steven goldstein firing should probably get more attention than it is getting. if we are going to obsess about people coming and going, that would be something. here is andrea mitchell. thank you for being here. >> good to be here. >> can you talk to me about the steven goldstein firing? as far as i understand, he was not a hugely well-known quantity. inside the state department. he has not been there for a very long time. what do you know about the circumstances of his firing and the reaction to it? >> he was fired for telling the truth for describing at least how tillerson thought or perceived his firing. the fact that he did not know about it until he was called and told there was the tweet. he had arrived at the air force base at 4:00 a.m. the tweet was at 8:44 a.m. he had the night before on the trip, according to all the people whom i spoke to who were on that plane including abigail williams, gardner harris, josh letterman from josh from the a.p., all of these people. and i just circled back to them yesterday, all reported that in his briefings to them wh

i'm here to express my sincere appreciation for director goldstein. i believe the board of appeals is the most respected departments because of the work of the commissioners and board staff. i think there's been a history of excellent leadership with the board of appeals and think ms. goldstein has filled some big shoes and honored the tradition of the board and further advanced the department but making it more publicly accessible. you can go back and see every first decision of the board of appeals. i don't know if commissioner fung was on that but it's impressive what she's done in here nearly 10 years with the board. also, i think she exemplifies the best characteristic of public servant, patient, pragmatic. she say role mo model. she's been one for me and i will miss working with her but i'm grateful over the past 10 years to do so. i wish her nothing but the best in retirement and the city has a program called prop f though you're retired you can still work for the city and maybe you can consider doing that. >> is that an offer? >> thank you. >>

goldstein. martin goldstein. >> i wonder, do you mind if i go look at the yard again. 'd like to test the space out there. >> the agent stalled on that question. she nose religion is not a decent , not in any society. how will her husband feel. is this a pertinent fact to add to the others in her notebook. what does she herself really think? opportunity to find out? acing mrs. goldstein and her ston across that narrow strip of awn, does she see before her a bridge or a gulf. neighbours or strangers? that she sees no problem at all. maybe she is only wondering the agent went to school. ames, what does the democratic way mean to him. waiting for problem him in his outer office. has worked hard understanding. to serve the people. e has become something of an expert in foreign economics, now try, agriculture u and he faces a constituent who has on those ideas subjects. the senator must really hear him him.understand >> well i heard your speech from the florida senate the other way. senator, i just can't see it. tax mares we american pay for a broken down badly run worldy h

>> goldstein. marvin goldstein. >> i wonder do you mind if i go out and look at the yard again? i'd like to check the space out there. >> the agent certainly stalled on that question. >> she knows religion isn't a question, not in any decent society. how will her husband feel? is this a pertinent fact to add to all the others in her notebook? what does she herself really think? is this an opportunity to find out? facing mrs. goldstein and her son across that narrow strip of lawn, does she see before her a bridge or a gulf, neighbors or strangers? it may be that she sees no problem at all. maybe she's only wondering where the agent went to school. and senator ames, what does the democratic way mean for him? there's that problem waiting for him in his outer office. he has worked hard for understanding. to serve the people he has become something of an expert in foreign economics, forestry, agriculture. now he faces a constituent who has his own ideas on those subjects. the senator must really hear him and understand him. >> well, i heard your speech from the floor of the senate th

shortly after that, we got word that goldstein himself now has been fired by the white house. speaking to him since then, though, he says that he stands by what he says happened in this, that tillerson got a call from white house chief of staff kelly on friday, indicating that there was something coming, that there was a change brewing, that there would likely be a tweet. but tillerson, according to goldstein, said that it wasn't really definitive that he was going to be losing his job and then it did indeed come as a surprise today via that tweet. when i asked goldstein, well, do you think, then, that the white house isn't quite telling the truth about the timeline? he says he only knows what tillerson told him and that tillerson said the fact he was losing his job today was entirely a surprise this morning, wolf. >> it was a dramatic moment, indeed. the firing of rex tillerson comes as the president is getting ready to meet with the north korean leader kim jong-un. tillerson was a little cautious about that, i assume. listen to this. >> i really didn't discuss it very much w

