how this firing went down? this is one of the ones president was going to dor, for whatever reason chose to do it now. >> that's right. and this is no surprise shulkin found out he was fired from phone call chief of staff john kelly. staff said sort of distraction and dead man walking with the news that the president was going to fire him. so chief of staff john kelly told him he was fired same way former secretary of state rex tillerson found out phone call from the chief of staff that not from the president himself. we had been told that the president was speaking to people close, allies, saying he wanted to fire shulkin. a lot of staffers have wondered out loud to me why shulkin didn't quit? writing was on the wall he was going to be firedment and i'm