state. i have total confidence in him. and as far as rex tillersonconcerned, i very much appreciate his commitment to his service and i wish him well. he's a good man. >> as we said, today the president of the united states fired his own secretary of state in a tweet, replacing tillerson with cia director, mike pompeo. replacing pompeo with deputy director of the cia, gina haspel. if they get confirmed. tillerson is the latest in a series of hay-profile departures. what do we take away from all of this? exactly what you heard the president say himself a moment ago. donald trump is getting what he wants. and what he wants seems to be exactly what he said on the campaign trail, from foreign policy to trade. >> i don't know if you've been seeing what's going on with iran? they violated the treaty

do you blame the president or secretary of state, rex tillers tillerson? >> i blame the president of the united states. i think this is a responsibility by the president in the oval office for failing to fund the state department. it needs to be funded. i think that message is loud and clear by the people who devote their life to public service and diplomacy. >> but if you talk to the foreign service office, they say tillerson didn't have the guts to stand up to the president and allow this to take place. >> i agree secretary tillerson was not effective in standing up to the president in regards to the state's budget and having the resources it needs to carry out its mission. tillerson was not firm on that. i had disagreements with secretary tillerson, but i think in how he handled information in order to make decisions is really a problem. >> let me get your quick thought on another breaking story we're following. i assume you've been briefed by what's going on in the united kingdom, the poisoning of this russian double agent. now other critic of president

rex tillerson was. rex tillerson was more of a global list supporter of nato and mike pompeo is much closer to donald trump in policy. the state department has been weakened significantly under rex tillerson with the exodus of diplomats. what sort of state department does he leave behind question ma? >> i would be surprised if would notdership leave after rex tillerson. mike pompeo will probably bring some people over from the cia, people he worked with on capitol hill when he was a kansas lawmaker. he is going to be in the same position of having to argue for more staff and key positions. someone who grew very close to donald trump. it will be interesting to see, as secretary of state assuming he gets confirmed, if he is someone who will be on the road a lot or he wants to stay close to the oval office. that will be a change in outlook i think for pompeo if he takes over. he has to make the decision whether to stay quite a home or do the secretary of state's job which is largely to be on the road. vonnie: about the election in the pennsylvania district, could this be a timing issue to distract voters from going to the polls?

state. i wish rex tillerson well. gina who i've worked with very closely will be the first woman director of the cia. she's an outstanding person who also i have gotten to know very well. 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 and other things that i want. but i think mike pompeo will be a truly great secretary of state. i have total confidence in him. as far as rex tillerson is concerned, i very much appreciate his commitment and his service and i wish him well. he's a good man. >> [ inaudible question ]. >> rex and i have been talking about this for a long time. we got along actually quite well but we disagreed on things. when you look at the iran deal. i thought it was terrible. he thought it was okay. i wanted to either break it or do something, he felt a little differently. so we were not really thinking the same. with mike pompeo, we have a very similar thought process. i think it's going to go very well. rex is a very

state. i wish rex tillerson well. >> tillerson's firing is the latest in a slew of high profile administration departures. the president stated the a uns, that they didn't see eye to eye. >> rex and i have been talking about this a long time. we got along quite well but we disagreed on things. when you look at the iran deal. i think it is terrible. i guess he thought it was okay. i wanted to break in or do something and he felt differently. so we were not really thinking the same. >> the president claimed that he and tillerson had been discussing it a long time runs counter to what he said last december when he said the media has been speculating that i fire rex tillerson or he would be leaving soon. fakes news. tillerson never really recovered after it was revealed that he had called mr. trump a moron last year, sounded ready to move on. >> what is most important is to ensure an orderly transition during the time the country continues to face significant policy and national security challenges. >> another thorn the president seems eager to remove is the russia investigation. he tweeted in all

president has fired secretary of state rex tillerson. my commission as secretary of state which terminated midnight thirty first president's nominee to cia director mike peo as his new secretary of state saying the two men are quote on the same wavelength. also coming out of the case of the poisoned spy in a quiet english city will russia respond to britain's midnight deadline. people or police are investigating the unexplained death of yet another russian. i'm good to have you with us even in the chaos of the trumpet ministration today's exit has shocked and stunned much of the world u.s. president donald trump fired his secretary of state rex tillerson the president broke the surprise news on twitter announcing cia director mike pump aoe will be his new choice to be america's top diplomat a short while ago tillerson made a statement in which he warned of the challenges that his successor will face especially from russia. and much work remains to respond to the troubling behavior and actions of on the part of the russian government russi

