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Press conference. tillerson thanked the american people, he thanked his state department staff and the nation's diplomats. he did not mention or thank president trump. several other top staffers are resigning or were fired after tillerson was ousted. confirmation hearings for pompeo expected to take place in april. he's sure to be grilled on his policy positions for russia and iran by members of the senate foreign relations committee. tillerson's ouster catching many offguard. a senior official says the president thought it was the right time for a transition ahead of talks with north korea....

He did not thank president trump. several other top state department staffers are resigning or were fired after tillerson was ousted. confirmation hearings for pompeo expected to take place in april. he's sure to be grilled on his policy positions for russia and iran by members of the senate foreign relations committee. hard to imagine he won't get confirmed. >> tillerson's ouster catching many offguard. a senior administration official said the president thought it was the right time for transition ahead of talks with north korea. the president himself addressing the korea issue during his vi...

If you put that all together in one box, you have a problem and, you know, tillerson will be gone one way or another. >> certainly will and of course it doesn't help that he never got the rank and file of the state department to support him. i think we should acknowledge that they were willing to do so. there is a real willingness to do this that there would be a voice of reason. chris, i want to play what white house press secretary sarah sanders said today. when she was asked whether the president still has confidence in tillerson. so first here is her response to that. >> look, as swed many...

To that. because this is a president who likes to say you're fired publicly. it's part of his brand. but he actually is pretty meek about doing it. >> sure. but the writing has been on the wall for this. i mean we know that this is a secretary of state who privately called the president a moron and then held a press conference to not disavow it. to a great degree. they disagreeden issues. the president tweeted about rex wasting his time negotiating with north korea. i was told this evening by a very good source that there is a disagreement over moving the embassy to jerusalem. there is a lot o...

Last month at a press conference to deny reports that he called trump a moron. but obviously you would think if trum health care plan real problems or wanted to talk to him in private, that is not how this president works. will tillerson take the bait? >> i don't think that white house feels that tillerson deserved that. it is clear that they wanted to do this in this way because of those simmering tensions that clearly now did not go away. and tillerson doesn't have a choice now. i feel like the choice he really has is to either go quietly, we know he's been a man of few words. or to go loudl...