LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: Nick Givas Media Reporter CNBC’s “Power Lunch” co-anchor Brian Sullivan compared Secretary of State Rex Tillerson to a fictional mother of dragons Wednesday on “Morning Joe.” “Perhaps the Trump administration is getting its advice from ‘Game of Thrones,’” Sullivan said. “Remember the dragon episode last Sunday, ‘Fire and Fury’? It seemed like…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Russ Read Secretary of State Rex Tillerson and Secretary of Defense James Mattis “teamed up” to block national security adviser H.R. McMaster’s plan for Afghanistan from reaching the president’s desk, according to a Politico report. Mattis and Tillerson apparently believed that McMaster’s initial plan, which involved a troop increase and four-year…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Nick Givas Former director of policy planning for the State Department Richard Haas quoted CNN host Fareed Zakaria on “Morning Joe” Thursday, saying society is moving towards a “post-American world.” The panel was discussing Secretary of State Rex Tillerson and America’s role in the world abroad when Haas said…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Saagar Enjeti President Donald Trump expects to find the Islamic Republic of Iran non-compliant with the terms of the 2015 nuclear deal in September, he told The Wall Street Journal in a Tuesday interview. “If it was up to me, I would have had them noncompliant 180 days ago,”…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Will Racke Department of State spokesperson Heather Nauert shot down speculation that Secretary Of State Rex Tillerson plans to quit his position in the near future, following reports that he has become frustrated over his deteriorating relationship with the White House. “That is false,” she told reporters at a…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Will Racke Secretary of State Rex Tillerson is growing increasingly frustrated with his relationship to the White House and may not serve even a full year as the nation’s top diplomat, Reuters reported Tuesday. Tillerson has confided in friends that he will be lucky to last a year on the…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Ryan Pickrell The Trump administration plans to officially ban travel to North Korea for American citizens, according to U.S. officials. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson has decided to impose a “geographic travel restriction” on North Korea, officials told the Associated Press. Young Pioneer Tours, a company in China that takes foreigners into North Korea, said it…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Will Racke The Trump administration on Monday certified that Iran is technically in compliance with an agreement to limit its nuclear program in exchange for sanctions relief, but warned that Tehran will likely face punishment for violating “the spirit” of the deal. Department of State review of Iran’s behavior over the…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Ryan Pickrell North Korea has released an imprisoned American university student, Secretary of State Rex Tillerson revealed Tuesday. Otto Frederick Warmbier, a University of Virginia undergraduate, was arrested last January while visiting North Korea as a tourist. He was detained for stealing a propaganda poster from a hotel and…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Michael Bastasch The number-two U.S. diplomat to China resigned, sources say, because he disagreed with President Donald Trump’s decision to withdraw from the Paris agreement on climate change. A Department of State official confirmed to The Daily Caller News Foundation that David Rank, the deputy chief of mission at the…