secretary of state, rex tillerson, they have been more open to listening and engaging with the qatar side of this divide. that s where qatar officials are saying they re trying to work through a diplomatic solution to put an end to the on-going kriez is, but you raise a good point, how much influence does rex tillerson have within the decision-making processes of the united states government. that yet has not emerged clearly. so they re working on that side of the equation. they are also at the highest levels, we know the emir has been in contact with president trump, but not in the nuance of trying to address the list of grievances put forward by the saudis and united arab emirates solving this. christine, this is the thing, there are business ties, american universities in qatar. if the issue is terrorism, bob corker, he said saudi terrorism support dwarves qatar s.
comes to russia, they have lied time and time again. so it s just a waste of our time, this pr, public relations, is not going to work. i agree with what ayman said. the american people care about what is happening to our country. this is not going to get us anywhere. going to get us another sound bite. jay, for you, this is sekulow talking about donald trump s involvement and what that might have been. take a listen. tell me about the reports that the president was involved in the initial response that donald trump jr. gave new york times. so i read those reports as well, and the president was not did not draft the response. the response came from donald trump jr., i m sure in consultation with his lawyer. was he asked to read the statement before it was given to new york times on air force one? i can t say whether the president was told the statement was coming from his son on that, i didn t have that conversation.
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recently in washington, wanted to meet with the white house, one of the issues being that they have been dealing with rex tillerson while saudi arabia had a relationship with jared kushner. did you get the sense they were able to find a tie, someone to talk to that has some authority. there are all of these stories tillerson tried to resolve the dispute, failed to do it, doesn t seem to have power. is qatar talking to him or do they have a direct line to the white house that s useful? they have multiple chains of communication they re working on, but no doubt that the white house and in particular president trump and certainly his senior adviser, jared kushner and others have somewhat leaned to the side of saudi arabia as well as the united arab emirates. officials on that side of the divide tell me they see a lot of support coming from the white house for the position they ve taken, but you re absolutely right, there are clear dwigiviss within foreign policy and defense management.
disapprove 51. surge counties it is flipped. it doesn t look like donald trump is weathering the storm, even in some trump counties. is that because there s not enough action on the economy or is that because a lot of americans are actually quite concerned that a foreign government might have helped elect this guy. i think you said it best, joy. here on planet earth, i like to still think is the united states of reason where facts matter, where good journalism matters, we see what s happening before us. you just talked about it. a hostile foreign government penetrated our election. we now have undisputable proof of collusion between the russian government and trump campaign. something the campaign all along denied that happened. that was a lie. another lie. the problem is it is easy to cast this issue, joy, folks on the other side watching fox news are in a state of denial. i think that s charitable. it is not a state of denial, it is a state of bad faith. and the question i ask and