goldstein and the white house. he tried to get tillerson out a little bit more and he's been on-the-record spokesman for tillerson on these trips. he's been seen as tillerson's voice. when tillerson pushes back on the the president it's usually in steve's name. it doesn't surprise me this has happened. i can speak for experience. i worked for secretary chuck hagel when he worked for president obama. guess who was on the street looking for a new job? when you're a spokesman in this town, you're tied to the principal. when your principal goes, you can expect you're going to go. this was pretty fast, but given the tensions that existed, i'm not surprised. >> i want to read the statement again because it is unusual. mr. goldstein clearly expressing his loyalty to secretary tillerson here and paying a price for it. the secretary had every intention of remaining because of the tangible progress made on critical security issues. he established and enjoyed relationships with his counterparts. the secretary did not speak to

this is the statement from steve goldstein. first, this is what goldstein said earlier today. the secretary had every intention of remaining, he said. the secretary did not speak to the president this morning and is unaware of the reason. now, again, let me put up the statement from goldstein that nbc news has just received within the last few minutes where he says, i was proud to speak on behalf of the secretary of state to the american people and allies throughout the world. this has been the honor of a lifetime. he add, it's within the purview. you are appointed by the administration and you are appointed for the time being. this next graph i think is significant. writes, i don't have regret, other than you always want to try to do more, but i feel proud of what we achieved and i am so impressed by the secretary of state. he is truly a great man. he goes on to talk about his desire to get a little more rest in the future. craze t that's the bottom line about where things stand. a dramatic shake-up. at the state department as well. the chips continuing to fall this afternoon

amy: so is this bank will a done deal, alexis goldstein? >> absolutely not. a lot of those who voted yes can absolutely change their minds when this hits the senate floor. the congressional budget office in my opinion gave them all of the justification they need to change their vote. the cbo said this does make future bailouts more likely and again there's a 50% chance that it also helps really large banks like j.p. morgan and citibank. if folks are fired up about this, you should call your senators and let them know to on the bill. >> think progress reports many of the banks getting really from this bill also finance assault weapons? can you explain this? >> think progress had a great article listing specifically all of the banks that financed assault weapons manufacturers. there are at least 12 banks on that list that also benefit from this ill by my count. these are banks like citizens and reaches another bank like that. it strikes me as a very strange time for the democrats to be teaming up with republicans to deregulate banks, including banks that are he

but the state department and steve goldstein today fired. i haven't seen anything like the state department so suddenly, and this is the statement he made. he is the undersecretary or was the undersecretary of state for diplomacy. the secretary had every intention of staying because of the critical progress made in national security. the secretary did not speak to the president and is unaware of the reason he was fired, and within a couple of hours, the man who put that statement out, fired. >> one of the things we're seeing right here right now is something the president wanted to do. he wanted to meet with kim jong-un of north korea. he said he was going to do it despite the advice of his experts. and mike pompeo, director of the cia, in as secretary of state. that's what he did. >> and he said he was on the way to getting his cabinet exactly the makeup he wants it to be. we know from sources on the outside that still talk to people on the inside that president trump has become increasingly isolated and he is increasingly angry. you've got

goldstein. and also from mayor farrell, who declared march 30 cynthia goldstein day in san francisco. it was actually very touching. board announced the hiring of julie rosensteen. she's been at sfmta since 2005. the board heard a rehearing for an appeal at 2650 hyde street, which the board unanimously denied on february 7. the proposal was to flatten the gable roof of an existing two-unit building, add roof deck and construct an additional third floor. there was a point hearing for discretionary review last april. planning department recommended that the roof deck be set back 5 feet from the property lines. commission agreed and voted 4-1 to take d.r. zoning administrator granted the variance with the same condition. d.r. requestor appealed the building permit. board voted to deny the hearing request. the board heard an appeal of the building permit for 100 gate street, which proposed a third-story addition to a single-family home. a discretionary review hearing was held. the commission found n

and that undersecretary named steve goldstein tweeted that out. shortly after that, u.s. diplomats around the world got this guidance from washington, from the state department via e-mail telling them to freeze further amplification of content that fae tours secretary tillerson until he could give his own statement later in the day. so according to a senior state department official, they were told by washington to hold off tweeting, retweeting, posting anything about the statement that came out and was already circulate around the world via the press until they heard from the secretary himself. but multiple dip mallomats arou the world said they found this to be very bizarre. an official statement from a state department undersecretary. nobody at the state department was disputing that account or pulling it or saying it was wrong, but they were told not to tweet about it. we're hearing from diplomats who said that that was bizarre? they kind of understood where it was coming from because that undersecretary, steve goldstein, it turns out his account directly conflicted w

