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Long-terletterman who was on the plane. >> good to see you, shep. >> shepard: you arrive at 4:00 in the morning at joint base andrews, right? and thats how this day begins? >> thats right. we came off of the plane thinking that tillerson had returned from africa trip. nothing really unusual in that he had come back about a day early from that trip. but, he seemed in good spirits on the ride home. there was no indication from either him or from his staff that anything major like this was imminent...

Instability in the world. acting with open disregard for the soncht of other states and the life of their citizens. also, senior state department officials were telling us a couple days ago that the secretary of state and the state department had basically had enough with russia on many fronts. they still wanted to try to work with the russians but they were going to be taking a much more aggressive posture, certainly publicly towards the russians. thats something that we had heard from the stat...

Whatever is built very much up in the air at the moment, shep. >> shepard: jonathan, lets see if we can hear the president. >> ship shep they are a little bit far from the microphones. if we can hear the president. they have allow the cameras to listen in. if its possible then we will. he clearly wanted to talk to the people a few minutes ago. you know, jonathan, he has always been a master of the narrative. and the day begins with a changing of the guards, firing of one man, bringing in of anot...

Concerned that these pictures now, that this story now is taking over the news of the day, shep. >> shepard: whether the plan or not, the effect is there. jeff mason is with us. white house correspondent for the reuters news agency. what comes of this, jeff? is this -- when are decisions made on this? do we know? >> decisions on the wall? >> shepard: yeah. >> yeah, i dont know the time line for that. what i do think is interesting and connected in a way to the tillerson story today is this is a ...

But he has said previously, in general, and this is supported by many border agents down here on the u.s.-mexico border that transparency -- in other words, a certain ability to see through this wall is important. now, four of those have that modicum of transparency. four of them are pretty much solid concrete. you might presume mat president would lean towards one of those through which border agents can see. they say that is important because they need to know who is on the other side of the w...

Start but as we start to head toward that point. keep in mind a date hasnt been set, a dat a place hasnt been set. as it relate to iran, the president said loud and clear this morning that he has a much different view than rex tillerson on this issue. mike pompeo was somebody that he is on the same wavelength with, as i believe the exact phrase that he used. so when you look forward going on crucial key international issues, there is still a lot on the plate left for this administration in the v...

Together. we have a very good relationship. for whatever reason, chemistry, whatever it is why do people get along. i have always right from the beginning from day one i have gotten along well with mike pompeo. and frankly i get along well with rex, too. you know, i wish rex a lot of good things. i think hes going to do -- i think he is going to be very happy. >> the president does spend an awful lot of quality time with mike pompeo as cia director he is over at the white house very frequently g...

Flying around for a long time. im told by people close to him that, you know, they are trying to get that fourth star tore him and maybe at the point he gets that fourth star he may choose to leave the white house. we dont know yet and we dont know if this is going to happen within the next month or two certainly we are led to believe its not. maybe by this time next year we have a different national security advisor maybe by this time next week, shep, you never know. >> shepard: sometimes you c...

For even more isolation in the future, shep. >> shepard: on the time line here, yesterday, the british came forward, including theresa may saying we believe the russians may have, you know, murdered this guy with nerve agent in our country. secretary tillerson spoke out against the russians. the white house given three opportunities to do so refused to criticize the russians and sufdenly rex tillerson is out are those dots to be connected or just to be noticed on a page. >> it could be noticed o...

Right now he is looking at the wall prototypes. and they are pointing them out and showing him things and jonathan hunt, our correspondent, who used to hang out with us here in new york is now california-based. and is there for this. john, i guess there is a little bit of wall for yall. >> yeah, what the president is doing here today, shep, and he is just a few hundred yards from where we are standing right now is looking at the 8 prototypes of wall. now, four of those are essentially all concre...