former executive chairman of exxonmobil going as far as he did in trying to backtrack out of the obvious differences that he has with this president. so once again we have a very muddled scene, and i think we've all learned in the time we've been watching this, the president will take it as it comes. we can't read too much into it. >> and you're going to stay with us, tom. we're going to talk in just a minute about another question that she was asked, and that is about bump stocks and the talk about gun control in the wake of what happened in las vegas. but as we sit here guessing -- grasping for what the leader of the free world could possibly have meant by the coming storm, was it the iran deal? something involving military? did it have to do with secretary of state rex tillerson? nbc news has learned the president was furious over our exclusive that the secretary of state called president trump a moron. that report according to multiple senior administration official who's were aware of the matter at the time. tillerson did not deny the remark during his comments this week, of course, but his state