vegas. he felt their pain. he didn t seem to feel the pain of the people of puerto rico. is it because it s an island in the middle of the sea as he keeps reminding us, or it s a territory not a state, it s a place he s not that familiar with, people who speak a different language in addition to english and don t look like him? you know, there are a lot of reasons why that might be the case, but it seemed to be the case for why he sent such a jarringly inappropriate tone in puerto rico. but totally appropriate tone in las vegas. so vivian, we learn more today about this now dead psychopath who shot and killed all these people, the coverage is so achingly sad prch for some of us we can hardly look at it. we fast forward to this national tragedy, and now the first glimmer of a conversation certainly debate started right up over gun control. and this is where the president finds himself next.
workhorse not a show horse, not bombastic, not hyperbolic. 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 grown ups. standing between preventing chaos from taking over national security policy. but the fact is they haven t been able to prevent it, that john kelly hasn t been able to stop the tweets, the tweet on sunday morning that was so dissent. just hours after tillerson landed at 3:27 a.m. on a sunday morning on a flight from beijing, to have the president in two tweets disgreeing with what 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 under cuts him that
unsavory details. it is still out there for those who want to read it. it was mentioned today on the hill. we ll show you that and talk about it in a moment. to the dossier, unfortunately the committee has hit a wall. we have on several occasions made attempts to contact mr. steel, to meet with mr. steel, to include personally the vice-chairman and myself as two individuals making that connection. those offers have gone unaccepted. the committee cannot really decide the credibility of the dossier without understanding things like who paid for it, who were your sources and subsources? michael, what should be make
this from the secretary of state? it s extraordinary, and it sort of emphasizes this notion that our foreign allies and countries around the world do not have a partner in the united states, that they don t really know who to go to. already we have so many seats in the state department that are unfilled because of budget cuts. and rex tillerson has generally played an offhand role. you have our dip mats around the world who are utterly flagger gasted by what they re seeing. they have this situation where they have a secretary of state who has been very reclusive, very hands off on the day to day dealings and then you have a president chrontrudicting so much of the work they do, even praising the russians for kicking out some ouf our diplomats and a series of events since this administration.