i talked to kerstin who had this to say about pompeo. >> very serious concerns about pompeo.ed against him. he's someone who has supported torture in the past. i not think he's the type of leader we need for the secretary of state. >> reporter: so, halle even if republicans can get the votes together, they don't break rinks they probably will. these are type of thing are op signature party members are less likely to play politics because they understand how important it is these roles be filled by some individuals. the fact we're going to have two confirmation fights while the senate is trying to get of work done there will be a distraction. it's another thing on they're plate that they're not as able to work an, gun legislation on t the dodd frank they're doing this weekend. it's another thing for the senate to be focused on. >> garrett, any sign of bob corker has he come out of his office in the last 30 minutes since we've talked last? >> reporter: no, but he will not be able to do so without me seeing him. >> garrett haeck, thanks. tim and ann are here. reaction to what yo

he wishes secretary-designate pompeo well. if you're just joining us, here is the news, rex tillerson is out as secretary of state. mike pompeo has been nominated by the president to be the next secretary of state. and gina haspel working at the cia will be nominated to be the next director of the cia. the first woman, if confirmed, to hold that department. >> sandra: our reporter saying state officials said tillerson has not spoken to the president and had every intention of staying, per the statement. what we're hearing the president is saying on the ground there as he departs for california outside the white house, talking about mike pompeo, his new selection, saying he has tremendous energy and always on the same wave length. that's what i need. gina will be the first woman director of the cia outstanding. i want total confidence in pompeo said president trump. >> bill: he is getting ready to head out to california for a big trip on border security and has a fundraiser there as well as pennsylvania southwest district 18 vo

pompeo. and mr.o has a lot of knowledge about the region, a lot of knowledge about the kim regime. i think he'll offer him good advice and be very helpful. >> jon: also want to talk about the stop school violence act. it would give grants that would enhance cooperation between law enforcement and school staff, teach both of them how to spot warning signs of potential school shooters. will it be enough do you think? >> i'm not sure. you know, i -- to be honest with you, i'm skeptical of new federal programs for situations like this one. primary and secondary education, k-12 public education system, is a creature of state and local government. it's not an area where the federal government is actively involved, nor do i think it's one where the federal government should be actively involved. how people secure a school in one community, one state, one part of the country or another is going to vary. even within my own state. how you secure a school in salt lake city might vary dramatically from rural uta

pompeo said yes. the president head off. i think hi was counseled by chlyf of staff knd others to wait on that move. he did. but his discomfort continued. t watchie public humiliation of rex tillerson has been painful i think for the hole country. it was visible today the pain the resignation statement that tillerson made. i think trump finally decided that the time had come to make a ange. he's headed into the most important diplomatic encounter of his presidency, face-to-face diplomacy with kim jong-un and north korea. hi wanted to have his own person at state, his own team behind him, so i think the moment had come. the discomfort has been there, for many months. >> woodruff: nicholas burns, how would you describe theta department under rex tillerson? >> demoralized. i think the greest crisis we've had in 40 or 50 years with 30% budget cuts by the trump administration and secretary tillerson. the firing of some of our best senior officers early in the administration. an exodus of very good officers at all leveaels ly beca

pompeo has deep ties. headquarters of coke industries, early in his curriculum he received an investment from the koch brothers when he started an era space company. the koch brothers handpicked him to run for that open seat in 2010. his only political experience was appearing at tea party events organized by the koch brothers political machine, and they were his largest country leader. why is this important? once he got to congress, pompeo was a loyal foot shoulder for the koch brothers political agenda. he attacked climate change regulations and advanced the tax on renewable energy. other than tax cuts, this is a top legislative priority for the koch brothers. i think that speaks to pompeo's character, that he has been beholden to his political supporters. again, just looking at his relationship with trump. he was a big from supporter during a presidential campaign and has been incredibly loyal, unwilling to question trump's agenda. if he is secretary of state, he will be very different from rex tillerso

june a haskell will be succeeding pompeo.dent trump travels today to opposition territory, making his first trip to california since he took office. he will look at a number of prototypes near san diego. the president having trouble getting congress to pay for that area. inflation in the u.s. keeps creeping toward the fed's target. the consumer price index rose .2% in february. that matched estimates. prices increased 2.2% over the last 12 months. that is in line with policymaker s' outlooks. the head of the imf is warning about what she calls the dark side of the currencies. says the imfarde can play a central role in regulating digital cash. global news 24 hours a day, powered by more than 2700 journalists and analysts in more than 120 countries. i'm courtney donohoe. vonnie: thank you. let's get back to president trump's decision to fire rex tillerson and nominate mike pompeo. we really just learned about this this morning. tillerson himself learned it from twitter. what have you learned in the last couple of hours from yo

