Good Tuesday Morning to you all. We start with president elect donald trump who is about to end all the speculation about who he wants to be the countrys next top diplomat. Yeah, its been five weeks but still weve seen several potential secretary of state nominees come and go from meetings with trump. This morning trump is expected to name Rex Tillerson as his choice to lead the state department. Tillerson met with trump this past saturday for their second discussion in a week. Abcs lana zak is in washington with some new reaction to that potential pick. Lana, good morning. Reporter good morning, diane and kendis. You know, that public parade of all those potential candidates is now over. And it seems those onetime frontrunners, rudy giuliani, mitt romney, have now been bested. Senior transition sources tell abc news that president elect donald trump will announce Rex Tillerson as secretary of state today. It is certainly surprising. Usually you look in the secretary of state for someo
Good Tuesday Morning to you all. We start with president elect donald trump who is about to end all the speculation about who he wants to be the countrys next top diplomat. Yeah, its been five weeks but still weve seen several potential secretary of state nominees come and go from meetings with trump. This morning trump is expected to name Rex Tillerson as his choice to lead the state department. Tillerson met with trump this past saturday for their second discussion in a week. Abcs lana zak is in washington with somew potential pick. Lana, good morning. Reporter good morning, diane and kendis. You know, that public parade of all those potential candidates is now over. And it seems those onetime frontrunners, rudy giuliani, mitt romney, have now been bested. Senior transition sources tell abc news that president elect donald trump will announce Rex Tillerson as secretary of state today. It is certainly surprising. Usually you look in the secretary of state for someone who has some leve
We start were president elect donald trump who is about to end all the speculation about who he wants to be the countrys next top diplomat. Yeah, its been five weeks but still weve seen several potential secretary of state nominees come and go from meetings with trump. This morning trump is expected to name Rex Tillerson as his choice to lead the state department. Tillerson met with trump this past saturday for their second discussion in a week. Abcs lana zak is in washington with new reaction to that potential pym. Reporter good morning. That public parade of all those potential candidates is now over. And it seems those onetime frontrunners, rudy giuliani, mitt romney have now been bested. Senior transition sources tell abc news that president elect donald trump will announce Rex Tillerson as secretary of state today. It is certainly surprising. Usually you look in the secretary of state for someone who has some level of diplomatic experience. Reporter as ceo of Exxonmobil Tillerson
Donald trump who is about to end all the speculation about who he wants to be the countrys next top diplomat. Yeah, its been five weeks but still weve seen several potential secretary of state nominees come and go from meetings with trump. This morning trump is expected to name Rex Tillerson as his choice to lead the state department. Tillerson met with trump this past saturday for their second discussion in a week. Abcs lana zak is in washington with new reaction to that potential pym. Reporter good morning. That public parade of all those potential candidates is now over. And it seems those onetime frontrunners, rudy giuliani, mitt romney have now been bested. Senior transition sources tell abc news that president elect donald trump will announce Rex Tillerson as secretary of state today. It is certainly surprising. Usually you look in the secretary of state for someone who has some level of diplomatic experience. Reporter as ceo of Exxonmobil Tillerson has had extensive interaction
Her out. First from the fox news deck, the white house will not say if president obama has decided to use our military to go after the Islamic State in sierra. Press secretary josh earnest said thats a decision the strikes, not just in iraq but some now in syria, and theres going to be an International Coalition he is seeking to put together, not just germany and italy possibly continuing to fund and provide arms, but air strikes by other nations and arab allies so this doesnt look like a west versus iraq situation. Then going to prepare the politics of this with congress, and is preparing the American People for this as well. Mind you, th j public is not really inclined to get involved with this conflict and with the mideast, having been through two wars, and so theres preparation there as well that is going to be the president to achieve. He is the president who campaigned on the notion of getting us out of iraq. He is not a guy would wants to go back into iraq in any significant wa