. >> tucker: adam goldstein, the dean, dean goldstein said -- i just want to makeo sure -- he said that the president selection somehow justify this attack on you? >> yeah, he doesn't say things in short sentences like that. i what i took away from that part of thero conversation was that e was trying to justify their behavior because it was a response to the election of president trump. >> tucker: i mean, that is -- i don't even know what to say. it doesn't make any sense. if you had been a different kind of person, this would have been swiftly punished i assume, righ right? >> exactly. we had a racial slur incident a few weeks ago. let me be clear, i'm not equating what was said by this girl to to what was said about, but this student was asked to leave our school. about two days later. this trick several weeks and theyey would not open a judicial case about harassment even leaving the race part out of it. >> tucker: dean goldstein didn't say, barack obama was elected president nine years ago, so it is understandable that people might do that. that wasn't the excuse he gave in that ca

before he was fired, goldstein released a statement saying tillerson had not spoken to trump and that he, being tillerson, didn't know why he was fired. goldstein was the senior vice president of bp global solutions before serving in the state department. his departure leaves the state department with only one of the six undersecretary positions filled. tillerson's chief of staff and deputy chief of staff also submitted their resignations after their boss was fired. meanwhile, president trump's personal assistant, john mcentee, was ousted on monday, after his security clearances were revoked following an investigation into his alleged online gambling problems and his so-called "mishandling" of taxes. he was reptedly escorted out of the white house so fast, he couldn't even get his coat. but on tuesday, only one day later, trump's 2020 re-election campaign announced mcentee would serve as senior adviser for four trump's 2020 campaign operations. there is now speculation that president trump will soon oust veterans affairs secretary david shulkin and replace him with energy secretary ri

but first, let's start with this bank bill, alexis goldstein. >> it is good to be here. amy: talk about how this has rolled forward and although there is so much enormous partisan bickering in washington, when it comes to this bank bill, a number of democrats s are joining with the republicans. explain what it will do. >> this bill does three big things. one is that it is going to make future ballots more likely because it rolls back these important safeguards and monitoring that were put in place after the last crisis and was meant to learn from the mistakes o of the lalast crisis. the otother thing is it is going to be e regulate a lot of reall, really large foreign banks like deutsche bank that has presence in the u.s., banks like deutsche bank that gave large amounts of money and loans to folks like donald trump. wraps most worryingly, it will possibly encourage further discrimination in mortgage lending because it reduces the reporting requirements on basically 85% -- 85% of banks, requirements that are used to catch discrimination when i it occurs. amy: i w want to

hours later, goldstein was fired. josh letterman, the a.p. reporter who was on the plane with tillerson last night described the secretary's demeanor, let's listen to him. >> i have to tell you there were no indications from his behavior from that of his aides or other people on the plane this was imminent. if tillerson knew at that point that this was his swan song and that he would not appear publicly much longer as secretary of state, he sure didn't show it. >> rex tillerson delivered a statement of his own today thanking diplomats, soldiers and the american people, but leaving out the man he served for the past 14 months, donald trump. the only mention of the president was a reference to the fact that he didn't hear from him till hours after the news had broken. let's watch that. >> i received a call today from the president of the united states at a little after noontime from air force one and i've also spoken to chief of staff kelly. i will be meeting members of my front office team and policy planning later today to thank them for thei

they fired goldstein. ( laughter ) "some guy said i impulsively fire people without warning? fire that guy." ( laughter ) now, late this morning, trump explained why he fired tillerson during an exciting episode of "chopper talk." >> rex and i have been talking about this for a long time. we got along, actually, quite well, but we disagreed on things. i wish rex a lot of good things. i think he's going to do-- i think he's going to be very happy. i think rex will be much happier now. >> stephen: "rex will be much happier now?" every word in that sentence is what you say to a child when their dog has to be put down. "rex will be happier now. he's on a farm upstate-- by which i mean, he's dead. but at least he doesn't have to work for me." so what pushed trump over the edge on tillerson? now, we don't know for sure, but, yes we do. it was russia. tillerson's firing came one day after he strongly condemned russia for a recent poisoning of a former russian spy working for the british. prime minister theresa may concluded that it was highly likely that russia was responsible for t

