meeting. above all, he made clear that he did not want desteph know s office to have any role in staffing and expressed frustration that anybody would know better than he about who should work in his department. the episode reportedly stunned white house officials with jared kushner telling tillerson s chief of staff that it was completely unprofessional. here s rex tillerson today. mr. secretary, are you satisfied with the pace of staffing positions in the state department? no. i d like it to go faster. thank you. a close associate of rex tillerson told the american conservative rex is just exhausted. he can t get any of his appointments approved and is running around the world cleaning up after a president whose primary foreign policy adviser is a 36-year-old amateur. back with us now, ambassador wendy sherman. ambassador sherman, there are reports from inside your old department of people going back and visiting who worked there in the past, and they see the
mr. secretary, are you satisfied with the pace of staffing positions in the state department? no. i d like it to go faster. thank you. a close associate of rex tillerson told the american conservative rex is just exhausted. he can t get any of his appointments approved and is running around the world cleaning up after a president whose primary foreign policy adviser is a 36-year-old amateur. back with us now, ambassador wendy sherman. ambassador sherman, there are reports from inside your old department of people going back and visiting who worked there in the past, and they see the furniture out in the hallways, empty offices, nothing happening, phones ringing with no people there to answer them, reports of foreign ambassadors saying they can t make contact with the state department, so they re going straight to the national security adviser. what s your sense of what s happening between rex tillerson and the state department and what is apparently the freelancing of jared kushn