plan. which among other things has consisted of dramatically diminishing the diplomatic staff. well, yesterday, the secretary responded. i don t want to have a layoff. i don t want to fire a bunch of people. i said, let s manager some of our staffing target which is is normal attrition. so, we re keeping the organization fully staffed. we re still learning foreign officers school. we ve hired over 300 this year. so there is no hollowing out. these numbers that people are throwing around are just false. they re wrong. tillerson s remarks come one day after his top aide in charge of his overhaul program for the state department abruptly resigned after three months on the job. there s new developments on national security adviser michael flynn. the washington post cite unnamed sources saying within the first weeks flynn took steps
to promote a power plant. now, the private sector backers of the project include president reagan national security adviser bud mcfarland. moved to get federal approval including a draft that president trump could send to cabinet. and flynn forwarded the e-mail to national security council staff and instructsed them, quote, to essentially put it on white house letterhead and send to the white house for approval. the wall street journal indicates there s no indication that such a memo ever went to trump. and a white house told the post the nfc staff tamped down. declining to comment for both papers saying the power company did not make a specific request and was reading in response to mcfarlane being asked to prepare thoughts on the nfc process. all right. there s also ongoing pressure for congressman john conyers to