the president has asked secretary of state rex tillerson to step aside, and he will be replaced with e current c.i.a. director mike pompeo. >> trevor: that's right. president trump has fired secretary of state and human grumpy cat rex tillerson. ( laughter ) and this just continues an unprecedented run of people quitting or getting fired from the trump administration. think about it, we're not even 14 months in and look at all the people we've lost. this is like saving private ryan numbers over this. this is a ton of people. i'm not exaggerating. rex was only one of three people who were fired today. yeah, his aide was fired for explaining how tillerson was fired, and trump's personal assistant was fired for possible nancial crimes. yeah, working for the white house is basically like being in a "saw" movie. you show up, get tortured for a while and get killed off. that's how it works. but of course there is the president whose catch phrase is literally "you're fired" didn't have the balls tore the decency to tell rex tillerson to his face. >> the secretary of state was informed by whi

states andeparture to dap administration. and thi was not voluntary. the president has firedpompeo. the president says that he and rex tillerson disagreed on things whilee and quite some ti intellect, we're always on the same wave length. the relationship has been very good and that's what i need as secretary of state. i wish rex tillerson well. gina, by the way, who i know very well, who i worked very closely with, will be the first woman director of the cia. she's an outstanding person who also i have gotten to know very well. 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 cabinet and other things that i want. but i think mike pompeo will be a truly great secretary of state. i have total confidence in him. and as far as rex tillerson is concerned, i very much appreciate his commitment to his service and i wish him well. we got along actually quite well, but we disagreed on things. when you look at the iran deal, i think it is terrible, i guess he thought it was okay. i wanted to either break it or do something, and he felt a little bit d

president chun has sacked his top diplomat, the secretary of state, rex tillerson, apparently withoutof state, rex tillerson — apparently without warning. the two men have had a series of public rifts over issues like russia, north korea and iran. here's what the outgoing secretary of state had to say. i received a call from the president of the united states this afternoon aboard air force one and i have also received a call from mr kelly, to ensure we have clarity for the days ahead. what is most important is to ensure an orderly and smooth transition at a time when the country continues to face security challenges. our state department correspondent barbara plett usherjoins me now from washington. how much of a surprise was this to you? a shock. there has been a lot of reporting about mr trump and mr tillerson, their differences in personality and policy and at one point there were rumours that rex tillerson was on his way out but that seemed to have died down and they seemed to have found a way to work together although the rumours never went away so we were never sure. but we nev

yes it is monica but my stock market here has taken it very negatively that rex tillerson is to leave the state department he stood for an approach that recognizes that placing rex tillerson with my comp a.o. is right replacing a moderate with a hawk but i can assure you monica people here have had enough of the hawkish tone of the way for example how donald trump has lashed out against the european union people here are wondering what this all means for them and what it all means for us in germany being up until now one of the closest allies of the united states and there were more surprises coming from the u.s. so don't go anywhere i'd like to talk about that with the us well because there's another headache for german business which comes from the united states after imposing tariffs on steel and alan indian u.s. president on a trump has stopped the proposed mega acquisition of u.s. chip maker qualcomm by singapore based broadcom again citing national security concerns a qualcomm had been trying to fend off the takeover bid for months now u.s. president to donald trump has stepped in and dre

tonight, a dramatic shake-up as president trump fires secretary of state rex tillerson. the former assistant secretary of state victoria nuland joins us for what this all means. >>> plus, a deadline looms for russia to explain itself over the poisoning of a former spy in the uk. and i'm joined by the former british ambassador to moscow, sir tony brenton. >>> also ahead, on the fifth anniversary of the pope's reign, the first priest who's trying to build bridges between the catholic church and the lgbt community. my conversation with father james martin. >> announcer: "amanpour" on pbs was made possible by the generous support of rosalynn p. walter. >>> good evening, everyone, and welcome to the program. i'm christiane amanpour in london. major changes today for the trump national security team. secretary of state rex tillerson is out, and cia director mike pompeo is taking his place, here's the announcement from president trump this morning. >> i've worked with mike pompeo for quite some time, tremendous energy and intellect. we're always on the same wavelength. the relat