steve goldstein was fired i'm told by the deputy director of white house personnel after that statement that was tillerson's version of how he was fired. there are two other names to add to your list, margaret, chief of staff to rex tillerson and her deputy, as well. you need a bigger board. >> so tillerson's chief of staff and the deputy chief of staff to tillerson are out tonight with this announcement. >> exactly. >> let me ask you another question on this andrea, it may obviously be a coincidence, it was striking today else specially given that timeline they laid out that this firing poll lowed followed tillerson for the poisoning of the ex spy. is there any reason to think those events are related? >> i thought so initially. i was posting on that. when our colleagues called us from the refueling when they had w wi-fi and could give a statements that followed, a written statement from tillerson which exactly was what the brits were saying, what teresa may said as you pointed out and so different from what sarah sanders said from the briefing room, i thought that was quite unusual. i

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goldstein was fired shortly thereafter. trump was conciliatory when he spoke about his differences with tillerson. while tillerson had little to say about his boss. watch. >> i wish rex tillerson well. rex and i have been talking about this for a long time. we got along actually quite well. but we disagreed on things. when you look at the iran deal, i think it is terrible. i guess he thought it was okay. i wanted to either break it or do something. and he felt a little bit differently. so we were not really thinking the same. i think rex will be much happier now. >> i received a call today from the president of the united states a little after noontime from air force one. and i've also spoken to white house chief of staff kelly. i will be meeting members my front office team to thank them for their service. they have been extraordinarily dedicated to our mission which includes promoting values that i view as being very important. >> and tillerson will remain in his post until midnight march 31, but is delegating all authori

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she received a stramt attributable to steve goldstein, the undersecretary, an official state department employee who said the secretary had every intention of staying because of critical progress being made in national security. he will miss his colleagues at the department of state and the foreign ministers he's worked with throughout the world. the secretary did not speak to the president and is unaware of the reason, but he's grateful for the opportunity to serve and believes public service is a noble calling. he wishes the secretary designate pompeo well. let me read the critical line. the secretary did not speak to the president and is unaware of the reason. again, president donald trump who spent a career on tv firing people, apparently unwilling, unable to fire rex tillerson himself, had someone else do it. we're joined by cnn political analyst rachel bade and alex burns. bob baer still with us. alex, that is fascinating to hear again, from a government official by name on the record, alex, saying that the president did not speak to the secretary of state and is simply unaware of

goldstein was fired for contradicting the white house events. back to you. melissa: wow. adam shapiro, thank you. here to react to all of that, former george w. bush senior staffer. i thought it was interesting the criticism are that came today. some people said, well, you know, this is the president. you know, only putting in people who will agree with him. and then other criticism saying, well, now he's looking at someone who is against tariffs just the same way that his former national economic adviser was against tariffs. it's sort of like he's going to get criticized no matter what he does. >> that's being the president of the united states. you can't please all the people all the time. but i can to assure you the president surrounds himself with people with different opinions. you can see that the president likes the give-and-take amongst subordinates. but here's the problem. subordinates can disagree with the president all they want. but once the president makes a decision, everybody has to move with the president. there can't be high-level officials that are at od

goldstein and her son across that narrow strip of lawn, does she see before her a bridge or a gulf? neighbors or strangers? it may be that she sees no problem at all. maybe she's only wondering where the agent went to school. >> and senator ames, what does the democratic way mean to him? there is that problem waiting for him in his outer office. he has worked hard for understanding, to serve the people, he has become something of an expert in foreign economics, forestry, agriculture, now he faces a constituent who has his own ideas on those subjects. the senator must really hear him and understand him. >> well, i heard your speech from the floor of the senate the other day. senator, i just can't see it. why should we american taxpayers have to pay for some broken down badly run economy halfway around the world just because its house isn't in order and ours is? it's bad business. and i can't see it and a lot of other voters at home can't see it, either. >> let's put it this way, mr. baker, how would you feel if you had most of the money of our town, if your neighbors were having a ro

