visited every two years live from new york five u.s. president donald trump sachs the secretary of state had just completed a tour of africa a poll that was apparently cut short sources suggest he's not been told why he's out of a job. president trump meanwhile has been heaping praise on the man he wants to replace rex tillerson cia director. tremendous energy from the like are always going to say wave like. relationship is

a very. precarious state. i'm phil go welcome to the program. u.s. president donald trump terry of states rex tillerson me president broke the surprise news on twitter thank you mr thomasson for his service and announcing cia director of my pump as his choice to succeed him cia deputy director gina hospital is the president's preference to take over the agency mr trump has been speaking about the changes. i've worked with mike now for quite some time. from mendis energy tremendous in the last year always on the same wavelength. the relationship has been very good that's what i did as secretary of state i wish rex tillerson well gina by the way

who i know very well who i work very closely will be the first woman director of the cia she's an outstanding personal also i have got to know her well so i've gotten to know a lot of people very well over the last year and i'm really at a point where we're getting very close to having the capital and other things that i want but i think mike pump aoe will be a truly great secretary of state i have total confidence in him and as far as rex tillerson is concerned i very much appreciate his commitment that his service and i wish him well and good but damn. right. direction i've been talking about this for a long time we we got a long actually quite well but we disagreed on but when you look at the iran deal i

think it's terrible i guess but it was ok i wanted to see the break it or do something and he felt a little bit differently so we were not really thinking the same with my my company a we have a very similar thought process i think it's going to go very well rex is a very good man i like rex a lot i really appreciate his commitment to this service and i'll be speaking directly over a long period of time. no i really didn't just. yes it's very much for them honestly i made that decision by myself rex wasn't as you know in our is this country i made the north korea decision with consultation from many people but i made that decision by myself. i actually got along well with rex but really it was a different mindset it was

a different thank you. i'd. say it again. i respect his intellect i respect the process that we've all gone through together we have a very good relationship for whatever reason chemistry whatever it is why do people get along i've always right from the beginning from day one i got along well with bike fail and frankly i get along well with rex do you know i we wrecked a lot of good things i think he's going to do i think he's going to be very happy i think rex will be much happier now but i really appreciate his service but with mike we've had a very good chemistry right from the beginning. let's get the latest from washington then from that day doubly correspondent cost and fund nominee welcome cost and they have been rumblings of differences between the president and his

secretary of state the question seemed to be not whether mr tillotson would go but when. yes but president trump chose this moment and that the story broke just hours after mr tillotson returned from africa of course paints a very bad picture i mean this says to the leaders in africa that mr tillotson met that they wasted time with someone who was already something like a dead man walking in the trumpet ministration and to listen this mission in africa was to mend fences with african leaders after the president had reportedly called african nations a shithole countries so this really paints a bad picture so it was very surprising that trump did it now in fact that mr tillotson would not stay for much longer that was an open secret here in washington but once again this timing really surprises. so who is mike pump aoa stay with us

as we take a look at the new man at foggy bottom. polling in the presence of your state was just over a year ago when mike compay was appointed head of the cia at the time and the kansas congressman was a member of the house intelligence committee so now the fifty four year old is set to take over at the state department replacing rex tillerson first meeting i think is between the unlike his predecessor he agrees with the president on scrapping the iran nuclear deal he also downplayed russian meddling in the twenty six thousand presidential election. as cia chief he has been active in trying to contain north korea's nuclear ambitions i want everyone to understand that we are working diligently to make sure that a year from now i can still tell you they are several months away from having that capacity one similarity with his predecessor he doesn't have a lot of foreign policy experience but pompeo is one of the president's closest