says he's closer to having the cabinet he wants after firing his chief diplomat secretary of state rex tillerson is the latest to go president trump has replaced him with the cia director my pump a.o. will find out what that means for washington's foreign policy. that moscow ignores a midnight deadline to respond to british claims of poison the former russian spy who defected to the kremlin london to present the evidence we'll have more. i'm brian thomas thanks so much for being with us stephen hawking mind roams the universe and style had his family says he passed away peacefully in sleep in the early hours of wednesday will be remembered for his groundbreaking work on black holes and general relativity he also defied expectations living for more than fifty years with a motor neurons. and a statement of street children said their father was a great scientist and an extraordinary man whose legacy would live for many years offing was seventy six years old. well sean carroll is a theoretical physicist a working in los angeles and a colleague of stephen hawking i asked him earlier about some of his

rex tillerson yet. no not from rex tillerson but there was a statement by one of his under secretaries in the state department steve goldstein who said. rex tillerson wanted to stay on and has not been told at least not by the president apparently why he was fired i mean there are a number of reasons there were disagreements on a number of policy issues on iran on north korea and afghanistan and so on also there were disagreements on style and i think rex tillerson never really. got accustomed to with the very inflammatory style of donald trump speaking he said at one stage that the president speaks for him self that was the donald trump's commons regarding racist attacks in charlottesville against the fascist or and he racist demonstrators so the two really didn't get along that well and all of that of course contributed to the firing of rex tillerson but it looks like rex tillerson has not been told by the president himself that he was fired and why he was fired because and as you've been saying you know he had business to being pushed out for months really vow to hold on to his job so why does this come no

can you respond to president trump's decision to fire rex tillerson and replace tillerson with pompeo with secretary of stateombat, head of the cia pompeo and then be replaced by gina haspel? a yearany of us believed ago that rex tillerson was going to be the adult in the room at the white house. that turned out to be the case in a way, but he was so disrespected by this president and those around him that he was probably doomed from the beginning. on mike pompeo, i said from the beginning, you can disagree with andpolitically ideologically, but he doesn't have the kind of baggage that gina haspel has. i would not have chosen mike pompeo to be the secretary of state, but i guess in the greater scheme of things, we could have done worse. gina haspel, however, is a problem. a big problem. i have been talking about gina haspel for more than a year. be was a dreadful choice to the deputy director. she is a worse choice to be the director. i think it is wonderful that there's a possibility of a woman heading the cia, but there are 50 different women who are qualified to lea t cia. it should not be gina haspel. am

rex tillerson when he was trying to. do what his job is and that is to be the chief diplomat of the united states the most famous incident maybe when rex tillerson try it's to establish direct communication channels with the regime in pyongyang and north korea and on the trump said. don't waste your time don't waste your energy rex tillerson we have to put pressure on north korea so basically whatever rex tillerson did on the trump either ignored it or contradicted it and now karsten the next chief diplomat it looks like it's going to be mike pump a oh tell us more about him and what we could possibly expect for him in terms of foreign policy. well my pump a.o. had of the cia a is a conservative republican politician from kansas he was a member of the a tea party movement within the republican party so a real conservative. bits to the right of what is called wrist stablish many republicans here in washington and he has been much closer to the president also over those last fourteen months than for instance rex tillerson there seems to be a personal report there between compare you and the president and we can expect him

he's closer to having the cabinets he wants after firing his chief diplomat and secretary of state rex tillerson as the latest to go president trump has replaced him with cia director mike compare let's find out what that means for washington's foreign policy. and moscow ignores a midnight deadline to respond to british claims of poison the former russian spy who defected from one once london to presenting the evidence we'll go live to moscow and look. i'm brian thomas great to have you with us stephen hawking whose mind roamed the universe has died his family says he passed away peacefully in his sleep in the early hours of wednesday hawking will perhaps be best remembered for his groundbreaking work in black holes and relativity. in a statement his three children said their father was a great scientist and stored marry a man whose legacy would live for many hears all in was seventy six years old. i'm joined now by the theoretical physicist sean carroll in los angeles who worked with stephen hawking good morning thanks for being with us stephen. are you met stephen hawking personally can you gi

