Rex Tillerson found out when the rest of the world did yesterday, via Twitter, that he was out as Secretary of State and current CIA Director Mike Pompeo was in.
With reports that Trump has been privately telling aides that he wants to purge the “deadweight” in his administration, the line at the White House revolving door may be getting even longer — with word that Veterans Affairs Secretary David Shulkin, HUD Secretary Ben Carson, Education Secretary Betsy DeVos, national security advisor H.R. McMaster and Chief of Staff John Kelly are all in the president’s crosshairs.
Jennifer Braceras, a conservative columnist and attorney who knew Mike Pompeo at Harvard Law School, and Gautam Mukunda, a Harvard Kennedy School fellow and member of the Council on Foreign Relations joined Jim Braude to discuss.
