now you can get it, too. welcome to the party. . we are back with the breaking news we have been following this morning, the zparpt of rex tillerson as secretary of state, announced via tweet by president trump. his replacement, mike mom pay, the currently cia director. he had a closer relationship with donald trump than rex tillerson did, but this is news that caught a lot of folks in washington off guard, at least for timing. we re just learning from our capitol hill team from garrett hank that one of the republican
i think we might have met once. i don t really know. he s well educated. was at west point. again, i ve heard nothing but positive things about his background and that kind of thing. i just don t i ve not had any interaction with him. i look forward to sitting down and talking with him. you said the president called you this morning. what did the president tell you? he just let me know how highly he thought of pompeo and how much he thought we would work well together. talked to me a bit about secretary tillerson. i let that go and his criticism of tillerson? you know, i ve talked to the president many, many times and secretary tillerson. i m very aware of the relationship and as i ve mentioned publicly, thought
back when asked, secretary tillerson might have found out during a tweet. they haven t spoken. they two guys are buddies. that was a disappointed man, senator corker. he has become very close to secretary tillerson and served as an interpreter and helper for tillerson in his troubled relationship with the president. you could see written all over senator corker s face there that he feels bad for his friend but he also he wasn t it was odd he had not yet talked to tillerson and he didn t want to get out ahead of he wouldn t reveal much of what the president said about secretary tillerson and he didn t want to get out ahead of what will be painful conversation when he has it. senator corker looked like a boxer who just took a round house. he looked completely first dazed for the first 90 seconds or so
critical in all this? he popped his head out of his office a few minutes ago. i m going to try to get him hopefully before the i know of this hour. he s fopg to be the pivotal player in the next few fazes of this. bob corker is on my short list here today. garrett i hope to see you pack sometime in the next 40 minute on this program with senator bob corker. we ll be watching for that. mike allen is still with us hire. former specialist with judge w. bush. kera lee, and tim auburn, and i believe our friend akand lana i joining us back in washington. you covered the state department and know rex tillerson. are you surprised by how this went down?
useful. sorry to see him go. clearly not wanting to get into the details of his conversations with the president about this. that s the kind of thing that he tends to hold pretty closely. as we heard all morning long especially from runs trying to push forward on pompeo and trying to up sell mike pompeo, to the degree he knows him. the most interesting thing was the acknowledgement there is this stress with anyone who tries to do that job of secretary of state because you re so obviously in the president s lane. this is a president who guards the purview of what is in his lane. that tension with tillerson, we ll see if it shows up as attention with possible secretary of state mike pompeo