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

putin thought that the relationship was going to improve he considered mr tillotson to be a friend of russia but that doesn't was here in russia many times they gave him even a medal he has met mr putin several time times when he was c.e.o. 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

young not sure how old will the end be and i'm i think that mr pompei all will be worse because mr tillotson was asking for a diplomatic way and. asked for meetings and mr pompeo is very clear. with his aggressive strategy i don't think the. young woman will be agree to such a strategy so i see more problems in the future then risk strategy of missed a telephone call to follow in washington as you would expect from from any secretary of state never my one who's only been in post for just over a year still lots of unfinished business syria iraq isis china what sort of secretary of state has rex tillerson they. that's a very difficult question or the answer to this is a bit complicated i think apart from old these areas of foreign policy that you mentioned. that of course is very important for a secretary of state but i think the most important project for rex tillerson was the reform of the state department itself i mean he comes from the private sector and he wanted to apply his experience there to this big bureaucracy and all that is still very much in the early stages not even of implement

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 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 apprecia

a crisis for germany in europe and the transatlantic relationship i think it's not so much for mr tillotson i think it's more of a question what is the signal where foreign policy in the trump industry is heading . we have to look at the fact why was mysticism brought in the first place at a time when you know one of the republican foreign policy is that was not wanted to join this administration attempts were made to surround mr trump by season's businessman military. offices. to provide some kind of more traditional foreign policy perspective it has been given quite awhile that mr tillotson for a number of reasons was not able to secure that road partly because he had not the support of the president and no one could really ever rely on the fact that his views were representing the president so that severely limited his wrote. the other hand he was definitely. more in line closer to many european and german perspectives on a number of the big issues on some of the big issues of the big issues and so clearly it is building up to the concern that we may see a shift to an even more. isolatio

returns from an important foreign trip you know the very important point to make and we know that mr tillotson it seems was blindsided by this announcement today the u.s. president however he was rather candid we need discussed why he let tillerson take a list. correction i've been talking about this for a long time we we got along actually quite well but we disagreed on thing when you look at the iran deal i think it's terrible i guess but it was ok i wanted he's a break it or something and he felt a little bit differently so we were not really taking this. so it sounds like there karsten you know he's does the president describing oil in water i mean these men apparently did not mix well at all. even though donald trump insisted they got along well i don't think that's true and at the beginning as we've also seen in the reports there was a kind of honeymoon period but the relationship soured pretty quickly and the two men just have very different character sperry different approaches rex tillerson himself said at one point that he stood he was still learning how to communicate with the presi

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 warrior he things that russia is not apartment to solve international problems of syria in the ukraine and in other parts of the world. mr peo thinks that russia is the enemy the enemy number one and for that reason i don't think that the rationing ship is going to improve and i think the russians on the stand very well that president trump may still want to improve the russian ship with russia this may still be his aim his goal but on the other hand the russians understand that the mood in congress right now is. not. operative to put it in a nutshell it's not likely that the rela

and of course, there was the famous quote attributed to mr tillotson, who said last summer to have describedington post is saying that mr tillerson was informed last friday and has to cut short a trip to africa as a result. we learned about it via a tweet. but to attributed to his comments about russia are perhaps jumping to attributed to his comments about russia are perhapsjumping to conclusions. as worth noting that mr trump himself said in the same press appearance you gave a glimpse of that that he was due to speak to theresa may sometime today. and once the fact been laid out to him, he would decide whether or not it was fairto would decide whether or not it was fair to accuse rasher of being behind it. there has been an assumption when boris johnson behind it. there has been an assumption when borisjohnson i were today was saying he welcomed the strong international support. there is an assumption that he was talking about rex tillerson rather than the white house, it is the white house is notably not named russia so far. indeed, borisjohnson went out of his way to cite what rex tille

