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Officials who are resigning an don't want to stay in this administration, but in this particular bureau, the bureau that handles the safety of u.s. citizens overseas, u.s. consulates overseas and running and safety of u.s. personnel and facilities abroad this leaves a real gaping hole 150 years of institutional knowledge out the door before rex tillerson even takes office brooke. >> so with the perfect setup, elise, josh your interpretation of this and does trump have a team ready to swoop in and fill these positions? >> i agree with everything elise just said. we've both been hearing over the...

Learning four top state house officials have been fired by the trump administration according to two senior striadministratio officials, this comes after patrick kennedy who served asinifor nine years, as the under sk secretary and worked there more than 40 years. >> elise, starting with you, what happened? tell me the back story? >> reporter: brooke, we're talking about four officials with a combined 150 years of institutional knowledge at the state department. pat kennedy, long serving under secretary of management is kind of a controversial figure, he was involved in handling the ben g -- b...

So when these four officials left the building or resigned yesterday people didn't know was this their decision or the trump administration's decision and elise's excellent reporting showed that it was the trump administration's decision to let them go and what that tells us is that they're not only cleaning house in the political realm. going through the entire works of the federal government. >> but do they have successors? >> reporter: they don't have successors yet, acting people who can step in and sort of keep the train running, but one of rex tillerson's jobs assuming he's confirmed by ...