Exxonmobil Ceo Rex Tillerson

Relations between the United States and Russia, at their lowest level since the Cold War, will not restart "with a clean slate," Secretary of State Rex Tillerson said on Sunday.

Rex Tillerson was sworn in as US Secretary of State and soon his boss President Donald Trump said the former ExxonMobil CEO's task was to bring a "clear-eyed focus" to foreign affairs and to seek new solutions to enormous challenges facing the world.

President-elect Donald Trump has picked as his secretary of state Rex Tillerson, the chief executive of ExxonMobil, setting up a possible confrontation with members of his own party in the Senate, Trump's transition team announced Tuesday.

Relations between the United States and Russia, at their lowest level since the Cold War, will not restart "with a clean slate," Secretary of State Rex Tillerson said on Sunday.

Rex Tillerson was sworn in as US Secretary of State and soon his boss President Donald Trump said the former ExxonMobil CEO's task was to bring a "clear-eyed focus" to foreign affairs and to seek new solutions to enormous challenges facing the world.

President-elect Donald Trump has picked as his secretary of state Rex Tillerson, the chief executive of ExxonMobil, setting up a possible confrontation with members of his own party in the Senate, Trump's transition team announced Tuesday.