At Trump's State Department, Tillerson Is Out, Pompeo In
The Political Scene | The New Yorker
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šļø 15 March 2018
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Summary
On Tuesday, President Trump announced that he had fired Secretary of State Rex TillersonĀ andĀ planned to replace him with CIA Director Mike Pompeo. Dexter Filkins joins Evan Osnos to discuss the changes at the top of the State DepartmentĀ andĀ the CIA,Ā andĀ where the Trump administration is heading on foreign policyĀ andĀ national security.
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| 1:12.1 | This is the political scene, a weekly conversation with New Yorker writers and editors about politics. |
| 1:18.2 | It's Thursday, March 15th. I'm Evan Osnows, filling in for Dorothy Wickenden. |
| 1:23.2 | On Tuesday morning, President Trump announced on Twitter that he was replacing Secretary of State Rex Tillerson with Mike Pompeo, the current CIA director. |
| 1:32.9 | According to a spokesperson from the State Department, Tillerson only learned the news when an aide showed him the president's tweet. |
| 1:39.7 | Later that morning, the president spoke with reporters on the White House lawn, said that he had made the decision to fire Tillerson because of differences over major policy issues. |
| 1:49.5 | We got along actually quite well, but we disagreed on things. |
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| 2:03.5 | bit differently. So we were not really thinking the same. With Mike, Mike Pompeo, we have a very |
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