even just kind of leaving the race part out of it. >> tucker: dean goldstein didn't say in that case barack obama was elected president nine years ago. understandable that people might do that. that wasn't the excuse he gave in that case i assume, right? >> oh, no. yeah. this incident just happened a few weeks ago here. but, yeah, no. it makes no sense. i told him in that meeting that, you know, individuals have to be held accountable for their individual actions under the rules we have at the school. and you know, if i had it my way, we would just abide by the first amendment and we wouldn't have all these rules. >> tucker: i get it. >> if we are going to have these strict rules and biased reporting system, then everybody needs to be held account being the exact same way. >> tucker: ryan, i really appreciate how brave you are to come on and how clearly you expressed that and in a way you are a credit to wake forrest because you are impressive the school is obviously not living up to its own standards. thanks for telling us about it i appreciate it. >> yeah. thanks for having me on.

. >> reporter: daniel goldstein in havertown is so worried about the new nor'easter that he is trying to cut down this partially fallen tree in his yard with the hand saw, since tree cutting co are overwhelmed. >> just trying to take bigger pieces down because i don't want the rest of the tree to go this way. thinks all i got. you go to home lowes or anything like that i am's sure they are out of the big stuff. so just trying to dot best i can. >> reporter: the numbers in delaware county is there are about 17,000 homes, businesses , without power, and most of those customers should expect services to be restored by midnight tonight but some unfortunately, a few customers may have to wait as long as wednesday to have power, restored, and wednesday, of course, it is when we are expect ago this new nor'easter live from delaware county, a leash's nieves for cbs-3 "eyewitness news". >>> utility co in our region are making progress in getting power back on. here's where we stan right now peco is reporting 41,000 outages, ppl more than 3600 outages. atlantic city electric has 176 homes and b

the us under secretary of state steven goldstein. you can see that interview in full on the bbc news channel at seven o'clock. that is coming upa channel at seven o'clock. that is coming up a little bit later, that interview with christian fraser. kfc says it is switching back to its old supplierfor kfc says it is switching back to its old supplier for more than a third of its branches to try to help fix its chicken shortage. last month, the fast—food chain had to close up to 80% of its 870 branches after it switched to a new supplier. prince harry and meghan markle have been visiting birmingham, to launch a project to mark international women's day, aimed at inspiring female students to take up careers in science, technology and engineering industries. the royal couple spoke to crowds outside the event — some of whom had waited for several hours to see them on the latest leg of their tour of the country, in advance of their wedding in may. time for a look at the weather. it has been cold and snowy again for some people, it depen

that is out there you can't take it back so the democrats have this information we invited richard goldstein a former adviser to hillary clinton's campaign as well as a legal and media analyst line old to discuss whether the political use of social media inside america is more dangerous than the claims of potential foreign interference looks like it's undisputed that they did things that either were clearly against the law campaign finance laws the involvement of foreigners in u.s. election campaigns let alone kind of the moral approach of basically pretending to be something that they weren't. so they either clearly won over the line or they they went right up to it and i think that's what investigators where the state attorneys general i'm sure congress will look into it whether the. justice department looks into it because donald trump was the beneficiary of his campaign that they worked with i wouldn't exactly hold my breath on that happening the entire point is being missed here it's not cambridge analytic it's the fact that facebook is a tool a proxy if you will of that government and

printed out for him so that's apparently how he found out he got fired and that's according to steve goldstein undersecretary for public diplomacy and tillerson has just returned from his africa tour so not exactly the best welcome home but a spokesman for tillerson said that there hasn't been any direct conversations with trump regarding the decision however rumor surrounding tillerson is departure have been floating around for months now thank you. very slowly. very. slowly. really to the very very. commenting on the new appointment trump said that he until or scene had a number of disagreements ranging from the iran deal to negotiations with north korea and the tiller said reportedly even called trump a moron a report that the former secretary of state hasn't even denied but the back and forth ended with trump challenging tillerson to an i.q. test and according to reports the president wasn't too pleased with tillerson body language either he was said to have slouched in a rolled his eyes during meetings with trump so now a former cia director will be the nation's top diplomat trump spoke t

