The pet did not survive the flight. And what the airline is now saying tonight. Good evening. And its great to have you with us here on a very busy tuesday night. That massive Storm Hitting at this hour, but first tonight, the storm swirling inside President Trumps cabinet. President Trump Firing Secretary Of State Rex Tillerson, and doing so in a tweet. The president firing tillerson, then calling him several hours later from air force one. The president naming cia director mike pompeo as the new secretary of state. And look at the wall tonight. At the top there, tillerson fired. He was not the only one fired at the State Department today. The undersecretary of state, steve goldstein, who tweeted that tillerson did not know the firing was coming, he was then fired, too. In addition to all of the vacancies that already exist at the top of the State Department. And so, we begin tonight with abcs chief White House Correspondent jonathan karl. Reporter President Trump is in california tod
going back to the issue of daca and immigration, looking at citizenship as part of the census, these are topics he s watching very, very closely, josh, and he s sticking to it, whatever that acceptance rate is. ten seconds. there s a few court issues that have been important to trump. trade, immigration, really disliking the iran nuclear deal. he s surrounding himself with people now that he s firing tillerson and mysterious and hiring bolton. josh, you have that mat nettic power. shifting gears to the russia probe. reports that trump lawyer john dowd floated the idea of pardons for michael flynn and paul manafort who s been less forthcoming and wears two ankle monitoring braflg
were removed. that is a great danger we have to be aware of in addition to the danger of mueller being removed. the republican senator jeff flake of arizona is raising the specter of possible impeachment in a tweet warning the president not to fire robert mueller, the special counsel. he tweeted this. we are begging the president not to fire the special counsel. don t create a constitutional crisis. congress cannot pre-empt such a firing. our only constitutional remedy is after the fact through impeachment. no one wants that outcome. mr. president, please don t go there. as you know, congressman, the white house says there s no discussion about firing mueller at all. do you believe that? i never believe anything this white house says because they ve repeatedly lied. a few weeks ago, there was no discussion of firing tillerson, and suddenly tillerson was fired so who kneows. yes, senator flake is right. this would be a terrible obstruction of justice and a terrible red line crossed
he truly did wrong and did something that was a fireable offense, should he not be punished for that just because he was close to retirement? well, that depend. there are reports that the justice department accelerated the process. and didn t give him much chance to respond so they could get it within the timeframe and rob him of his pension in effect. let s be very clear. there may have been wrongdoing. but they intentionally tried to cut this guy s to cut his head off. potentially went after him in a way, same way they went after tillerson, their own man for goodness sakes. and treated him and my judgment from the florm normal standards presidential operations to treat secretary of state as shabbily as they did is just unheard of. thank you both. wish i had more time because you are both welcome knowledge and experience.
this. and there are two things going on. i think it is pretty obvious. one is, in recent days, feeling his oats as president. firing tillerson. getting mccabe fired and everything else, he is clearly seeing himself in the place where he want to be the man in charge and he is getting rid of people who might challenge him. the second thipg is, as you reported, they ve now received questions from mueller. there are sample questions about the directions he wants to go in the investigation. that may prompt the white house to say, let s shut thing down. president obama s cia director john brennan tweeted this. when the full extent of your moral turpitude and political corruption becomes known you will take your rightful place as a disgraced demagogue in