the european union's role as european union in all of this has always been very weak even on the mr tillotson. a lot of contacts going on at the moment to see how we can reach some sort of understanding as to how to flank the iran nuclear deal but i think it's very very clear and you've heard this from paris from london from berlin and from brussels for more than of the principles that europe is committed to doing all it can to stick by the deal we do believe in it and i think there's a very robust common foreign policy approach from europe when it comes to the j c p a. now it's important to try to find ways in which we i say we can flank it in the raw things i know that are being worked on at the moment but in terms of aggregating the deal or undermining the deal the hope has got to be that mr pompei a will bring let's say some solid military civilian thinking one thing i would just add to this to what the others have said in this been made the point has been made elsewhere that may be a difficult language with diplomatic language speaking to the u.s. administration now as all of the princip

provide some kind of more traditional foreign policy perspective it has been given quite awhile that mr tillotson for a number of reasons was not able to secure that road possibly because he had not the support of the president and no one could really ever rely on the fact that his views were representing the president so that severely limited his wrote. the other hand he was definitely. more in line closer to many european and german perspectives on a number of the big issues on some of the big issues of the big issues and so clearly it is building up to the concern that we may see a shift to an even more. isolationist foreign policy in washington where do you talk to them i mean if you're losing tillerson and you're getting. and trump still the president going to talk to i think an advantage of visible bill may be that he may be able to represent the president in the first place whether we like what he said to say or not but the more operations question that you correctly raise is there is a little void in the state department on many senior positions it's hard to find anyone to talk to we're s

earlier on mr bolton interviewed mr trump for being deputy secretary of state under mr tillerson and mr tillotson said no and mr bannon who was the last voice in the trump administration who had any sense of restraint on our military projection of force is now gone and he was the one who killed the bolton nomination to be deputy secretary of state and i think that with mr bolton now taking the national security adviser we're just going to have one policy which is going to be confronted everywhere at all places and all times and diplomacy is going to. say that with the . talks assuming they happen are at that meeting between north korea and the u.s. supposedly a few weeks away what kind of influence do you think john bolton will have over that process. well it may well be that there are no talks that there are no agreement says to the venue or to the circumstances in which verification of any kind of restriction on the nuclear program of north korea occurs it may all fall apart and mr bolton i'm sure is against having the meeting whatsoever and when mr trump just the other day said he anticipates

earlier on mr bolton interviewed mr trump for being deputy secretary of state under mr tillerson and mr tillotson said no and mr bannon who was the last voice in the trump administration who had any sense of restraint on our military projection of force is now gone and he was the one who killed the bolton nomination to be deputy secretary of state and i think that with mr bolton now taking the national security adviser we're just going to have one policy which is going to be confronted everywhere at all places and all times and diplomacy is going to take a backseat tell us from says he's open to testifying before u.s. special counsel robert mueller who's investigating possible russian interference in the two thousand and sixteen presidential election the comments come just hours after president's personal lawyer also announced his resignation john dowd had reportedly clash with trump over his handling of mahler's probe patika hayne isolated from washington d.c. . u.s. president donald trump's lawyers have reportedly warned him not to talk to special counsel robert mueller apparently feels differe

earlier on mr bolton interviewed mr trump for being deputy secretary of state under mr tillerson and mr tillotson said no and mr bannon who was the last voice in the trump administration who had any sense of restraint on our military projection of force is now gone and he was the one who killed the bolton nomination to be deputy secretary of state and i think that with mr bolton now taking the national security adviser we're just going to have one policy woods is going to be confronted everywhere at all places and all times and diplomacy is going to take a backseat beijing a setback at the u.s. president's order to impose sixty billion dollars worth of tariffs on chinese imports it's planning tariffs on three billion dollars worth of american products including pork and steel trump said on thursday the deficit with beijing was out of control and call for reciprocal trade arrangements trading in u.s. and asian stocks has been volatile because of fears of an all out trade war some people called a mere a tariff or a mere attacks just use the word reciprocal if they charge us we charge them the same