secretary of state rex tillerson the u.s. has been critical of both sides and how they've handled the political situation kenyatta and perhaps want to show that all is well now they want to move the country forward and help heal deep apnic divisions t.v.'s on met with the president when he arrived we shared our concerns there and our discussions with the president about the importance of democratic institutions and kenya is a leading the mocker see an africa we believe that there are actions the need to be taken in kenya and that they need to correct shirton actions like shutting down t.v. stations and threatening the independence of the courts they also discussed economic ties between the us and kenya and the fight against terrorism in the region catherine saw al jazeera nairobi kenya try for a short break here al-jazeera when we come back counting into question florida's governor signs off on new restrictions for buying guns. and on victoria going to be at the castle games and an event pulled out of the gulf diplomatic the

we're going to go live to hear from secretary of state rex tillerson giving his fair well address to state department employees. just last week president trump decided to change leadership in the state department. nominated mike pompeo to take over. a confirmation is planned in april. fair well spech expected at about 1:15 p.m. eastern. here live on c-span 3. looking ahead to the weekend. the march for our lives rally against gun violence, taking place in washington, d.c., saturday. noon eastern on the come pain i don't know network c-span. we talked about the march and efforts to reduce gun violence and we'll take a look at this until we go live to the state department for the announcement from former secretary of state, rex tillerson. >>> our guest is representative jam jaime, democratic from maryland and the democratic steering and policy committee member, good morning. >> good morning. >> i know you have not had a chance to look over the full details. what do you think about the price tag and the potential of the passage to keep the government funded? >> well, it is thousands of

secretary of state rex tillerson traveling in africa. >> we are a long way from negotiations. we need to be clear-eyed and realistic about it. i think the first step, i've said this before, is to have talks, have some kind of talks

rex tillerson had to say in his final news conference. rich edson was at the news conference and reports from the state department. >> secretary rex tillerson with only hours remaining leading the state department said goodbye, warning of unresolved challenges in syria and with china and russia. >> russia must assess carefully as to how its actions are in the best interests of the russian people and the world more broadly. continuing on their current trajectory is likely to lead to greater isolation on their part. >> tillerson disagreed with president trump on several issues. russia, qatar, the paris climate record. >> i don't think anyone doubts the american people or the commitment of the government to advancing values and defending values. the president speaks for himself. >> primarily the iran nuclear agreement. this morning the president cited it as a reason for the change in state. and in august, tillerson publicly acknowledged they disagreed on iran. >> he and i have differences of views on things like jcpoa and how we should use it. we have differences. i think if we are not having those differences, i'm not sure i am serving him. >

the breaking news this morning, we just learned that president trump has fired secretary of state rex tillerson. he will nominate the director of the cia mike pompeo to replace

the criticism for rex tillerson and his brand of leading the state department was he kind of made it small. in some areas, we didn't have enough people. >> you know, i think rex tillerson was trying to follow the guidance of his president. at the same time, maybe because they don't see the world the same way, the way he went about doing that isn't the way that someone that would look at the world exactly the same way as president trump would. i think pompeo is an individual that looks at the world with a very creative mind. it's easy in all fairness to get captured by the state department. it has its own way of looking at the world. the last thing in the world they want to do is go into a meeting with kim having not done what is supposed to be their job up front. the president said you're not going to get it done at the lower level. get it done at the upper level and follow up with me and make real the promises that are made. this president has gotten more out of north korea than any president in 30 years. reagan had them sign the npt, which they violated. but he had them sign it. thi

