Even one on the Republican Committee says the panel lost its credibility. We begin this hour with the Trump Administration shakeup with global implications. Rex tillerson now out as secretary of state. The president wants cia director mike pompeo to replace him. Tillerson did get a headsup friday night that this might be in the works but he found out it was done and that he was out when most of the world did. When this youre fired tweet hit the internet. Ta talk of firing rex goes back months. Another top official out at a time of dizzying personnel chaos in the west wing and across the administration. The president says pompeo is a better fit. Were always on the same wavelength. The relationship has been very good and thats what i need as secretary of state. I respect his intellect, i respect the process that weve all gone through together. We have a very Good Relationship for whatever reason, chemistry, whatever it is. Why do people get along . Ive always right from the beginning fro
Announcement came with little warning. The president completely surprising them. And mcmasters departure comes on the same day john doud, the lead lawyer handling President Trumps response to the russia investigation quit. Another day of chaos in the white house. I want to bring in cnns senior White House Correspondent jeff zeleny. He joins us by phone. Thank you so much. Why was the time line for mcmasters firing . Why was it moved up. Well, don there was no question there was a sense inside the white house all day long that the president was not pleased with the story line that was going on. A, with the firing or the resignation if you will of john dowd but also the extraneous talk about other people who he has been involved with, other the Stormy Daniels and other situations. So he was clearly trying to white house officials move up the time line of this. Now, i was told by two white house officials tonight that they were not expecting the news of the new National Security adviser t
Issues. The secretary of state had been pushing the United States and the administration to stay within the iran nuclear deal, to work within that frame work. Theres been many reports, weve been hearing plenty from initials saying the president wasnt all that happy with the push to stay in the iran nuclear agreement. Theres other policy issues when it comes to qatar and russia. When the secretary was on his way back from africa, he said a much more powerful for russia against a nerve agent to attack a former spy in the United Kingdom than the white house had. So the policies were out in the open throughout the secretary of states tenure here. The transition from here, weve heard from state Department Officials that the secretary will be transitioning out once he officially does so, the deputy secretary takes over until the Senate Confirms the nomination of mike pompeo or moves forward with somebody else. In regards to the timeline, is it true that the secretary of state cut short his t
Bolton is hardliner and called the deal with iran the biggest single act of appeasement by the west since munich. In the past he called for bombing of iran. Im joined by vivian solama. And, of course, move that back, please, joliet ainsley, former Tate Department official, and stunned by the news. I dont know if this is wag the dog, is this to get away from Stormy Daniels and the whole rest of this hell or what, but they are bringest the biggest neocon in the world. The one exec that so many millions of voters voted against in 2016, who voted against stupid wars and bring in the biggest hawk theres ever been and put him as head of National Security is awful. And i dont know anybody who disagrees with that, who thinks, your thoughts . You just said the word hawk, thats what john bolton is. Hes no stranger he likes war. He wants war with iraq. He pushed and pushed and pushed and wanted to go to war with syria. Name a country in the middle east he didnt want to go to war the. And now he w
Hes never let me down. Rand paul is a very special guy as far as im concerned. Hes never let me down. I dont think he will let us down again. Lets see what happens. If you remember, he voted for healthcare and did us a big favor. It was somebody else that voted against us that hurt us. I have a lot of confidence in rand but a great deal of confidence in mike pompeo. He will go down as one of the great secretary of states. By the way, he just left north korea. He had a great meeting with kim jongun. Got along with him really well, really great. Hes that kind of a guy. Hes very smart but gets along with people. So i think that mike will be in good shape. Well see what happens. A lot of people are predicting other things. But i have a feeling its going to work out very well and i think our country really needs him. Hes going to be a great leader. Thank you very much. Shepard that was interesting, wasnt it . Its about count two minutes after 3 00 in the afternoon. That was a lunch that has