that we understand now existed to the best part of a year between donald trump and rex tillerson mr tillotson has now been got rid of that means that mr trump will be less unpredictable than he was before because his new secretary of state occupies exactly the same foreign policy positions that mr trump occupies so when it comes to the leadership in tehran predicting what mr trump may or may not do next that's easy i guess work. yes it is easier to predict and heading towards a cliff. basically going to destroy you then you can in agreement as as as they have talked about it mr campaign that about telling a part in a moment so we can predict that heading towards the cliff falling off the cliff this is easier to predict but the prediction is not really something that we want to do we want to make sure that the united states stays in the name because us getting out of them in connection with is going to be. difficult for want peace and for vision and the civility and this was of the ok we will leave it there for it as are the many thanks for joining us here on the news hour. well i say with a c

region they are critical of that but now that the republicans the conservative republicans like mr tillotson mcmaster and others . have always been wary of this such a move and warning mr trump against this move they are being replaced by a people from a right parties lake bell palm pale like bolton people are seeing that this is the destiny this is the future the nuclear deal will be killed by the white house if they are offered. that if they are offered some preventive measures to prevent iran from becoming a threat because they intend to misrepresent iran in future after killing that deal if they they are offer some preventive measures like intensifying security in the middle east around iran in the persian gulf also balancing actions like nuclearization of sol the arabia that has been opposed by the public opinion the polish some politicians in the us and even israel they have been opposing the nuclear ization of sol the arabian if they see this as an option to prevent the threat and to prevent right. tensions there would really wreck their support and they would render more support to t

state rex tillerson is searching a smooth transition after president trump fired him on twitter mr tillotson doesn't have a twitter account so the two men spoke on the phone three hours after donald trump's initial tweet one of the listens top aides released a statement saying to listen didn't know why he was forced out last official was sacked as well democrats say it's another sign of chaos in the white house trump blamed policy differences the two had disagreed over a number of issues including the iran nuclear deal and the blockade of cattle to listen will be replaced by the cia director mike pompei oh he advocates a more aggressive stance on north korea and iran and his job will go to gina hospital who set to become the first woman leader of the cia and looks back at the friction between to listen and trump. it's not every day you lose your job the social media but an emotional rex tillerson deliberately ignored that detail when he addressed reporters on tuesday received a call today from the frozen united states at low afternoon time from air force warn my commission as secretary of st

paid off the gulf nation mr tillotson criticised the saudi government for its role in the conflict in yemen and the political situation in lebanon he also came under attack for skipping israel on his middle east hill last month when he visited egypt kuwait jordan lebanon and turkey and coming back to you then thomas pickering it seems very much as there rex tillerson and his whole it out state department was very much out of kilter alpha set with the white house from the get go. i think that certainly on something like qatar where rex tillerson had deep experience coming out of his leadership of a son mobile there was a sense in his view of more balance required in the situation and he clearly did not think that saudi arabia or the u.a.e. were gaining ground in yemen you know and then as the previous administration i think one way or another perhaps tilted toward the notion that there was not an easy ready to hand forthcoming military solution near and it probably like syria would go on until in fact something could work at the conference table but we don't yet and i think know precis

tillotson for quite a while. but it is a coincidence that it comes right after mr tillerson voiced his strong support for the britishat mr trump had not done. so i am wondering if maybe what happened was, when tillerson found out that he was going to be dismissed, he decided not to be constrained by trump's overwhelming support for russia, and to voice his own opinions. of course now trump has relu cta ntly opinions. of course now trump has reluctantly over a week voiced some support from britain but it has been a long time in coming. before i let you go, can i ask you, as someone who has watched the soviet union turn into what it is now, been watching intelligence services for all these decades, what do you think happened here and is there anything about what you think happened that surprises you? what i think happened was that the kremlin wanted to send its would—be traders a message. they couldn't kill sergei skripal after he was convicted of treason in russia, because russia does not legalise execution. and this is a good way of showing other intelligence agents that they should not defect. but i also think it i