in turn, pompeo has a lot of respect on the hill. i think this partnership between the president and pompeo is one that has only grown in the last several months. it seems a very natural transition. the president announcing he's going to be promoting the current deputy director gina haspel, a 0-year veteran of the cia. there are some reports about her time as a clandestined agent in that agency during the bush administration when she was part of the sort of -- the torture programs that existed at that time. so it will be an interesting confirmation hearing for her, of course. this is as close to an orderly transition as i think we will get here in this white house. pompeo moving over from the cia and the president moving someone up from already within the ranks of that agency. >> abby phillip, stand by. i'm joined now by cnn diplomatic and military analyst, retired rear admiral john kirby, a former state department spokesman among other things. admiral kirby, this comes 24 hours after the secretary of state made a statement directly

we know that pompeo as c.i.a. director often delivered the president's daily brirsefs in , spent a lot of time in the white house, more than many past c.i.a. directo, and it seemed to indicate a level of comfort that the president has thrrounding the himself pompeo and with his advice on key issues. >> amaka: and robert, you have done a fair am unt of reporting on pompeo, on his background serving in congress for, what si >> that's correct. what a political ascent for ths brmer kansas congressman and ally of the koothers. long respects in hawkish republican circles. he ingratiated himself with president trump. he's really developed this rapport with thpresident because he gives the p.d.b., the president daily briefing. he gives it in person. because of th they've developed this personality connection that really has led to this announcement that he b withe next secretary of state if confirmed. ert, idruff: and rob have to ask you, this departure of rex til state, comes on the heels of a number of other high-profil

pompeo had a particularly warm relationship with the president.now exactly what hers is, but i'm sure it's a good one. >> now, there was a bump in her career rise. john brennan had promoted her and that promotion did not go through because there's no question that she and many others in the covert operation did follow orders on a number of cases involving the enhanced interrogation techniques known certainly on the hill and widespread in the wider world as torture under george w. bush. >> no doubt. what i would say about that is if you want a cia professional to head that agency and if you are looking for a cia professional who has no controversy attached to them, you are going to find a very unsuccessful officer. you cannot work there for 30 years at that agency and not be involved at some point in something that someone thinks is controversial. so when it comes to gina, i want people to remember she was doing what her agency asked her to do, what the president asked her to do. she carried it out at a time when this was widely seen as essential t

he will be dominating mike pompeo to replace tillerson. succeed pompeo.ill be the first woman to lead the agency. public and lawmakers and say they've received complaints of corruption and mismanagement in restoring power to puerto rico. say theyican lawmakers received complaints of corruption. summit may have paradise their own homes over hospitals -- myanmar's government is rejecting to reports -- two reports that found they committed human rights violations. the reports were based on hundreds of accounts by witnesses of reported violations and satellite imagery, photographs and video footage. myanmar officials say the information is not credible. hillary clinton told an audience in india that the u.s. did not deserve donald trump's presidency and that he was the country's first reality tv candidate. if you watch reality tv, you know it means that the person who is the most outrageous, the person who set the politically incorrect things, the person who is attacking drives big ratings. "has quitedent trump an affinity for dictators," she says. global new

pompeo pompeo has floated the idea of rolling the deal back. something the u.s. can't do unilaterally and something that rex tillerson said it shouldn't do. pompeo has called iran a thuggish police state and compared it to isis. but there is one point of contention, and that's russia's interference in the u.s. election. while the president has gone back and forth about russia's involvement, pompeo has firmly declared its meddling as a fact, along with the other intelligence heads, by the way. over the weekend, pompeo flatly called vladimir putin's denial of russian meddling false. if confirmed, pompeo would be fourth in the presidential line of succession, which makes all of this really important. now, all of this reshuffling comes at a time when the administration is dealing with sensitive foreign policy issues on multiple fronts including, as we said, north korea, the iran nuclear deal, russian interference in the elections. bobby ghosh is a foreign affairs columnist and commentator and joins me now. also with us is thomas countrymen, who served as assistant se

