could conceivably have been the precipitating event for why he got fired. the statement goldstein put out that tillerson had not spoken to trump, despite the president saying they had, the statement that goldstein saying that tillerson hadn t been fired days before, that he only found out he was being fired on tuesday morning when the president tweeted about it, it was news to him, he had intended to stay, that statement from all reporting appears to be 100% true and they fired him for it. white house officials later explained to nbc news the reason steven goldstein was fired is because of that statement. contradicting what the white house was saying about the firing of rex tillerson. he was fired because of an untrue statement that the white house is trying to put out about this firing. offering an alternate timeline to what really happened. and this wasn t just some low level staffer who they fired. they didn t decide to shoot a lonely messenger here. there is only six permanent secr
and that s why for all the intrigue and who is up, who is down, white house personnel reporting there has been in washington all week long and the president appears to enjoy stoking, what really stands out here that the white house has not really had to answer for at all is that in addition to firing rex tillerson on tuesday morning, later on the day tuesday they went on to fire another senior official from the state department. they fired the guy who put out the statement. the under secretary of state that put out what we believe is the true statement explaining the realtime line when tillerson was fired, the timeline that says he was fired right after the russia remarks and put as freaking spotlight on this question whether his russia criticism could conceivably have been the precipitating event for why he got fired. the statement goldstein put out that tillerson had not spoken to trump, despite the president saying they had, the statement that goldstein saying that tillerson hadn t
the statement goldstein put out that tillerson had not spoken to trump, despite the president saying they had, the statement that goldstein saying that tillerson hadn t been fired days before, that he only found out he was being fired on tuesday morning when the president tweeted about it, it was news to him, he had intended to stay, that statement from all reporting appears to be 100% true and they fired him for it. white house officials later explained to nbc news the reason steven goldstein was fired is because of that statement. contradicting what the white house was saying about the firing of rex tillerson. he was fired because of an untrue statement that the white house is trying to put out about this firing. offering an alternate timeline to what really happened. and this wasn t just some low level staffer who they fired. they didn t decide to shoot a lonely messenger here. there is only six permanent
then we ll turn back sure. this was a subject of much discussion within the state department. there was a lot of frustration by people who were willing to talk to people like me and other reporters because this was not being done. the money was actually lodged for budgetary purposes in the pentagon. it had to be requested. and tillerson hadn t even requested the money. it wasn t until a spate of stories, washington post, politico came out that the two co-sponsors of this bill, chris murphy and rob portman threw a fit essentially and wrote a bunch of letters saying, we want to know what you ve been doing, why hasn t this been moving forward. so, it seemed that that did, in fact, jar a little bit of action and he put some people to work. but as you ve seen, this appears to be more smoke and mirrors rather than substance. and you do have to wonder is this just more in the other story of state department dysfunction, which we all have been following, or is this part of trump s soft spo
one of your predecessors. another friend and supporter of secretary tillerson. he said he thought tillerson hadn t been given the full authority he should be given to be b the spokesperson for american foreign policy. i don t think you have a real consistent message coming out of the administration on some of these important issues. and there is white houses tend to be very strong in the mirs mrgs, but i think it always always works better when the secretary of state is the key spokesperson for the american government. and for the united states of america. and he s not. i find rex to be doing a quite remarkable job under circumstances that are unusual. circumstances i think secretaries of state have not faced before including a president. in what way? a president who s never been anywhere near the government before. never even sniff ed the