it's petty and it's personal, said one fagan ally. to do with dei other than being a woman? >> yeah. so the reason for her being the first person fired in the military, the first senior officer fired under president donald trump's term, literally the day after he was inaugurated to the white and to the presidency. nicole, what the reasons we were giving was she focused too much on diversity issues, and it came at the expense of securing the homeland. so as john allen and i write in that article, firing her really gave the administration the ability to highlight two of their main priorities getting rid of diversity and inclusion initiatives and focusing on the border and the homeland. whether those two things were really such a priority or a lack of priority for admiral fagan. look, the reality is that that's that's more subjective, but it really sent a message that that first day or really the first full day of president trump's term, she was the one he fired. now, nicole, why this is so significant? as you mentioned, she's the first

two weeks later, this past tuesday, he abruptly evicted her from her home, giving admiral linda faganing from nbc news. joining us now, nbc news correspondent covering national security and the military, courtney kube. this is your reporting, courtney. what happened? >> yeah. with with our colleague john allen. of course. so you you have it, right, katie. the way we were told is that the commandant of the u.s. coast guard, the first woman ever to lead a military service branch. she was fired on day two of president trump's administration. so on, just over two weeks ago, she was the first flag officer fired under donald trump. well, fast forward two weeks. yesterday, she was told just about 2 p.m. eastern time that she had to vacate the commandant's quarters on joint base anacostia-bolling, the base right near us here in d.c. she had to vacate her quarters in three hours. not even enough time, katie, to get most of her personal effects out. now, it's not clear exactly why this order was given. we are still digging into that, frankly. but the reality is, we've spoken to a number of peop

and now to the eviction of former coast guard commandant linda fagan, just two weeks after she was firedy president trump. and with just hours notice, nbc's courtney kube helped break this story for us. what exactly happened here? >> yeah. so the commandant of the u.s. coast guard, admiral linda fagan, the first woman, as you said, chris, to lead a military service branch. she was the first major service member or general or flag officer to be fired after donald trump was inaugurated on day two. he he fired her from her role. now, about two weeks later. we've learned, according to two officials familiar with this, this incident, that she was given three hours notice yesterday to vacate the house that she has been occupying, basically the commandant's quarters on joint base anacostia-bolling right here in dc. now, according to the officials, she was she was notified at 2 p.m. that she had to leave by 5 p.m. she did not give the officials permission for anyone to enter her home though. this home, which, by the way, she still has a lease on, she didn't give them permission to enter it or be

off while going to send joe shelby supported by his other division commanded by major general james fagan north to curtis's defeat curtis and they'll turn and defeat pleasanton since i already gave away the ending you already know that didn't work but that and but curtis now that knows that pleasanton is in the neighborhood he's going to move south and attack price so so he's got a lot of moving parts on sunday morning going on. so the first attack happens that barnes fought the first attack i'm going to talk about this these are all happening around the same. but the first attack i'm going to talk about happens that. barnes fought the second fight at byron's fort pleasant intends to offer his brigades down to barnes to attack defending is major general john marmaduke division and so pleasanton is real happy because another brigade has joined. this brigade came all the way from memphis. so this was some of those force cavalry brigade from memphis under the command of colonel edward winslow has joined him in independence. this was of the some of the forces that were diverted to go against