president even in which the manner he carried it out was disgraceful. yeah, i do agree with that. as secretary johnson said, at the end of the day the cabinet is a series of advisers to the president. everything else in the end is kind of white noise. and the president has a right to pick the people he or she wants around. but this timing i would say is good, joe, because of the crucial issue with north korea and on iran. that s going to be the other big issue on secretary pompeo s plate immediately. all right. really quickly, secretary, what do you think jeh johnson, your thought, homeland. i m into it. it s good, isn t it? yes. you have to divorce from reality what you would expect to happen. right. but i ve been binge watching. so i m into it this season. definitely. it s good. claire danes and i once had a sit-down, table for three, new york times. it was one of the fun things i got to do in office. she s really good. oh, yeah. former homeland security
was so eager to fire tillerson that he wanted to do so in a tweet on friday. but kelly persuaded trump to wait until his secretary of state was back in the u.s. but kelly had also warned tillerson to possibly expect a pejorative tweet from trump over the weekend a state department official said. tillerson failed to fully understand that the chief of staff was gently signaling to him that he was about to be fired. tillerson cut his trip short, citing lack of sleep. and a phone call that kept him awake. four hours after tillerson landed in washington, the president trump announced cia director mike pompeo as his replacement and thanked tillerson for his service. state department under secretary steve goldstein told reporters that tillerson had not spoken with the president and learned of his firing by the tweet. goldstein was fired shortly thereafter. trump was conciliatory when he spoke about his differences with tillerson. while tillerson had little to say about his boss.
place is a better place for the next generation. i will not return to private life as a private citizen. as a proud american, proud of the opportunity i ve had to serve my country. god bless all of you. god bless the american people. god bless america. kimberly: dana, what did you make of that? he wanted to do the statement. it was good he was allowed to do that. dana: i think so. the timeline is always interesting, the story for washington, d.c. got a call apparently while he was overseas from general john kelly from the white house chief of staff saying this is coming. tillerson cut his trip to africa short. landed at 4:00 a.m., found out he was fired for sure at 9:00 a.m., speaks to the president at noon. when he comes to the podium, it was a most like he was reluctant. he was someone who didn t want to be in washington. he didn t want to be part of it. he didn t like the whole aspect of it. and then as he is speaking, you start to realize maybe he was really sort of starting to