Laura Kozinski News Today

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 think...

Involved, he spoke to the president twice. bt coming from the white house via chief of staff, that decision was made shortly after the presidents decision to speak to kim jong-un. you know, wolf, this has been brewing for some time. so the fact that tillerson is out is in no way a surprise to this building. the writing was on the wall for months, but it seemed as if they had reached some kind of detante among themselves that, at the very least, when tillerson leaves eventually he will go out on ...

Reality tv moment of hearing president trump say, "youre fired" since he learned about the decision through a tweet. the president said he got along well with tillerson but he also says he and mike pompeo are always on the same wavelength. lets bring in our senior diplomat laura kozinski. shes at the state department. laura, has the president spoken to rex tillerson today about the decision to fire him? >> reporter: as far as we know, he has not, but most of our information has come from tillers...