the top stories: just over a year after his appointment, rex tillerson is sacked as us secretary of state. president trump says this. rex and i have been talking about this for a long time. we got along actually quite well, but we disagreed on things. russia defies a deadline to explain the nerve agent attack in britain that left a former spy and his daughter fighting for their lives. i'm sharanjit leyl in london. also in the programme: australia's gambling addiction. punters lose a record 18 billion us dollars in just one year. it cost me relationships, my respectability, dignity, my freedom. the pacific island of taking its fight for independence all the way to the un. —— the pacific it's newsday. glad you could join us. it's 9am in singapore, iam in london, and 9pm in washington where donald trump has lost another member of his top team. this time it was his secretary of state, rex tillerson. the president sacked him by tweet. the decision to replace america's top diplomat comes in the middle of preparations for the planned meeting between mr trump and north korea's kim jong—un. and as

twitter to announce a few new appointments this morning so secretary of tillerson secretary of state rex tillerson will be replaced by a cia director mike pompei now tillerson has admitted that he doesn't have a twitter account and he has all of trump's tweets printed out for him so that's apparently how he found out he got fired and that's according to steve goldstein undersecretary for public diplomacy and tillerson has just returned from his africa tour so not exactly the best welcome home but a spokesman for tillerson said that there hasn't been any direct conversations with trump regarding the decision however rumor surrounding tillerson is departure have been floating around for months now thankfully a very very slowly thanks for the really. really good to the right and the right. going commenting on the new appointment trump said that he until are seen had a number of disagreements ranging from of iran deal to negotiations with north korea and the tiller said reportedly even called trump a moron a report that the former secretary of state hasn't even denied but the back and forth ended with

something wrong when in reality, he should have who he wants. 43 democrats voted against rex tillerson to be secretary of state. i have done tv segments for an entire year where we had to say is rex tillerson out or in? now the president makes the decision that it's time to make a change and now all the coverage is how can he make this change? here's where he has two profound effects. one is on north korea. that if secretary mattis who says he's willing to use force, he wasn't keeping the north korean dictator at night, a former top graduate at westpoint is in charge at secretary of state and has no problems using nuclear weapons has to make the sweat level of the north korean dictator go up. as we get ready to hear the middle east plan, mike pompeo has been a strong advocate for israel in the u.s. house and during his time at the cia and working with israel and now we're going to see a very strong team that will be able to carry out the president's desires. >> so i wrote down your two profound effects. we'll go into it as such because that's in the direct order of things coming up. by the way, mike pompeo may

busy news day at the top of the hour. >> jon: on the firing of secretary of state rex tillerson, the ent saying he made the decision himself acknowledging that he and tillerson disagreed on a number of issues. acknowledging he is on the same wavelength with mike pompeo, the man tapped to replace tillerson. >> i respect his intellect. i respect the process that we've all gone through together. we have a very good relationship for whatever reason, chemistry, whatever it is. why do people get along? i've always right from the beginning, from day one, i've gotten along well with mike pompeo. >> jon: joining us now, senator mike lee, a republican from utah who sits on the judiciary committee. we are all assuming it's a slam dunk that mike pompeo becomes the new secretary of state, but he will at some point require senate confirmation. does he get it, senator? >> i think he will get it. i believe mr. pompeo will be confirmed as our next secretary of state. look, this is a serious man. he's done great work within the central intelligence agency, and he's someone i've come to know, like, and

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 implementation but of planning a lot of poe's unfilled it's very much unfinished business so. definitely rex tillerson to the outside world was a face of reason of seriousness of american foreign policy. back home and in his own state department he leaves behind very much unfinished business even chaos and there might be a few people even within the state departments who are quite happy that he's going to leave he's never really connected with many of the career civil servants in the state departments and from pale will probably have a lot of cleaning up to do also at the state department so all in all it's a bit unfair because he didn't get the chance to really finish what he started but i don't think he would go down in history as one of the more successful secretaries

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

president trump has sacked his secretary of state, rex tillerson. about 20 minutes rex tillerson is expected to make a statement on camera following his departure. that is coming up for top joining me now from for top washington is philipj crowley — former us. assistant secretary of state and author of red line: american foreign policy in a time of fractured politics and failing states. we will come to the method of the dismissal in a moment but can i ask you first about the significance of the sacking in itself is far as american policy and its status in the world is concerned. american policy and its status in the world is concernedlj american policy and its status in the world is concerned. i do not think we were surprised that the break—up occurred. there was tension in that relationship and it has been visible in washington for months. i think that the timing is remarkable given that it comes on the heels of the president‘s and bolts of decision to meet in the coming weeks with the north korean leader. — impulse of decision. i think mike pompeo

