again, i m not from this place but the places i come from, we don t deal with that kind of petty nonsense. laura: the place i come from as if you call your boss a moron, you probably should be in that position. the only question i have is why did it take the president so long to fire tillerson? sure, he is a nice guy but come on. cia director mike pompeo by all accounts is a far better fit to be trump s secretary of state. as the president said, kind of about chemistry and approach. tillerson didn t gel in either category. i have gotten to know a lot of people very well over the last year, and i m really at a point where we are getting very close to having the cabinet and other things that i want. laura: and since last summer, the president has been slowly getting his team together. think about it he hired general john kelly his chief of staff. he moved sarah sanders in as press secretary. he moved tom price out and
again, i m not from this place but the places i come from, we don t deal with that kind of petty nonsense. laura: the place i come from as if you call your boss a moron, you probably should be in that position. the only question i have is why did it take the president so long to fire tillerson? sure, he is a nice guy but come on. cia director mike pompeo by all accounts is a far better fit to be trump s secretary of state. as the president said, kind of about chemistry and approach. tillerson didn t gel in either category. i have gotten to know a lot of people very well over the last year, and i m really at a point where we are getting very close to having the cabinet and other things that i want. laura: and since last summer, the president has been slowly getting his team together. think about it he hired general john kelly his chief of staff. he moved sarah sanders in as press secretary.
we have done and he continues to want to do to violate these human rights agreements all across the world. there was some speculation today a little back and forth with regards to rex tillerson that perhaps the final straw were his words will russia yesterday with regards to the apparently attempted assassination of skripal who is a former double agent for the british who was in russia. he was brought to britain in a spy swap. he was attacked it appears by a nerve agent that beak only the russians had custody over. there seem to be some daylight between the president or at least sarah sanders. do you have concern that was the prom mat cause? i don t know what the cause was. alling your boss a moron is probably by itself a firing offense. but i am i am a little concerned about this effort today to remake rex tillerson as an anti-russia cold warrior.
to talk about the accomplishments and success of his management of the state department and the policies the president wants the world to know are america s first priority. heather: isaac, what do you think? is this an indication that possibly he is on his way out so he has to put out everything he believes he has done? man called his boss a moron this summer in a meeting at the pentagon. heather: the state department says he did not. he refused to deny it. trump has openly talked administration openly leaked trying to replace him. the guy s job is on the line. our foreign policy under the trump administration is failing. we have 74 senior posts at the state department that are important to strategic diplomacy that not only are unfilled we don t have nominees for. 100 posts frozen at usa. the north korean threat. the breakdown of the iran nuclear deal. over 40 people killed in kabul
realize that, you know, that we could be heading towards world war iii with the comments that he s making. the president, remember, was quote/unquote not finished with corker according to a white house official and tweeted again this morning, this, the failing new york times set liddle bob corker up by recording his conversation was made to sound a fool and that s what i am dealing with. well, he s also dealing with this, from a fight with a member of his own party to more tension with a member of his own cabinet, the president planning lunch today with secretary of state rex tillerson. insert your favorite food fight joke here because i couldn t come up with a good one. this, of course, comes after the report surfaced that a frustrated tillerson had called his boss a moron over the summer. just this morning trump is firing back in a new interview with forbes magazine, asked about the moron report, trump said this, i think it s fake news but if he did that, i guess we ll have to