speaker paul ryan was informed of this move by telephone, which appears to be more than rex tillerson was given. we are are told that he found out about this on twitter, reading the president s tweet. joined again by bob bair to get a sense of what this all means, bigger picture. we keep hearing from inside the white house that north korea, the impending meeting between the president and kim jong-un was a big part of this. we re told it made the president realize he just wanted someone who was more on his wave length in that job. well, john, tillerson is right, meetings like this, summits like this with an enemy have to be carefully planned. nixon s trip to china was done by kissinger months in advance. you lay the groundwork. and this came as a surprise to tillerson. tillerson said don t do it until we re prepared and the president has decided on his own to go meet the north korean leader, very risky meeting, could make
we really headed here? we have new foreign policy leadership, new economic leadership that has not been announced yet. where is this story really headed? let me add two things to this. we re also learning that the president s personal assistant, a man named john mcintee has been pushed out of the white house. the wall stre wall street journ it s for security reasons. we re getting more information on that. we just learned that rex tillerson hadn t spoken to the president. rex tillerson doesn t know why he was pushed out. he wasn t given a reason. it comes to this word we were hearing about for the last couple weeks, chaos. it certainly doesn t detract from the notion that this white house is a currently chaotic place. bob baer, since we have you, let s talk about the one person involved in this massive transition that we haven t spoken about yet, and that s gina haspel, the current deputy director of the cia.
policy. tillerson as recently as the last 24 hours was contradicting the white house when it comes to the issue of russia. we re seeing the president replace him with mike pompeo, the current cia director, someone we know briefed the president in person virtually every day, in part because the president likes the way he s briefed by pompeo. there s a lot of trust in that raip. in turn, pompeo has a lot of respect on the hill. i think this partnership between the president and pompeo is one that has only grown in the last several months. it seems a very natural transition. the president announcing he s going to be promoting the current deputy director gina haspel, a 0-year veteran of the cia. there are some reports about her time as a clandestined agent in
things a lot worse. i got to say, the president s comments on iran alarmed me. tillerson clearly understands the agreement with iran was a good one, the iranians were living up to it but this president is determined to break it and confront iran with saudi arabia and the uae and israel and this is another very risky, dangerous policy. i just i can see why he had to get rid of tillerson fez bound and determined to make his own foreign policy. the president on the south lawn moments ago, what bob was referring to, said he feels differently than rex tillerson does on the iran deal. the president wants the u.s. to pull out or change it in a serious way. bob baer, thank you. we ll have much more to discuss. the secretary of state rex tillerson has been fired from his job. apparently the reporting is he found out about it on twitter. we ll have much more. stay with us.
president donald trump has sacked his secretary of state rex tillerson the president initially broke the surprise news on twitter thanking tillerson for his service and trump has just finished giving a statement about the sacking let s hear what he had to say. i ve worked with mike bomb failed now for quite some time. from mendis energy tremendous in the last year always on the same wavelength. the relationship has been very good that s what i did as secretary of state. i wish rex tillerson well gina by the way i know very well who i work very closely will be the first woman director of the cia she is an outstanding personal also i have got to know her well so i ve gotten to know a lot of people very well over the last year and i m really at a point where we re getting very close to having the capital and other things that