Wednesday, Mar. 14, 2018

The Daily

The New York Times

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🗓️ 14 March 2018

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Summary

Rex Tillerson’s relationship with President Trump was rocky from the start. But no one was more surprised than Mr. Tillerson when he was fired as secretary of state on Tuesday. Mr. Tillerson was the most persistent advocate of opening diplomatic channels with North Korea, a position that put him publicly at odds with his boss. As Mr. Trump prepares to meet Kim Jong-un, the North’s leader, we talk to the man who came closest to a deal with Pyongyang about what the current administration can learn from previous attempts. Guests: Mark Landler, a White House correspondent for The New York Times; William Perry, a former secretary of defense and one of the few senior U.S. officials to have negotiated directly with the North Koreans. For more information on today’s episode, visit nytimes.com/thedaily.

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0:00.0	From the New York Times on Michael Barbaro, this is the Daily.
0:09.3	Today, his relationship with President Trump was rocky from the start,
0:15.0	but in the end, nobody was more surprised that Rex Tillerson was fired than Rex Tillerson.
0:23.5	And, as Trump prepares to meet with Kim Jong-un, without Tillerson,
0:29.5	lessons from the man who came closest to a deal with North Korea the last time.
0:43.5	It's Wednesday, March 14th.
0:46.5	Rex and I have been talking about this for a long time.
0:53.5	We got along actually quite well, but we just knew we don't think.
0:58.5	When you look at...
1:01.5	The beginning of the end for Rex Tillerson began last Friday when the Secretary of State
1:06.5	was in Africa on an official trip.
1:09.5	He got a phone call from the White House Chief of Staff, John Kelly.
1:13.5	Kelly told him to cut short the trip and come home.
1:16.5	And then he added without explanation, you may be seeing a tweet.
1:21.5	A tweet.
1:22.5	Yes.
1:23.5	Mark Lampler is a White House reporter for the Times.
1:26.5	So, the Secretary continues with his trip, and then here we are on Tuesday morning.
1:31.5	He flies home to Washington, landing at Andrews Air Force Base at 430 in the morning,
1:37.5	presumably going to bed, getting an hour or two of sleep.
1:40.5	He wakes up and that tweet finally arrives.
1:43.5	It's a tweet from President Trump in which he says,
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