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Election day in p. A. The newest test of trumpism comes down to the wire in the keystone state. This is mtp daily and it starts right now. Good evening, im chuck todd here in washington and welcome to mtp daily and welcome to another trumpian day of shakeups, confusion and white house drama. Tillerson has been fired and hes not the only member of the president s inner circle who was ousted today. Youre looking at the president in san diego. The president is speaking after signaling to reporters today that more white house shakeups are in the works. Well be keeping a close eye on these remarks but we begin tonight with todays shakeup and how things got real messy real quick. State Department Officials told nbc news that tillerson found out hed been officially fired from a tweet. Saying thank you to Rex Tillerson for his service. The tweet also announced mike pom paio the cia director would be replacing tillerson and gina haspel will become new director of cia. Things got messier. One of
we ve lost all credibility and we ll issue probably two different reports, unfortunately. can the public take either finding seriously? i hope they can and they should and, by the way, in our report we ve tried very, very hard to be nonpolitical, not to be tri. these are basically laying out the fact and more importantly the recommendations to the american people as we go into another election. i think i know what tom was saying. he was frustrated that there has been too much partisanship on this committee. many of things we loved about the intel committee we didn t use to be a partisan. there s a question of leaking here that tom was frustrated with. i don t think because of those criticisms you therefore say that everything that we do is irrelevant or not important. in this case this report really has we ve really tried not to be partisan in this and we hope to work with the democrats over the next two weeks to finish the report. it seems as if correct me if i am wrong, are
perception among some on the left that mike pompeo is a hard liner on diplomacy. what would you say to that in response? i don t think that s a very fair characterization and there s not much to base that on. he advocated for those positions that he had responsibility for. i think he ll do exactly the same thing once he s secretary of state. he will then advocate for those positions that are important as the secretary of state and i think that s that he s able to do that t. i don t think he s one dimensional in the way he views american foreign policy. i want to get you to react to something that another colleague of yours on the house intelligence committee on the republican side of the aisle, what he said in reaction to the house republican intel findings. here it is. it s congressman tom ernie. we ve gone completely off the rails and now we re just basically a political forum for people to leak information to drive the day s news, so we ve as you alluded to,