Complex sentence: In a 2009 interview, Coughlin described being called in to see Dick Cheney--then Secretary of Defense--who told her he had just fired the Secretary of the Navy, implying it was her fault.
Split into simpler sentences: In a 2009 interview Coughlin described being called into Dick Cheney--then Secretary of Defense. Coughlin said Cheney told her he had just fired the Secretary of the Navy, implying it was her fault.