but some lawyers in the us say big oil is lying prosecutors in new york of sued exxon mobil and other companies in a multi-billion dollar case. every fossil fuel company. has a responsibility to be honest with his testers and with the. public the first amendment ladies and gentlemen does not give you the right to quit it's roy. carroll muffet has also been trying to get to the bottom of this lie he's found documents that he says prove oil companies have been researching climate change for sixty years without informing the public of the results so the oil industry knew from the one nine hundred forty s. and that there was a connection between the sea level rise in carbon and the this is one of the biggest scandals in global history. just big oil new why didn't do nothing about global warming. the trail of secret files leads us to washington d.c. where we arrange a meeting with the man who discovered and published them. feel oil company exxon mobil and its executives have allegedly known about climate change for sixty years. the company trades in germany under the name s. so. why should

delaware river has been a shipbuilding center for hundreds of years one of those ships belong to exxon mobil. in one thousand nine hundred ninety oil giant refitted a three hundred meter long tanker for an expedition to the arctic. much of what exxon did with the voyage it held in secrecy this is a company that was very good at controlling what went on to say. they had every incentive to try adding find a route through the sea ice to get that oil to market where they also looking at the long term prospects of a melting arctic. indeed the official reason given for the voyage was to look for a shipping passage to access reserves in alaska but carol moffat believes that exxon mobil wanted to find out when pack ice might start melting clearing the way for shipping. the voyage itself was really remarkable they brought the ship for retrofitting here to chester pennsylvania just theaters across the bridge and on to the good times because first they cut the shebeen to four pieces and the senate to the senate to shipyards across the country so they could rebuild it and retrofit it and they brought it

interestingly, he was the one who pushed for exxon mobil to get into russia, but the stations have nown there since 2014. for a very long time, exxon opposed to them, they see these operations as fairly untenable now now the sanctions are in place. there is an entirely different set of sanctions, mainly on russian individuals, but that does not seem to be the issue here, it is the ones that apply to the uk —— ukrainian crimea issues, as opposed to the ones from the us election last year. as to whether he will mean anything to exxon, probably not. this is a company that makes $200 billion in revenue, and this is maybe a $200 million loss. thank you. in other business is making headlines, india has reclaimed the title of the world's fastest growing economy from china. their economy grew by 7.2% on an annual basis in three months to december. china's economy grew by 6.8% in the same period. the iconic motorbike manufacturer, harley—davidson, is caught in the middle of a trade spat between india and the united states. makers of two vehicles have been eyeing india for a long time, more bike

three relating to climate change and exxon mobil, ppo corporations. and sfers voted in favor of each of those proposals. what they're focused on is asking the company to report on how they -- what the portfolio impact of 2° scenario would be and how the company was adopting policies or what sort of policies they had in place to address that issue. this was of course -- this has been a hot button issue for a number of years, something investors have been focused on. the risk on the portfolios. exxon mobil, these are companies you did not see this level of support in the years past. that's really -- i would view that as a change in the mindset among institutional investors, finding there is a financial argument and a real financial risk with not supporting the proposals. as i mentioned before, of course, sfers voted if favor of the resolutions. so that's a direct evidence of your proxy voting affecting how the companies are providing -- being transparent to shareholders and providing shareholders with information. >> that is where owning fossil fuel sto

one is, when you're the ceo of exxon mobil, you live in a bubble. you're always flying private planes, everyone around you supporting your leadership, everyone is telling you what you want to hear, no one challenges your opinion. you are the boss. we all know that secretaries of state are not the boss. they have to compete with the white house for influence over foreign policy. with this white house, even if it had been james baker, it would have been a pretty challenging job. one of the ways that secretaries of state gain influence in an administration in my experience is by using the bully pulpit that the secretary has distinctively after the president speaks for the united states to stand up and say this is what i think. if 70 opportunities. you can clear speeches but you're also in front of the microphone a lot. it is not unusual to have a secretary of state who is fighting with the white house isolated from the white house. i think clinton and obama after all of that campaign. but the way that you overcome that from the bottom is you stand up a