trust of trump on policy issues and does seem to get the president better than rex tillerson and i think he'll adapt to the state department in the seventh floor better than rex tillerson rex tillerson was famously aloof even on the seventh floor people across the hall in the ops center had no idea what he was doing even though they are the front office really for the secretary of the state you will not have that issue with my company oh he's going to be an everybody's office he'll be very able to work the bureaucracy a speculate about what a state department. might look like what might it what do you think its policy is likely to be and what changes will america's allies and enemies say. well i don't think there's any significant policy change coming at the moment so i think the president has set the policy it's now codified in a national security strategy and i don't think my compare changes the strategy and even it's hammer of the diplomacy that much and rex tillerson i think give him some credit he was often the moderating voice in reaching out to allies around the world in more measured tones he just didn't

hours after the us secretary of state's shock sacking, a breathless rex tillerson bows out of public life. what is most important is to ensure an orderly and smooth transition during a time that the country continues to face significant policy and national security challenges. where 70% of people are obese or overweight, qatar says it's time to tax sugar. and the black directors behind blockbuster movies. diversity finally hits hollywood. hello. russia has ignored a midnight deadline, set by the british government to explain how a nerve agent, thought to be russian made, was used to poison a former spy and his daughter. sergei and yulia skripal remain in a critical condition in hospital. moscow continues to deny any involvement in the attack. our correspondent sarah rainsford reports from moscow. accused of a crime many miles from here, under pressure to explain a chemical attack that shocked britain. but today the kremlin has remained silent. the foreign minister, though, was in full defensive flow. sergey lavrov rejected britain's 2a hour ultimatum to respond to the claim that mosc

firing his secretary of state, rex tillerson. >> we got along actually quite well. but we disagreed on things. >> reporter: tillerson addressing reporters at the state department today, took no questions, showering thanks on his colleagues but notably not president trump. >> i close by thanking all for the privilege of serving beside you for the last 14 months. >> reporter: white house officials tell nbc news chief of staff john kelly called tillerson over the weekend to break the news while the secretary was touring africa. but the president's twitter announcement today reportedly caught tillerson off guard. the move sudden, but not unexpected, after months of tension between the two. last summer nbc news reported a frustrated tillerson called the president a moron. >> i'll now return to private life as a private citizen, as a proud american -- >> i think rex will be much happier now. >> reporter: tapped to replace him, cia director and former congressman mike pompeii know. if confirmed the first woman to ever lead the cia. president trump spending his day in califo

deserves it like read a lot but not enough to keep him as secretary of state the us president fires rex tillerson citing differences of opinion. in our intake of this is al jazeera live from london also coming up a narrow escape for the palestinian prime minister after a roadside bombing targets his motorcade on a rare visit to gaza. russia slams the u.k. for refusing to give it access to a sample of the nav agent used in the spy poisoning case. inspiration or appropriation of the big brands or to using mexico's unique cultural designs fighting to share the profits. and there has been a turbulent fourteen months in power for u.s. president donald trump and tuesday was no different following the surprise sacking of his top diplomat no one was more taken aback by the news than sector state rex tillerson himself only found out via twitter trump insists policy differences are to blame but his role in jordan explains reports of friction and falling is out of play the plaza relationship. it's not every day you lose your job the a social media but an emotional rex tillerson deliberately ignored that det

state. i have total confidence in him. as far as rex tillersonment and his service, and i wish him well. he isa his service, and i wish him well. he is a good man. i have been talking about this for a long time. we got along actually quite well but we disagreed on things, when you look at the iran deal i think it is terrible and i guess he felt it was ok. i wanted to either break it or do something and he felt a little bit differently so we were not really thinking the same. with mike pompeo we have a very similar thought process and i think it will go very well. rex is a very good man and i like him a lot. i really appreciate his commitment and his service and i will be speaking to him over a long period of time. paul adams, diplomatic correspondence, is here now. tempting to see the sacking of rex tillerson has been connected to his comments on what has happened in salisbury and russia. what do you think? tempting, but i think misleading. as president trumpjust alluded, the two men had quite enough of disagreements on policy issues. and of cour

