president donald trump has sacked his secretary of state rex tillerson the president initially broke the surprise news on twitter thanking tillerson for his service and trump has just finished giving a statement about the sacking let s hear what he had to say. i ve worked with mike bomb failed now for quite some time. from mendis energy tremendous in the last year always on the same wavelength. the relationship has been very good that s what i did as secretary of state. i wish rex tillerson well gina by the way i know very well who i work very closely will be the first woman director of the cia she is an outstanding personal also i have got to know her well so i ve gotten to know a lot of people very well over the last year and i m really at a point where we re getting very close to having the capital and other things that
from a russian perspective is some kind of cold warrior i don t think that they think that the relationship between america and russia will not prove the opposite is probably true they will be i think his perspective on russia is this is really the enemy it s not the partner to solve problems in syria in afghanistan or elsewhere get of use me as our good source for us in moscow neal thank you very much well we heard donald trump earlier saying to reporters we ll see you at the wall that s because he s on his way to california he s due to inspect prototypes of the wall he wants to build along the border with mexico before setting off he held that impromptu briefing with reporters to speak about tillerson and his replacement michael pompei a let s listen in again to what he had to say. i ve worked
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