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Now you can get it, too. welcome to the party. . we are back with the breaking news we have been following this morning, the zparpt of rex tillerson as secretary of state, announced via tweet by president trump. his replacement, mike mom pay, the currently cia director. he had a closer relationship with donald trump than rex tillerson did, but this is news that caught a lot of folks in washington off guard, at least for timing. were just learning from our capitol hill team from garrett hank th...

Nunberg. early in the week he stormed cable nudes to say he would not cooperate with robert muellers investigation despite a subpoena. today cameras were rolling as nunberg did arrive in washington prepared to talk to a grand jury. and finally the announcement last night that president trump had agreed to meet with north koreas kim jong-un within months. just just hours after his white house press secretary said were a long way from negotiations. and south koreas national security advisor who wa...

President trump and kism get can does the reality tonight. remember trump bursting into the briefing room telling reporters expect major announcement regarding north korea. two hours later the president television producer sent the south korean security adviser out and announced president trump has accepted kim jong-un invitation to meet in person by may. even some of trumps own staff at the white house were caught off-guard by the announce. didnt know it was coming. this was just 24 hours ago. ...

Personalities to say the least. >> together. >> i want to bring kaitlyn in on this. the president came into the briefing room and notified reporters. he said that he was running around everyone. they were caught off guard. the chaos imnaturing from this white house has been constant. it seems like the president is taking charge. he is creating more confusion in the process. but hes doing what he wants. >> certainly is, don. but that chaos is on full display especially on a day like this when som...

Talking about, the president didnt even tell his own staff that he was making this announcement. >> thats right. >> how caught off-guard was everybody who works for the white house here? >> reporter: they were caught off here at the white house. i was talking to senior administration official earlier this evening who said they were making plans as this a flouns pt was being made by the president, tan that things, i was being told, could change at any moment. so, yes, they were obviously caught o...

The air to what the president will ultimately decide on that front. and also point out this may be more than just an invitation from kim jong-un. there are these talks that have been going on between the south koreans and north koreans and im told that the content what well be hearing from the south korean leader in just a few momtds is, quote, interesting. so there is going to be more, i think, than just this information about kim jong-un inviting the president of the united states to meet with...

Theyre cooperating and why kim is willing to come to the table, talk about denuclearization and not require supposedly the united states to stop these drills, military drills that we do with south korea. its important. >> harris: we had ambassador john bolton on earlier in the hour. he said, you know, he suspects this caught kim jong-un off guard with response and regard to all that rebecca just said. that hes going to potentially go into this thinking, wow, i never thought i could be here. but ...

When were down by $30 billion, $40 billion, $60 billion, $100 billion, the trade war hurts them. doesnt hurt us. we are going to straighten it out. well do it in a very loving way. it will be a loving, loving way. they will like us better. and they will respect us much more. >> all this as we have been reporting while the presidents chief economic adviser was saying good-bye. republican congressman charlie dent knows a lot about the give and take in trade negotiations and washington politics. i ...

Chief economic advisor saying goodbye. i spoke just before the broadcast. >> congressman, president trump claims there is no chaos in the white house. yet tonight we are reporting that gary cohn is resigning. there is the rob porter mess, and the whole way the tariffs were announced catching the white house staff off guard. does this seem like no chaos to you? >> in my view, a lot of dysfunction in the white house. so yeah, there has been unusually high turn over as pointed out in many occasions...

>> trump himself occasionally alludes to that, dealing with adversaries its best to keep them guessing or off-guard. the reality is whatever you would get from that is outweighed by people, including u.s. government, not to mention allies, who need direction, leadership, who need to know that the policies that the united states employs are going to affect lots and lots of people, millions of people is something to rely on. you cant do trade policy, make decisions if they dont know whats going to...