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that are put in place, that are established before i think there s going to be any agreement to lift the sanctions or to give any economic incentives to kim jong-un. so i think this is going to be totally different than the way that the obama administration negotiated with and dealt with iran. melissa: thank you for joining us. thank you. glad to be with you. jon: more on today s white house shakeup with rex tillerson fired as secretary of state to be replaced by cia director mike pompeo. republican senator mike lee weighs in on what the change could mean to the north korean talks coming up.
turn the page and go to work on the situation in north korea. yeah. i think could have argued that there s a page to turn almost every day in the world, that there s an issue that needs confronting and being dealt with. north korea is huge. before going to north korea, make the change now, it s a little bit more coherent. mind you, this was something tillerson had been pressing for, diplomacy with north korea, discussions with north korea, something the president had been pressing against. in a way, the president came into the tillerson camp during the last week or so on north korea. melissa: how different do you think the policy will be under mike pompeo? what s the most striking change? i don t think you re going to see much policy change from what the president wants, and that s been clear. there were sort of two alpha dogs in the room with tillerson and president trump. mike pompeo is somebody who has kind of picked up the politics not just of congress, but of the white house
melissa: mike pompeo san antonio mike pompeo known for taking an aggressive stance on the talks with north korea. what could the tillerson/pompeo switch mean? joining us, undersecretary defense for intelligence during the george w. bush administration, an executive vice president of the family research counsel. thank you so much for joining us. thank you. i m glad to be with you. melissa: what do you think this change means? well, i think that tillerson has been on the opposite side of a number of issues than the president. and i think that mike pompeo is a perfect choice. mike is in sync with the president, but mike is also a very experienced not only intelligence officer but also he s been a member of congress, been on the intel committees. i think that he has a much better understanding of the situation in the world today in general, but certainly among our
tillerson s firing called into question with key foreign policy issues like north korea and russia on the table. is this the time to make a change? and a victory for the white house after the white house intelligence committee shuts down their investigation of russian election meddling. why democrats are calling foul. he s been under attack for a very long time saying that he colluded with russia. we looked at it. we looked at it thoroughly. we interviewed nearly everybody involved in the campaign, and we didn t find any collusion with the russians. tech: at safelite autoglass