officials, people who could be in position to help your inquiry include former white house chief of staff john kelly, rex stiller son, former national security adviser h.r. mcmaster. are those the kind of witnesses you would like to hear from? well, again, we haven t gotten that far yet, but yeah. i think witnesses who would be in the know, who would understand what happened or didn t happen, who would understand why this is different than what we re used to with american presidents. so we would seek, i would imagine, down the line to speak to anyone who may have knowledge with what is really going on with putin and trump. i want to ask you about a late-breaking piece of news that the republicans, your republican colleagues in the house, the action they ve taken tonight. they have removed steve king from his committee assignments in the house of representatives, in effect rebuked him that way, removed him from the agriculture committee and judiciary
include former white house chief of staff john kelly, rex stiller son, former national security adviser h.r. mcmaster. are those the kind of witnesses you would like to hear from? well, again, we haven t gotten that far yet, but yeah. i think witnesses who would be in the know, who would understand what happened or didn t happen, who would understand why this is different than what we re used to with american presidents. so we would seek, i would imagine, down the line to speak to anyone who may have knowledge with what is really going on with putin and trump. i want to ask you about a late-breaking piece of news that the republicans, your republican colleagues in the house, the action they ve taken tonight. they have removed steve king from his committee assignments in the house of representatives, in effect rebuked him that way, removed him from the agriculture committee and judiciary committee. i want to get your reaction to the republicans finally taking
donald trump is picking rex tillerson for secretary of state. what more can you tell us? reporter: that s right, don. tomorrow morning the president-elect will announce who his top diplomat will be, and it will be as you noted rex sillerson, ceo. they didn t actually have a relationship prior to this process according to trump transition officials. this was driven in large part by three people, the recommendations of roberts gates, of james baker and condoleeza rice, people well regarded in the foreign policy. all people who recommended the president-elect should sit down and have a conversation with rex stiller son. i m told the twoman hit it off. they had similar deal making background, and in though conversations is where the president-elect reached a level of comfort with rex tillerson he hadn t with anybody else. because of that he has now reached the point where he is