a pugh litter, so you let this quote. thanks to bill kristol for remembering this today. he was a blanket i blank stupid moron. he hate it when you called him a moron. all morons hate it when you call him a moron. that from kauch catcher in the rye. it seems to be. i mean, the thing about this whole story today, you know, what tillerson said or didn t say or didn t deny saying, that s one thing. but this image of the vice president of the united states going to the man who occupancy an office, thomas jefferson occupied hey, pal, time to get on board. exactly. and instructing him in essentially how to suck up to the president of the united states, because that s the way you stay on the team. that s the way you stay in the administration. that s the way you get anything
for the new york times. two veterans of our business and trade. andrea, about every other day thaurs a panel discussion on c-span about the era of the national security adviser and the white house and the friction it has sometimes caused between presidents and their secretaries of state. but in your time and in your knowledge has there ever been a briefing where the spokes woman for the secretary of state denied that he called the president a moron? i mean, it s no. the short answer is no. and we should point out that heather new wart says that that did not happen. we have sources, our reporters who worked on this, and it was a large team, had sources who say it did happen and who were in the room and misnew wart was not in the am radio, but she says she discussed this with the secretary. he very pointedel did not deny it himself, but he later told her that it did not happen. elizabeth, i don t know if you have any eagle scouts in your life or i do, actually. oh, that s f
called him a moron. old old j.b. sallen jr didn t get out much, but i thought of you today. with seems to be. but tillerson said or didn t say or didn t deny saying, this image of the vice president going to a man who occupied the office instructing him on essentially how to suck up to the president of the united states. because that s the way you stay on the team, that s the way you stay in the administration. that s way you get anything done by the sort of flattering and the sort of and then the videotape
bombastic, not hyper bol ilk, but this is the second time he has sounded a real warning. and what s really interesting about this, he sees them as he was describing them basically if you could shorthand it as the grownups standing between, you know, preventing chaos from taking over national security policy. but the fact is that they haven t been able to prevent it, that john kelly hasn t been able to stop the tweetsz. the tweet on sunday morning that was so disoh nent, just hours after tillerson landed at 3:27 a.m. on a sunday morning from a flight from beijing to have the president in two tweets disagree with what the secretary just described, this back channel which could lead to talks with north korea. he said they were probing. he didn t say they were talking already, but he was slammed by his own president. and that so undercuts him that people like nick burns and in
elizabeth s paper david sanger and peter baker as well as former ambassador burns, former under secretary burns as well as richard haus saying that he need to resign because he no longer has credibility with foreign leaders. look, corker has been very critical of rex tillerson s budget. in fact, the appropriations subcommittee of foreign relations unanimously rejected the budget and added $11 billion back to the bgt. and that s one of the things that tillerson has been criticized for. the way he embraced the budget from the white house, tried to ingreat 80 himself, i believe, and prove that he could cut the fat out of the state department without really understanding the state department. so corker is really trying to be an honest broker here, and it s very difficult for him. elizabeth, it s an established fact that we ve never seen the state department so diminished in terms of the vacancies, the depth chart is just an unbelievable thing. just domestically and then you look at the a