the undersecretary, an official state department employee who said the secretary had every intention of staying because of critical progress being made in national security. he will miss his colleagues at the department of state and the foreign ministers he s worked with throughout the world. the secretary did not speak to the president and is unaware of the reason, but he s grateful for the opportunity to serve and believes public service is a noble calling. he wishes the secretary designate pompeo well. let me read the critical line. the secretary did not speak to the president and is unaware of the reason. again, president donald trump who spent a career on tv firing people, apparently unwilling, unable to fire rex tillerson himself, had someone else do it. we re joined by cnn political analyst rachel bade and alex burns. bob baer still with us. alex, that is fascinating to hear again, from a government
dreaming! definitely dreaming. then again, dreaming is how i got this far. now more businesses in more places can afford to dream gig. comcast, building america s largest gig-speed network. this from just moments ago, president trump getting out of marine one, he s at joint base andrews. he s about to get on board air force one and fly to california where he ll tour the border, look at prototypes for a border wall. the president making major news today with a huge shakeup of the national security apparatus. he has fired secretary of state rex tillerson, nominating the director of the cia mike pompeo to replace him. nominating deputy krooi director
white house. though he s certainly not a household name, i cannot over emphasize just how close to the president and the president s family that he truly was. people inside the west wing are stunned by his departure. kaitlan collins at the white house with more breaking us no. new developments about secretary of state rex tillerson fired, mike pompeo coming into the job. much more next.
gina haspel to become the new director of the krooi. i want to go to cnn s michelle co-sirn ski. you have remarkable on the record reporting about how the secretary of state was informed, frankly not informed about the fact that he s losing his job. it s still unclear whether somebody from the white house did call him or when he caught wind that today would be the day he was out. we do know he did not speak to the president at all about this. in a statement that the state department just put out in fact, they dictated it over the phone, you get a sense of the scramble going on inside this building and the fact that people were taken off guard, possibly even secretary tillerson himself. the statement says he had every intention of staying because of progress he feels he s helped make in national security. he said he ll miss his colleagues, this is according to an undersecretary of state. and he s unaware of the reason
to see how your joint damage could be progressing. ask about enbrel. enbrel. fda approved for over 14 years. the breaking news this morning, we just learned that president trump has fired secretary of state rex tillerson. he will nominate the director of the cia mike pompeo to replace him. you re looking at live pictures of air force one, the president ready to depart for a trip to california. the president at this moment is speaking to reporters outside the white house. we do not yet have a read on what he is saying. he is speaking to reporters, this is being taped right now. as soon as we do have the video tape of what he says, we will play it for you. no doubt we are waiting his comments to find out exactly why he made the move, how he informed the secretary of state and what his plans are going forward. in the meantime, our abby phillip on the other side of the