state. there was very few mentioning rex tillerson. nikki haley, the u.s. ssador to the united nations in a tweet also praised the decision to have mike pompeo as the next secretary of state, but there was not one word of rex tillerson. on the opposition side, the democrats in congress said this is another element of the chaos in the white house, and they also hope that mike pompeo might indeed at least be a bit tougher on russia than rex tillerson had been. brent: our correspondent in washington on the story force tonight. -- for us tonight. there's a lot to unpack with the story, and to help us make sense of all of it am joined here at the big table. gentlemen, welcome. tillerson was fired, he is certainly not the first. if you look at all the number who have fired or quit, it's around 39. why the big surprise? >> this is close to the midterm elections. after two years trump is now saying he is approaching a perfect candidate. after the midterm elections we speak of the president almost as a lame duck, so it is late in the game to do these things. rex till

this after the bomb shelt announcement that secretary of state rex tillerson will be replaced. we are awaiting a news conference from the former secretary of state at any moment. a live look at the state department where tillerson is expected to speak. >>> and we are in a micro climate weather alert. a live look outside and our doppler radar. thank you for joining us. i'm marcus washington. >> and i'm laura garcia. first, we want to get to our weather. vianey arihanna has been tracking the rain. >>> we saw the line of storms moving through. and now we our doppler radar on top of san bruno mountain. we have periods of light to moderate rain moving through. as i scoot over toward concord, you can see some spots with some light rain but other spots are getting a chance to dry out a little bit including the santa cruz mountains. there's a little bit of a rain shadow going on for san jose. you can see some showers in milpitas. as far as the rain totals, we've seen a half inch, close to a quarter of an inch for san francisco. and less than that for the south bay. if i take this time l

rex tillerson is out as secretary of state. ( james ) president trump tweeted this morning that he's naming c-i-a director mike pompeo to replace tillerson. kron 4's alexandra limon joins us live from washington d-c. alexandra... ( limon ) rex tillerson is out as secretary of state. president donald trump tweeted tuesday morning that he's naming cia director mike pompeo to replace tillerson.pompeo is to be replaced at cia by gina haspel, pompeo's deputy at cia. she would be the first woman in that role.tillerson had just returned from a shortened trip to africa hours before trump's announcement. trump offered no explanation for the change. <> ( james ) ( james ) thanks alexandra. ( james ) more breaking news we are following... crews on the scene of a bus crash in alabama. the bus was carrying 50 people when it crashed down a ravine. the bus was carrying students from a high school. they were on their way to houston texas. no word on injuries. ( darya ) happening now... president trump is on his way to california for the first time since he took office. this is video of the president

and then with when you look at the state department changes, you see at the top, rex tillerson.s gone. let me just show you this pyramid. there is one guy left. there's all sorts of undersecretaries and deputies that are vacant. so does this have ramifications for national security? >> it certainly does. part of that, alisyn, i think is intentional, a little deconstruction of the administrative state if you will. the director was a strong manager at cia. now he will move over c street to the state department. i think he will bring the drive, management skills to state which i think the members of the state department will find to be heartening, something they will want the secretary to do. the secretary pushing back, for example, on some of the budget cuts that secretary tillerson seems willing to accept. >> just to expand on the deconstruction of the sort of bureaucratic state, maybe we don't need all of these filled. the country is still functioning. maybe we could save some salaries here. >> as a federal bureaucrat for 40 years, i would never say you have the right number her

now today secretary of state rex tillerson is out and breath being made on who might be next on the chopping block. and after firing his secretary of state, president trump steps foot in california for the first time as president to sample prototypes for his big beautiful border wall. plus, people voting right now and republicans sweating in an election, posing a major task for the president. could democrats turn one solid piece of trump country, blue? good afternoon. welcome to "the lead." we'll begin the politics lead. wasn't quite the red wedding but three top trump officials have been axed in the last 24 hours. most notably, the secretary of state rex tillerson and more depart urs are expected. he learned of his demise via twitter along with the fact mike pompeo would be nominated to serve as his replacement. president trump saying that republicans will be much happier now saying they never saw quite eye to eye. especially on that whole moron thing. the tensions between two have been building for months with cnn reporting that the white house is contemplating a scenario to replace tiller

