economic advisor gary cohn is also on the president s mind, the present revealing larry kudlow is a leading candidate. i have known him a long time. we don t agree on everything but in this case i think it s good. i want diverse opinions. he has come around to believing in tariffs. all of this as president trump was heading to california to view prototypes for a border wall. if you didn t have walls over here, you wouldn t even have a country. by the way, the state of california is begging us to build walls in certain areas. they don t tell you that. speak of the president favors a wall with the see-through components of border troll can know what s going on. his problem: democrats continue to refuse to give him the money to build it. one other staff change at the white house. this is a bit of a surprise itself. happened yesterday. the president s so-called body
a preview of her nomination hearing to come. house democrats a former house secretary tom price has repaid the government nearly $60,000 for his costs on private charter flights taken for official business. but they want to know how much it cost taxpayers to fly white house consular kellyanne conway on some of those same trips. price was forced to resign last fall after president trump publicly express his displeasure over the secretary s travel on charter jets instead of commercial flights. as we told you last night, the house intelligence committee says it has found no evidence of collusion between the russians on the trump campaign in 2016. that is the republican version. democrats will have their own version out soon. one g.o.p. member of the panel is already off the reservation. here s corresponded doug mckelway. we looked at it thoroughly. we interviewed nearly everybody and we didn t find any collusion
the president would like to put rick perry with his long track record of helping veterans into a position like that. as to what happened today, we first reported the likelihood that this was going to happen to you last fall, that is getting rid of rex tillerson and putting in mike pompeo. five months after we first reported it, finally happened this morning. but it was not a surprise. it had been rumored for months. but the sudden announcement that secretary of state rex tillerson was fired sent shock waves through washington. we got along quite well. but we disagreed on things. when you look at the iran deal. i think it s terrible. i guess he thought it was okay. president trump made the decision last week. white house officials say chief of staff john kelly called tillerson who was traveling in africa on friday to tell him he would have to step aside. officials say tillerson asked kelly if the president would wait until he returned.