allies and talks like a. trump stress their personal friendship. with by now or are. prevented from and this is. were always on the same wavelength. relate to this very. guy says secretary of state. friendship or no friendship if confirmed by the u.s. senate as the country's top diplomats from paya will be working for a boss was shown little regard for diplomacy. to tell us of all naaman in washington cost and then now we know who he is what can we expect from my secretary of state pub pio. well i think my poem play a would be much closer aligned with donald trump than his predecessor so the put it positively we might see a more coherent approach in this administration when it comes to foreign policy because the problem with rex tillerson was for all allowances stretches of his

tenure that the people who met him foreign leaders were never quite sure whether what they heard from rex tillerson and what his views were really played along with want on the trump thought and said and so this might change a little bit i think. my compare you and don and trump i'm much more on the same page and also within the state department there is some hope we hear that because my campaign has the ear of the president at the state department and its expertise might be more in demand here many civil servants in the state department that day was left out because their boss the chief diplomats was left out of the on the trumps in a circle so there are some of them isn't there but i don't think that might compare with play a major role as an independent player he was more of a mouthpiece of the on the trunk and how done

a deal is this is senate likely to confirm mr trump's changes. i think so mike from peo is a washington insider in many ways of course he was a member of the tea party movement within the republican party so rather populist movement to the right of the republican establishment but he was a congressman for several years he knows the in the mechanisms of washington and the republican chairman of the senate committee on foreign relations bob corker has already said that his hearing for confirmation will probably be in april and i don't expect any major problems for him simply because the republicans still have a majority in the senate because of a nominee in washington thank you now britain has told moscow it has until the end of today to explain why a deadly nerve agent produced only in russia was used on bush's soil in an apparent

assassination attempt against a former spy prime minister theresa may has threatened extensive retaliator measures but moscow says it will only cooperate with the british investigation if it receives samples of the nerve agent in question meanwhile the investigation into the poisoning of a script pal and his daughter yulia continues the substance used has been identified as the military grade nerve agent a new feature. in well there are reports now of the death of another russian individual in britain the u.k.'s guardian newspaper says a sixty eight year old russian exile and name just nicholai pushkov has been found dead in london based approach cough was a former associate russian oligarch boris but its offspring who himself died in mysterious circumstances and he's a home near london in twenty thirteen. let's get more from correspondent a test of it in london no welcome task what do we know about this possible police

investigation into close cost death. well not so much at the moment seems to be a suspicious death with marks strangulation marks on his neck and a sixty eight year old was a former friend of or a spare izhevsk so it seems that there is. it is a bad time for russian excess at the moment in great britain yes so tell me about what is known about mr mr glascock you said dealings and movements. when he was there for a missile see it. has been to his office in their ninety's in russia able han't to leave they came at the rec center at the troops to the extent in tools to be accent in britain and. bruce coffin has always maintained that and us off did not kill himself when he was found hanged in his

house with his ex-wife in two thousand and thirteen scott west of the opinion that there is sort of conspiracy going on and. it is too early to see. why he now that that there is a suspicion among russian experts and security expert experts that there might be a vendetta of former f.s.b. or even current f.s.b. officers against their former critiques and this particular boris berezovsky who was very critical of let me have putin from the beginning of his reign till today now of course this comes out hot on the heels of after his amazing speech yesterday in which he threatened russia with possible retaliation is over the separate case

of the acts by poisoned in britain the sorts of what sort of retaliatory measures i'm looking likely. it is very difficult for two recently to do something which is. significant without harming her own country after the death of alexander litvinenko great britain took summary terry mattias you can freeze certain essex you can. not allow people coming to britain but that main point is that britain never adopted to make new ski nodded worse adopt it in the united states which is the case of a. lawyer who worked in moscow and who was killed in two thousand and nine and for his murder which his former

boss big brother claimed what it was. the american congress at dock that these measures to not to freeze assets of other people who were involved in his killing but asked of them to sort of not let them travel and sammer at their nationals great britain has never docked at those because it is quite complicated to. to get into such a strong faith with russia who is a very important country i detest just give it say in london a thank you you thank. quick look at some other stories making news around the world. free. to remove. terrorists. is.

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