Of supplies with people on the island still waiting to actually get them. The head of u. S. Homeland security heads down today as the white house explains what they are doing now to help. We have a lot to get to over the next 60 minutes. But i want to start with Kristen Welker over at the white house. Because, kristen, we saw this, you could call it kind of apology tour for tom price, the for the first time coming out publicly to talk about his payback, reimbursing taxpayers for some of the cost of the charter flights he took. Is that enough for President Trump to forgive and forget . Reporter that is the big question here, hallie, that we have been trying to drilldown on all week. And the president being very tightlipped earlier this week. Obviously, telling you well see when he plans to fire secretary price, but then yesterday, of course, our own monica alba asked if he still has confidence in secretary price. And he declined to answer. Sarah huckabee sanders, by the way, note giving
Virtually every day and we agree that there must be the highest level of coordination between our diplomatic efforts and our military efforts. You cant have a stronger partner than a secretary of defense who embraces diplomacy. This is just the beginning of the list of partners and friends across the government who are all working for the american people. Theres much to be done and were just getting started. The Vice President has never had to persuade me to remain secretary of state because i have never considered leaving this post. I value the friendship and the counsel of the Vice President and i admire his leadership within president Trumps Administration to address the many important agendas of President Trump both from a Foreign Policy perspective and domestic objective. He loves his country. He puts americans and america first. Hes smart. He demands results wherever he goes. And he holds those around him accountable for whether theyve done the job hes asked them to do. Accountab
president has had to have repeated conversations with rex tillerson about being more respectful to the president. and so that s coming from a white house official. we don t know exactly where this is going to go. this probably the first bite of the apple so to speak for rex tillerson. and again the backdrop to all of this, significant foreign policy issues facing the administration. the crisis in north korea. you ve got the iranian nuclear deal. carol lee, always proud to call you a teammate but especially today. i have now overstepped my bounds for my show by about 30 minutes given this news. i want to thank josh and andrea mitchell and chuck todd who are continuing to report this out. including joel and sabrina here
business, rex tillerson as ceo of exxon did more interviews with the boy scouts of america than with business journalists. so when the president was so flip and spoke in such a way to the boy scouts of america, that affected tillerson. josh, stephanie brings up jared kushner who as anybody who coff covers this white house knows is involved in foreign policy. i know that, you know that. and the relationship now between secretary tillerson and kushner has started to come into sharper focus. that s right. the kushner dynamic is a parallel to the haley dynamic. for tillerson who is supposed to be the voice on foreign policy, is he? or does he have this bifurcated where his issues are his and others have issues and foreign countries don t know who s running point and actually is reflecting the policy on a certain issue? i remember sitting at a press conference. i guess it was at the general assembly with my colleagues talking about having a single