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hasn't it now it has not sir france really extremists and says religious freedom human rights rex tillerson chance are 1st secretary of state related to saddam didn't he know what he did not said to his really just every time a human right rex tillerson says it's risen that too often promoting our values is an obstacle to advancing our interests in other words don't let's let human rights get in the way of a good trade deal i mean i submit to you that religious freedom is a huge. right. it's in the 1st amendment nice lady only one as well but if you won't even admit it's a human right will you admit it's a human right as a matter of what. you agreed to answer questions i agree to come here and ask them people in studio use they're not interested in my well i handle one area and that's religious freedoms are and in this area this is a human right it's in section 18 of the un declaration of human rights it is a fundamental human right there is no nation on the earth that pushes human rights of religious freedom any more than the united states more than the trumpet ministration does sir and yo
hasn't it now it has not sir france really extremists and says religious freedom human rights rex tillerson chance are 1st secretary of state related to saddam didn't he know what he did not said to his really just every time a human right rex tillerson says it's risen that too often promoting our values is an obstacle to advancing our interests in other words don't let's let human rights get in the way of a good trade deal i mean i submit to you that religious freedom is a huge. right. it's in...
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you feel speaking again of leadership, how did you feel when your cabinet ally and colleague, rex tillersonn twitter? >> well, i won't get into the political assessments -- >> just your human reaction. >> well, you know, rex tillerson is as patriotic and as competent and as committed and devoted american and public servant as there was anywhere. at the same time we serve at the pleasure of the president of the united states. and i've now left two different times, once at a four star officer and once as a secretary under two different political parties. i bear them no rancor when you no longer serve at their pleasure. those words have to mean something even when it's displeasure. it's the way it is. i don't take it personally. i'm confident the secretary of state didn't take it personally. simply washington, d.c. business as usual. >> well, being fired on twitter is not business as usual for a secretary of state. but moving on to leadership and leading. you have an entire appendix devoted today your reading list. you write compellingly when you were at the war college, and you know, you real
you feel speaking again of leadership, how did you feel when your cabinet ally and colleague, rex tillersonn twitter? >> well, i won't get into the political assessments -- >> just your human reaction. >> well, you know, rex tillerson is as patriotic and as competent and as committed and devoted american and public servant as there was anywhere. at the same time we serve at the pleasure of the president of the united states. and i've now left two different times, once at a...
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trump was at the negotiating table rex tillerson was at the negotiating table they left the negotiating table so it's for them to come back and those are the conditions they have to accept their own commitments it's a very hard for the americans support any more sanctions on iran because there's nothing really left to sanction there's a joke going around in iran that where people say i have a cousin somewhere in some village that hasn't been sanctioned yet so all these sanctions are rip repetition of older sanctions the central bank has been sanctions recently but it was already sanctioned before so nothing really new is happening. when is highest court is they'll vote on president illegal defeat to the prime minister judges unanimously ruled that boris johnson is the citizen to suspend parliament earlier this month was all for. the prime minister's advice to her majesty was unlawful void and of no effect. this means that the order in council to which lead was also a little full void and of no effect and should be quashed the probation was also void and of no effect parliament has not b
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the first time of course was rex tillerson. the second time was dan coats, the national intelligence director. the tweet i am now seeing says i have asked john for his resignation. i thanked i don't know for his service. i will be selecting a new national security adviser next week. i disagreed strongly with his decisions and ever there continued to say i asked john for his resignation today. msnbc political analyst, we're going to speak shortly with peter baker who is on the phone reporting at the "new york times" as we speak. jim joins me now, manager of president obama's campaign. this is pretty extraordinary. we're in a middle of a controversy over the camp david proposed meeting. john bolton objected to it very strongly, and we understand according to our reporting that privately the vice president had also suggested that the initial plan which was for a white house meeting was not well-advised. we don't know how strongly the vice president objected privately to the president about the camp david ameeting as well, but that
the first time of course was rex tillerson. the second time was dan coats, the national intelligence director. the tweet i am now seeing says i have asked john for his resignation. i thanked i don't know for his service. i will be selecting a new national security adviser next week. i disagreed strongly with his decisions and ever there continued to say i asked john for his resignation today. msnbc political analyst, we're going to speak shortly with peter baker who is on the phone reporting at...