while the former exxon mobil c.e.o. had no one savory words for his former boss he barely mentioned him in his parting statement on our return to progress life a private citizen is a proud american probably after you have had to shoreham our country. cia director mike compare who enjoys a strong relationship with the president is trump's choice to take over from to listen. now for some of the other stories making the news at this hour sara leone hold a runoff vote for president on march the twenty seventh after the first round of voting and that in a stalemate opposition leader julius model b o narrowly won the first round with forty three point three percent of the bow to face off against the governing party scoundrel some are a kemar who took forty two point seven. turkey says its forces have completely surrounded the kurdish controlled city of afrin in northern syria ankara wants to drive out kurdish fighters there it considers terrorists up to three hundred fifty thousand civilians are believed to be trapped there a

unfortunately, my understanding of what the report said that exxon mobil produced was minu minimizing the risk related to climate change. and it was not the type of report that a lot of people were hoping for in terms of delineating how much profit will be lost assuming there is a rapid drop in the value of the assets that they have under the ground. i'm hopeful that somehow in the future they'll do better in terms of the reasons for divestment, instead of having us be at level 2. i figure this is another example of how progress with the results of the emissions going into the air related to these engagements and proxies is too slow and too small. and while i'm up here, i'll say i'm also glad about the progress with gender equity and i hope that continues to move in the right direction. thank you. >> thank you. any other members of the public? seeing none, we close public comment. thank you for your report. >> we need a motion to approve the addition to the policy? >> president stansbury: sorry, i was thinking the first item. is there a motion on the table. >> i move that we approve t

the former head of exxon mobil was an oil man from texas with no foreign policy experience but as a washington outsider he also fit in with the unconventional nature of the new trump administration at the start of trump appear to have great confidence in him. retro be a fierce advocate for america's interests around the world and has the insights and talents necessary to help reverse years of foreign policy blunders and disaster i barely six months into the job reports started to circulate that to listen to relationship with the president had soured on. a very very luckily i was told. wasn't right. but the two men were known to be at odds over a number of people i guess it was ok i wanted to use a break it would be something he felt a little bit differently. trying was also accused of publicly undermining tillerson on several occasions went to listen talks about the possibility of direct dialogue with north korea last december trump said he was quote wasting his time to listen also appeared to be caught off guard about the recent offer of talks to pyongyang on his trip to africa last week or p

the chief executive of exxon mobil of one of the biggest companies in the world, from boardroom to thext? it will be interesting to see whether he goes back into business. we have this new man in charge mike pompeo, the cia director. many are quite concerned about what that means when you have got to men on the same page with quite strong views. quite strident. we saw the reaction in the asian markets, the fear of more protectionism. we have already seen one large acquisition ofa us already seen one large acquisition of a us company blocked by the trump administration ‘s apotex —— potentially there is more protectionism coming from pompeo. many newspapers have this story, this has been the discovery of the body of nikolai glushkov, 69—year—old russian who was living in london, found in his home in south london by his daughter. counterterrorism police are looking into the unexplained death. at the moment, they are saying there is no link between the attack on the former spy in salisbury but amber rudd, the home secretary, talking about the fact they are now looking into many cases, many

this post he spent his career in the army industry and he was their chief executive officer of exxon mobil before becoming section of st over the past year he's been navigating growing tensions between the u.s. in the. korea and he tried unsuccessfully as it turned out to resolve the diplomatic crisis between cats are and its neighbors in the gulf most recently mr tillotson was in kenya but he cut his trip his africa tour short on monday he cited pressing issues in washington d.c. well donald trump has been speaking and he's praised his new century of pompei and it misted that he didn't always see eye to eye with rex tillerson. i've worked with my mom failed now for quite some time. for mendis energy tremendous in the last year always on the same wavelength. the relationship has been very good and 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 person who also i have gotten over well so i've gotten to know a lot of people very well over the last ye