what does pompeo bring to the diplomatic table? >> he's a graduate of harvard law school and he's a former army officer and he's been running the cia for the last year. so clearly he's got some chops. whether he has a diplomatic temperament remains to be seen, although he did impress senators at his confirmation hearing for cia director. the thing he brings most to the table is his close relationship with donald trump. in an administration where that really matters. i mean, obviously we've been reporting all day on the chaotic relationship between trump and outgoing secretary of state rebs tillerson. that really affected how the state department functioned. recently jared kushner was at a high level meeting in mexico. the state department has been cut out of u.s. policy making. i think there's every chance that with pompeo in this role, the state department would be allowed back into the fold. >> ken, as you probably know, mr. pompeo's had some rather harsh words for russia. haspel, deputy director of the cia's russia group. this i

pompeo is a hardliner. his worldview fits neatly with the president so i would expect , withf as they negotiate north korea, that the hardline will show up there and it may actually be a factor in backing these two men away from a meeting. what about the hardline for china because president trump is rejecting the qualcomm/broadcom deal. there is also a decision on intellectual property coming up. what stand is mike pompeo expected to take? as of this morning, we have nearly completed a very hard-line national security, international affairs team around the president that accurately reflects his worldview. is, as they move forward, especially with the midterms in mind but also with negotiations with china and possibly with north korea in line, they will want to give life to the national security strategy that the president signed in december of leicester that identify china and russia as economic adversaries who oppose national security risks to the u.s. the eurasia group has long believe that protections an

you're going to like mike pompeo. he's going to articulate what the president wants because he agrees with the president. >> jessica, from what sandra was saying, the update is that mitch mcconnell fully believes there will be a confirmation procession for pompeo. i read even if they didn't want to do that, they had 210 days to let him sit in an interim positions. where will democrats fall on him if it gets that far? >> i think it depends how much closer we get to the election. >> what does that mean? >> there's people that we have a lot of blue senators running in red states. people that have talked about the need to increase the size of the military and more hawkish than some of the californians. there's some leeway there. a key distinction to be raising between saying mike pompeo is not qualified and saying he's not the right choice for the way you want america to be reason. that's what democrats are saying. they're not saying, oh, that school isn't good enough or westpoint -- >> what don't they like? >> they don't

understand mike pompeo is a friend. already written a glowing column about his appointment for the "washington post". mike pompeo is a weekly guest for a couple years on my radio show. he demonstrates sound judgment, affability and a deep, deep intellect. we won the confidence of the career staff at the cia and excelled there. more importantly, he won the confidence of president trump. they share a view on the iran deal and the strategic assessment of the problem of north korea and china and, yes, russia. he is a russia hawk. pompeo could turn out to be to donald trump and kissinger to nixon, a right arm. he graduated first in his class at west point, a lawyer at d.c. williams and conley before launching a political career in kansas and congress thereafter. but he mostly is competent. he will bring in a great team, instruct them they are the president's team and the united states's team. and he will lead and he will communicate in a direct, sometimes blunt, always truthful kansas fashion like that other great kansas wes

let's begin here in washington with director pompeo.ood to see you. >> director pompeo: good to be with you. >> john: when he made the announcement that he would be meeting with him the white house seemed to shift a little bit. saying we need to see concrete and verifiable action before takes place. >> director pompeo: should there be preconditions for such a meeting? >> director pompeo: i think it's important to step back and remember how we got to this place. whistle past the graveyard while the north korea regime, including this particular leader continue to develop their nuclear weapons program. this administration came in and talked about at this campaign and put enormous pressure on the north korean economy and on the north korean leadership. that gave us this opportunity where kim jong un now has committed to stopping nuclear testing, stopping missile tests, allowing exercises to go forward, something that has been incredibly contentious in the past and at the same time saying that the denuclearization complete, verifiable as a t

than mike pompeo. in that regard, i think he'll be very effective. >> secretary tillerson had, it seemed, much more muscular stance on russia than the president did. how many of a factor do you think that might have been in his decision? >> mike pompeo's taken a back seat to anyone when it comes to russia. mike is very clear that russians interfered in our elections and russians are bad actor. i don't think it has anything to do with that. i think it has a lot to do with the fact that pompeo seems to be closer to trump and he wants somebody i think he feels closer to. >> two top-level cabinet officials out in a week. how much does that concern you about the stability of the people advising the president? >> i think pompeo's a good choice. >> senator inhofe, a word about the departure -- >> so stephanie, you get the idea, regardless of the question, graham wanted to talk about pompeo as a good fit for the secretary of state role. remember, pompeo will have to get confirmed for that job. he's going to ha

