again and again never denied he said that. what happened here in the end? i think in the end the fact that these two just didn t have chemistry didn t work well together, president never felt comfortable with tillerson as his representative, led to what was probably the inescapable outcome. last week i m told that tillerson understandably since he s been the principal person talking about diplomacy with north korea was saying wait a minute, you just decided to do what i ve recommended, but without consulting me? and that just made donald trump even angrier. senior official told me last night that this should have happened four to five months ago, that that s when this relationship really had broken down. we know that back in november the president was ready to make a change. i think he was probably talked out of it by john kelly who s been a protector for tillerson
i just said some might say you would look like a moron if you acted so impulsively on the world stage and you would fire on twitter your secretary of state, someone who s heading up a state department that has so many unfilled spots it s almost dangerous, there s one thing, the implications of the north korea talks but he just sent tillerson to africa to clean up for his own mess and now all the new alliances and relationships that were made there, they have no one to talk to. i mean, this is a hot mess. it is, mika. we ve got more than 30 ambassadorships unfilled to key allies. we don t have an ambassador to south korea which would be one of the key countries we would want to be very close with as we enter into a high stakes n neguations with north korea. rex tulerson, a great deal of experience as a corporate leader threw himself into a corporate
you know what s not awesome? gig-speed internet. when only certain people can get it. let s fix that. let s give this guy gig- really? and these kids, and these guys, him, ah. oh hello. that lady, these houses! yes, yes and yes. and don t forget about them. uh huh, sure. still yes! xfinity delivers gig speed to more homes than anyone. now you can get it, too. welcome to the party. so we re piecing together the timeline of the firing of rex tillerson beginning on friday when tillerson received a call in the middle of the night on his good will tour of africa. he had to be on the good will tour of africa because of what the president called every country in africa. so while he was cleaning up the president s mess in africa he got a call from john kelly in
he has roots in that area as well. and lastly, he s a good communicator which secretary tillerson, god bless that texan, was not a good communicator. so let s hope we go in a good direction. i think that s what the internationals will be saying. well, and mike pompeo, just looking from a distance, seems to have figured out how to communicate with donald trump while walking the fine line, testifying along with the other intel chiefs that russia was trying to interfere in the election while not incurring too much wrath. john heilemann, a lot of people are assuming that the president s picks via twitter for secretary of state and c.i.a. director are far from passing the sniff test in congress. yeah. i think mike pompeo having been
secretary of state. silly. not very smart. david ignatius, what is the impact of the commander in chief firing the secretary of state via twitter? what a fire storm. and then having the secretary of state defiantly bid adieu to the state department and the country and then having another state department official fired for telling the truth about the secretary of state s departure. well, this is was a day in which the white house cruelly enforced its will on the state department and completed something that really began last fall when tillerson first came to be under by the president. the president, any president, needs to have a secretary of state who can speak for him and trump didn t have that person in tillerson. so you can argue that in terms of country s interests it s good