firings at state didn't end there at lunchtime the white house dismissed under secretary of state steve goldstein after he released this statement suggesting tillerson thought his job was safe this secretary did not speak to the president this morning and is unaware of the reason for his dismissal in any case tell us and said he had no regrets rex tillerson didn't lose his job because he didn't agree with the president analysts say he lost his job because he refused to pretend that he agreed if confirmed my pump ale will face a very high standard of agreeing with the president all the time especially because the president believes he already does rosalynn jordan al-jazeera the state department. on the white house and to listen have had a series of public spats things one of quite the same after he was quoted as calling trump a moron a secretary's profound disagreements with the president on policy appear to be his undoing thomas made no secret of his distaste for the iran nuclear deal calling it an embarrassment to the united states doesn't argue that the u.s. should remain in step with european

shortly thereafter the white house fired under secretary steve goldstein. secretary tillerson took no questions to clear this up. he made his statement and he left the podium here. he did tout some of his accomplishments. he talked about the campaign against north korea to get kim jong un to the negotiating table. strategy in afghanistan and south asia and took one more shot at russia saying if russia does not change its course, that then it is due for even more isolation in the future, shep. >> shepard: on the time line here, yesterday, the british came forward, including theresa may saying we believe the russians may have, you know, murdered this guy with nerve agent in our country. secretary tillerson spoke out against the russians. the white house given three opportunities to do so refused to criticize the russians and sufdenly rex tillerson is out are those dots to be connected or just to be noticed on a page. >> it could be noticed on a page, shep. if you are to believe the time line on this and the secretary of state knew on friday night he was not g

. >> undersecretary of state steve goldstein was also fired just hours after confirming tillerson did not know about his own ouster before the president's surprise tweet. tillerson turned over his responsibilities to deputy secretary of state john sullivan and officially leaves his post on march 31st. nbc's kristen welker has more on this stung development. >> reporter: secretary of state rex tillerson learned he was fired at the same time the rest of the world did, on twitter. the president tweeting mike pompeo, director of the cia will become our new secretary of state. he will do a fantastic job. thank you to rex tillerson for his service. for months, tillerson's ouster was the topic of speculation after he called the president a moron. two sources tell nbc news it was a slight the president never got over and exacerbated their policy differences from north korea to tariffs, russia, and the iran nuclear deal. >> when you look at the iran deal, i think it's terrible. i guess he thought it was okay. >> reporter: the president insisting -- >> really, it was a different mind set. it wa

in i think it was 2002 or 2003, mayor brown and then recreation and park general manager, elizabeth goldstein and i'm not who was running mta at the time -- dan? michael burns. so we were able to transform -- well, this property was given to the recreation and park department and, boy, were we happy to get it, sort of. [laughter]. it's what i would call a fixer upper. and it has taken the last 16 or 17 years of sweat and desire and push and pull and push and pull. and leadership, which you're going to hear from today. and community leadership to get to where we are today. this really genuinely is the little project that could. and so here we are, it's just a joyous moment. mark buell, who is not here today. here's our mayor, but i meant to go over here to the commissioner. mark buell is president of the rec and park commission, and says it takes a village. this takes an entire city to pull this project off. and there are so many people to acknowledge and thank. i'm going to that and then turn the microphone over to our mayor. there are a lot of people who have had some skin in the game here.

firings at state didn't end there at lunchtime the white house dismissed under secretary of state steve goldstein after he released this statement suggesting tillerson thought his job was safe the secretary did not speak to the president this morning and is unaware of the reason for his dismissal in any case tillerson said he had no regrets rex tillerson didn't lose his job because he didn't agree with the president analysts say he lost his job because he refused to pretend that he agreed if confirmed my pump ale will face a very high standard of agreeing with the president all the time especially because the president believes he already does rosalynn jordan al-jazeera the state department the world renowned physicist stephen hawkins has died he was seventy six children paid tribute to their father as an extraordinary man his work and legacy will live on for many it's still to come on al-jazeera india's highest court wades into a dispute that has divided into some muslims for more than twenty five years. hello take a look at the weather across asia this time in northeastern areas we got a fronta