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trump was at the negotiating table rex tillerson was at the negotiating table they left the negotiating table so it's for them to come back and those are the conditions they have to accept their own commitments it's a very hard for the americans support any more sanctions on iran because there's nothing really left to sanction there's a joke going around in iran that where people say i have a cousin somewhere in some village that hasn't been sanctioned yet so all these sanctions are rip repetition of older sanctions the central bank has been sanctions recently but it was already sanctioned before so nothing really new is happening. britain's highest court has it dealt an unprecedented legal defeat to the prime minister with judges unanimously ruling that boris johnson's decision to suspend parliament earlier this month was on lawful the prime minister's advice to her majesty was unlawful void and have no effect. this means that the order in council which led was also a little full void and of no effect and should be quashed the preservation was also void and of no effect parliament has
trump was at the negotiating table rex tillerson was at the negotiating table they left the negotiating table so it's for them to come back and those are the conditions they have to accept their own commitments it's a very hard for the americans support any more sanctions on iran because there's nothing really left to sanction there's a joke going around in iran that where people say i have a cousin somewhere in some village that hasn't been sanctioned yet so all these sanctions are rip...
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trump was at the negotiating table rex tillerson was at the negotiating table they left the negotiating table so it's for them to come back and those are the conditions they have to accept their own commitments it's a very hard for the american support any more sanctions on iran because there's nothing really left to sanction there's a joke going around in iran that where people say i have a cousin somewhere in some village that hasn't been sanctioned yet so all these sanctions are rip repetition. of older sanctions the central bank has been sanctioned recently but it was already sanctioned before so nothing really new is happening. britain's highest court has dealt an unprecedented legal defeat to the prime minister with judges unanimously ruling that boris johnson's decision to suspend parliament earlier this month was awful the prime minister's advice to her majesty was unlawful void and of no effect. this means that the order in council to which it led was also a little full void and of no effect and should be quashed the probation was also void and of no effect parliament has not b
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tom was at the negotiating table rex tillerson was at the negotiating table they left the negotiating table so it's for them to come back and those are the conditions they have to accept their own from in double trouble also said and i quote all nations have a duty to our income iranian influence who is he trying to rally here and will leak at any backing other than from israel do you think he directly name checked today. i don't think that anyone any country really so foreseen ited states even the saudis and the m.r. ati's are very careful the saudis know how vulnerable they are they are they are going downhill very fast they have lost the war in yemen despite all their atrocities they have been humiliated by the yemeni army and the yemeni resistance the saudis and the emraan those throats through their proxies in southern yemen and the recent attack on saudi oil facilities by the yemenis have been devastating and all that american equipment and saudi military equip equipment has done nothing to protect them so the saudis and them ratus know that conflict with iran is really out of t
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trump was at the negotiating table rex tillerson was at the negotiating table they left the negotiating table so it's for them to come back and those are the conditions they have to accept their own commitments it's very hard for the americans support any more sanctions on iran because there's nothing really left to sanction there's a joke going around in iran that where people say i have a cousin somewhere in some village that hasn't been sanctioned yet so all these sanctions are rip repetition of older sanctions the central bank has been sanctions recently but it was already sanctioned before so nothing really new is happening u.k. supreme court has issued a dramatic ruling reversing prime minister johnson's suspension of parliament more on that after a short break this is march international. the world is driven by dreamers shaped by the one percent of those great. no dairy thinks. we dare to ask. wrong and this is when the bank solvent and folks are concerned about their money so they kind of withdraw the money so here you have one of the foundation blocks of the global derivatives
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that's when rex tillerson said this guy is a moron.l, that's a very clear indication of how this alternate reality that kellyanne conway talked about, this alternate reality actually does impact us. so, yes, i can laugh at the stupidity of the sharpie, the obviousness of i won't say third grader, the four-year-old, lying with a sharpie, but it does spotlight a much bigger problem. >> you're right, i mean, the initial reaction is to laugh out loud. it's laugh out loud funny it's so absurd, but the other aspect of it borders on being truly dangerous and it is that we have a commander in chief, president of the united states, who considers that he can never be wrong. >> right. >> about anything. about something so inconsequential as the path of a hurricane to alabama instead of the natural path that every weather service was telling him. he can never be wrong so he has to alter reality. that gets into the other really larger and maybe lingering damage. is there any more truth? what is truth now in this administration? >> it's a huge conve
that's when rex tillerson said this guy is a moron.l, that's a very clear indication of how this alternate reality that kellyanne conway talked about, this alternate reality actually does impact us. so, yes, i can laugh at the stupidity of the sharpie, the obviousness of i won't say third grader, the four-year-old, lying with a sharpie, but it does spotlight a much bigger problem. >> you're right, i mean, the initial reaction is to laugh out loud. it's laugh out loud funny it's so absurd,...
