tick through all the advisers who were caught off guard. well, i still don t know what happened, really. i mean, i reported that she resigned. she told trump that last week. i still don t know the real backstory, and frankly, nor does really anyone that i ve spoken to in it the white house or outside the white house within the circles that you would normally expect would know this. the news, mike pompeo was caught off guard by this, and as were other senior foreign policy officials. it was kept very, very, very close. right now, i can confirm that people inside the white house view dina powell as a front-runner for the job. by no means is that a done deal, but that is a name that is now being discussed inside the white house as the successor for nikki haley. and ashley parker, nbc news is also confirming the same reporting that jonathan swan has, that dina powell is under consideration for the top u.n.