clock didn't strike correctly seen rex tillerson out as secretary of state and cia director mike pump aoe tapped as his replacement pump aoe with quite a contentious foreign policy record from his congressional tenure and his record as and as the rector of the nation's premier spy agency will no doubt take a notably different approach to diplomacy than as a political business executive predecessor how will those tectonic changes affect washington's policies abroad from the standoff with kim jong il into that quietly misstep metastasizing regime change campaign in syria for answers to these questions and more sean stone sat down earlier with former cia officer and intelligence analyst philip giraldi. phil thanks so much for joining me i want to start by asking you because you're a former cia man yourself what does it mean that president trump was appointed by pump aoe as the new secretary of state from being previously the head of the cia well i think the appointment of pompei also sends a perfectly clear signal that trump in his next phase of governing is going to be wanting to take a muc

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 good down there. i think. rex and i have been talking about this for a long time we we got a long actually quite well but we disagreed on things when you look at the iran deal i think it's terrible i guess he thought 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 mike 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. you. know i really didn't just. yes it's very much for them honestly i made that decision by myself record wasn't i you know in our in this country i made the north korea decision with consultation from many people b

secretary of state rex tillerson appointing incumbent cia director mike pump aoe to the position instead he announced a surprise reshuffle on twitter the president later explained his decision to reporters saying he did not see eye to eye on a number of issues. i've been talking about this for a long. we got along really well but. when you look at iran i think it's terrible. i want to record something. felt different so we really think. we have a very similar process i think well read a very good i like read a lot. from it. i'll be thinking the record over. a rumor is the tillerson was heading for the door has been circulating for months in the media and with reports of disagreements with the president rex tillerson will remain in the job until the end of the month and the millionaire businessman will then affectively step away from politics leadership down off has more now on mike pump aoe the new face of american diplomacy and also his successor at the cia gina hospital. bork's nesting in washington my ponytail the new diplomat in chief of the iron fist to lead america's state departme

donald trump has followed us secretary of state rex tillerson pointing incumbent cia director mike pump aoe to the position instead well he surprised twitter the president later explained his decision to reporters saying he until did not see eye to eye on a number of issues. with the sleep. but you look. i think terrible. i wanted. something. different so we were really. very similar. well brecht very good i like rex a lot. i'll be thinking the record over. all rumors now tillerson was heading for the door have been circulating for months in the news with reports of disagreements with the president rex tillerson stay in the job until the end of this month and then will effectively step away from politics. when he goes to down off has more now on mike pump aoe the new face of american diplomacy and his successor at the cia gina house bill. who works nesting in washington might be the new diplomats in chief or the iron fist to lead america's state department has had the president under his spell for a while already there to see eye to eye on normal most everything the issue that sunk to liste

with cia director mike pump aoe said to take over rex tillerson seat in the state department. who is it known for her role in the cia's torture program will take over the agency's range. moscow says it had nothing to do with the poisoning of the former double agent said to screw paul in the u.k. last week. when americans prepare for doomsday by purchasing survival equipment and underground bunkers as some continue to fear a north korean a nuclear attack. a broadcast live director of studios in moscow this is our team trash on sean thomas glad to have you with us. now donald trump has fired u.s. secretary of state rex tillerson he is the first to fall in washington after president trump promised to shake up last week saying he was seeking perfection in his administration trump explained his decision by saying the two did not see eye to eye on a number of issues. about the role of. government. but this is really when you look at the run i think it's terrible i guess. i want to break something. else because they're pretty well trying to use twitter to announce a few new appointme

administration just what every area weakens america and then he goes on to say we hope that mr pump aoe who will be replacing rex tillerson once confirmed she were saying we hope that mr pompei will turn over a new leaf and we'll start toughening up our policies towards russia and indeed this is an interesting point because when donald trump was leaving to go on to marine one he did speak to his relationship with mr pump aoe saying that it was a positive one and someone he could work with. i've worked with my mom failed now for quite some time. prevent this energy from and this is the last you're always on the same wavelength. the relationship has been very good that's what i see that as secretary of state 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 from peo will be a truly great secretary of state i have total confidence in mike mike from fail we have a very similar sort of process i think it's going to go very well and committed to know how to take over the cia as pompei it goes what we know about her but we