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he was brought into the administration by rex tillerson. >>> hillary clinton is describing the president as a corrupt businessman, expressing her continued opposition to the president during a speech at georgetown university. >> sadly we have known who donald trump is for some time now. we knew he was a corrupt businessman and he and his campaign invited foreign adversaries to tamper with our elections. now he's endangered us all by putting his interests ahead of the interests of the american people. this is ultimately about much more than donald trump. it is about us, what we are as a nation. history is being written, and the world and our children are watching. >> president trump calls the democrats' efforts to impeach him as a disgracement later in the 8:00 hour, we'll speak with congresswoman jackie spear and congressman eric swalwell about the proceedings, coming up shortly. mark sanford and jesse ventura and the prime minister of armenia will be involved in the discussions on tomorrow mornings on 2. >>> time now 7:17, looking at the weather with rosemary. >>> we have temperatures 5
he was brought into the administration by rex tillerson. >>> hillary clinton is describing the president as a corrupt businessman, expressing her continued opposition to the president during a speech at georgetown university. >> sadly we have known who donald trump is for some time now. we knew he was a corrupt businessman and he and his campaign invited foreign adversaries to tamper with our elections. now he's endangered us all by putting his interests ahead of the interests of...
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the last just over a year other high profile departures include the former secretary of state rex tillerson the secretary of defense jim mattis who lost along the most holding his position for more than 2 years and then there's also former white house chief strategist steve bannon and former f.b.i. director james comey to name just a few. let's bring in our panel joining us from washington d.c. joined jones former senate national security director under former national security adviser chuck schumer from birmingham on skype scott lucas founder and editor of in a world view and professor of political science and international studies at the university of birmingham and also from washington d.c. janet venue president and c.e.o. of the truman national security project welcome to you all to the program i'd like to begin with john jones in d.c. 1st in many ways this is been a very extraordinary relationship between the 2 men between john bolton who has been seen as being very hawkish very angry towards iran particularly north korea and wanting to take direct action and donald trump who has a sha
the last just over a year other high profile departures include the former secretary of state rex tillerson the secretary of defense jim mattis who lost along the most holding his position for more than 2 years and then there's also former white house chief strategist steve bannon and former f.b.i. director james comey to name just a few. let's bring in our panel joining us from washington d.c. joined jones former senate national security director under former national security adviser chuck...
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one is brian hook, rex tillerson brought into the state department. he is currently leading the push on iran through the state department right now. another name is rick waddell. he served as trump's deputy adviser, a third intriguing name is rob blair, the acting chiefed a haver to dick mulvaney. some think mulvaney's influence may lead him to that job. another pete poke stra and charles cuberman is not on that list. a source telling me he will not be on the job very long. we should point out president trump makes unorthodoxed picks, so it could be he ultimately taps someone that source versus fought thought of, they have not brought up to us. the president, of course, often unpredictable, kate. >> boris, thank you so much. >>> joining me for more on this is michael allen who served on the national security council under president bush. what do you think of the departure first and foremost? >> i think two factors were at play here, first john bolton is famously abrasive. i think that stale grated on the president and secretary pompeo and esper and i
one is brian hook, rex tillerson brought into the state department. he is currently leading the push on iran through the state department right now. another name is rick waddell. he served as trump's deputy adviser, a third intriguing name is rob blair, the acting chiefed a haver to dick mulvaney. some think mulvaney's influence may lead him to that job. another pete poke stra and charles cuberman is not on that list. a source telling me he will not be on the job very long. we should point out...
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rex tillerson is secretary of state. i had breakfast with >>. -- rex. he said when he met with his chinese counterparts, he said among their top three objectives were prevent the street in front of the embassy from being renamed. at the time, he had passed away. part of what i was trying to do was get him released from china but his widow was still there. she was not allowed to leave. she never collected the money from winning the nobel peace prize. here is what i told tillerson. they releasea if him, i will step back and stop pushing this. until they release, i will keep pushing this. if you do not think this is a credible threat, i passed it in the senate once. you treat me as the bad guy. in a couple of months, they released him. that is the power of shining a light and that is why designating the muslim brotherhood is so important because speaking the truth has a power that tyrants and terrorists fear. >> the gentleman in the back. wait for the microphone. is this the last one? make it good when. -- make it a good one. -- how from curtis stand do yo
rex tillerson is secretary of state. i had breakfast with >>. -- rex. he said when he met with his chinese counterparts, he said among their top three objectives were prevent the street in front of the embassy from being renamed. at the time, he had passed away. part of what i was trying to do was get him released from china but his widow was still there. she was not allowed to leave. she never collected the money from winning the nobel peace prize. here is what i told tillerson. they...
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rex tillerson, happened so long ago barely remember. donald trump fires people other ways too.going. fired by letter. remember, jim comey on the west coast in the spring of 2017 when he was informed by watching television that he had been fired. a letter apparently had been sent to the fbi and he wasn't there to receive it. keep going. got more. but, wait, there's more. fired by jeff sessions. andrew, contributor to cnn. andrew mccabe fired by jeff sessions at the behest of donald trump and i note, let go, i believe, within 24 hours of being eligible to receive his pension after two decades at the fbi. fired by john kelly. i said previous twitter john kelly who fired omarosa. i don't know about quibbling for that and the mooch after his 11-day run. lots and lots of ways to be fired by donald trump. notice what wasn't on a screen? fired in person by donald trump. he's not big in that. >> how about that? and came to partial fame. going down the firing rabbit hole, thank you for that refresher. meantime, lawmakers are looking at how to stop more mass shootings like the tragedies i
rex tillerson, happened so long ago barely remember. donald trump fires people other ways too.going. fired by letter. remember, jim comey on the west coast in the spring of 2017 when he was informed by watching television that he had been fired. a letter apparently had been sent to the fbi and he wasn't there to receive it. keep going. got more. but, wait, there's more. fired by jeff sessions. andrew, contributor to cnn. andrew mccabe fired by jeff sessions at the behest of donald trump and i...
