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whatlly what jared did was mbs wanted him to do, which was fire rex tillerson.re is an ironic twist to this tale. in the spring 2018, mbs arrived in washington. the president asks him for $4 billion to help rebuilding syria. mbs says, i don't have that kind of money. this atrocious war in yemen has cost the saudis a lot and oil prices fell. listened.p and jared the qatarisis then arrivedd in washington. strategically, they offered trump and jared, they said, we have plenty of money for whatever you want to do but you need to end the support of this blockade. period,ly the same time 's6 fifth avenue, the kushner trouble building, gets an extraordinary deal that makes absolutely no sense. a canadian firm, whose second-largest investor is a qatari investmtment authority, says it is going to leaease this building, someone who is been involved with that said it would be more viable if it was just a pile of dirt, they're going to pay $1.3 billion, 99 year lease, and they're going to pay that all -- all of that lease upfront. this is a deal that stinks. at the same tim

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support that rex tillerson firmly believed was jared.blockaded qatar, they wanted qatar's money. qatar has an american airbase. that is our security on the line. that was when rex tillerson and jim mattis, the defense secretary who had no idea about any of this thought that jared went from being a really annoying obstacle and meddler to being down right dangerous. >> and you suggest in regards to this in particular to qatar, saudi arabia and qatar had been add ots f at odds and that almost moved to an all-out shooting war, you suggest or imply that jared kushner had a financial interest in qatar and may have been acting out of a sense of revenge, that qatar wouldn't invest with him. explain. >> so charles kushner had just asked the qataris for a billion dollars to save their -- a building that was a financial catastrophe for the kushner family. the qataris at that point turned him down. and low and behold, our foreign policy turns negative towards them. i'll have to say that a year later when the kwa taries are offering money, our policy

even trump's first secretary of state rex tillerson. they're going to finally start asking questions of rex tillerson. i have questions for rex tillerson too, like, sir, for example, how did you get that job in the first place anyway? i would love to know. now even in this "wall street journal" report they're not suggesting that we have any information about what documents or what information are being requested from these folks. i should also mention there has been pushback against this story tonight. reporter natasha bertrand at the atlantic is throwing a little bit of cold water on the story tonight saying that her reporting indicates that any planned second wave of judiciary committee document requests isn't ready to go at this point, and the names reported by "the wall street journal" tonight should not be seen as definitive targets of this committee. we've done some of our own reporting on this show that suggests that natasha bertrand's line here may be correct. but whether or not the second wave of document requests is going out,

rex tillerson famously, donald trump on twitter saying don't bother negotiating with north korea. of time, rex. even this week, earlier this week we know that alex azar and william barr, the attorney general were skeptical of the push to back the texas ruling on obamacare. and push for full repeal. have it totally thrown out. d i. there is an element ofhere. he likes people to know he's the one in charge. it is not his cabinet secretaries. he likes to be seen as riding to the rescue. >> understood. does it work for him? >> um, i mean, i don't think this works for him. i think it doesn't -- there is a reason 66% of his cabinet officials and staff have turned over in two-plus years which is a rate far higher than we have typically seen in the first term of a president. that's because at some point it becomes untenable to work for him. that point comes sooner rather than later for people. some people he fires. jeff sessions. but he tried to get jeff sessions to quit for a long time by publicly berating him. rex tillerson, h.r. mcmaster, john kelly, mattis. there is a huge group of pe

jared took the whole middle east portfolio from rex tillerson very early on and jared was the one pushing visit to there. it was all about cooperation in the gulf. saudis come around and make a mockery of it ten days later because they blockade qatar. they have had a long feud. it has an american air base. that's our security. he knew nothing about any of this. they knew because jared kushner controlled the relationship behind this blockade that he had given the green light. >> hold on, how do you know how they would know that and two, why would kushner want to do that? >> the theme of the book is that the middle east is a casino in which jared kushner runs around for his private financial interests. hear me out, what they didn't know back then is that at the end of april, charles kushner, jared's father desperately needing investment into a money pit in new york, 666 fifth avenue meets with the qatari finance minister. they turned them down because it was a bad investment. jared kushner, and here's the breaking news chris, went before the saudi summit and he reamed the qataris. reamed th

the lack of transparency, not only was this going on, rex tillerson must have divested a fortune.ared kushner, who hasn't divested, didn't disclose actually cadre, it was wrapped up in bfps. didn't even -- cadre's not on there, as he's meeting lloyd blackfine, he closes the white house logs. >> that show who shows up at the white house. >> it's extraordinary. the white house works for the american public. and at the time they said it was for security reasons. >> why wouldn't we know that lloyd blank find was meeting with jared kushner at the white house? >> right, it's just -- you would never see this in any previous white house. one rule for jared kushner and a different rule for everyone else. >> except for ivanka. >> yes. >> you have conflict of interest and then you have this other issue in which they all mix together and create possibly a national security issue. this has to do with 66 fifth avenue. he was negotiating financing with qatar. these are real estate companies that don't get money from banks, typically. they have to find money elsewhere. >> this building was a disa

