For tillersons replacement, the president is tapping his cia chief, mike pompeo whom the president says will do a fantastic job and is on his same wavelength. While it appears the president wants someone at state who is in lock step with his agenda, that is not stopping criticism of todays surprise announcement. The top democrat, Chuck Schumer says the instability of this administration is about every area that weakens america. John roberts joins us from the north lawn. John . Im kicking myself, harris. As i was filling in for chris wallace, mike pompeo was our guest and i asked him every question except, oh, by the way, are you going to be named secretary of state on tuesday . Lesson learned. Were learning more about the tick tok and how this happened. The president made the decision last week and that on friday, chief of staff john kelly put in a phone call to Rex Tillerson who was traveling in africa at the time to tell him that the president was going to be making a change. Tillersons sources say he asked kelly if the president would wait until he returned before making the announcement. You dont want to be representing the United States and tell everybody before you meet them that you lost your job. So tillerson arrived back in town and not long after that, the president went ahead with the announcement. The president has been looking to get mike pompeo to the state department for quite a while. Rumors flying in october that tillerson wouldnt be hanging around long into the new year and this morning on the way to the helicopter for his trip to the border in california today, the president with nothing but praise for pompeo. Listen here. I respect his intellect, i respect the process that weve all gone through together. We have a very Good Relationship for whatever reason, chemistry, whatever it is, why do people get along . Right from the beginning from day one, ive gotten along well with mike pompeo. Frankly, i get along well with rex, too. I wish rex a lot of good things. He will be very happy. I think rex will be much happier now. But i really appreciate his service. But with mike, weve had a very Good Chemistry from the beginning. Reaction from capitol hill. You pointed it out from nancy pelosi. Its no wonder that the president has trouble attracting high caliber people to his administration when he undercuts and humiliates those he supposedly respects. Whenever tillersons successor goes into meetings, his credibility will be diminished as someone here today and gone today. Im told that the president made the decision now as a result of the announcement last thursday about his potential meeting with kim jongun. The president wanted a new team in place for any meetings, potential negotiations and as well since over the next nine months the president plans on restructuring trade deals. He got involved in that, the u. S. Secretary of state and the commerce department. But remember, harris, last october, when we were saying that tillerson probably wouldnt be here long into 2018 and the president ridiculed those of us reporting that saying fake news. Not so fake. Dont kick yourself too hard. Rex tillerson was asked whether or not he would resign. He said it was up to him. Turns out thats not the case either. Many people thought tillerson would take himself out. Something changed between late october, beginning of november. He wanted to stay on. The president didnt want him to stay on. We want you, john roberts. Thank you. The guy back there makes the decisions. Harris you just heard john talking about what the white house said on the timing of this. I want to bring in a special guest that knows the inner workings of the state department. Robert charles served as assistant secretary under george w. Bushs secretary and colon powell as secretary of state and a veteran of the first bush and reagan administration. Great to see you. I want to talk with you about the timing. The white house says when the opportunity came up last week to talk with kim jongun, that was informing the change in all of this. What are your thoughts about it . I think the president seeing that theres dangerous waters ahead and he wants a pilot at the ship of state that will be seeing the world the way he sees it, in particular north korea is one of those issues. I would add behind that very closely russian, china and iran. The iran agreement has to be decided to one extent in may. Russia is putting heavy pressure on this president. China just decided they have a ruler that can last forever. Its time for a new leadership. Pompeo is a great choice for that role. Harris you talk about iran. We were starting to learn more about the pushback reportedly from Rex Tillerson in terms of scrapping that nuclear deal that put so much cash in irans hands. Yeah. The way i look at this, Rex Tillerson was a great guy for the first year. Hes a steady hands, a company man. He created a degree of certainty. At the same time, mike pompeo is out of the box and an offthecharts smart guy. He was harvard law review a smart guy. Hes also a former captain in the army. He was a congressman. He knows hes got touch at the end of his finger tips and hes a very crisp thinker. The president is looking for that now. Sometimes you dont want incrementalism. You want a bold thinker that will match your own bold aspirations. Harris i want your idea about this, too. The criticism for Rex Tillerson and his brand of leading the state department was he kind of made it