mood was sort of just when he thought it couldn t get worse. we have the deputy foreign minister of the german government michael wrote saying you know this doesn t improve things the leader of the liberal free democrats krista and lynn saying this is a fresh sign of volatility that there s certainly a lot of warre that most of the reactions a pretty muted by. i think that there is a tone of warre simply because rex tillerson was seen by german politics as a moderating influence in the trumpet ministration sort of one of the adults that you could talk to in washington that s exactly right i mean one of the moderate voices now he s gone we ve got mr pohnpei now boars what can we expect from him. well he s been he s west point graduate also went to harvard law school has all the credentials hugh was sort of swept into office in two thousand and eleven two thousand and twelve with the tea party movement so he is
rex and i ve been talking about this for a long time we we ve 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 a we have a very similar thought process i think it s going to go very well rex is a very good man and i like rex a lot i really appreciate his commitment to this service and i ll be speaking directly over a long period of time. you know i really didn t just. yes it s very much for them honestly i made that decision by myself rex was just as you know in our is this country i made the north
get along i ve always right been beginning from day one i got along well with bike bum fail and frankly i get along well with rex do and you know i wish rex a lot of good things i think he s going to do i think he s going to be very happy i think rex will be much happier now but i really appreciate his service but with mike we ve had a very good chemistry right from the beginning. well it sounds to me i m making three to make today it sounds to me like it would be right based on all of the evidence they have i don t know if they ve come to a conclusion but she s calling me today as you know now we re going to the wall we re going out to the wall we re going to be looking at the protocol which is very important for our country but the reason may is going to be speaking to me today it sounds to me like they believe it was right and i would certainly take that finding
directly over a long period of time. you know i really didn t just. yes that s very much honestly i made that decision by myself breakfast wasn t as you know in our in this country i made the north korea decision with consultation from many people but i made that decision by myself. i actually got along well with rex but really it was a different mindset it was a different thank you. i. say it again. i respect his intellect i respect the process that we ve all gone through together we have a very good relationship for whatever reason chemistry whatever it is why do people
and germany why what have those relations been i mean what was the relationship between rex tillerson and germany to this point well rex tillerson is not really known as a big friend of germany he doesn t really have very many contacts he had to germany he was not as critical towards germany president trombones but to many here in germany when rex tillerson came into office it was somewhat of a piece of white paper nobody really knew what rex tillerson really stood full. many here in germany think that rex listened was someone who tried to. calm down the policies of president trump a bit that he was the one that made it possible that deals like the iran nuclear deal or that that s a. smooth approach to the north korean crisis that this made this at least possible calmed down the approach of the president from on