eric, let's hear the sound bite of rex tillerson and what he had to say after leaving his job as secretaryifferent in our styles. we did not have a common value system. when the president would say here's what i want to do and here's how i want to do it, i'd have to say to him, mr. president, i understand what you want to do but you can't do it that way. it violates the law, it violates treaty, you know. he got really frustrated. i didn't know how to conduct my affairs with him any other way than in a very straight forward fashion. >> so in a rather elegant manner, eloquent manner, you know, tillerson saw it that way but kelly kind of went for the jugular, didn't he? he really spoke to that marquee topic for the president, the wall, during his campaign. he essentially called it a waste of money and undermined it by saying people overwhelmingly are not criminals. what explains his candor in that manner? >> i think that he's unleashed. he's not within the administration. he's not -- he doesn't have to worry about his post being in jeopardy. he's able to speak a little bit more freely now. of

rex tillerson had to sell out of his shares of exxon. gary cohn had to sell out of his goldman sachs shares and had to agree to have no communication with two years with executives at the firm at the lloyd blankfein level. where jared kushner didn't divest and then inside the white house meets with lloyd blankfein, who is involved in the cadre investment? >> this is a question -- i mean, they're not -- they were not appointed to a government position, these are not senate-confirmed positions. they have the office of ethics said that this arrangement they came up with was satisfactory. but there are still a lot of questions. and house democrats, if you go through the 81 document requests they made to people in the white house and in trump world, 52 out of those 81 document requests asks for information and documents that ivanka trump's ties, foreign governments and her business interests. >> so why does gary cohn -- >> the democrats are looking at emolument questions. >> but why did gary cohn and dina powell have to say out of their share

crown prince ordered the murder wordi iaccor our reporters after the murder of jamal khashoggi. >> rex tillersonerfered and cut actual rex tn out of the middle east especially where jared was the saudis were giving money for his peace plan and jared had this financial vulnerability with the trophy building in new york. he desperately needed foreign financing for. so this is why he pushes for trump to make the united states first official visit abroad not to a country with shared democratic values but to the kingdom of saudi arabia, with this lovely mbs as the crown prince. and that summit was all about cooperation in the region. days after it, rex tillerson and jim mattis then the defense secretary were horrified when they heard out of the blue that the saudis were basically and three other middle eastern countries were blockading qatar where there's an american airbase. that's our security at risk. they had no knowledge of it why? jared kushner was in charge of managing the relationship with mbs. >> one of the great cliches is jared and ivanka being moderating influences on the president. that

. >> rex tillerson's time at the state department, while i think tillerson was a pretty good guy, butr at the state department. he didn't fill a lot of slots. it just wasn't happening. president trump in his whole national security apparatus in the white house has never functioned the way a national security apparatus -- you saw it in the summit. when i see the headlines on the chyron saying summit collapses. in order to collapse, it has to have been a thing. it was never a thing. it was never the scaffolding and preparation done to make it an actual summit. so of course it collapsed. you know? there was nothing there. can the world's leading military and economic power try to conduct a foreign policy without substance? that's what we're finding out. >> rick, last word. this is why india/pakistan is keeping people up at night. >> yes. >> because of the lack of rigor in areas like this. >> we have dismantled a lot of america's moral status in the world and our ability to go out and influence behavior of countries that we have alliances and relationships with is diminished because we've

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trump often requested to travel on air force planes when it was not appropriate and when rex tillersonthose requests, thaw would invite along often secretary steve mnuchin to get access to a plane. and the president ordered kelly to get rid of my kids. get them back to new york. that sounds down right wholesome on the part of the president. said this kids didn't know how o play the game. it seems vicki ward has writ an book of fiction, correcting everything wrong would take too long and be pointless. well, you're so busy. jacky spear of california, member of both the house intelligence and oversight committees. and michael steel, the former chair of the republican national committee. michael, i've said before, the ro romanovs, they shouldn't have been there. >> that's exactly roright. the first part of this is they are donald trump's cushion. they're his blanket. they're the ones who he not ole only trusts but they will carry out what he wants done. so it doesn't matter. the problem comes in translation for how they interact with cabinet secretaries and other officials. fwlrs the cabin

rex tillerson, his former secretary of state, had to be called out on twitter for all the world to see on inconorth kn policy. vice president pence has had to experience this. making it clear that he is the final decider. it's not a team effort over there. it was painful to see betsy devos' reaction after the president said he overrode this because she was trying to indicate she had been for full funding of this all along. this is the cost of working in the trump administration, no question, and i was fascinated to see that the small business administration secretary is planning to step down and go back to the private sector. people know that this is a short-term and frustrating experience and that's why there is so much turnover in this white house. >> are we going back to jeremy diamond at the white house? let's go back to jeremy diamond at the white house. jeremy, you have some news. tell us. >> we can now confirm with a source familiar with her plans that olivia mcmann, head of the small business administration, does plan to leave her position. she does plan to resign. we're told t