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we had rex tillerson talk a little bit. but this was probably the most direct and, you know, on camera explanation of what it's like in the white house, which is the president is fueled by conspiracy theories, he spends time watching fox news looking at these, you know, far right wing websites and that has more validity to him than the billions of dollars we spend on intelligence gathering. >> yeah. >> from the government. because it reenforces his own view, which is, and goes back to this idea that he wasn't legitimately elected. that russians helped. he cannot live with that and sit with that, so he creates these or parrots these conspiracies that show there was someone else. in fact, it was the ukrainians helping hillary clinton get elected. it was 3 million illegals voting that provided her with the 3 million. it is a -- you know, it's i think a mental, you know, defect that he can't come to terms with what the reality is. as tom bosssert pointed out yesterday, people work with him every day to try to bring him along an
we had rex tillerson talk a little bit. but this was probably the most direct and, you know, on camera explanation of what it's like in the white house, which is the president is fueled by conspiracy theories, he spends time watching fox news looking at these, you know, far right wing websites and that has more validity to him than the billions of dollars we spend on intelligence gathering. >> yeah. >> from the government. because it reenforces his own view, which is, and goes back...
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secretary of state rex tillerson, he did what he thought was right. former head of exxon.thinking i'm going to reform the state department, i'll have the packing of the president. trying to push off the damage of the cut that the administration overall wants to the state department. he got pushed out. it's very clear that if you are a career official inside this administration, you're not to be trusted pause you weren't on board team trump from day one. if you're not, that means you're a threat. so you have seen like the ambassador from ukraine. she was brought back months early. she wasn't fired. so there has been some talk how this was for her benefit, so she would not wind up actually fired and having to lose her pension, et cetera. she hasn't commented yet. but she has been subpoenaed. so she will be on the hill talking about all of this in the coming weeks. >> rex tillerson gutted the state department. >> absolutely. >> going to the need for professional diplomats and what their role is in foreign policy. and globally, the fact that we have been operating with such an
secretary of state rex tillerson, he did what he thought was right. former head of exxon.thinking i'm going to reform the state department, i'll have the packing of the president. trying to push off the damage of the cut that the administration overall wants to the state department. he got pushed out. it's very clear that if you are a career official inside this administration, you're not to be trusted pause you weren't on board team trump from day one. if you're not, that means you're a...
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rex tillerson who found out via tweet that he was out, the president doesn't directly seem to tell them. >> if you're going to work the president, you need to work for the president and try to further the president's agenda. my opinion is that i saw john bolton working against the president's agenda. he had his own agenda. the president was trying to negotiate a deal with north korea and you had bolton saying we should try the libyan solution which means we should execute their leader. that's not very helpful to any kind of negotiated settlement with north korea or any country. >> neil: rand paul was a book coming out "the case against socialism" due out in october. look forward to chatting with you about that. in the meantime with john bolton out is national security visor, then what happens? who takes his place and wants apollo to the markets? today not much. i get it all the time. "have you lost weight?" of course i have- ever since i started renting from national. because national lets me lose the wait at the counter... ...and choose any car in the aisle. and i don't wait when i ret
rex tillerson who found out via tweet that he was out, the president doesn't directly seem to tell them. >> if you're going to work the president, you need to work for the president and try to further the president's agenda. my opinion is that i saw john bolton working against the president's agenda. he had his own agenda. the president was trying to negotiate a deal with north korea and you had bolton saying we should try the libyan solution which means we should execute their leader....
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rex tillerson or the former white house attorney don mcgahn or general cjohn kelly, those people all left. having their support is a key part of succeeding in the trump white house. >> all right, nothing make my day when three smart women help us. >>> my friend jane harden. je jane, what's your take on john bolton's departure? >> let me say first speaking of bright woman. you are certainly one and dkudo to you for speaking out on the forbes matter. it is 9/11 and remember the important thing we should talk about today is what happened 18 years ago and the resilience of your country has not been perfect but no major catastrophic attacks thanks to the work of a lot of people and three different administrations. on the bolton thing, my reaction is everybody knew who he was when we came. everybody knew he was hard to work with and guess what. surprise. but, my comment going forward is i almost don't think it matters who's in the job. i think what matters is whether that person will be permitted to restore a process where the best in government and outside the government can comment and t
rex tillerson or the former white house attorney don mcgahn or general cjohn kelly, those people all left. having their support is a key part of succeeding in the trump white house. >> all right, nothing make my day when three smart women help us. >>> my friend jane harden. je jane, what's your take on john bolton's departure? >> let me say first speaking of bright woman. you are certainly one and dkudo to you for speaking out on the forbes matter. it is 9/11 and remember...