the house likes mike pompeo. they know the relationship between mike pompeo as the cia director and the president is certainly better than where rex tillerson was. the hill has a difficult time not unlike our u.s. allies in trying to figure out if what rex tillerson was saying was where the white house is. as the admiral stated, a lot of republicans i spoke to were a little unsettled about how this actually came to be, right? i was at breakfast with two administration officials this morning, and i informed them that this had occurred. that was pretty much par for the course across the capitol. john cornyn found out through news alerts. every republican aide i spoke to with the exception of the speaker in the senate found out through twitter wars. usually you have a white house team to handle that issue. the other issue is the confirmation process. this is going to take a very long time to actually move through. april will be the first hearings on mike pompeo. but as you noted, it's an election year, and what this

we haven't talked much about the replacement yet, mike pompeo. bret, you had an interview in september where you talked about this policy. >> yeah, it was the regan defense forum. it was circulating that rex tillerson would be replaced by pompeo and that possibly senator tom cotton was being talked about as somebody that could go to cia. following up on that story, i asked him as the first question in a forum with the director of cia pompeo and former director leon panetta about that position. he kind of laughed it off and said he was going to work hard at the job he currently has, a lot of trust that pompeo has with this president. he briefs him and has briefed him all the time. they established a close relationship. >> dana: i wanted to ask you about what rich edson brought up. there was tension with rex tillerson from the very beginning. rex tillerson always said that he was not a creature of washington. he didn't understand it. he didn't really fit in there and he wore that as a badge of honor. on the policy standpoint, when it comes to the i

just tweeted this about pompeo.ulations, my friend and soon to be secretary of state mike pompeo. great decision by the president. u.s. secretary of the interior is testifying right now before a senate energy and natural resources committee. the committee is examining the president's budget request for the department of the interior for fiscal year 2019. he is expected to be asked about his taxpayer funded expenses while traveling. >>> defense secretary james mattis made a surprise visit to kabul, afghanistan this morning. he's set to meet with top u.s. commanders. earlier, he told reporters he believes a peace settlement between the afghan government and the taliban is possible. >>> president trump blocked a $117 billion merger between broadcom and qualcomm in an effort to prevent a breach in national security. in a presidential order, trump said there was credible evidence if broadcom were to buy the computer chip company there would be a threat. had the deal gone through it would have been the biggest tech deal i

why will you oppose pompeo? >> we saw when he was the director of the cia that it was so hard to pin him down on fundamental issues with respect to accountability. you and have i talked about the open intelligence committee hearing in the past when i tried to pin him down on mike flynn. sally yates said that mike flynn was a security threat we could never get mike pompeo to describe. and pompeo is going to have a huge affect on american policy, with sanctions represent to iran and russia, what he has always tried to do is curry favor with the president, to play down the role of the russians and potential collusion. so those are going to be important hearings. >> senator ron wyden, senior member of the senate intelligence committee, thank you. much appreciated. >> thank you. >>> lots to get to tonight, as you've been watching these numbers come in the pennsylvania special congressional election right now. you can see it's tighter than a tick. we've got less than 20% of the vote. we've got 87% in. with two points

pompeo craig: i think it will go easily. he is respected well on the hill and they usually treat their own well. he is thought to bring a real level of professionalism to the cia, definitely a boy listed donald trump. probably for everything rex and andp disagree with, pompeo think heee on but i do is thought of as a proof and someone who can lead the state department more to trump's liking. vonnie: trump did not have the best relationship with the cia itself but a great one with mike pompeo. how does the think he is thought of as a proof and someone who can cia do under mie pompeo? craig: people were called early on that donald trump was very critical of the cia when some of the russia investigation got started, saying essentially the got it wrong in iraq and they never found wmd, so that started on a rocky tone. i think pompeo was there to smooth the waters. not to say he would say, do not believe everything trump says, but i think he was viewed as loyal to the cia and have their backs and fought the pure product rights to

mike pompeo has been tapped to replace him. the cia could get its first female director and more changes could be on the way. and breaking overnight, one of world's greatest minds in science has died. stephen hawking has passed apge. >>> good morning, everybody. it is wednesday, march 14, i'm yasmin vossoughian alongside louis burgdorf. we start in pennsylvania with 99% of precincts reporting the special congressional election in the 18th district is way too close to call. we've been waiting on absentee ballots all night. right now conor lamb has a 579 vote edge over republican rick saccone despite the race not being called, lamb declared victory last night while saccone stopped short of any concession. watch this. >> it took a little longer than we thought, but we did it. i've heard conor, the job you're running for is the house of representatives. so if you get down there, do the job. do the job. okay. i will. mission accepted. >> we're still fighting the fight. it is not over yet. we'll fight all the way to the end. don't gi