. >> we have seen him do it over and over again with rex tillerson negotiating with north korea and president trump tweeted and said save your naer energy, i will handle it. he did it yesterday. his budget officials have been aggressively trying to defend some of these cuts. the president was taking some political heat for it yesterday. he came out on the south lawn and just reversed it immediately. it was quite an abrupt end to a saga but something the president has done over and over. last week it was on north korean sanctions. john bolten and others were say t ing there would be sanctions. he is a person who matters and those around him don't speak for him. his former campaign manager said it famously on the campaign trail the only person who speaks for mr. trump is mr. trump. i think that remains true to this day cephalyou hit on wh-- >> it seems motivated that by coverage in the press, not by what he knows or believes, it's one thing if you think you need to do major cuts in federal funding and you make the argument that it has to be what it is. it does seem to be motivated almost every

if you call rex tillerson dumb at a rock on the twitter feed, that may feel good in the moment. you may not like what rex is saying about you. in my town on long island, ok, i don't want my kids to read that. that's not something i want my kids to see. you could get your approval ratings with those people hurt and they could slow down the voting for you. he got 52% of those white women to vote for him last time. that could hurt the people who genuinely like you and want to see you do better. the election is going to be on a number of different things. who he's running against. we like so many policies but we're sore at his style. if you want to say it's not style -- >> i don't think it's style. i think it's going to be a referendum on him. if it's about policy it's going to be for the democrats to -- >> policy doesn't win re-election. >> i don't know about it. >> i think so. >> that's why we have the raise. >> in a rising economy. >> it's tough to beat a president in a good economy. >> true. >> i got a bee in my bonnet about what's going on at the border. i knew that the wall was

somehow rex tillerson ended up as secretary of state under donald trump, who he had never met. >> mueller is proceeding without being stymied, and he is proceeding at this kind of a pace, rolling out the stuff right now, everything is aiming right at the president personally, and that's got to be very unsettling. >> it not only enters the president's immediate family, it also enters the white house. >> sean: the face of nbc news. my question to viewers: how does it feel to be lied to day after day, hour after hour? have you had enough? do you really see what has gone on here? have they backed up anything with evidence and proof, or has it just been speculation and rumors and innuendo and anonymous sources and reckless, nonstop speculation? this program, by the way, we welcome you with open arms. we have been right so many times, not because we have a crystal ball, this is richard jewell, duke lacrosse, uva, trayvon and george zimmerman, ferguson, baltimore, why are we right and they usually wrong? why were they wrong on smollett and the covington kids? we don't rush to judgment. we believ

. >> rex tillerson among those not laughing at the "until he tweets me out of office" reference there just a year ago. >> exactly. >> mike pompeo, people who know him say that he is navigating this trump administration with a skill that few people have with dealing with the president and executing his agenda, and it's because he's a shrewd politician. he understands that trump is the future of the republican party and he can't stray too far from that tree. >> he's doing this in a sort of backwards way. usually you run for a seat in the house and then the senate, and then you try to become secretary of state. hillary clinton, john kerry, they went from the senate to secretary of state. i don't know of anyone who has ever gone from secretary of state back to the senate to be a freshman senator. >> i think that's one of the reasons why he's saying no, because in his head he thinks might be he's bigger than that. >> yeah. i think he could be. sdp >> there will be a point when we're in a post-trump political world. i don't know when that's going to be, but it will come. there is a two-term

he's told folks not to listen to rex tillerson, secretary of state, about north korea and he would handleteral decisions and be the good guy where other folks might look like the bad guy. that's what he's doing with betsy devos as he's done with others around him. >> let me ask you about jared kushner, who is up on capitol hill this week, making his first comments following the end of the russian investigation. what's he had to say? >> reporter: he spoke with my colleague and released his first statement echoing what we heard from president trump, that he feels a little bit ai there was no collusion and he said he hopes his testimony yesterday which was behind closed doors will hope further clear things up and hopes congress ends the investigations. >> thank you very much. you can sign up for the newsletter at signup @axios.com. >> "morning joe," everybody, starts right now. >> i'm so proud of the work of chairman adam schiff in stark contrast to the almost criminal behavior of the previous chairman of the committee. so what is the president afraid of, that he's afraid of the truth, that