of exxon mobil he understand trump to improve the relationship with russia as we know this did not happen. ration ship right now between america and russia is this is really bad it may get even worse right now but. the reason why it's getting so bad one of the reason was really mr tiller's and he was not able to talk to. congress and say that russia is really an important country and not only a regional power that the regional power was mentioned by by a former president obama and that's that's still how many members of congress look on on russia so to listen was not really a strong secretary of state and the ration ship is better and to some extent the russians blame mr tillotson for that as well we couldn't don't speculate but i would guess that the relationship between russia and the united states is likely to get worse given that mr tillerson replacement mike pompei o agrees with the cia's assessment the russia did interfere in u.s. elections in twenty sixteen. yeah i agree with you i think mr when you when you ask here people who work for the family and they just say he is a cold war

exxon mobil says it is abandoning joint ventures with russia's rosneft — signed while secretary of state citing us and european union sanctions. it's a major turnaround for the company — which had long argued against the sanctions imposed in 2014 over russia's invasion of crimea. dyson is looking for an extra 300 engineers in a push to build its first electric car by 2020. the uk firm run by inventor james dyson — best known for its vacuum cleaners and hand dryers — already has a 400—strong team working on the project. dyson also revealed its underlying earnings jumped 27% last year. cnbc is talking about the sec. closing markets in the united states. ramping up pressure on bit coin and its rivals, according to sources who have spoken to the wall streetjournal. let's sources who have spoken to the wall street journal. let's have sources who have spoken to the wall streetjournal. let's have a look at the financial markets, as you can see the month of march hasn't started well at all! that was february in the us, down 1.5% on the dowjones but in asia, the decline continues. still worries a

dias antes de su confirmacion, le llovian criticas por ser un emresario de exxon mobil y no tener experienciaodriguez .... nominado a este puesto de secretario de estado . ha sido muy caÓtica en su paso por el congreso, una persona de extrema derecha y podrÍa causar caos. es una persona radical que estarÍa de acuerdo con tener mucha mÁs confrontaciÓn con paÍses como irÁn, corea del norte, en vez de una diplomacia. ahora se anuncia que un asesor del presidentetambiÉn habrÍa sido despedido por problemas de crÍmenes financieros. carolina: pobre con tanto frÍo. javier: la salida de rex tillerson pone al descubierto la inestabilidad en la casa blanca . casi el 50% del personal ha renunciado o ha sido destituido. en febrero 28 renunciÓ la tercera directora de comunicaciones que ha tenido el mandatario 14 meses. el aÑo pasado se marcharon el secretario de salud, steve bannon yanthony. carolina:la tercera gran tormenta invernal o mesa dejar estragos en la zona noreste del paÍs. amtrak suspendio el servicio de boston a nueva york. javier: en el otro extremo del paÍs, en florida pena de muerte fue lo q

while the former exxon mobil c.e.o. had no one savory words for his former boss he barely mentioned him in his parting statement on our return to progress to private citizen is a proud american. probably the offer you have had to serve my country. cia director mike compare who enjoys a strong relationship with the president is trump's choice to take over from to listen. so what does this mean for american foreign policy for europe and partners abroad joined now to talk about that by nicole rembert from the german council on foreign relations thanks so much for being with us with so many tall see differences between the president and rex tillerson especially on iran north korea and russia was this firing inevitable well i would call it inevitable but you know we have seen signs in the past that the relationship between the two of them wasn't pretty positive and that they disagreed on many issues for example the iran day was one of the issues they discussed tell us had a different opinion. and not one so you know somehow

tillerson was used to calling the shots as the head of exxon mobil.had trouble being told what to do. the wall street journal refers to an incident in china, when they were at a banquet dinner hosted by chinese officials. tillerson was not eating his "wilted caesar salad." a prompted trunk to say, ">>, eat the salad -- it prompted trump to say "rex, it the salad." shows the tension that led to the awkward breakup via twitter. speaking of breakup on twitter, " has nowllersoned become a thing. it now means to dump someone on social media without giving them prior notice. it was certainly the case for one user on twitter, who confessed to changing her status on facebook from "in a onationship" to "single" valentine's day, and not letting the guy know beforehand. that is what getting tillersoned means. i hope it has not happened to you. [laughter] -- and more us serious note, if on reactions to the attempted assassination of the palestinian prime minister. freezeika: this will national palestinian reconciliation efforts, according to a london-based pan ar