so i think pompeo, you can summarize as a hawk. you might also say he's somewhat of an i'd lideologue. certainly not a foreign policy point per se but many people at the cia who thought he had brought a political, even partisan style to the agency that made them uncomfortable. so, you know, very much seemed like the former republican congressman that he was, sh still operating in a political mindset. but when it comes to foreign policy, he is tough minded. in a way that alarms some people. i would say in particular when it comes to iran and north korea. those are two countries where he has advocated very aggressive u.s. action and iran in particular, nicolle, i think that this -- this change does not bode well for the iran nuclear deal. donald trump faces another deadline about whether he is going to extend or pull out of the deal in may and rex tillerson has been kind of holding the line with the help of defense secretary jim mattis among a few others, trying to convince trump that it is not a good idea to pull the plug on the nuc

but they're very encouraging about pompeo.ort his national security, his credentials with regard to that, what he will do with trump. however some are concerned about the confirmation of pompeo and he may run into some snags there. but overall, republicans, i s i talking to are encouraged by the change and hope there can be some good solid conversations in advance of this direct meeting with north korea. >> if you can, pick up on the confirmation notion for a second here. do you envision democrats standing, trying to stand in the way of mike pompeo. he's already been confirmed once. why try to block it now? and then there is gina haskell, deputy director of the cia who would be first woman to run the agency. on the other hand, there is controversy in her past. she was involved with the torture programs after september 11th and then involved with destroying videotapes of the matter also. that could be problematic. >> i think pompeo will likely not have a significant problems in the confirmation. he was confirmed once. i don't t

pompeo is reasonably well prepared for this.lot of time in congress before taking on the cia job. the president gets someone who is closer to his own views and beliefs on virtually every issue. rex tillerson was on the opposite side from the president. he wanted to stay in the paris climate accord, in the transpacific partnership. he wanted to afr vovoid a meltd between saudi arabia and qatar. time and again he was on the other side of the fence. now the president gets someone much more in line with his own thinking. >> it's interesting, david chalian, we're getting reporting in house that on friday the president approached tillerson about this. why then today did we wind up hearing about this? obviously it steps on his trip to california. this couldn't have been the way they planned it. >> the timing to me, chris, i think is a bit odd here. i wonder if, indeed, we'll learn a little more. it seems to me the president was quite eager to make this trip to california. again, several issues there t i.c.e. issue, sanctuary city, buil

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or will pompeo can't persuade the president. and if he can't work with the president to create solutions that our allies and partners also can get behind, and that are good for america. so to have tillerson out there on an island virtue signaling was not actually helping america play a strong game out there in the world and advancing peace and stability. obviously what we know about mike pompeo is that the president trumps him, that they've established a good relationship. i would say also that director pompeo has been very clear about some of the things that are important, including the role that russia played in trying to manipulate the u.s. election in 2016, and that they remain a concern and a problem on those issues and others. with regard to the iran deal, what's important now is to have a secretary of state who can go out and talk to the allies and partners who helped us to craft the iran deal, and talk about the concerns that the president has about the gaps and the need to extend it, and see if we can come up with a com

welcome. >> good to be with you. >> i know you know director pompeo, the current title is director pompeo. he's clearly closer in line of foreign policy views with the president than secretary tillerson. >> yeah. >> how important do you think that is for mike pompeo to succeed with the president? >> i think it's actually quite important. my only criticism of mike who's a close friend. he was an army officer. i was air force, so other than that he's a terrific choice. he has something that i think is very important and that is a personal dynamic with the president and for whatever reason, secretary tillerson didn't quite have that. i sat with secretary tillerson. he's one of the smartest men i've ever met and strongest leader. i had breakfast with him not long ago and i said i hope you'll stay but i think mike is an excellent choice to replace him. >> i don't know if you heard it was senator chris murphy who was speaking there before, before you came on, that is a perception among some on the left that mike pompeo is a hard liner on diplomacy. what would you say to that in response? >> i d

