Controversial cabinet officials in the Trump Administration, which in this administration is really saying something. Aside from the bare bones questions how he got this job in the first place and what a lifelong exxon employee might want to do to the u. S. State department and questions about the implications of his unusually close personal relationship of vladimir putin, alongside all those baseline concerns about him taking over at state, alongside all that, has risen something approaching panic now among Longtime Foreign Service professionals and senior diplomats. As Rex Tillerson has just taken a meat ax to the state department particularly to its upper echelons. We have reported on this extensively on this show but the New York Times just walloped the issue with this report. Diplomats sound the alarm as they are pushed out in droves. Well, following that report from over the holiday break in the New York Times, tonight, Bloomberg News is first to report that there is about to be
Even if its a little tiny one. So i had a great thanksgiving, im happy as a clam. Its great to be back. You know what . Its nice to feel needed when you come back to work. And today the news gods have obliged by making today insane as a news day. Lets start tonight just with the stuff that is breaking this evening, just breaking tonight. Rex tillerson, secretary of state, has become one of the most controversial cabinet officials in the Trump Administration, which in this administration is really saying something. Aside from the bare bones questions about how exactly he got this job in the first place and what a lifelong exxon employee might want to do to the u. S. State department and question about the implications of his unusually close personal relationship with vladimir putin, alongside all those baseline concerns about him taking over at state, alongside all that has risen something approaching panic now among Longtime Foreign Service professionals and senior diplomats as Rex Til