first, where president. and the fancy manhattan club where trump and his entourage dine. the 21 club is iconic for trump. he is a regular at table 11 where the restaurants says he orders it with cheese. it is where he absconded to in no when he broke free stroke ditch the press pool and the 21 club was even his analogy for once reforming mideast policy. telling generals, it was like the 21 club in the 80s where they only ended up changing the kitchen a little bit. an inspired analogy maybe. but also totally made up. that s according to the restaurant s owner who rebutted the story at the time. how do you get from the 21 club to turkey? well, by meeting with turkish officials there as mike flynn did during the transition and
companies in the world and doing it magnificently. reporter: but so far, trump isn t giving his top diplomat free rein on foreign policy. while tillerson tries to mediate a dispute between qatar and other gulf currents, president trump has openly sided with saudi arabia. the nation of qatar, unfortunately has been a funder of terrorism at a very high level. reporter: trump has taken much of mideast policy, including the peace process, off of tillerson s plate, giving it to kushner, instead. and as tillerson seeks to reorganize his state department, the white house has pushed him to make major cuts, slashing a whopping 30% to his budget, shocking lawmakers who called the proemz a waste of time. my reaction is it s probably dead on arrival. reporter: tony blinken now cnn global affairs analyst says the end result is a weakened state department unable to shape
me. it was a violation of the trust placed in me and a breach of the values to which i had been committed throughout my life. there s nothing i can do to undo what i did. i can only say again how sorry i am to let to those i let down and then strive to go forward with a greater sense of humility and purpose and with gratitude to those who have stood with me during a very difficult chapter in my life. that was former cia director general david petraeus on capitol hill this morning. he was there to talk mideast policy but with it being his first congressional appearance since resigning two years ago, he apologized for the scandal involving him sharing classified information with his then-mistress and biographer, paula broadwell. he was sentenced to two years probation and a $100,000 fine. so as we wait and anticipate exactly what s going to happen for the scheduled visit of pope
forced his resignation. four years ago i made a serious mistake, one that brought discredit on me and pain closest to those closest to me. it was a violation of the trust placed in me and a breach of the values to which i ve been committed throughout my life. there s nothing i can do to undo what i did. i can only say again how sorry i am to let to those i let down, and then strive to go forward with a greater sense of humility and purpose and with gratitude to those who have stood with me during a very difficult chapter in my life. petraeus is testifying before a senate armed services committee on u.s. mideast policy. this is his first visit back to congress after being sentenced to two years probation for sharing classified information with his mistress, paula broadwell. on wall street stocks are
the house and senate will debate that this week. minority leader harry reid today i m gratified to say to my fellow americans, our negotiating partners and our allies all around the world, this agreement will stand. america will uphold its commitment and we ll seize this opportunity to stop iran from getting a nuclear weapon. meanwhile, former vice president dick cheney ramped up his criticism this morning. with the removal of restrictions on iran s ballistic missile program, this agreement will give iran the means to launch a nuclear attack on the u.s. homeland. arming and funding iran while providing them a pathway to a nuclear arson enal an act of pe. it is not the only alternative to war. it is madness. the white house fired back through a social media campaign. it argued the former vice president has been wrong on mideast policy before. take a listen.