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The world not worrying about the state department, it's of no concern to the president. >> and just to kind of quickly jump on that. secretary tillerson has nominated some people. i mean, he's had this kind of tug a war with the white house that he wanted some career officials and some people he thought. he had the deputy elliott abrams, long time respected person in the foreign establishment, but wasn't a never a trumper but wasn't on the trump train. and those people were rejected by the white house. and so the secretary is getting a lot of crit siecicism for not filling those positions, som...

Great one cannot focus on five separate regions or five separate crisis at the same time. if these other people, these assistant secretaries, are not empowered, meaning they are not believed to speak for the current administration, the president or the secretary of state, those regional activities come crashing to a halt. nothing happens. all these officials can do is it really be place holders. >> caretakers. >> they can say things that avoid a problem but they can't make real decisions because nobody will believe they are representing the new administration. >> got it. go ahead, mr. quest. >...

In the post this morning and points to tillerson for carrying out, my word, gutting of the state department. others can use a different one. but she says that change in the state department isn't unusual and yes it can be healthy but here's the big but there is however a big difference between a transfusion and an open wound. there is nothing normal about the current exodus. she goes on, president trump is aware of the situation and he has made it clear that he doesn't care. i'm the only one that matters he told fox news. what did you think of that? >> well, she's right. there is a festering w...

Scenario to replace tillerson with mike pompeo. and today president trump was asked precisely about this. >> mr. president, do you have rex tillerson on the job, mr. president? >> he is here, rex is here. thank you very much, everybody. thank you. >> so let's begin with cnn global affairs correspondent here with me in new york. and this is your beat. you know all things state department. when is the move? when might this happen? >> we think perhaps it might happen in early january, brooke. other officials have said maybe towards the end of january, early february. i think we need to be careful...

He's dead man walking. but he's been dead man walking for a long time. i think the deeper problem, i spent eight years or so in the state department, and i'm told it's still holds, that the real guts of american diplomacy is done by the assistant secretaries, the people who work on europe, and latin america, et cetera. th there are no people there. it's a year into the administration and there are no official empowered assistants secretaries who the world can do business with. >> how are they supposed to do work? if they don't exist in those positions and talking about a change in the top? >> ...