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rex tillerson is long gone. anybody who would serve as a check or a balance on trump has been pushed out of the administration. and so he's surrounded by sycophants and lackeys. you people like attorney general bill barr. let's not forget he is spending $30,000 on a christmas party at the trump international hotel in washington. you have something like wilbur ross, who is allegedly telling people they'll be fired if they contradict what the president is saying, even though what the president is saying is flatly wrong. and of course you have mike pence who is terrified that there might be an iota of space between him and donald trump on any issue. nobody basically has the courage to call out trump and tell him, hey, maybe you shouldn't spend an entire week hyperventilating about this forecast regarding alabama which nobody cares. nobody has the courage to confront him and tell him that. >> he wants the sharpie to be reality. stick around, everybody. i'm going talk to you about the special election that might be m
rex tillerson is long gone. anybody who would serve as a check or a balance on trump has been pushed out of the administration. and so he's surrounded by sycophants and lackeys. you people like attorney general bill barr. let's not forget he is spending $30,000 on a christmas party at the trump international hotel in washington. you have something like wilbur ross, who is allegedly telling people they'll be fired if they contradict what the president is saying, even though what the president is...
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. >> michael schmidt, rex tillerson quoted by your newspaper tonight, remarks he made at harvard that takes us to the front of iran. tillerson warned on tuesday that his former boss who fired him a year and a half ago will have to tread carefully. tillerson said that building a concrete case against iran will be difficult i have no doubt that we will find iran's fingerprints on this, he said, but we may not find their hands on it mook michael, is this a case where the president's words this weekend motivated or sped up a finding only to have it all kind of fall back while people realize the potentially grave consequences >> well, the president is in an unusual spot here. i was speaking to one of his confidants tonight who said that the president is increasingly concerned about the 2020 election as he comes into it 13 months out, he wants to proceed as cautiously as possible, whether it's on iran, whether it's on guns he's afraid of doing anything to endanger his political standing. that's why we have seen this back and forth unconsciousness t that has arose in recent days. the preside
. >> michael schmidt, rex tillerson quoted by your newspaper tonight, remarks he made at harvard that takes us to the front of iran. tillerson warned on tuesday that his former boss who fired him a year and a half ago will have to tread carefully. tillerson said that building a concrete case against iran will be difficult i have no doubt that we will find iran's fingerprints on this, he said, but we may not find their hands on it mook michael, is this a case where the president's words...
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you saw it up close with rex tillerson who often didn't travel with reporters when he was secretary ofte. mike pompeo has seemed more intent on engaging reporters than his predecessor. this is an unfortunate precedent. the secretary of state is traveling to europe for these important talks as you say. afghanistan right now on the table is traditional and it's important to have reporters with him. this is a diplomacy at the highest levels and with the highest stakes and transparency, of course, is usually the -- at least part of the factor going into these kind of events. we don't see that in this particular trip. >> and as we know, reporters pay their way. it's not a cost to the taxpayer. if anything, it defrays some of the costs of these trips. thank you very much. >>> coming up, trapped. the search and rescue crews trying to find survivors from a horrific boat fire. a live report from california next right here on "andrea mitchell reports." stay with us on msnbc. "andrea mitchell reports." stay with us on msnbc. that sophie opened up a wormhole through time? (speaking japanese) where
you saw it up close with rex tillerson who often didn't travel with reporters when he was secretary ofte. mike pompeo has seemed more intent on engaging reporters than his predecessor. this is an unfortunate precedent. the secretary of state is traveling to europe for these important talks as you say. afghanistan right now on the table is traditional and it's important to have reporters with him. this is a diplomacy at the highest levels and with the highest stakes and transparency, of course,...