of state rex tillerson that we now know has departed will be replaced by the cia director mike pump aoe we've known for some time that there has been some difference of opinion between these two men that led to the. rex tillerson famously calling donald trump a moron we are told something that he did deny but it wasn't just the issue of the iran agreement that donald trump talked about in that tape we heard just moments ago it was so many things it was the iran agreement it was the paris the climate accord whether or not to aggressively back the embargo against qatar whether to pursue a diplomatic approach to north korea on all of these big issues it seems that there was a difference of opinion between donald trump and rex tillerson the now former secretary of state and so you heard there in the words of the president that he felt simply that this was something the two men had been talking about for some time we are told and it is being widely reported now in the united states that in fact it was friday that rex tillerson learned that he would no longer be in that post when he was on a

state rex tillerson the president broke the surprise news on twitter announcing cia director mike pump aoe will be his new choice to be america's top diplomat a short while ago tillerson made a statement in which he warned of the challenges that his successor will face especially from russia. and much work remains to respond to the troubling behavior and actions of on the part of the russian government russia must assess carefully as to how its actions are in the best interest of the russian people and of the world more broadly continuing on their current trajectory is likely to lead to greater isolation on their part of the situation which is not it anyone's interest well taylor's ins warning came following a tour of africa during which he found out that he had been fired but the washington insiders tillerson is departure really is not a surprise they have known about friction between trump and his secretary of state since the first day. rex tillerson initially seemed an unusual pick for secretary of state. the former head of exxon mobil was an oil man from texas with no foreign policy ex

senate foreign relations committee excuse me expects to begin confirmation proceedings for my pump aoe in april and that meeting with north korea is meant to take place in may so is there enough time for all of this to happen for a new team to be put in place for diplomacy to take shape and form as it's supposed to. not if it's to be diplomacy out of the white powder of the state department now you may recall it sometimes you know it has succeeded out of the white house the henry kissinger secret meetings with china that enabled president nixon to open you know a window into the people's republic that had been closed for decades did succeed in the state department was frozen out completely but here if you look at it mr trump's inner circle they're all military people they don't have any background in diplomacy unlike mr kissinger and his national security council staff so that where is he going to provide where is he going to get the information in the the nuances of agreements that would give him confidence if he can strike some understanding with kim jong un you know that any kind of

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 is service and i wish him well i think it's good down. with. rex and i've been talking about this for a long time we we've got a long actually quite well but we disagreed on things when you look at the iran deal i think it's terrible i guess it was ok i want to see the break it or do something and he felt a little bit differently so we were not really thinking the same with mike my company and 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 the service and i'll be making direct over a long period of time i really didn't discuss it very much honestly i made that decision by myself breakfast wasn't as you know in our in this country i made the north korea decision which consultation for many people but i made that decision. myself

businessman well then effectively step away from politics we're shit down off house more now on the mike pump aoe the new face of american diplomacy and his successor at the cia gina hospital. bork's nesting in washington my ponytail the new diplomat in chief of the iron fist to lead america's state department has had the president under his spell for a while already the to see eye to eye on normal stev rethink the issue that sunk to listen diplomatic korea right. was. well. very good relationship whatever. whatever was. trump and pompei all share common spite towards iran and north korea both of them like to call torture enhanced interrogation and their fans of the n.s.a.'s warrantless bulk data collection where they stand on whistleblowers is one of the few things that trump and bone peo don't quite agree on well they have to differ on something. it's time to call out wiki leaks for what it really is a non-state hostile intelligence service often abetted by state actors like russia . i can't think of a thing that has put america in a better position as a result of this deal we're a year out fro

