a statement by one of his under secretaries in the state department steve goldstein who said. rex tillerson wanted to stay on and has not been told at least not by the president apparently why he was fired i mean there are a number of reasons there were disagreements on a number of policy issues on iran on north korea and afghanistan and so on also there were disagreements on style and i think rex tillerson never really. got accustomed to with the very inflammatory style of donald trump speaking he said at one stage that the president speaks for him self that was the donald trump s commons regarding racist attacks in charlottesville against the fascist or and he racist demonstrators so the two really didn t get
i want but i think mike pump aoe will be a truly great secretary of state i have total confidence in him and as far as rex tillerson is concerned i very much appreciate his commitment that his service and i wish him well and good bad. record and i ve been talking about this for a long time we we got a long actually quite well but we disagreed on things when you look at the iran deal i think it s terrible i guess but it was ok i wanted to see the brake it or do something and he felt a little bit differently so we were not really thinking the same with my my company and we have a very similar thought process i think it s going to go very well rex is a very good man i like rex a lot i really appreciate his commitment to this service and i ll be speaking
he s out of the job a cia director mike pompei on what has been nominated to succeed him. all right more on the story now we have our correspondent a political correspondent here in the studio with us robert vito bald and we have crossing phenomena again with us from washington good to have you both on this story robert let s start with you what has there been any reaction here and berlin to this story yes the state minister in the foreign office which is some sort of a deputy minister of tweeted about the. budget interesting actually because he said the dismissal of rex tillerson does not make anything better which in the end means that the german government doesn t really think that. that the success of rex tillerson is going to improve the already bad relations between the u.s.
symptoms gente then it s but most of the people are probably going to be out of the woods the good thing about this particular substance is that it seems to be degraded by water so by spraying down the street southwards that they walked along by wiping down all of the surface as it s also degraded by water actually in the atmosphere and so it will break down and actually fairly quickly at least that s the hope of british authorities racing to find out more about how this agent was used derrick williams from our science desk thank you very much for you ok back now to our top story here at g.w.s. secretary of state rex tillerson has been fired after completing a tour of africa that was apparently cut short a sources suggest he hasn t been told why he s out of a job cia director my pump a.o. s been nominated to succeed him. back to use carson fundament in washington carson have we heard anything from rex tillerson yet. no not from rex tillerson but there was
moscow we have a correspondent mia dragon so rich standing by for us there hi neal what reactions have you heard there from the kremlin so far. well there is no official reaction yet the spokesperson of the russian foreign ministry. out of i just joked tillers and is gone blame russia for that as well but my guess is that the russians won t shed a tear for mr tell us if they want to shed a tear how was he seen in moscow well he was a disappointment to the kremlin from the very beginning president putin hand and administration expected the improvement of the russian american relationship after president. jump became of the trump became president and mr rex tillerson his secretary of state well tell us it was c.e.o. of exxon mobil he was in russia many times he also met putin several times so