the former head of exxon mobil was an oil man from texas with no foreign-policy experience. as a washington outsider, he also fit in with the unconventional nature of the new trump administration. at the start, trump appeared to have great confidence in him. >> rex will be a fierce advocate for america's interests around the world and has the insights and talents necessary to help reverse years of foreign-policy blunders and disasters. reporter: but barely six months into the job, reports started to circulate that tillerson's relationship with the president had soured. >> [inaudible] >> i'm not going anywhere. >> how long will you stay for? >> as long as the president lets me. >> how is your relationship with the president right now? >> it's good. reporter: but the two men were known to be at odds over many issues, including the iran nuclear deal. trump said this was one reason for his dismissal. >> we disagree on things. when you look at the iran deal, i think it is terrible, i guess he thinks it's ok. i wanted to either break it or do something, and he felt a little bit di

you cannot be an income at the present time person to run exxon mobil.er, he did a restructuring initiative, they cut about 2,000 jobs over the last year. so i do think it was deliberate in a sense. going forward, i think they need to take a good look at the priority positions we need to fill with dedicated career individuals who know what they're doing as we move forward in this complicated world. we have the president meeting with the north korean leader. who is going to lead those talks on the state department side? who is going to brief them up on that? so you're seeing it across the board. >> rosa, that presumes that the white house wants to have a functioning state department, wants to do typical diplomacy. the way we're set up right now, rex tillerson as secretary of state had not fully implemented the sanctions that were overwhelmingly passed by congress. it seems when it comes to russia, what the white house wants is a secretary of state who will do nothing when it comes to russia. >> i think the white house had a rad cat critique of not only th

of exxon mobil who has no diplomatic history no government history the secretary of state because russia wanted that deal with exxon the revenues from that deal would have equaled nine trillion dollars last week exxon said this sanctions are in place there's nothing we can do about it oil price of dropped anyway we're canceling the deal with russia and i went on the program and i said rex tillerson is on borrowed time he's gone he will host and make that deal he was supposed to make that deal happen and so apparently russia gave marching orders to trump to fire tillerson and they did it is stunning i'm telling you right now that the back channel to russia is not just something erik prince set up in the seashells islands in the past it's alive and well right now and that's why tillerson was fired and if i said that after he got fired you might have say i don't know about that i said it before he got fired i said this is why he's going to go remake of pump a zero. right wing sycophant for donald trump so he's going to continue the he continued to. all the wrong policies the cia another per

of energy giant exxon mobil that originally convinced mr. trump to appoint him., he plans to retire back to his ranch in texas. >> i'll now return to private life, a private citizen, as a proud american, proud of the opportunity i've had to serve my country. >> reporter: it is not clear when director pompeo will begin in his new role, but one of his first big decisions will be onether to withdraw from the iran nuclear deal in may. jeff. >> glor: margaret brennan, thank you very much. mpmpeo needs senate approval, as does gina haspel, the president's choice to replace him at c.i.a. she would be the first woman to head the agency. but senator john mccain said she'll have to explain her past involvement in torture. he says she oversaw a secret c.i.a. prison where detainees were tortured and carried out an order to destroy video of waterboarding. michael morell is a former deputy director of the c.i.a., and now our cbs news senior national security contributor. michael, first of all, what more can you tell us about haspel's involvement in black sites. >> i can't conf

the former head of exxon mobil was an oil man from texas with no foreign policy experience but as a washington outsider he also fit in with the unconventional nature of the new trump administration at the start of trump appear to have great confidence in him. rex will be a fierce advocate for america's interests around the world and has the insights and talents this is to help reverse years of foreign policy blunders and disaster i barely six months into the job report started to circulate that to listen to relationship with the president had soured on. a very very luckily i was all right. wasn't right. but the two men were known to be at all its over a number of issues including the iran nuclear deal trump said this was one reason for his dismissal but we disagreed on what you look at the iran deal i think it's terrible i guess it was ok i wanted to use a break it would be something he felt a little bit differently. trying was also accused of publicly undermining to listen on several occasions went to listen talks about the possibility of direct dialogue with north korea last december trump s

