different perspective than his own. when you look at the maturity that tillerson brought to conversations on iran and north korea, it s pretty simple. who will come to the table willing to tell the president they have a different perspective than him. this is classless. you terminated the former chairman of exxonmobil via tweet? this is classless. gentlemen, stay with me. i have more for you. we are waiting for pictures of the president who, by the way, is on the opposite coast in california, about to tour prototypes for his border wall. much more to ask the ambassador about tillerson s departure and his replacement, current cia chief mike pompeo. stay here. get into my car get into my car get outta my dreams get in the backseat, baby get into my car
them coming into office. brooke? sure. 18th district over in pennsylvania, that huge, huge piece of news, not talking about much about that. the president said last week he likes conflict. there you go. jim acosta, we ll see you in a little bit along with the president of the united states. on rex tillerson it is important to note of how the timeline of the now outgoing secretary of state learned he was out. here you go. thursday morning secretary tillerson says the president is, quotes, unquote, a long way to talks with north korea. friday, tillerson is woken up in the middle of the night from a phone call from chief of staff john ankle ohio gives him a heads up he will be replaced but doesn t specify when. saturday, tillerson calls out sick on his trip to africa. monday the secretary strongly
we made this list of looking back over a brief history of time and where tillerson didn t see, shall we say, eye to eye with the president? you have what happened in charlottesville where tillerson said the president speaks for himself. and tillerson has never denied that he called the president a moron, disagreed with the president on the israeli embassy move and paris climate accord and the biggie being north korea. is it isn t it, phil, untenable to have the head of an agency where you have to have people who are confident new from around the world where you re speaking and on the same page with the president, not on page with the president? you can t have that over time. there s a different perspective on that. the president recently told us he likes conflict and likes to see people play out differences at the table so he can decide what to do in the future, i assume educated by those differences at the table but every time you turn around, he s taking out people that have a
as such, effective at the end of the day, i m delegating all responsibilities of the office of the secretary to deputy secretary of state sullivan. my commission as secretary of state will terminate at midnight march 31st. before leaving for california, the president talked about dismissing tillerson and replacing him with cia director mike pompeo. pompeo s number two, gina haspel, who we were just talking about, is expected to become the first female to lead the cia. rex and i have been talking about this for quite some time. we got along, actually, quite well. we disagreed on things. when you look at the iran deal. i thought it was terrible. i guess he thought it was okay. i wanted to break it or do something and he felt a little bit differently. so, we were not really thinking the same. with mike, my pompeo, we have a very similar thought process. i think it s going to go very