At Trump's State Department, Tillerson Is Out, Pompeo In

The Political Scene | The New Yorker | Mar 15, 2018

On Tuesday, President Trump announced that he had fired Secretary of State Rex Tillerson and planned to replace him with CIA Director Mike Pompeo. Dexter Filkins joins Evan Osnos to discuss the changes at the top of the State Department and the CIA, and where the Trump administration is heading on foreign policy and national security.

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