secretary of state rex tillerson appointing incumbent cia director mike pump aoe to the position instead he announced a surprise reshuffle on twitter the president later explained his decision to reporters saying in television did not see eye to eye on a number of issues. with the series would you. run. i think it's terrible. but they're pretty. well wrecked very good i like wreck a lot. think the wreck. well rumors down tillerson was heading for the door had been circulating for months in the news with reports of disagreements with the president rex tillerson stays in the job until the end of this month well then the fact that lee step away from politics he said on off has more now on mike pompei o. the new face of american diplomacy and his successor at the cia gina hospital. hawks nesting in washington might be the new diplomat in chief of the iron fist to lead america's state department has had the president under his spell for a while already the to see eye to eye on normal most everything the issue that sunk to listen diplomatic career trump and pompei all share common spite toward

little did i know that the shooter was aoe vac wraeuting alongside evacuating alongside us. >> everybodyhas a moment where they realize it's real. they realize they could die. >> yeah. >> what -- when was that moment for you? >> for me, it was when i did hear those sirens and those police. but i didn't think about myself. i immediately thought of my brother. and i said where is daniel? and i texted him, are you okay? where are you? and i was supposed to drive him home. i said where are we going to meet? because i had no idea. and he said this is real. i don't know if i'm going to be okay. and i said text me new letter of the alphabet, any word, any sentence, just keep texting some to tell me you're going to be alive. and i didn't know if i was ever going to be able to see him. he was right next to the freshman building, which is the 1300 building. >> in that moment, you don't know. you believe there is a gunman around. now you don't know if your brother is safe. >> yes. in fact, he did hear the gunshots. and he didn't know if he was going to be okay. he was trapped in the school, and the

with with the appointment of john bolton and all the others in the white house and especially pomp aoe as secretary of state it has become more probable not necessarily big military action against the nuclear program that you know might might happen in the future but i think what is imminent is military american military actions against iranian allies in the region we have seen ever since president visited saudi arabia this spring that this that he has that he has been talking. about rolling back iranian influence in the region and that means rolling back iranian influence in yemen in lebanon in syria and perhaps even within iraq we're talking about a militia including hezbollah so you think military conflict with the u.s. involved in iran or near iran but certainly in the middle east is a question of time i think it is highly probable it is not a question of time as i said there is there are the president is nobody that you can predict. but i think what we are seeing in recent months the appointments of pompeo. of john bolton and others in is a ministration point to military action is

way the mike pump aoe now preparing to take the reigns at the state department his position at the cia will be felt by gina house but now she's a veteran intelligence agent who controversially played a role in the organizations torture program donna now takes a closer look at the appointments and that implications hawks nesting in washington mike pompeo the new diplomats in chief of the iron fist to lead america's state department he's had the president under his spell for a while already the to see eye to eye on normal stover thing the issue that sunk to listen diplomatic korea trump and share common spite towards iran and north korea both of them like to call torture enhanced interrogation and they're fans of the n.s.a.'s warrantless bulk data collection where the stand on whistleblowers is one of the few things that trump and bombay i don't quite agree on well the have to differ on something. it's time to call out wiki leaks for what it really is non-state hostile intelligence service often abetted by state actors like russia. i can't think of a thing that has put america in a bette

the cia has defended donald trump's plans to meet the leader of north korea kim jong un might pump aoe said the talks are not for theatre but to solve a problem and the president himself is upbeat about the summit. well the meeting if it does go ahead will be the first ever between the two countries heads of state and it would mark a traumatic turnaround after months of threats and insults between trungpa and kim . the herbs are teaching patient. with the north korean regime has failed. what are. they getting ready to say. they will be met. by. the us and the next international community will stop on the korean for the. and we can have a mad man out there shooting rockets all over the place have no choice but to totally destroy north korea. russia. is on a suicide mission. no one. so. he's a sick puppy. the u.s. government imposed a new round of sanctions against north korea raunchiest day and the white house insists the pressure is paying off what we know is that the mash maximum pressure campaign has clearly been effective for the first time in a long time the united states is actual

