Meetings. Unfortunately no trust. However, at least seven other people in that room. Senator graham, also senator dick durbin, democrat, whose account if true means the president s denials are a lie. Youve seen the comments in the press. I have not read one of them thats inaccurate. To no surprise, the president started tweeting this morning denying that he used those words. It is not true. He said these hate filled things. And he said them repeatedly. Senator Lindsey Graham was also in the room and an according to his statement, he said this. I said my piece directly to him yesterday. The president and all those attending the meeting know what i said and how i feel. Ive always believed that america is an idea not defined by its people but by its ideals. With me now is cnn chief creditor responsibility jim acosta. And jim, the president held this event earlier today honoring dr. King ahead of mlk monday. We know dr. Kings nephew was there. And you talked to him about this asking him fl
Pompeos post as cia director has been promised to the deputy cia director gina haspel. Before heading to california, the president spoke about his reasons for this very dramatic change. Rex and i have been talking about this for a long time. We got along actually quite well, but we disagreed on things. When you look at the iran deal, i think its terrible. I guess he thought it was okay. I wanted to either break it or do something, and he felt a little bit differently. So we were not really thinking the same. With mike, mike pompeo, we have a very similar thought process. I think its going to go very well. Rex is a very goodm man. I like rex a lot. I really appreciate his commitment to his service, and i will be speaking to rex over a long period of time. Lets go to our senior White House Correspondent jeff zeleny. Jeff, do we know when the president made this decision of what the white house is now saying about how secretary tillerson was actually informed . Reporter well, just to walk
Kremlinology style coverage and speculation about who is in favor and who is out of favor and who has been able to move their desk closer to the oval office and who might some day be fired and who is angling. The government is not supposed to be conducted like the gong show, right . It has been a weird 24 hours in the news because of this word that went out prfrom the white house last night. H. R. Mcmaster was to be fired. Why did the white house put that word out last night . I dont know. And neither do you. But you should know that right before the white house put out that word last night, this is the last public thing that National Security advisor h. R. Mcmaster did yesterday afternoon. Russia is also coproviding political cover for assads crimes, from february 24th to february 28th, russia conducted 20 Bombing Missions every day in the eastern guda and damascus areas. Russia also twocondemned russiar using chemical weapons. This morning, the United States, france, germany and the
Nations top diplomat. Shocking americas closest allies, as the president heads into historic talks with north korea. Threatens to withdraw from the iran nuclear deal, and says he welcomes a trade war. Mr. Trump explaining the reasons behind this massive shakeup from the south lawn today. I wish Rex Tillerson well. Im really at a point where were getting very close to having the cabinet and other things that i want. As far as Rex Tillerson is concerned, i very much appreciate his commitment and i wish him well. Hes a good man. We were not really thinking the same. With mike, mike pompeo, we have a very similar thought process. I think its going to go very well. I actually got along well with rex, but really, it was a different mindset. It was a different thinking. Joining me is nbc National Correspondent Peter Alexander at the white house. Msnbc political analyst and the Washington Post White House Bureau chief phil rucker, david ignatius, Gardner Harris, who was just on the plane with
American news. Listen, im going to cut to the bottom line right now and tell you that i do not know why secretary of state Rex Tillerson was abruptly fired today and neither do you and anybody who says they do know, well, were going to get as close as we can to that tonight. Right now, it is still a mystery. Nevertheless, he is out and so im going to do that awkward camera turn right now. So we can add the name of the secretary of state to the list of departures of senior officials from the Trump White House and the senior ranks of the trump administration. Just in the past couple weeks we have had to move my Camera Position so that we can show you this bigger wall so we could make room to add a third column here on this wall. We were two columns before. We had to add hope hicks as she resigned and josh raphael as he resigned from deputies communications director, the one that worked for jared and ivanka and jared and ivankas other friend, the guy trump put in charge as the office of i