exxon mobil says it is abandoning joint ventures with russia's rosneft, signed while secretary of statelerson was running the oil giant, citing us and european union sanctions. it's a major turnaround for the company which had long argued against the sanctions imposed in 2014 over russia's invasion of crimea. food delivery firm deliveroo said it will take comprehensive action to reduce the amount of plastic packaging used in its meals. plastic cutlery will become an opt—in on its app, while the firm has launched a new line of eco—packaging, with 50 new products to help restaurants offer sustainable packaging. deliveroo boss will shu said: "we want people to enjoy meals that are sustainably delivered and packaged." do you know what i think? fingers. use your hands. use the cutlery in your house if food is being delivered to your house? just use your hands and then wash them. they do that all round the world. british tech company dyson has reported bumper profits today with underlying earnings up 27% last year to £801 million. and it's mainly thanks to asian consumers who accounted for th

secretary of state rex tillerson ousted by president trump today, ending a rocky tenure for the former exxon mobilthe move comes as the administration hones in on trade. congressman tom rice jr. thank you for joining us on the show. we are seeing a very high turnover at the white house. the you expect -- do you expect a shakeup in the team holding the trade talks? rep. rice: i think he has some competent people involved in the trade talks. experienced,s an proven executive with experience in trade. mr. light heiser has an extensive background. i hope we can keep this team together and bring these nafta talks to fruition. shery: you've joined over 100 house republicans in a letter to president trump to stop these tariffs on unfair trading partners but also expect concerned about him american minute fracturing. -- american manufacturing. what would your recommendation be here? rep. rice: we have tremendous momentum with tax reform. business confidence at all-time highs, stock market at all-time highs. we done a lot of good work in regulatory reform. i want to build on that momentum with trade. we ne

reporter: president trump thought he had picked an ideal candidate to be secretary of state as ceo of exxon mobil, tillerson travelled the world. sometimes at odds with the president. a san jose state political science professor. >> i think president trump is not known for listening to a wide variety of voices and what we witnessed in the white house is actually a narrowing of the type of advice he is getting. >> tillerson's successor are all military or retired military. this does not translate into hawkish policy. >> they are more aware of the cost of war and the difficulties and victory of the united states and some of these conflicts. so i don't think that we can make connection between having more military people around the president and him being more likely to be aggressive in his foreign policy. >> reporter: supporters of the president think the change will be positive. >> i understand that the new nominee is quite a popular pick and i hope with that, we are going to have better diplomatic relations with some of our neighbors. >>. >> reporter: the president made it clear they had their di

the former exxon mobil ceo getting the news just hours after returning from a trip to africa. stocks are higher after u.s. consumer prices continued firm in february. not enough to spark fears that the fed might accelerate its pace of rate hikes. he willident says nominate mike pompeo to replace tillerson. how the state department could change under pompeo's leadership. we want to get straight to abigail doolittle. 19 minutes into the u.s. trading minutes into the u.s. trading session. abigail: we have a relatively bullish reaction. we are well off the highs for the major averages. the nasdaq has just flipped ever so slightly lower. as investors digest all the news of the day, more uncertainty, similar to what we saw yesterday. we started higher and then finished for the dow and s&p 500 lower. perhaps another version of that. today, it is the nasdaq that is lagging. transports up .8%. airlines trading sharply higher. united continental coming out, raising its view to up 1-3%. that is a revenue view in the airline industry. their pretax margin will be higher. they are tightenin

of exxon mobil so as we know the relationship got worse and worse and to some extent the russians also blame mr tillotson for that ok so here's replaced by that or he's putative replacement he agrees with the cia's assessment that russia is a fair and the us elections back in twenty six states so how much of a change is he likely to bring to relations between the two countries. well you mean that ration ship is ready is already bad but it may even get worse so what. that's at least what many here expect to moscow from russia's point of view point here is a so-called cold warrior someone who believes that russia is the enemy some sort of thing you solve a union that you have to fight and that russia is not apartment to solve international problems in syria the ukraine tall and he well it's all right thank us so much for your assessment that made me a dragon storage in moscow thank you. i have to go to let's get reaction from the european union to have mass is standing by for us in brussels welcome gail what are you hearing that phil so far no reaction from the european union i think off