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the first time of course was rex tillerson.cond time was dan coats, the national intelligence director. the tweet i am now seeing says i have asked john for his resignation. i thanked i don't know for his service. i will be selecting a new national security adviser next week. i disagreed strongly with his decisions and ever there continued to say i asked john for his resignation today. msnbc political analyst, we're going to speak shortly with peter baker who is on the phone reportin t
the first time of course was rex tillerson.cond time was dan coats, the national intelligence director. the tweet i am now seeing says i have asked john for his resignation. i thanked i don't know for his service. i will be selecting a new national security adviser next week. i disagreed strongly with his decisions and ever there continued to say i asked john for his resignation today. msnbc political analyst, we're going to speak shortly with peter baker who is on the phone reportin t
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remember lavrov laughing at us in the media and kind of walking, ha, ha, ha, ha, with rex tillerson?ember that? so we have now learned that something was being kept from us. why we're going to get into in a second. but the president told the russians, i don't care about your interference in our election because you know what? the united states does the same thing in other countries. garrett graff, jim baker, and susan glasser join us now. jim baker, legal significance to the subject matter let alone what we're learning about this memo having been secreted? >> yeah. so two things. one, chris, honestly it's just hard to look at those pictures for me. that was the day after jim comey was fired and then the president made all these disparaging statements about jim comey in that same meeting. >> to the russians. >> to the russians and on a perjury level, that was a very challenging time for us back at the fbi to say the least, right? okay. so backing up from that, look, the president has a solemn obligation to protect the country from foreign adversaries, from foreign enemies. and in the
remember lavrov laughing at us in the media and kind of walking, ha, ha, ha, ha, with rex tillerson?ember that? so we have now learned that something was being kept from us. why we're going to get into in a second. but the president told the russians, i don't care about your interference in our election because you know what? the united states does the same thing in other countries. garrett graff, jim baker, and susan glasser join us now. jim baker, legal significance to the subject matter let...
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administration have been pushing to get that number as low as possible, over the objections of people like rex tillersone, jim mattis, the former san diego, and nikki haley, former u.n. ambassador, all of whom favored a robust refugee program. this year of course all those folks are gone. and the expectations are that miller will be able to push that number as close to zero as possible, of course at a time that many people around the world are fleeing civil war, poverty, hunger, and the like. so as the president likes to say, we'll see what happens. >> it shows the power of stephen miller continues to grow in this white house. >> i'm keeping an eye on the special election in north carolina's ninth congressional district. it's the final stretch this week. republicans are pulling out all the stops, because this district went for trump in 2016 by 12 points. but it's very close right now. democrats should not be competitive here, and they are. so the president expects to make a trip there in the final days, as well as vice president pence, donald trump jr. was there just this past week. so it's a big deal f
administration have been pushing to get that number as low as possible, over the objections of people like rex tillersone, jim mattis, the former san diego, and nikki haley, former u.n. ambassador, all of whom favored a robust refugee program. this year of course all those folks are gone. and the expectations are that miller will be able to push that number as close to zero as possible, of course at a time that many people around the world are fleeing civil war, poverty, hunger, and the like....
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i think the most important thing -- neil: i remember rex tillerson, he found out about later on. >> yeah. neil: jim mattis found out this week the president thinks it is a good idea. >> there are channels sometimes but ultimately he is making the decision. a lot of people said we want a business person, someone, if you're for instance, a publicly-traded company you have a report card every three months. neil: you're right. >> you have to make decisions really quickly. if something is not working you have to act very quickly this is something president trump brings to the job no other president has in part because he has a completely different background. we know he has a different temperment. neil: you -- [inaudible]. >> there is one other thing here which i think is worth saying. when you're trying to make foreign policy on a global basis, not only afghanistan as i said but iran, iraq, the middle east peace process, north korea, and you have a national security advisor as respected and high-profile as john bolton, who is being reported to publicly disagree on many of those policy decisi
i think the most important thing -- neil: i remember rex tillerson, he found out about later on. >> yeah. neil: jim mattis found out this week the president thinks it is a good idea. >> there are channels sometimes but ultimately he is making the decision. a lot of people said we want a business person, someone, if you're for instance, a publicly-traded company you have a report card every three months. neil: you're right. >> you have to make decisions really quickly. if...
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rex tillerson, whether you like the guy or not, a head of exxon and secretary of state and dumb as a of donald trump. you think about paul ryan, shepherded the tax bill wlrks you like him or not, speaker of the house and a loser in trump world. everybody's a loser compared the donald trump and that i think is what at the end of the day undermining to his agenda, to the politics around him, and to the ideas allegedly that he stood for on the republican side. >> the website -- >> i would just say this. can i just say this? you know, what he's trying to point to is, do i have baggage? yes. we all have baggage. >> he doesn't have any. sarcasm. >> he needs a private jet to move his stuff around and i think this is -- i mean, there's a reason that the trump tower is a glass tower. this guy lives in a glass house and doesn't act that way and that's so perplexing for many of us. >> the website business insider is hosting a gop debate this month. the former congressman joe walsh, bill weld, they said that they're going to be there. what are you? are you going to be there? >> yeah. i'm unaware
rex tillerson, whether you like the guy or not, a head of exxon and secretary of state and dumb as a of donald trump. you think about paul ryan, shepherded the tax bill wlrks you like him or not, speaker of the house and a loser in trump world. everybody's a loser compared the donald trump and that i think is what at the end of the day undermining to his agenda, to the politics around him, and to the ideas allegedly that he stood for on the republican side. >> the website -- >> i...
