Learning that the president is seeking to oust veteran a fears David Shulkin. Telling us President Trump has grown irritated with him and seriously considering causing another vacancy to possibly replace him by taking the rick perry and putting him over to take over his spot. This comes after hours of course after the president fired secretary of state Rex Tillerson. Tillerson finding out over twitterer. Naming mike pompeo to replace him and deputy gee knina haskel lead the cia. I want to start with the west wing, jim sciutto outfront breaking these details. What are you learning . Reporter my colleagues are told this evening that President Trump is considering a wider shakeup among senior staff as he seeks more like minded advisers. National security adviser h. R. Mcmaster appears poised to depart soon after months of speculation. Outside advisers to the president have also felt out potential candidates to replace chief of staff john kelly a person approached about this position tells
Telling reporters he called putin to congratulate winning fourth 6 year term as president of russia. It was a land slide of mass ballot stuffing as you can see there. In this video you can see whats happening. We have not confirmed authenticity it is from the associated press. But president says putins win is worthy of congratulations. I had a call with president putin and congratulated him on ts victory, his electoral victory. The call had to do also with the fact that we will probably get together in the not too distant future so that we can discuss arms. We can discuss the arms race. Congratulations and the arms race. But President Trump did not call putin out for a rigged undemocratic election. Why doesnt the president or the white house believe thats something they should be discussing with the russian leader . I didnt say we couldnt discuss it with the russia leader. It didnt come up on todays call. Which was a congratulations call about the rigged election. Which is really big d