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Director. it's clear the president wants someone more political. john ratcliffe would fit the bill. >> let's get over to our colleague, hans. this coming in just now. what do you know? >> reporter: we are trying to confirm this at nbc news. there's a long history between dan coats, long by the trump administration standards, two years of dan coats and donald trump not getting along. remember back in march, coats almost resigned. it was then mike pence, who hasnhas an indiana connection with coats, con vvinces coats not to predesign. you also have the president referring to mr. coats and mr. ro...

State of the international financial system. but what made the biggest headline from that hearing was the treasury secretary telling lawmakers that a re-design of the $20 bill featuring harriet tubman was being delayed. mnuchin said the reason for the delay was he had to prioritize redesigning other denominations that were having problems with counterfeiting and so the new 20 would not start rolling out until at least 2028. now, this was a departure from the obama administration timeline. it had announced the new 20 would be unveiled in 2020. it was supposed to coincide with the hundredth anni...

Antics, no missile tests before north korea can sit down at the table. ultimately, denuclearization and the end of the nuclear weapons program is the goal and i don't think anybody expects that program to be dead and buried before there would be negotiations because that's what the negotiations would be about. >> right. >> he also addressed at the end of this opinion piece the dysfunction if you will within the state department, all of those very public departures that we have seen. what did you make of that? >> well, look. when the secretary came into the state department he wanted to have a ...

Steps to continue to ratchet up pressure, but by no means did he want it to be perceived that this was an ultimate, exasperated moment of some final bit of diplomacy. >> michelle, to david's point on friday saying, you know, it's acknowledging publicly that the poor morale at stake. can you tell me more about that? >> i think that the secretary of state would acknowledge that himself and he didn't deny it today when we asked him a question specifically about that, but he did want to take that moment to turn around and stay before cameras during this photo-op and say that he takes exception wit...

As rex tillerson is under fire for his efforts to reform the state department. even facing allegations he is putting the united states in danger. some critics worry tillerson's overhaul will lack experience in personnel in the future. i want to bring in elise labott. specifically, what is causing this alarm at the state department? >> well, erica, you know, secretary tillerson has faced a lot of criticism on the hill for, you know, not filling state department positions for his management decisions at state and now for his kind of re-design of the state department. the latest wave of criticism...