Tillerson to speak shortly with inheritor hopeful Pompeo, U.S. State Dept. says

WASHINGTON – Fired US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson skeleton to pronounce shortly with CIA Director Mike Pompeo, who has been nominated to attain him, a State Department pronounced on Thursday.

Spokeswoman Heather Nauert pronounced Tillerson had handed over a day-to-day responsibilities of using a dialect to Deputy Secretary John Sullivan, though would continue to work from his bureau and keep a pretension of secretary of state until his depart during midnight on Mar 31.

President Donald Trump dismissed Tillerson on Tuesday after a array of rifts over process on North Korea, Russia and Iran, publicly announcing a preference on Twitter only hours after a tip U.S. diplomat returned early from a outing to Africa.

Differences over how to understanding with North Korea’s growth of nuclear-tipped missiles able of attack a United States was a categorical cause in Trump’s decision, sources informed with a deliberations told Reuters.

“The secretary is in a building currently …,” Nauert told reporters. “He has ongoing meetings and business to attend to jacket adult his tenure here during a State Department.”

Pompeo has to be reliable by a U.S. Senate before he can attain Tillerson. The Senate Foreign Relations Committee was not approaching to reason hearings on a CIA director’s assignment until April, after Tillerson has left a State Department.