he told sandra, he and pompeo never met.hat about the reports to nominate gina haspel. >> reporter: the confirmation hearing moving mike pompeo into the job will happen next month and he stopped short of putting a date on the calendar. the president's choice for cia gina haspel will go before the committee and haspel's role in the bush era interrogation program was be a central line of questioning. >> members have a lot of questions. they deserve to have those questions answered and it needs to have an open hearing setting. i have a number of questions. i've had a good working relationship with her the last year but rightfully there's questions to be asked. >> reporter: one of the black sites where there were water boarding and enhanced intelligence techniques and intelligence committee program wrote a scathing report on the program with john brennan taking the unusual step of publicly defending officers, including haspel in what they had learned. >> it is our considered view that the detainees who were subjected to enhanced

mike pompeo from cia will move over to the state department and that's a dramatic move as well pompeo is somebody who has been seen here often at the white house as a very hands-on relationship when it comes to interacting with president trump. somebody that develops a really good report with president trump. so we are getting a statement from the white house, sarah huckabee sanders e-mailing me with an official statement from the white house. the president is saying that that he's proud to dominate mike pompeo to be the new secretary of state, somebody that the president clearly trusts the washington post is reporting that this decision was made last week on friday if that's accurate, that's fascinate ng tering in terms ofe line we saw rex tillerson going out further ahead than everybody else in the white house in terms of that apparent assassination attempt of a russian spy living in britain the secretary of state willing to say that it appears to come from russia, not clear if it was from the government of russia but the assassination attempt originates in russia that was something

he is not as multifaceted as pompeo. pompeo knows the military. he knows the intelligence community. he is a ace lawyer. he worked in private sector as a lawyer at ace and connolly. he is sharp as a tack. if you're president of the united states you're sitting down with a guy who is communist dictator, who is -- you need to have your best people at your elbow. i'm not saying that rex tillerson wasn't good for the time. he was a steward for the first year. he provided a degree of stability. pompeo will provide stability in a much faster current. one that is different than takes it down the rapids. trish: how much does the cia background help him here? >> exceptionally. you want the long pole in the tent. you want to see the person who has seen all the briefs. this is not a surprise in any way. he briefs the president every day. he probably gets along with john kelly. probably gets along well with jim mattis. i feel confident that he is coming over. in my view it will wake some people up. it will shape and reshape the way the state department manage

mike pompeo still needs to be confirmed. is there time to get this done to have a new secretary of state before this? time.re is not a lot of bob corker did schedule a hearing next month. mike pompeo already got three senate confirmation. there will be questions about the policies and priorities but heo think pompeo, because just went through this, he should be in a good position to do it again. but not just the north korea meeting is on the plate but a decision about the iran nuclear deal. pompeo was in line with the president's thoughts on that .eal than tillerson that comes up for a key decision early to mid may. rex tillerson was not the only management shuffle. a promotion at the cia. .ina haskell being nominated her background is controversial tortureof her ties to of suspected terrorists. how much of an obstacle is that going to be? >> that is going to make what might be an easy confirmation hearing much harder. you're going to have people like john mccain who has spoken out with concerns about her rendition,in cia th

i think pompeo probably the safest.ut even ronny jackson, a lot of folks have questions about his credentials, qualifications to lead the v.a. one thing republicans are surprised about now is the administration with other things on its plate, is choosing to kind of charge headlong into what are going to be a couple of -- at least a couple of tricky confirmation fights. and they're thinking, look, we have tax reform in the rear-view mirror. we're not going to do a whole lot legislatively now that the omnibus has passed. we are looking to november trying to sell economic momentum to the american people. do we really want to get sidetrack said by more of these circuses on the hill. that's what we are going to have either way, regardless if all of these folks end up confirmed. >> we're going to a summit with north korea here. mike pompeo seems to have wide and vast support. do you expect him to be easy and quick or haskell to be slow and arduous? what's your read on this? >> i talked earlier this week about this confirmatio

pompeo is one of them. same with nikki haley, but certainly, from the oval sauoff, from the west wing, we haven't heard a lot of speak like that. >> yeah, it struck me, too. it's one of the things that the president and secretary tillerson disagreed on. and one of the things that really frustrated president trump was when rex tillerson would take a line on russia that would put the white house and the president in the spotlight of seeming softer on russia or not as tough. i thought the most interesting thing that came out of there is that the only mention he made of the president was to say that he spoke with him on the phone from air force one this afternoon. at the end, when he thanked people for the honor to serve, he thanked the state department and the american people and he did not thank president trump. and that, you know, going into that, you're thinking, the he going to say anything about the president or take a jab at him in some way? and i think what happened here is in what he didn't say. >> yea