perceptions it should tranquilly be a completely disqualifying fact when someone denies science and the pump aoe says he doesn't really accept global warming it should be a disqualifying fact when someone spends and rises his career and rises to prominence by. championing ning the benghazi investigations which were clear to anyone who spent five minutes as a foreign policy professional were set up to destroy a political opponent similarly with the birth or think he was about barack obama's birth. place of birth that was a transparent lie so one who makes his career in these things really should have no place in public affairs and yes now he is one of the premier officials in the united states michael to what extent do you agree with that that has already in many people's eyes disqualified himself for this role. well i think it was a well a hard to kill a good argument glad we have it on the floor i'm going to give pompei a little bit more of a chance partly because we have no choice at least i'm not a senator so i have no choice and i assume the senate will confirm him but also i think the pompe

with cia director mike pump aoe said to take over rex tillerson seat in the state department. who is it known for her role in the cia's torture program will take over the agency's range. it had nothing to do with the poisoning of the former double agent said to screw paul in the u.k. last week. when americans prepare for doomsday by purchasing survival equipment and underground bunkers and some continue to fear a north korean a nuclear attack.

global power have been replaced by bolton by mike pump aoe for whom military is the first option and the preferred option then this creates a i think a possibility that trumps own inclination to impulsive actions reinforced by his national security security team that wants to use military power and this opens us up to the possibility. and that's one of the scenarios i discussed in my book on us the klein. of something that historians call micro militarism and we could talk a little bit about that as well if you want i can it's a it's a it's a something it's an attribute of many fading empires you know as their power begins to fade away empires launch these ill advised misbegotten military adventures you know this kind of bold military strikes that they somehow are imagining to put them back on top stop the slide stop the rot ok the british did it suez you know nasser in nationalize the suez canal the gem of the british empire the british conservatism who up to that point had been managing a very rational imperial recession will suddenly just in a kind of outburst of insecurity and an

korea has already promised not to resume nuclear testing during the talks and the cia director my pump aoesays that's a first for pyongyang this first meeting i think is between the president is the leader of north korea the two people who are the decision makers who will ultimately decide what arrangements are acceptable but make no mistake about it while these negotiations are going on there will be no concessions made the activity of this administration to disrupt the north korean economy to put pressure on north korea to galvanize the world in a way that you have countries from the middle east to europe and asia placing sanctions on the north korean regime and those will continue and wolf see how the talks and then go she asians prosy. and to solve korean officials who met kim jong il last week i said to the leaders of china and japan one of the officials who have made it to china she's been playing in the coming hours while the other japanese promised a on tuesday update the latest on the progress of the nuclear talks. will be taken as a former south korean diplomat and he says the u.

with what the president is looking at in terms of a world agenda and now the president takes my comp aoe solves the problem over of cia the i.c. and then goes he brags of over the state where you have a core of career diplomats i know a number of them i went to school with a number of them who are not big fans of this president so there are mixed messages being sent abroad and so my pompei i was over there in no small measure to help bring the diplomatic corps more in line with what this administration objectives and goals are ok we'll see ok michael that's a very interesting point but i think it can be problematic as well i mean my pump a.o. is seen by many at least i will say you know very neal conan in his approach to foreign policy and presumably he will be bringing in people of the same caliber and as we just heard from andrew i mean the state department i would say is kind of liberal i think that would be a fair thing to say so i mean i'm not sure of the problems of the sake of the department of state is going to be resolved in any form whatsoever ok michael it's could be very ideo

rex tillerson the us president broke the surprise news on twitter announcing cia director mike pump aoe as he's new choice to head the department and thanking to listen for his service sources suggest he's not been told why he's out of a job. russia has not responded to britain's demand to explain why a russian made nerve agent was used to poison and it's by.