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to be fired on twitter, an experience that rex tillerson and dan coates and those now three national security prominent officials had experienced is not only humiliating but in this case there was immediate push back from john bolton in realtime tweeting, texting to our colleagues he had resigned and not been fired. so there was a lot of contention there. and shortly after, an hour or so later the briefing he was supposed to attend in the briefing room where the secretary of state was clearly triumphant over months of tension over foreign policies, key issues, afghanistan, iran with john bolton, the obvious smiles and pompeo saying there was clearly disagreements. there was no attempt to cover up their friction. >> pompeo was positively beaming. it looks like he was at a birthday party. here's what strikes me in what i think is so notable about the president's strange abrupt announcement about that ill fated camp david summit with the taliban and the gachb president. it seems clear to me that donald trump wants some big diplomatic win. he wants some iconic moment where she's shaking
to be fired on twitter, an experience that rex tillerson and dan coates and those now three national security prominent officials had experienced is not only humiliating but in this case there was immediate push back from john bolton in realtime tweeting, texting to our colleagues he had resigned and not been fired. so there was a lot of contention there. and shortly after, an hour or so later the briefing he was supposed to attend in the briefing room where the secretary of state was clearly...
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. >> within hours of the crisis, then-secretary of state rex tillerson tried to de-escalate the standoff. >> we certainly would encourage the parties to sit down together and address these differences. >> tillerson's effort was undercut by president trump, who made it clear that he was siding with the saudis over the qatari government. >> the nation of qatar unfortunately has historically been a funder of terrorism. >> qatar denied being a supporter of terrorism, while the kushner company qatari connection wasn't public yet, according to a house oversight committee report, it did not go unnoticed that jared kushner had developed a close working relationship with members of the saudi royal family. it was also reported that one of the administration's advocates for president trump's anti-qatar policy was senior adviser jared kushner. and while there have been ongoing tensions between the u.s. and qatar over alleged funding of terrorism, the administration's sudden change in strategy led to an uncomfortable question. was it over a legitimate foreign policy position? or did the unsuccessful
. >> within hours of the crisis, then-secretary of state rex tillerson tried to de-escalate the standoff. >> we certainly would encourage the parties to sit down together and address these differences. >> tillerson's effort was undercut by president trump, who made it clear that he was siding with the saudis over the qatari government. >> the nation of qatar unfortunately has historically been a funder of terrorism. >> qatar denied being a supporter of terrorism,...
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we've seen president trump fire members of his national security team, former secretary of state rex tillerson via tweet before. so this is not necessarily shocking news. but instead of john bolton showing up there in the briefing room alongside the other members of trump's cabinet, it was secretary of state mike pompeo defending president trump's decision to fire john bolton saying that the president is entitled to have the team that he chooses. >> jamie, the -- boltan was growing increasingly reluctant as you point out to go on television and defend some of the president's policies. what more are you learning about the tension between the two men. >> gist as one example, a group from congress had gone up this year to discuss and try to convince president trump not to withdraw from syria. the president stepped out of the room at one point to take a call and bolton was reported to have rolled his eyes and said, welcome to my world. these kinds of stories were building up. but i think at the end of the day one of the things that we're go fog find out very quickly is john bolton is telling repor
we've seen president trump fire members of his national security team, former secretary of state rex tillerson via tweet before. so this is not necessarily shocking news. but instead of john bolton showing up there in the briefing room alongside the other members of trump's cabinet, it was secretary of state mike pompeo defending president trump's decision to fire john bolton saying that the president is entitled to have the team that he chooses. >> jamie, the -- boltan was growing...
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like what the president does, whether you're secretary of defense, national security adviser, rex tillersonuit. you don't go say well i have a secret avenue to the congress that in my view is inappropriate to explain why the intel guys have to collect intelligence on the president. exactly, by the way, exactly what the president alleges happened during the campaign. the intel guys are collecting on me, a politician. that's not what the intel guys do. >> unless they have reasonable suspicion. >> suspicion of what, chris? >> hold on. remember when trump was talking to medvedev and remember the right was reasonably worried, what the hell does that mean? why's he saying something like that? there was curiosity. what was he planning, what was he thinking? there was a need for checks and balances, oversight. they wanted to dig. was that wrong? >> there's a difference between saying does the congress have the right to ask the white house questions have to right to critique to white house on political issues and engagement between foreign leaders. there's a difference between that and the intellige
like what the president does, whether you're secretary of defense, national security adviser, rex tillersonuit. you don't go say well i have a secret avenue to the congress that in my view is inappropriate to explain why the intel guys have to collect intelligence on the president. exactly, by the way, exactly what the president alleges happened during the campaign. the intel guys are collecting on me, a politician. that's not what the intel guys do. >> unless they have reasonable...