the president tweeting, mike pompeo, director of the cia, will be our new secretary of state. he will do a fantastic job. thank you to rex tillerson for his service. for months, tillerson's ouster was the source of speculation after he called the president a moron. two sources tell nbc news today it was a slight he never got over and exacerbated their policy differences from north korea, tariffs, russia, and the iran nuclear deal. >> when you look at the iran deal, i think it's terrible. i guess he thought it was okay. >> reporter: the president insisting today. today -- >> it was a different mind set. i think he will be much happier now. >> reporter: the two spoke by phone at noon. the president flew from air force one as he flew to california. there were warning signs on friday when tillerson was traveling in africa, an apology tour of sorts for the president's s-hole comments. according to on two white house officials, john kelly called to tell tillerson the president intended to ask him to step aside. kelly called again to stress his departure could be imminent. hours afte

day one i have gotten along well with mike pompeo. i have gotten to know a lot of people very well over the last year. i'm really at a point where we are getting very close to having the cabinet and other things that i want. >> the president saying is he getting very close to having the cabinet that he wants which may indicate there are still a couple more changes to come. the time line for awful this, state department officials said rex tillerson was blindsided by all of this. the first indication he had that he would be fired was when he saw the president's tweet just before 9:00 this morning. white house officials say that's not the case at all. that the chief of staff john kelly called tillerson when he was in africa on friday saying the president wanted to make a change and tillerson was going to have to step aside. tillerson, according to a white house official, asked kelly if the president could wait for him to get back on u.s. soil to do it. tillerson arrived back in d.c. about 4:00 a.m. this morning. five hours later, the pre

host: what about mike pompeo? guest: mike pompeo is, i believe, the first cia department -- had to go to the state department. tillerson had a lot of tension with the white house. itselfy have manifested in how quickly and unceremoniously he was fired. he actually had to cut a trip to africa short i one day because they decided to fire him. there is still a bit of debate , but when he was informed the general consensus was he learned about it along with the rest of us, that he was getting fired, on twitter. it sounded like there was not a lot of good personal chemistry between the president and tillerson. mike pompeo i'm on the other hand, has a lot of good -- mike pompeo, on the other hand, has a lot of good personality mix with the president. pompeo, who is equally hawkish on north korea, iran, will be a lot more in lockstep the president, have a better personal chemistry, which i think is important when it comes to the secretary of state. host: what about the ability of either man to push back against the presi

with mike pompeo you'll get that. >> harris: michael?ery critical of the president for policy reasons. this goes towards government institutions, how the president should act, how administrations should respond. it's just unprofessional. i don't think our allies can be comfortable -- >> harris: quick last word. >> there's no good way to get fired. time to move on. >> harris: that was quick. what we're watching today is that rex tillerson has been replaced for the president in terms of how he wants to see things go forward. the panel today joining me, we'll keep it short because we want to get to that as soon as it happens. those remarks any moment from the normer secretary of state rex tillerson. stay close. the best simple dishes ever? great tasting, heart-healthy california walnuts. so simple, so good. get the recipes at walnuts.org. it's ok that everyone ignores it's fine. drive. because i get a safe driving bonus check every six months i'm accident free. and i don't share it with mom! right, mom? righttt. safe driving bonus checks. o

if confirmed, pompeo would give the state department a fresh start. but would he be willing to challenge the volatile commander in chief, something that got tillerson in trouble? >> i am concerned about mike pompeo's hard-line positions on a number of issues, such as on iran, potentially north korea, and so he needs to as secretary of state also stand up to the president. >> reporter: and facing a may deadline on the iran nuclear deal and the talks with kim jong-un, pompeo will be home alone. tillerson's legacy a hollowed out state department. 38 key ambassadors not appointed. 16 vacancies as assistant secretaries. and all six undersecretaries will be vacant. >> i think pompeo is someone who understands the need to work on the morale of the organization he is leading. and i think in that sense, it could be a welcome change. >> reporter: the other big change, cia veteran gina haspel, who would be the first woman to lead the agency. highly respected there, but as the former head of covert operations, likely facing a controversial confirmation because sh

what kind of mindset the cia direct mike pompeo bring to thejob in mindset the cia direct mike pompeo director. bring to the job in terms of foreign policy? -- director. mike pompeo is a key party congressman from kansas. it is said he won admiration from donald trump during the briefings. now with the crucial issues like north korea and the iran nuclear deal, mike pompeo is more hawkish than his predecessor, rex tillerson. as far as russia and china is concerned, though, we will have to wait and see. mike pompeo as differences over the assessment russia was to blame for meddling in the 2016 presidential election. what i think this means is that we now have a secretary of state who is much more likely to echo common foreign policy with the president rather than constantly being undermined by the commander—in—chief as was the case with rex tillerson. well, let's get more now on the implications of rex tillerson‘s sacking for the potential meeting between donald trump and north korea's kimjong—un. i asked jessica lee, director of policy and advocacy at the council of korean americans in

