The pet did not survive the flight. And what the airline is now saying tonight. Good evening. And its great to have you with us here on a very busy tuesday night. That massive Storm Hitting at this hour, but first tonight, the storm swirling inside President Trumps cabinet. President Trump Firing Secretary Of State Rex Tillerson, and doing so in a tweet. The president firing tillerson, then calling him several hours later from air force one. The president naming cia director mike pompeo as the new secretary of state. And look at the wall tonight. At the top there, tillerson fired. He was not the only one fired at the State Department today. The undersecretary of state, steve goldstein, who tweeted that tillerson did not know the firing was coming, he was then fired, too. In addition to all of the vacancies that already exist at the top of the State Department. And so, we begin tonight with abcs chief White House Correspondent jonathan karl. Reporter President Trump is in california tod
to receive a free kohler® toilet with the purchase of your walk-in bath. and take advantage of our special financing, no payments until 2024. how s it going? are you well? nice to see you. welcome back. let me just. [applause] benjamin hall receiving a standing ovation at the state department briefing room today as he continues his come back from a devastating injury suffered last year in ukraine. he joins us live right now. ben, so great to see you and that moment was, i m sure, pretty interesting for you since you covered that place before going to the front lines. it was. it was very important today. one of the things you do in recovery is you have a goal and somewhere you want to get for me getting back to work. going to the state department today was achieving that and of
much more call 1 808 31 37 100. returning to our top story now. u s. state department spokesman says that the department is trying to establish some sort of connection or even a visit with american even gorshkov itch. he is the wall street journal reporter now under arrest in russia accused of spying. pam brown is with us. now she s filling in for jake tapper at the top of the hour, pam. great to see you. as always. evans arrest is bringing renewed attention to the longstanding detention of paul whelan, another american who has been charged with committing espionage in russia. right and we heard the state department today, saying that the two cases should not be compared saying that paul whelan s case a former marine us citizen, he s been imprisoned in russia since 2018 should not be compared to this case of this wall street journal
essentially go recover or collect the drone from the black sea, although even they acknowledge they might not be able to. there are no u.s. navy assets in the black sea that would be able to carry out that mission so to protect the information, to protect the sensitive software on the drone, which is the most sensitive part of this, the u.s. was able to remotely wipe it after the incident, after that interception, bianna and victor. oren liebermann, thank you. we will talk to you after this news conference. let s bring in cnn anchor and chief national security correspondent jim sciutto and cnn national security analyst steve hall, former cia chief of russia operations. jim, let me start with you. we heard from ned price, the spokesman at the state department today, he told nbc news that this russian jet appeared to be careening and potentially out of control and he actually said that the assessment was that this was unintentional. i heard that from him, but not administration-wide. w
that continue to be ignored but i think may be 50 times more important than these documents. i want to play a moment for what happened at the state department today. watch this. are there any state department documents part of these documents that were found. of course not it is not anything the secretary would know as we ve heard from the white house it is not something that the president knows. i want to note here that his boss the new blanket and that was employed at the penn center where some of these documents were found as were a number of other former obama administration officials. the web it gets thicker and tighter, does it not? the penn center that got $50 million from china too fund the yet the step back and