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if the president's first national security team of rex tillerson and h.r. mcmaster and those folks were seen as trying to restrain a bellicose president, here you have the opposite. here you had a combative as you say hawkish. either way as we've now seen the president doesn't like it. he didn't like being restrained or attempting to be restrained by mr. bolton. in fact in private he joked that john bolton was going to get him into multiple wars. from the very beginning this was an unlikely partnership but the real question is how it lasted as long as it did. >> was this a deal, charlie? was this some effort to pay off the deal who helped him in the campaign? why did he pick this guy with the mustache, this guy who just wanted to go to war. he wanted to go over syria, libya. he's always wanted to go to war whenever there's a chance to get a fighting star because he won't be a part of it. he's a chicken hawk if there ever was one. your thoughts. >> this a president tv centric and tv focused. he watched john bolton on television, liked his performances on tel
if the president's first national security team of rex tillerson and h.r. mcmaster and those folks were seen as trying to restrain a bellicose president, here you have the opposite. here you had a combative as you say hawkish. either way as we've now seen the president doesn't like it. he didn't like being restrained or attempting to be restrained by mr. bolton. in fact in private he joked that john bolton was going to get him into multiple wars. from the very beginning this was an unlikely...
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and so rex tillerson, who happened to run exxonmobil, and you can be for him or against him, but is aner secretary of state is a joke. paul ryan, the author of the tax plan that the president has now claimed was a joke. i could go down a litany of different folks where everybody is considered a joke if you're not donald trump. as to your second point on the 84%, i think that what's most telling about those polls is that it suggests that his support is a mile wide and perhaps an inch deep. because about half of those folk s consistently, in the polls that i've heard have said that they would like to see the president challenged. that they would like to have a debate on where we go next as a republican party. >> so, look, he has no problem getting in the mud and getting nasty, okay? against anyone and everyone. so when it comes to you, he talks about, you know, when you were not -- missing as governor because you were having an ex a extramarital affair. he loves to bring it up, here's what he said. >> the third one, mr. tallahassee trail or appalachian trail, he's the appalachian trail,
and so rex tillerson, who happened to run exxonmobil, and you can be for him or against him, but is aner secretary of state is a joke. paul ryan, the author of the tax plan that the president has now claimed was a joke. i could go down a litany of different folks where everybody is considered a joke if you're not donald trump. as to your second point on the 84%, i think that what's most telling about those polls is that it suggests that his support is a mile wide and perhaps an inch deep....
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. >> exxon might want to call rex tillerson. he's free. thank you all. to leave it there. breaking news, we're watching hurricane dorian that's pushing parts of the carolinas. as we speak, now a category 3 storm. we're going back there live. first, mexico, not paying for the wall but puerto rico is. puerto rico. we planned. it's going ok? great. now i'm spending more time with the kids. i'm introducing them to crab. crab!? they love it. so, you mentioned that that money we set aside. yeah. the kids and i want to build our own crab shack. ♪ ♪ ahhh, you're finally building that outdoor kitchen. yup - with room for the whole gang. ♪ ♪ see how investing with a j.p. morgan advisor can help you. visit your local chase branch. today's senior living communities have never been better, with amazing amenities like movie theaters, exercise rooms and swimming pools, public cafes, bars and bistros even pet care services. and there's never been an easier way to get great advice. a place for mom is a free service that pairs you with a local advisor to help you sort thr
. >> exxon might want to call rex tillerson. he's free. thank you all. to leave it there. breaking news, we're watching hurricane dorian that's pushing parts of the carolinas. as we speak, now a category 3 storm. we're going back there live. first, mexico, not paying for the wall but puerto rico is. puerto rico. we planned. it's going ok? great. now i'm spending more time with the kids. i'm introducing them to crab. crab!? they love it. so, you mentioned that that money we set aside....
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reported remember that weird meeting at the white house with president trump and the russians and rex tillerson of laughed at the american media as they sauntered into this meeting with the president and other officials? well, the post reports that our president told the russians in that meeting that he wasn't concerned about moscow's interference in the u.s. election because his reasoning went the u.s. did the same thing in other countries. let me quote directly from the post reporting. here's what we're -- well, look, that's the gist of the story. all right? well, why does this matter now? here's how it fits in. it's part of the bigger story. it seems that it's not just the call with ukraine that the white house tried to keep secret. the memo and the readouts about what the president said to these russians was also something that was secreted away. so you can
reported remember that weird meeting at the white house with president trump and the russians and rex tillerson of laughed at the american media as they sauntered into this meeting with the president and other officials? well, the post reports that our president told the russians in that meeting that he wasn't concerned about moscow's interference in the u.s. election because his reasoning went the u.s. did the same thing in other countries. let me quote directly from the post reporting. here's...