lot of seats -- >> showeure, could be 40-plus.

>> tell me about the melania trump staff announcement and how just unusual that is and how that takes the post midterm job insecurity to a whole new level. >> well it seems like pretty much everybody at the white house works under the assumption that they could be gone at any day, history they could spend six months, a year expecting to be fired, a la jeff sessions, and just kind of go on their job. it's clearly a strange work environment. and add to that what i don't understand about this melania trump story is that if there is one person on earth who you would think would be able to get somebody fired at the white house without making a big deal out of it, it would be melania trump. she could talk to them at dinner assuming they're having dinner, talking to each other, she could say, donald -- she can call him donald -- would you please fire this person? it doesn't make any sense why

she was all people would have to issue a press release in order to get somebody fired and still not have that person fired apparently by the end of the day. that's incredible. >> it begs a lot of questions there. i mean, without getting into separate bedrooms or whatnot, yeah, why would you issue a public statement? nancy reagan famously feuded with president reagan's staff. don regan, the chief of staff. you never saw public statements from her or any of the first ladies in recent past that were very influential in terms of staffing. but we'll see -- how important is it -- we mentioned the james jared kushner and ivanka trump several times in these first few stories. how influential are they in things moving forward in this white house? >> well, you said it already. i think they're probably the only two people who do have really good job security at the white house. ivanka's last name is trump. that was the concern with them coming in. they play at a different level, i think, than other staffers.

clearly it seems like they're having, you know, the desire to have more influence over staffering decisions as they rub -- staffing decisions as they rub up against people. >> the "new york times" wrote, president trump's moving toward major shuffles in his cabinet and west wing staff as member of the family working to leave a mark on personnel decisions after a bruising midterm election cycle. several familiar with the discussion said on tuesday make their mark on personnel decisions -- you make a good point, zach. what about on policy? >> yeah. so both ivanka and jared were supposed to have the sort of moderating influence on trump. ivanka in particular. there was talk, you know, during the paris climate deal that maybe she would moderate trump on that or, you know, during several other things. but their influence on policy has been, i guess, a little less overt. you haven't noticed it quite as much as trump has retreated into his nationalist corner. that's not really the policy angle of a aired and ivanka who

-- jared and ivanka who, you know, steve bannon called them the democrats in the white house. so a sort of resurgence of them. one wonder if that would have any effect at all on trump's policy which has gone in a completely different direction. >> want to get to the florida recount which is ongoing. thursday deadline. and the president is weighing in. marco rubio is weighing in. and of course, governor scott, the senate candidate, is weighing in. but rubio's tweet really raised a few eyebrows. i love sports analogies, guilty of them -- of just about every day here. but here's rubio's. imagine if nfl team wastrayaling 24-22 -- was trailing 24-22, the three-point kick to win. after the game lawyers for the winning team get an order to have rules changed so that last-second field goals are only one point. what do you make of that sports analogy, and why when florida is going to go governor scott's way in all likelihood, why the president, why rubio, why scott undermining faith in our

institutions, in our elections? >> and that's exactly what they're doing. if you're crying fraud for an election that you're winning, as trump also did with the 2016 election which he won when he said there were millions of illegal votes, it sort of makes you wonder, you know, what the -- what do you accomplish by doing that. especially when you're going to win it. it doesn't make a lot of sense. you know, tortured sport analogies are one thing. but this is -- it's not a game. this is american democracy. imagine your vote not counting because of a technicality, because of a bunch of republican and democratic lawyers. probably more concerning, i think, than the poor folks who are watching this drag on longer than they would like. >> yeah. he's a football fan. but i think wide right on that attempt. zach wolf, thank you, my friend. good to see you. >> thanks. breaking news this morning. 50 lives already lost in the california wildfires. the threat appears to be widening this hour. 48 of those fatalities have occurred in northern california where six more victims of the

camp fire were found on tuesday. officials now compiling a list of the missing. they're reluctant, though, to estimate how many people that might be. in southern california, a brand-new wildfire burning now east of los angeles county in san bernardino county. they're calling this one the sierra fire. and it's approximately 20 acres right now with high, dry winds fanning those flames. no evacuations ordered yet. the death toll from the woolsey fire stands at two with more than 400 structures destroyed. another 57,000 in danger. the department of health and human services declaring a public health emergency in california. scott mclean has more. >> reporter: there are thousands of firefighters on the front lines trying to stop this fire from spreading. for many in malibu it doesn't get much worse. case in point, we're standing on what was the home of thomas hirsch.

he grew up here. his parents actually still lived here. when we think of malibu, we often think of the rich and famous. that is not the case for this family. his parents bought the house in 1965 for just $39,000. and they're 94 and 97 years old. so they've accumulated a lifetime worth of things. today thomas was trying to find anything of value that he could salvage. he found a sterling silverware set that had been melted into a blob. he actually just found it right over here. despite the destruction and despite his parents' age, he says they want to rebuild. >> we're survivors. what we build will come back, take whatever insurance money they came back. clean it up and make it nicer than it was before. i told my dad, and he said, "tom, you can't make it nicer than it was." the big concern now the wind. red flag conditions have been extended. that means conditions are prime for flames to spread quickly or fires to start. as for rain in the forecast,

that might be in two weeks maybe. whenever firefighters are able to finally stamp out this fire, it will be with no help from mother nature. dave, christine? >> all right. scott mclean in malibu for us. eye-popping deficit numbers from the treasury department. the u.s. government is spending so much more than it takes in, the budget deficit topped $100 billion last month. here are the numbers -- the deficit up almost 60% from the same month last year. government spending growing twice as fast as revenue. more spending on medicare, defense, interest payments. at the same time, those big corporate tax cuts mean less money is coming in. adding to the pile of debt the trump administration inherited from the obama years, the national debt for anyone who cares in washington, which is no one, now tops $21 trillion. $21 trillion -- >> for anyone who cares. i thought the president was going to pay down the national debt in eight years -- >> cut the national debt in eight years. he said it on the campaign trail. that was obviously hyperbole.

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silence overnight in the skies over gaza. a cease-fire between israel and palestinian militants bringing an end to the most intense round of fighting between the sides since the 2014 war. militants fired 400 rockets into israel between monday and tuesday with israeli air strikes hitting over 100 targets in gaza. let's go live to israel and bring in oren liebermann. what's the latest there? >> reporter: dave, it was 6:00 p.m. yesterday when the cease-fire was announced from gaza. the joint operations room, sort of the headquarters for political militant factions, saying egypt had brokered an end to the hostilities bringing an end to 24 hours of the most volatile fighting we've seen since the end of the 2014 war. israel hasn't commented only to say quiet will be met with quiet. the fighting has stopped. looking on the street behind me,

life has returned to normal. there was a collective sigh of relief in gaza and a return to the daily rules package tein te. seven killed in gazette aone killed in israel. for that appears to be behind us. the story may not be over. israel's defense minister may be about to resign in a press conference in a few minutes. >> wow. oren liebermann live in israel. thank you. late-night hosts are taking on melania trump as word surfaces she is involved in a new round of white house firings. here's your late-night laughs. >> once again trump wants to fire somebody. but in a refreshing change of pace, it's not donald because today we found out that in a stunning move, first lady melania trump is calling for the firing of deputy national security adviser mira ricardel. i assume melania's doing it with her traditional good-bye gift. a jacket that says, "you don't really work here anymore, do

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