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 you could down. right. direction i've been talking about this for a long time we we've got a long actually quite well but we disagreed on thing when you look at the iran deal i think it's terrible i guess he said it was ok i wanted to see the brake 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 the service and i'll be speaking directly over a long period of time. all right let's go to washington correspondent white house correspondent he's me kimberly kimberly how it came and i want to take you to this state department. statement that came out and i'm quite taken by the. that is dir

aoe skwraoepb egregious spending right now. trump supporters, they don't seem to care.rest of the country. it's very embarrassing. but trump supporters aren't necessarily waivering. >> now you get to ironically the cabinet secretary that may have the best reputation within his own agency, secretary is shulkin at the v.a. but there are two things this guy has going for him that could make hum the easiest to get rid of for the president. and those are? >> look right here. the fact of the matter is he is supposed to take care of our veterans. how do you explain this. they are paying for them to go to wimbledon. he is the v.a. secretary. last i knew he was not in charge of the state department or diplomacy. having said this, i do know when he was under consideration for this job, trump didn't necessarily take a jumping to him, a liking to him right away. he had to be convinced by those within the military circles to keep him on. as you and i spoke beforehand, he is also an obama guy? he is an obama era holdover. that gives the president great political cover. and saying our

that really the president seems to have trusted he's had intelligence briefings from not only my pump aoe but also this this woman as well that will be now leading this spy agency so this is certainly a significant shake up one that we didn't see coming per se today but certainly that we saw some signals was in the works and this. cool's comes at a critical time if ever there was at a time when the u.s. the state department one would imagine would be embarking upon preparations for this amazing meeting that is due to take place between a sitting u.s. president and the leader of north korea for the very first time in history at a time when they the state department is lacking in many heads of department so now they're going to have a new head of of of of the entire department to just switched over from domestic policy over to i think you hit the point exactly on the head in terms of why i think this might be happening now this is an attempt by this white house to try and solidify in advance of what they see as the opportunity of a lifetime that they don't want to see squandered it may have

. >> we have some of the president's successes that end up being aoe claimsed by the scandal. economic sanctions, regardless of what happens at this meeting, they appear to be working. they're in decline. they have become open to this overture. isis caliphate, gone. israel. strong economy obviously at home. lowest corporate tax rate that everyone said they wanted. so he has done all of these things. and every week something like that happens, there is a stormy daniels, a rob porter, john kelly, jared kushner. it is dizzying. >> the stormy daniels thing is a different on order of magnitude. rob porter was in terms of security clearances. jared kushner, that is also -- >> i'm just saying scandal sometimes competes with success. >> agreed. a lot of people took note on the timing given that the stormy daniels is back in the news frontally doesn't mean necessarily he is trying to change the subject, but it is hard to ignore the timeline. >> sometimes it's something unrelated that gets in the way. >> that's right. >> but sometimes it's something very related to it. >> that's right.

but as you heard there from the president he seems to favor some of the positions not only of my pump aoe but also the shared tactics of jena hasp also certainly a controversy will individual to be heading up the central intelligence agency can be how could thank you very much. when it was a year and a half since donald trump took office dozens of members of his star have resigned or been fired so many have gone we can't name them all one by one here just a few of the people who've left national security advisor michael flynn resigned within the first month of office admitting he discussed u.s. sanctions against moscow with the russian ambassador f.b.i. director james. he was fired in may while leading the inquiry into russian collusion in the twenty sixteen presidential campaign sean spicer the often ridiculed white house press secretary left in july chief of staff runs priebus was pushed out eight days later and white house communications director anthony scaramucci was fired in august he survived just eleven days in the job well joining us now from washington d.c. is political journali

the world ideology that is now dominant in the white house and is becoming increasingly so with pump aoe at the cia the foreign ministry now secretary of state and nikki haley in new york at the u.n. and now bolton as national security advisor this is very much a team that reflects trump's hard line position which is extremely controversial in the u.s. and all around the world but the fact is that it's happening and it is likely to create much more tension in areas like north korea like iran with immigration and other issues where there is already a significant amount of tension and it's going to get much worse for you mentioned north korea and iran who is. bolton's appointment going to be good for and who is it going to be negative for. it's going to be good for the right wing ideological hardliners militants america first people. neo conservative types who used to be much more powerful ten years ago and now have having a bit of a resurgence in places here and there there is a kind of ultra nationalists pro israeli groups will be happy and to immigrant and to muslim groups will probably