small. In some areas, we didnt have enough people. You know, i think Rex Tillerson was trying to follow the guidance of his president. At the same time, maybe because they dont see the world the same way, the way he went about doing that isnt the way that someone that would look at the world exactly the same way as President Trump would. I think pompeo is an individual that looks at the world with a very creative mind. Its easy in all fairness to get captured by the state department. It has its own way of looking at the world. The last thing in the world they want to do is go into a meeting with kim having not done what is supposed to be their job up front. The president said youre not going to get it done at the lower level. Get it done at the upper level and follow up with me and make real the promises that are made. This president has gotten more out of north korea than any president in 30 years. Reagan had them sign the npt, which they violated. But he had them sign it. This president has gotten unilaterally stopping missile launches and stopping the nuclear program. Frankly, if they violate that, there wont be any talks. God bless him. He start add process that nobody started in 30 years. This isnt the first time that weve seen somebody disposed of politically speaking in terms of being fired, i would say. In the 1980s, we saw it happen. Yeah. 1982, in july of 1982, Ronald Reagan summarily fired al haig. He brought in the very same minute george schultz. George schultz served the duration of that administration. Did a fantastic job. Saw the world i think very much the way Ronald Reagan did having worked for him in california. So you wants someone you can trust. Thats what the president is looking for. Harris i want to ask you about that, the congruence of thought and not just on the issues you said, russian, china, i ran. Theres other things coming up. They are. So when your yoked to the same principles, it makes the job easier. Its the same principles and might be the same instincts. I used to play hockey. When a center and a wing read each others minds, you get more goals. Thats what were talking about here. Harris can i ask you too as we look back, i dont remember it and you can correct me, being a big deal when a former president did this in the 1980s and fired his secretary of state. Why doesnt trump get so much push back in the media over this . Am i wrong about that . You are wrong in a way. Or youre right that we are witnessing a unique targeting of this president. What this president is doing is hes trying to lead boldly. When you lead boldly, you face resistance. Thats the nature of bold leadership. Winston churchill did it, Ronald Reagan did it. President trump is doing it. Harris robert charles, you did what my husband did. He tells me im wrong but im right. Had to. Thanks. So good to see you. Thanks for being here. Thank you. Harris now were learning more about the woman President Trump has nominated to take over the nations top spy agency. Gina haskell would have been the first female director of the cia. Will in fact if confirmed. National security con correspondent Jennifer Griffin is looking into this. And im told that gina haspel received the unbridaled support from multiple obama appointees when she was named Deputy Director last year. Theres very few authorized images of gina haspel. But when she came to the pentagon, she greeted the saudi crown prince. She sat two seat downs from secretary mattis. If confirmed, she will be the first woman to head the cia. She joined the cia in 1985, shes 61 years old. Over saw covert actions. She ran black site prison in thailand where top alquaida leaders were water boarded. She wrote a cable ordering the destruction of water boarding tapes in 2005. She did so as the chief of staff to former national clandestined service chief jose rodriguez. She oversaw the black side called cats eye where there was water boarding in 2002 along with the u. S. S. Cole bomber. Shes likely to face harsh interrogation from the Senate Intelligence committee from democrats like Dianne Feinstein that took haspel and others to task for destroying the water boarding tapes as they investigated torture allegations. Rights groups have responded with dismay. Saying gina haspel was a central figure and one of the most illegal and shameful chapters in modern history. She was up to her eyeballs in torture. She water boarded one man 83 times and locked in a coffinlike box. Michael hayden no fan was President Trump has defended haspel and others saying those black sites have to be seen in context. The Justice Department and president bush authorized the actions test. Cia thought they were facing another major attack in the way of 911, harris. Harris and were seeing on capitol hill, to bring politics in, theres a number of republicans that are coming to haspels side in terms of looking ahead to the confirmation process and supporting her. The context of the time is what you have given us and thats very important to keep all of this. Everybody was taking orders. Jennifer griffin, thanks very much. More reaction now to foxs top story and the challenges that mike pompeo could face in his confirmation hearing. Well talk about that end of the confirmation, too. Ill talk with a texas lawmaker that used to work for the spy agency next. And how Intel Committee republicans closing the door on their russia investigation. Clearing President Trump of any wrong doing. No collusion evidence they say. Democrats on the Committee Say not so fast amount live update on all of this. Stay close. We need to get our fbi and our intelligence agencies working on real problems and get them away from what theyre doing now, which is looks like spinning in circles. We spent 14 months looking for collusion and didnt find any. Your heart doesnt only belong to you. Bye grandpa. 