The brave women are owed justice. I pray for conyers and his family and wish them will however congressman conyers should resign. This breaking news. The Trump Administration could be on the brink of another dramatic shakeup. Officials confirming the white house considering a plan to replace Rex Tillerson. He would be replaced according to the plan mike pompio. To fill that, senator tom cotton of arkansas is the leading candidate to step in. President trump was asked to step in by reporters in the oval office. Do you have Rex Tillerson on the job . Rex is here. Thank you very much, everybody. Thank you. According to the times that first reported the news, john kelly is orchestrating the plan and the idea is to implement it within weeks. With me here in studio to share the reporting, olivier knox and cnns mj lee from the new york times, they broke the news. This secretary of state Rex Tillerson from day one. Why would this happen now at a moment when you are in a stare down and the uk w
Rex is here. Is he going to stay on his job. Thank you very much, everybody. Lets bring in jim accost a. What more can you tell us about the shakeup and the timing . Wolf, obviously this has been something that has been speculated about for sometime now ever since it was revealed that the secretary of state referred to the president as a moron and the president fired back and challenged Rex Tillerson to an iq test. There is glad in the water for weeks. Just this morning we were able to confirm the conversations that are occurring inside the white house that the president is getting serious consideration to replacing Rex Tillerson with the cia director, mike pompeo who is very in line with the president on a slew of issues. That is snag is a foot in. The question is who would replace mike pompeo. The leading candidate appears to be tom cotton, senator from arkansas who again, also appears to be very much in line with the president s thinking on Foreign Policy and National Security issue
By the judge. So we knew what he would be wearing. But who knew Paul Manafort would show up in a wheelchair . Witnesses in the courtroom also observed that a visibly grayer manafort was also missing his right shoe. In arguing today for a swift sentence on those eight guilty counts, manaforts lawyer, kevin downing, told the court that there are, quote, significant issues with mr. Manaforts health right now. And a lot of it has to do with the terms of his confinement. Manaforts lawyer requested that the judge pick a sentencing date as soon as possible so that he could be moved to a facility better equipped to deal with his health issues, whatever they may be. Now in any case, the judge set a sentencing date of february 8th. The judge also announced that he would drop the ten charges on which the jury hung at manaforts trial. Paul manafort also avoided a second trial in washington, d. C. By pleading guilty to the charges there and signing a Cooperation Agreement with Robert Muellers prose
Show up in more dignified threads, the request was denied by the judge. So we knew what he would be wearing. But who knew Paul Manafort would show up in a wheelchair . Witnesses in the courtroom also observed that a visibly grayer manafort was also missing his right shoe. In arguing today for a swift sentence on those eight guilty counts, manaforts lawyer, kevin downing, told the court that there are, quote, significant issues with mr. Manaforts health right now. And a lot of it has to do with the terms of his confinement. Manaforts lawyer requested that the judge pick a sentencing date as soon as possible so that he could be moved to a facility better equipped to deal with his health issues, whatever they may be. Now in any case, the judge set a sentencing date of february 8th. The judge also announced that he would drop the ten charges on which the jury hung at manaforts trial. Paul manafort also avoided a second trial in washington, d. C. By pleading guilty to the charges there and
Director Andrew Mccabe. Seen here on the left. The story first broke in the New York Times. Correspondent adam goldman joins me now by phone. Walk us through, adam, what you learned, what actually happened. Well, let me just start by saying, you know, this story took months to report, okay . This wasnt a this wasnt a timed leak. We worked on this story for months, and we started gathering information and building up a picture of these chaotic days at the Justice Department and fbi shortly after james b. Comey was fired as fbi director on may 19th, 2017. And so what we learned was on may 16th of 2017, there was a meeting, and in that meeting, the acting director of the fbi, Andrew Mccabe, wrote in a memo that rod had brought up the 25th amendment. And he memorialized that in a memo. And then in a separate meeting rod had raised the idea of wearing a wire in the white house. Our understanding of the events in the room where rod had raised the idea of wearing a wire or secret listening de