pompeo was referencing his predecessor rex tillerson's exit from the trump administration just over a year ago via presidential tweet. while pompeo has ruled out a senate run in 2020 he didn't dismiss the idea of running for office later on down the road. >> i like the designation, presidential tweet. his tweet should be framed differently. >> cory booker is calling out two of his presidential competitors for bragging about their pot use. senators kamala harris and bernie sanders were asked the same question while discussing their position in favor of legalization. >> there are a lot of reasons why we need to legalize. >> have you ever smoked? >> i have. >> okay. >> i inhaled. i did inhale. [ laughter ] it was a long time ago. >> how far smoked? >> a few times. didn't do a whole lot for me. my recollection is i coughed my brains out. . >> marijuana possession arrest in 2017, all the violent crime risks involved. you know who doesn't get arrested from smoking marijuana people on yale campus. there's no different between blacks and whites for using marijuana. blacks are four times convi

you may remember when rex tillerson said u.s. was in direct communication with north korea.ed i told our wonderful secretary of state that he's wasting his time trying to negotiate with little rocket man. rex. like he's a dog. this isn't nice. he's nicknamed her to aids. >> what's her nickname? >> ditsy devos. but he has a hard time allowing officials to do stuff.he didn't negotiating because he wanted to do it. faa announce they were grounding the boeing planes because he wanted to do it. there's a repo troops in the fin syria who say they erased the isis caliphate. he ran out and announced it it. in terms of having a cabinet and empowering people, he has never done that. he's very quick to get upset at people when they do things that come back via television. when people make news that's negative, which is what happened in this case. he says i'm overriding that person. >> i'm thinking of who's really responsible for the initial statement. that's usually the pod person in charge of that pod that covers education. their cabinet siecretaries say make the cuts. maybe she was u

jim mattis discovered that, rex tillerson discovered that, to some extent even jeff sessions discovered that, and that's happening very soon here. >> ezra, i just want to go back to you on the policy issues here, as they interact with the campaign -- and i could just read a stack of tweets from every one of the presidential campaigners tonight on this specifical specifically. this, in reviving the fight over the affordable care act now, do you think that will actually overshadow the debate within the democratic field about medicare for all? >> yeah, well, i think we can walk and chew gum. i think we need to fight back against the worst this administration is doing, but i don't think we can be scared to talk about what our vision for the future is going to be. look, we're going to have the house, the senate and the presidency in 2021 and we've got to have some plans about how we're going to use it. >> we have to leave it there. jason johnson and brett stephens, thank you for joining us. really appreciate it. >>> new polling favors the release of the mueller report, and now the justice de

other individuals likely to be sent requests include rex tillerson and gary cohen, an investment bankerneil, there is going to be no stone left unturned by this congress. so if there is anything that donald trump has been up to, there won't be a place to hide. >> i hope that's right because for two years congress sat on its hands and did nothing to investigate trump and, you know, this is someone who has repeatedly denied federal law just, you know, one example that gary cohen questionnaire that the judiciary commit tee is sending. gary cohen complained about the fact that president trump tried to block the time warner merger with at&t because he was so upset by the coverage on the rival network on cnn. that is a blatant abuse of power. again, it might not be criminal, but it is exactly the kind of thing our founders wrote the impeachment clause all about. so, again, as we think and await the mueller report, i think the most important thing is to understand it is only limited to crimes. it is not limited to these other things. that's why you see house judiciary chairman adler stepping u

it's how rex tillerson found out he lost his job and how mike pompeo jokes he will find out how he loses his. just ask jeff sessions a punching bag. a lot of these guys take the hits and hoping the machine gun fire out of the white house will find another target. usually the same response, no response. better to duck and wave than to raise a finger back. money of this should mask the president's clear victories here. that's what happens when you take all the credit and you spread all the blame. after a while, your friends wonder if you're up to the fight or whether those are willing to be in the fight with you. just not now. maybe not even soon. maybe in this age of trump, it's better to take the blow than risk a blow-up. no matter how much it hurts you or demeans you or makes average folks wonder if there's any backbone to you. it's why spouses stay silent when their significant others are bashed and former speaks leave without a fuss even when their accomplishments are trashed. they figure it's not worth it. a silence that isn't only damaging but all the more so because it's so deafeni

if you call the secretary of state rex tillerson dumb as a rock on your twitter feed, that may feel good in the moment, you may not like what rex is saying about you, but you have all these suburban women and they'll go jeez, i don't want my kids to read that, it's not something i want my kids to see, and so you could get your approval ratings with those people hurt and they could slow down their voting. he got 52% of those white women to vote for him last time. so when you're doing stuff like that, you say hold on a second, that could hurt you with those people who genuinely like you and like to see you do better on those issues because they like all the policies. so the election is going to be on a number of different things. who he's running against. it will be okay, we like so many of his policies, but we're sort of sore at his style and the approach that he's taking. you want to say it's not style. >> i don't think it's style. i think it's going to be a referendum on him. if it's about policy, it will be for the democrats to figure out -- >> it's not policy when he wins reelection.

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