reporter: president trump thought he had picked an ideal candidate to be secretary of state as ceo of exxon mobillled the world. sometimes at odds with the president. a san jose state political science professor. >> i think president trump is not known for listening to a wide variety of voices and what we witnessed in the white house is actually a narrowing of the type of advice he is getting. >> tillerson's successor are all military or retired military. this does not translate into hawkish policy. >> they are more aware of the cost of war and the difficulties and victory of the united states and some of these conflicts. so i don't think that we can make connection between having more military people around the president and him being more likely to be aggressive in his foreign policy. >> reporter: supporters of the president think the change will be positive. >> i understand that the new nominee is quite a popular pick and i hope with that, we are going to have better diplomatic relations with some of our neighbors. >>. >> reporter: the president made it clear they had their differences. >> i w

of exxon mobil the global petroleum a conglomerate he was not particularly well respected here at state because of his efforts to cut the number of people who work for the state department by about thirty percent the state department only has about seventy thousand employees both diplomats and support staff and that's very very small and when you consider that the pentagon has more than two and a half million people working around the world and so there is a sense that cutting the number of people involved in frontline diplomacy would harm u.s. national security interests but on the other hand he was considered someone who was trying to learn on the job and trying to apply the things that he had learned in the private sector to his diplomatic role and people basically assumed that he would be here for at least another year so the news of his firing did come as a shock today in jordan thank you very much. of one there says bring in our senior political analyst on what you make the timing of a sport you think to tip the relationship over the edge i think especially a very important questi

agenda this was not given to mr tellers and even though he wasn't a diplomat by training when he led exxon mobil he spent a lot of time in the middle east had understanding of the regional sensitivities and was prepared to take on this work instead of trying to broker mideast peace was given to jericho or the president's son in law and so there were a lot of issues that brought these two men really at loggerheads for the better part of a year and it is worth pointing out loren that there is no single secretary of state probably in the last forty years who has been able to lead a very robust foreign policy it has been done pretty much by the people in the west wing over at the white house question in jordan thank you very much. tom white house correspondent can really help it so can we know a fast high profile casualty but the way he was fired seems to have been particularly brutal. indeed in fact it's really quite a contrast to those public statements we heard in the last hour from rex tillerson full of dignity and grace that certainly was not afforded to him in his firing taking place over soci

. >> it was tillerson's experience as globetrotting ceo of exxon mobile that convinced mr.mp to appoint him. >> i will now return to private life as a private citizen as a proud american, proud of the opportunity i have had to serve my country. >> it is not clear when director pompeo will begin. one of his first decisions whether to withdraw from the iran nuclear deal in may. >>> the war of words between britain and russia grew hotter as an exile was found dead in london under mysterious circumstances. just the latesten a string of deadly attacks on the enemies of vladamir putin. charlie d'agata is there. >> reporter: the body of russian exile nikolai gluskov was found, and comes two weeks after a poisoning by a military grade a agent made in russia. an opponent of vladamir putin and now joins a list of 14 other russians who have died on british soil. some, under mysterious circumstances, and whose cases are now being reviewed. the two remain in critical condition. as does the first police detective on the scene. a particularly lethal nerve agent. >> unbelievably cruel, unp

president trump says he will replace the former exxon mobil ceo with cia director mike pompeo.nt made that move. >> a series of package bombings in austin killed two people at their homes. this morning, police are searching for suspects and fear the explosions may be racially motivated. >> a group of parents who lost children to alleged hazing take their fight for change to washington. only on cbs this morning, the parents of florida

jason: and made quite a good living out of doing that as the ceo of exxon mobil.ew: if you wanted him for one thing, you would think it would be this. he was prepping to spend the next few months working with the white house preparing the president for this may sit down with kim jong-un and lo and behold, he found out on twitter like the rest of the world that he no longer had a job. jason: you mentioned there was a difference in substance. there is also a seeming difference in style between these two guys even though back in the day, trump did seem to like his look, right? he cast him as the secretary of state, but it didn't go the way people thought. matthew: central casting has rex tillerson as the look of globetrotting energy ceo. when rex goes in -- he was taken by rex's broad shouldered experience running exxon in the past decade. as you say, they differed from there on almost everything. any attempt to have a relationship between these two guys fell by the wayside and rex was a methodical take-it-slow process guy and the president is anything but. carol: it

