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He's taken over the counterintelligence center at the cia which is in charge of the russia investigation. he personally controlled it. any russian stuff was put in footnotes which the president didn't see. mike pompeo did not drive this issue into the ground as tillerson has in other people. so i can see one reason that trump would feel more comfortable with him because this russian issue has bugged him since the election. pompeo is going to come in and try to smooth this over. i think it's more than a coincidence in the timing of tillerson being fired. >> we're getting new information in just...

The statement said the administration is speaking with one voice. i don't think that's true. i also think it's possible that it's strategically not speaking with one voice, but you have tillerson being somewhat benevolent, mattis being aggressive, the president talking about fire and fury. is this a strategy, do you think, or is it kind of ad hoc? >> i don't think it's much of a strategy, and i certainly don't think the international community understands what the trump administration is trying to do here. everyone wants to make sure north korea doesn't move further in its nuclear program, but...

>> but, mika, you've heard the same thing that "the post" is reporting today about tillerson being sidelined at state. >> for over a week now, i've been hearing from long time state department types that this is a mess and jobs aren't being filled. he is out of the loop. he's in the wrong place all the time. and he needs more support. especially coming in from running a business. i mean, this is not -- he needs someone with really a deep interagency experience to lift him up and i hear they are shoving potentially bolton toward him but i'm not sure that is the right fit, according to tillerson...

Just happened. here there were a lot of people who were ready to have the meeting they had today, this morning who showed up maybe hours early to be here, jake. >> and, ryan, tell us about the town hall you attended today in iowa. >> reporter: looking right behind us in the courthouse, standing room only, people filled in there more than an hour ahead of time. they were having some open conversations about what they wanted to see, some great exchanges, a lot of talk about education here in iowa. >> why would you vote to jeopardize iowa's quality of education and how is betsy devos a qualified ...

Difference between the republicans and democrats on the committee. they could send it to the full senate without tillerson being confirmed. if rubio did take that to the senate, his opposition and you saw a few more republicans decide they couldn't go with because of that questioning, that could put him in significant jeopardy. i think people are more nervous in the transition and republicans on capitol hill who want tillerson confirmed, they're more nervous today than they were on monday. >> on another topic here, the repeal of the affordable care act. till us in. >> reporter: the house is go...