rex tillerson now out as secretary of state. the president wants cia director mike pompeo to replace him. tillerson did get a heads-up friday night that this might be in the works but he found out it was done and that he was out when most of the world did. when this "you're fired" tweet hit the internet. >> ta talk of firing rex goes back months. another top official out at a time of dizzying personnel chaos in the west wing and across the administration. the president says pompeo is a better fit. >> we're always on the same wavelength. the relationship has been very good and that's what i need as secretary of state. i respect his intellect, i respect the process that we've all gone through together. we have a very good relationship for whatever reason, chemistry, whatever it is. why do people get along? i've always right from the beginning from day one, i've gotten along well with mike pompeo. >> cnn's jeff zeleny live four s at the white house. jeff n one sense this is a big surprise, in another sense, it's a surprise. >> repor

president trump has sacked his top diplomat, the us secretary of state, rex tillerson, apparently without had a series of public rifts over issues like russia, north korea, and iran. here's what the outgoing secretary of state had to say. i received a call today from the president of the united states after afternoon from air force one, and i have spoken to the white house chief of staff, kelly, to make sure we have clarity as to the days ahead. what is most important is to make sure there is a smooth transition during a time when there are so many national policy and security challenges to the country. that's a summary of the news. now on bbc news, newsnight with evan davies. translation: i don't care. i couldn't care less. ever get the feeling someone's laughing at you? he was actually laughing at accusations of us election interference, but president putin might as well have been talking about salisbury. so what, if anything, can we do about russia? one option — kick russian state television out of britain? or maybe boycott the world cup? but is there really anything we can do to intim

laura: for more on rex tillerson's firing, i'm joined by the bbc's state department correspondent barbara plett-usher. rex tillerson was sacked in the most undiplomatic way possible, but what was the nature of his response when he gav statement to reporters? barbara: he was quite measured for some he didn't hit back at mr. trump. from the moment he came to the state department, he talked about his vaes -- honesty, integrity, and respect. he mentioned those again and urged state department officials to abide by those things. he threw in the word "kindness ause he did not get any of that from his boss. laura:ndeed. rex tillerson also said in that statement that if russia continues on its current path, they will be increased we isolated. that was a topic where he clashed wi the president, russia. was that a shot across the bow? barbara: yet already spoken critically about russia on the way back from africa but he said i am trying to work with them on issues of haven't gotten very far and russia has taken the vivid rds the more aggressive stance. and then the statement about russia's troublin

us secretary of state rex tillerson has made his first statement since being sacked by president trumpnspicuously failing to thank his boss, or praise his policies. the president told reporters that he and america's top diplomat had a "different mindset" on key issues, including the iran nuclear deal. now on bbc news — hardtalk. welcome to hardtalk. i am stephen sackur. the democratic republic of congo boasts assets that should make it the envy of all africa. plentiful land, resources, and the youthful population. but the prc has never come close to fulfilling its potential. thanks to political division, intercommunal violence, and epic levels of corruption. my guess today is the drc‘s prime minister, bruno tshibala. can he is country finally find a pathway to prosperity? prime minister bruno tshibala, welcome to hardtalk. thank you. mr prime minister, would you agree that no african country has been more letdown by its political leaders over the last a0 years then it your own country, the democratic republic of congo? but isn't it your own leader, the president of the country today, j

a new wave of upheaval within the trump team and the firing of the secretary of state rex tillerson may be just the beginning. tonight, there's new leadership in line to take over both the state department and the cia after president trump dismissed tillerson in a tweet. and now a source is telling cnn the president has grun own irritated with david shulkin and may replace him with energy secretary rick perry. we'll talk about this with eric swalwell of the house intelligence committee and our experts are standing by but first, let's go to our chief white house correspondent jim acosta traveling with the president in southern california. jim, i understand there may be more turnover ahead for the trump team. >> it sure seems that way, wolf. president trump just wrapped up his remarks to marines in southern california. perhaps it's because he's so close to hollywood. at one point he proposed militarizing space with a space force right out of "star wars." meanwhile, he's also spent the day defending his firing of secretary of state rex tillerson as one source close to the white house told