fact that we have no secretary of state at the moment and who knows how long it will take for my pump aoe to either be confirmed or to be rejected. it is impossible for a government to function effectively with so much change all the time and it's a dangerous state for the country clear finkelstein good to get your thoughts thank you so much for joining us thank you. now a days analytics firm closely associated with the election campaign of don't know drum is facing a bit of heat from facebook we've got leah to look through this one for us i mean i could never fooled that facebook would have been so defining pollination can handle really yeah and that donald trump campaign accepted facebook staff to help them because it's part of something that facebook offers but this group it has been associated with the campaign and with bracks it the data analysis firm it's called cambridge analytic it's been suspended after it failed to delete data from about two hundred seventy thousand users who downloaded a personality app it's called this is your digital life now the app itself was in line with f

happen and at the same time he doesn't have the secretary of state he's now been eating might pump aoe from the cia it's not at all clear that he's going to be confirmed because of some of his past controversial comments and if you look at the state department some of the most important positions that need to be filled to make this meeting happen or just even prepare for it well they're vacant still more than a year into his presidency so what is the u.s. doing to prepare well we absolutely have no idea ok thanks very much for that from washington d.c. of the u.s. ambassador to the united nations is blaming both the syrian government and russia for what she's called in the east and nikki haley says despite a cease fire the u.n. security council should be ashamed that the continued bombing of the rebel held enclave russia will stop that nothing to use its permanent seat on this council to shield it south the charlotte side from even the faintest criticism and we cannot take these actions because instead of calling out how assad russia and iran made a mockery of our calls for a cease fir

difference of opinion tends to push them to the side and what we're seeing not only with mike pump aoe now once he's considered confirmed as secretary of state is that we're seeing more people surrounding him that have positions that are further to the right and really mirror what donald trump made in terms of his america first national policies on the twenty sixteen presidential campaign trail let's talk about those confirmation hearings for a second kimberly what are the chances as far as mr pompei is concerned that people will ask him questions about what donald trump allegedly did not allegedly suits him about the cloning investigation into the allegations of russian collusion. i think that there's a one hundred percent chance that he's going to be asked those questions particularly from some top democrats because certainly this is an ongoing investigation still in the senate we have still two congressional investigations that are underway at the senate level many of those senators who are on those committees will be asking those questions having said that mike pompei who has alrea

rex tillerson the us president broke the surprise news on twitter announcing cia director mike pump aoe as he's new choice to head the department and thanking to listen for his service sources suggest he's not been told why he's out of a job. sierra leone will hold a runoff vote for president after the main opposition syrian people's party finished like the ahead of the ruling old people's congress party in the first round of the two parties have alternately ruled the west african nation since independence from britain in one nine hundred sixty one. an explosion struck the convoy of the palestinian prime minister as he made a rare visit to the gaza strip. is understood to be safe the palestinian presidency has blamed hamas for the explosion hamas has denied any involvement. early this morning donald trump took to twitter and fired us attorney of state rex tillerson there was no phone call from the white house mr tillerson found out just like you and i did tonight terminations by tweet america's top diplomat sacked and blindsided europe in asia are their eyes open for what could come nex

rex tillerson the us president broke the surprise news on twitter announcing cia director mike pump aoe as he's new choice to head the department and thanking to listen for his service sources suggest he's not been told why he's out of a job. russia has not responded to britain's demand to explain why a russian made nerve agent was used to poison and expire prime minister truism that he has rationed retaliate tree measures but moscow says it won't respond to london has also made him until it receives samples off the chemical substance. which got submitted. and explosions struck the convoy of the palestinian prime minister as he made a rare visit to the gaza strip rami is understood to be safe the palestinian presidency has blamed hamas for the explosion come us has denied any involvement. in. sierra leone will hold a runoff vote for president after the main opposition syrian people's party finished like the ahead of the ruling old people's congress party in the first round of the two parties have alternately ruled the west african nation since independence from britain in one nine hundr