with mike, mike pompeo very a similar thought process. i think it's going to go very well. >> where do you think mike pompeo stands now. he was a hawk on iran. some who know him now since he's been in office he has moderated the views on that deal. you're in the know. what do you think is going to happen. >> i think even if director pompeo is moderating his views and that's a naturally occurring event when talking to the cia analysts all the time, even if he has moderated his views his views are more like the president's than rex tillerson's everywhere. and one other interesting dynamic in all of this, christiane, that i don't think has been commented on enough is that secretary mattis and tillerson talked a lot, met for lunch. they hammered out joint positions. much of what secretary tillerson tried to impress upon the president secretary mattis was doing the same thing. and now i think we find that secretary mattis is a bit more isolated inside the power minoritiy, inside the national security cabinet than he once was. this is going to

the president's nominee to replace him, mike pompeo. the president always putting a premium on loyalty and explaining his decision a short time ago. >> rex is a very good man. i like rex a lot. i really appreciate his commitment to his service and i'll be speaking to rex over a long period of time. >> cnn's jeff zeleny is at the white house. jeff, tell us how all of this played out there. >> well, we heard the president there saying i'll be speaking to rex tillerson for a long period of time. he did not speak to his secretary of state before doing this. at least the president did not directly. we are getting a bigger picture of how exactly this unfolded. we're learning that last friday the chief of staff here at the white house, john kelly, reached out to the secretary of state rex tillerson, who is traveling in africa and told him that the president had essentially reached the end of the line here with him and he was going to replace him. but was not told any timing specifically of when that would happen. so rex tillerson, the secretar

rex tillerson is out, and mike pompeo is in. we will be hearing from the former oil ceo in just a moment. u.s. stocks, fluctuating, the dollar declining as investors weigh the latest out of washington. we will speak with one of the biggest bears on the street. mike wilson, chief equity strategist at morgan stanley, will join us. let's get to u.s. markets. abigail, the cpi report was a big show, but it ended up being a smaller headline. abigail: we are looking at more intraday volatility. we have the major averages all trading lower. at the highs, let's give you a sense for what happened on the day. yesterday, we had gains, and then we flip-flopped and had both the s&p 500 and dow lower. today, it's the nasdaq login the most, and the reason behind that, we have some weakness for the chip sector. it is a chart of the daily move for the philadelphia semiconductor index, and up until today, we had the stocks up several days in a row. today, we had some weakness for chip, down 8/10 of 1%. behind is qualcomm, but we have some other na

cia director mike pompeo in. gina haspel is placed to replace pompeo.s latest cabinet shuffle may not be the last. president trump is looking to replace v.a. secretary david shulkin as well. >> i've been here since before secretary shulkin was put in place. we have made lot of positive gains under his leadership. i hope that no matter what happens, we can continue that. i think he steered the ship in a good direction in many ways. those decisions are up to the president. there maybe other things that i'm not aware of. they are discussing. i think that he has been going in the right direction. i've been pleased to see that. >> julie: let's bring in our panel. dan palmer is a former advisers for ted cruz presidential campaign. thank you both for talking to us. let's start with v.a. secretary david shulkin. he came in with promise. the president really liked him. but recently, he's fallen out of favor because as you know, taxpayers ended up paying for his wife to accompany him on trip to europe. hhe reimbursed the money. you think shulkin is good as gone?

pompeo is a veteran. h.r. mcmaster was a generalished general, kelly, the chief of staff is a remarkable american military veteran. i am confident that our system, despite these troubled times, will hold. host: formery schmitt, executive director of the foreign intelligence advisory board -- you can see that on their app. thanks for joining us. chest but thank you. journal"'s "washington live every day. sunday morning, former nsc director jeffrey edmonds the double poisoning of an agent in britain and his continued meddling in u.s. elections. then the debut of our series, 1968. a discussion of the major political and diplomatic developments in the vietnam war. be sure to watch c-span's "washington journal." join discussion. >> monday, on "landmark cases," plessy versus ferguson where plessy, in african-american, was arrested in new orleans for taking a seat on a train reserved for whites. the decision established these equal doctrine. this narrow interpretation of amendment was not overturned until brown versu