rex tillerson, 41 years at exxon mobil, he was a product of that world.rate, he was calm, he was data-driven. he was everything you would expect from somebody who has been at the helm of a great company. the president is emotional, he is impulsive, he thrives on the kind of self generated chaos somewhat. tracy: does having someone in sync with trump when it comes to that sort of style in a powerful position of foreign policy, is that useful? >> it might just be useful and this is where the glimmer of light might be. if pompeo comes to the conclusion that he can squeeze a better deal out of the europeans in relation to iran, it is probably mike pompeo who is going to sell it to the president, not rex tillerson. tracy: interesting. >> from that extent, somebody who is more like-minded, who has better rapport, more an intuitive and empathetic relationship with his boss is more likely to be able to get the president to kind of compromise or to be able to represent the data in a way that appears where it may be has not to entirely that extent. i fully admit to

the former exxon mobil ceo getting the news just hours after returning from a trip to africa.are higher after u.s. consumer prices continued firm in february. not enough to spark fears that the fed might accelerate its pace of rate hikes. he willident says nominate mike pompeo to replace tillerson. how the state department could change under pompeo's leadership. we want to get straight to abigail doolittle.

in fairness as ceo of exxon mobile he didn't give a lot of interviews. did that strike you as strange or you feel like he needed to get stuff off his chest? >> it did strike us as strange at the time. i've been on four or five trips with the secretary and every one of those trips we beg his staff to give limb him to us to talk the trip. he never speaks to us on the record. that was interesting. looking back the russia comments. i asked him about whether he felt he would be useful to the president in the kim jong-un negotiations because he spent so much time negotiating with sort of crazy cast of characters over the years and he said yes. he's supremely confident in his own abilities as a negotiator which strikes me as a bit of selling himself, trying to stay in the job. >> thanks for joining us. nick is a foreign policy reporter with bloomberg. senator, good to see you again. your initial reaction to rex tillerson being fired. we're still not sure if he lernllern learned about it from a sweet or got it on friday. >> typical of what mr. trump does. very c

vladimir putin had awarded rex tillerson russia's order of friendship when he was running exxon mobile yorker notes that congress imposed additional sanctions on russia in retaliation for its interference, but trump and tillerson resisted enacting them. the state department has been given $120 million to fight russian meddling and it spent zero, according to the new yorker trump is expected to have discussed his deal with mitt romney with the special prosecutor's investigators. joining us now betsy wood rough an msnbc contributor and back with us is mike murphy. mike, in your experience with working with mitt romney, you knew his attitudes about working with russia but the kremlin was obviously afraid of him. >> i think there's no doubt that mitt romney would have been a nightmare secretary of state for the russians and he would have counterbalanced president trump's blind spots. i think christopher steele is a patriot and hero. this is raw intelligence from a credible russian source. you know how it can be, we're so good we killed off the secretary of state. i know there was a lot for

a much broader portfolio and a very resid vis opportunity we can continue to pursue. >> again exxon mobilerough the year 2025. some question as to whether the street will believe that or not. they have their work cut out ahead of them. thanks to the chairman and ceo darren woods. >>> meantime, president trump's proposed tariffs on steel and alluminum will be announced. both industries are praising the move jackie deangelis is live at a plant in kentucky. good morning. >> reporter: good morning to you, andrew. that's right everybody is on edge here. we're still waiting for that announcement we talked about the steel industry and the tariffs, how it will impact the alluminum industry is praising this as a big win as well even with all of the debate we have been having in the past week over a trade war. the question is why? take a look over my shoulder here, century alluminum is the last alluminum facility. it produces alluminum for u.s. fighter jets, body armor and tanks. alluminum has many uses, defence is one of them but the industry struggles in the united states because of anti-competiti