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Today, Explained

Vox

Politics, Daily News, News

4.3 • 10.3K Ratings

🗓️ 13 March 2018

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Twitter. That’s how Secretary of State Rex Tillerson found out he was fired today. The news came on the heels of Tillerson calling Russia “an irresponsible force of instability”. He hands over the reins to CIA director Mike Pompeo - who is now in charge of planning a historic U.S.-North Korea meeting. Vox’s Zack Beauchamp describes Tillerson’s rocky relationship with Trump, and Ezra Klein reflects on this administration’s high turnover. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Okay, Luke Vanderpug today explained producer.
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0:21.8	Let's go inside.
0:22.8	All right.
0:23.8	Zach Beecham senior reporter at Vox host of the worldly podcast.
0:33.4	Hi, Sean.
0:34.4	Welcome back.
0:35.4	Hello.
0:36.4	Did the president just fire his secretary of state on twitter.com?
0:39.7	So that's a good question and it depends on what you mean by fired.
0:45.8	And I'm seriously I'm serious about this, right?
0:49.0	So Tillerson was fired.
0:53.4	He was fired.
0:55.2	We think via Twitter.
0:56.8	We think because he didn't know and Trump didn't speak to him.
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