accounts trump has a much closer relationship with delusions replacement former cia director mike pompei oh trump tweeted that pump a it was doing a great job while tillerson was dumb as a rock and lazy as hell john hendren al-jazeera washington joe ruben as president of the washington strategy and was a deputy assistant secretary of state of the obama administration and he says that question is white house role should be a huge can say we haven't had this before and i can't emphasize it enough we've never had a family member of the president of the united states running rogue foreign policy out of the white house and that's what we have in this instance this is why we have nepotism laws in this country because this should never happen and this isn't rex tillerson fault cushion or was doing this during the transition period when he was trying to set up a private channel with russia from the russian embassy so this is his pattern and it's very dangerous because it essentially means the united states doesn't have a single voice to our allies and adversaries abroad so how are we going to actually ex

accounts trump has a much closer relationship with taylor's ins replacement former cia director mike pompei oh trump tweeted that pump a it was doing a great job while tillerson was dumb as a rock and lazy as hell john hendren al-jazeera washington. as executive director of the arab center of washington and he says the u.s. president as letting his private advise us hijacked the state department's responsibilities. these are very significant evolutions. essentially revealing how dysfunctional this administration has been since its beginning when you have a secretary of state and a secretary of defense kept in the dark when it comes to major decisions pertaining to their turf if you will to their essential job that shows you. the the process has been hijacked from the state department from the defense department into basically that private advice section of the white house floor for the secretary of state to learn way after the fact of these major trips major decisions being made on behalf of the united states yet the person who is supposed to be in charge of people and forcing and implementing u.s.

secretary of state mike pompei oh suggesting the trump administration is targeting the leadership of western europe's largest socialist movement the chief target of the former cia boss another usa top diplomat mike pompei o is labor leader jeremy corbyn labor has responded saying president trump and his officials attempt to decide who will be britain's next prime minister are an entirely unacceptable interference in the u.k.'s democracy jeremy corbett himself was the 1st senior politician to meet granville survivors after the catastrophic fire peo later in the show joining me now is an evacuee on the night of the joe delaney of the greenfield action group joe welcome to going underground just before we get out of a street you're wearing that i am indeed i am response that's the name of someone quoted by the member of parliament for kensington chelsea who claimed that rhys morris is locked up while grenfell perpetrators of frequenting why they claim to want to talk about what's emblematic i mean it's ridiculous that. clearly traumatized individual who's absolutely been scarred by the c

clashing styles so trump allowed his son in law apparently to run for him to power diplomacy that the secretary of state did not even know about but what's different now with mike pompei oh is that pomp a will is a man that trump seems to trust he was the president's cia director and then he was asked to move over to the secretary of state position so that suggests a level of trust there that was not there with pillars of but what we don't know is if this dual diplomacy is still going on with jared kirshner carrying out his own policies and we may not know that until the next secretary of state comes along indeed plenty of questions remaining john hendren that speaking to us from washington d.c. thank you john. well joel rubin is the president of the washington strategy creep and was a deputy assistant secretary of state during the obama administration and he also joins us now live from washington d.c. joel you were very involved within the state department and i know you think the different with every administration but talk us through how the formation of foreign policy is meant to or usually does work yeah well this is why we have nepotism laws in this country because

officials including president trump and secretary of state mike pompei oh as we know as you guys have been talking about we've been reporting have blamed iran for the attacks saying video released by u.s. . actual command shows an iranian vessel revolutionary guards vessel removing an unexploded limpet mine from one of those tankers and there's actually new photos that have been released by centcom and by the u.s. . again backing up you know this accusation from u.s. officials yesterday secretary pompei all repeated these accusations against iran also he said not ruling out possible military action against the country listen we are confident that we can take a set of actions that can restore deterrence which is our mission so that you say a full range of options does that include a military response course of course the president consider everything we need to do to make sure that it's a presence that we don't want to run to get a nuclear weapon the previous administration put them on a path where that virtually guaranteed that they could get there so we withdrew from the ridiculous j

mike pompei oh. ok thank you very much john hendren bring us the latest from washington thank you john and of course as you just mentioning that president trump is nominated a new secretary of defense as for will be the 3rd person to lead and again in 6 months castro has mall. it's a new record 6 months without a permanent u.s. defense secretary that's 3 times longer than ever before in the country's history and the timing is hardly ideal. iran's downing of an american spy drone caught the pentagon by surprise and as president trump considered how to respond acting defense secretary patrick shanahan was packing his bags preparing to leave his job after reports of domestic violence in his family this shanahan fiasco shows what a shambles what a mess the administration's national security and foreign policy is the man trump has nominated to replace shanahan is mark esper he's been secretary of the army since 2017 esper also has experience as a congressional member of staff but his 7 years as a defense industry lobbyist may be a weakness during senate confirmation hearings were better to have a confirmed secretary of defense might say with regar