| No Images? Click here   Rex Tillerson is out as secretary of state after just 14 months on the job.President Donald Trump on Tuesday tweeted that he is replacing Tillerson with CIA Director Mike Pompeo, minutes after The Washington Post first reported that he had ousted Tillerson on Friday. Addressing reporters at the State Department Tuesday afternoon, a sullen Tillerson said that Trump had called him at noon, more than three hours after the president’s tweet.The White House said Trump asked Tillerson to step down on Friday so the president could have a “new team in place” for an upcoming meeting with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un.But a State Department spokesman told CNN that Tillerson found out about his firing when Trump announced it on Twitter on Tuesday.According to a statement that followed Trump’s announcement, Tillerson ”had every intention of staying,” the State Department said. “The Secretary did not speak to the President and is unaware of the reason.”  WHAT ELSE IS HAPPENING?Trump's new CIA director helped oversee a controversial torture program. Gina Haspel was involved in the waterboarding of one terror suspect 83 times in a month, to the point where doctors had to revive him.A longtime personal assistant to Trump was reportedly fired and escorted out of the White House on Monday, with one report claiming the ouster was due to a criminal investigation.An ICE spokesman quit, bashing the Trump administration on immigration raids. James Schwab said that officials have spread misleading information about a recent immigration crackdown.
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