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Theyre dispute ago key finding from the Intel Community that russian president putin favored then candidate donald trump during the election. President trump touted the news earlier today. Were very happy with the decision by the house Intelligence Committee saying there was no collusion with respect to russia and it was a very powerful decision. Harris as you can imagine, because weve seen duelling memos, democrats on the committee dont like the move. Ranking member adam schiff says this issue is far from over. The republicans on the committee viewed their job as protecting the president , not investigating what took place. Were going to continue to do the investigation. It will be much more difficult. Weve never had the power to call in witnesses. Doug mckelway live in washington with the latest. Doug . We still have not seen this majority report. It has to be scrubbed of classified material. Thats a process that could take weeks. We do know the conclusion, that neither candidate trump nor his campaign colluded with russia. Hes been under attack for a very long time saying that he colluded with russians. Hes been adamant that he didnt collude with the russians. We looked at it. We looked at it thoroughly. We interviewed everybody involved in the campaign and didnt find any collusions. Yes, the russians tried to interfere with our election process. They had cyber attacks, active measures going on. We could find no evidence of collusion between either campaign and the russians. That is not the view of house Intelligence Committee democrats. They were caught by surprise by the republicans released last night of this draft report findings. In a statement, adam shave said the report was an attempt to protect the president and not the country. Schiff did not directly dispute the republican finding of no russian collusion. Democrats are taking hard in what theyre interpreting as one gop defection in the Intelligence Committee, tom rooney of florida said that he believes there was a russian attempt to collude with the Trump Campaign, but also with the clinton campaign. I think that there was efforts to try to hurt hillary and help trump, but i think there was the opposite, too. I think their goal was to create mayhem so any candidate that they wanted they did believe hillary was going to win to have the person bloodied and weakened to use that in the future against us. Connecticut democratic senator Richard Blumenthal said it will be up to the Senate Intelligence committee to find the truth. These conclusions by the Intelligence Committee are completely lacking in credibility, actual support and trust. Now the committees of the United States senate have to do the job that the house Intelligence Committee has betrayed. We cant expect a minority record, just what forms it takes, a full blown report or a formal statement. We dont know. But there will be a profound division where Neither Party can find the slightest hint of agreement. The Inspector General report that is underway, harris, is something that cannot lead to an indictment by itself, but the information included in it can be used in any kind of criminal prosecution. Harris one more thing. You talk about the hallmark of this. Its the leaks out of the Committee Hearings as well. Doug mckelway, thanks very much. I want to talk with a member about that now. Texas republican will hurd, great to have him along. Thanks for joining us. Thanks for having me on. Absolutely. I want to start with what adam schiff said. He said the gob view the job of protecting the president and not getting to the truth. Im paraphrasing there. What are your thoughts of that . I ridiculous. Adam schiff hasnt even seen the draft report yet. This is frustrating about where we are, the inability to work on common things. We do agree on a lot of stuff. We agree that the russians tried to influence our elections and erode trust. If there was some evidence of collusion, theres so many leaks throughout this process. The press, the American People have seen a lot of this information and i dont think there was anything revealed that suggests that type of activity. Congressman hurd, it seems like the leaks were political. I wonder how in your environment on the hill do you bring about accountability or the that . That makes everybody look bad. Hit hurts everybody. I spent almost a year as an undercover officer in the cia. The good thing is, the men and the women and the cia and the fbi are hardworking professionals that dont follow any of the drama thats going on here in washington d. C. And go out and do their job and keep us safe. So im glad we know that continues to happen. But one of our roles of congress is to provide oversight. Oversight of the executive branch and oversight of one another as well. The amount of leaks, it was hard to get things done. The fact that we had to talk about a report that was weeks away from potentially being declassified so people can talk about it is not the way that this process should work. But the bottom line is, we spent over a year work