that? donald trump never met rex tillerson, the ceo of exxon, before the presidential election. rex tillerson absolutely had met vladimir putin before the presidential election. he was considered to be the u.s. citizen closer to vladimir putin than any other. he received the order of friendship from vladimir putin personally, the highest civilian award that russia gives to non-russian citizens. somehow rex tillerson ended up as the u.s. secretary of state under donald trump who he d never met. and under rex tillerson, the u.s. state department putin s greatest nemesis in the u.s. government, under rex tillerson, the u.s. state department has kind of disappeared. when the state department put out its annual human rights report like it does every year, criticizing russia like it does every year, this year there was no public rollout. the secretary of state didn t even announce it, they did no public events, why stress the issue. that is usually the highest high
russians against him and when there have been big protest movements in russia that have threatened to rise to that level putin has raged against the u.s. state department for supporting, no, for orchestrating those protesters. if russia did run a massive intelligence operation to affect the outcome of the u.s. presidential election, do we think they d see that as it its own reward? that s enough? okay, now we re done? or once you ve done that is it time the reap the benefits of that? donald trump never met rex tillerson, the ceo of exxon, before the psidential election. rex tillerson absolutely had met vladimir putin before the presidential election. he was considered to be the u.s. citizen closer to vladimir putin than any other. he received the order of friendship from vladimir putin personally, the highest civilian award that russia gives to non-russian citizens. somehow rex tillerson ended up as the u.s. secretary of state under donald trump who he d
protesters. if russia did run a massive intelligence operation to affect the outcome of the u.s. presidential election, do we think they d see that as it its own reward? that s enough? okay, now we re done? or once you ve done that is it time the reap the benefits of that? donald trump never met rex tillerson, the ceo of exxon, before the presidential election. rex tillerson absolutely had met vladimir putin before the presidential election. he was considered to be the u.s. citizen closer to vladimir putin than any other. he received the order of friendship from vladimir putin personally, the highest civilian award that russia gives to non-russian citizens. somehow rex tillerson ended up as the u.s. secretary of state under donald trump who he d never met. and under rex tillerson, the u.s. state department putin s greatest nemesis in the u.s. government, under rex tillerson, the u.s. state department has
and so for secretary of state rex tillerson, who is new to being a diplomat but has had a lot of experience dealing with heads of state in his role when he was the ceo of exxon, and for john kelly, who is of course formerly a general, now in this role of one of the toughest departments, homeland security, which has to implement the new executive orders for the president, they deal with things like the new rules that would make it easier and faster for the united states to send, especially mexican border crossers back when there had been a plan prior to that where they could be if they were apprehended they could remain in the united states pending a court process. s that witness of the many elements of these new yards. diplomatically, what a tall order for these two secretaries to go to mexico and to try to find some area of common ground. notably, the president acknowledges, it s a tough trip. craig. a rough slog, indeed. kelly o donnell for us at 1600.
going to go over the line. they see that flynn, who he had to fire, was talking with russia about sanctions, the russian ambassador. and i think that s very key because the sanctions issue is key to getting to what they have been all about. as a matter of fact, i believe that tillerson, who was the ceo of exxon, has as his highest priority getting rid of the sanctions. don t forget, he is the one who negotiated the deal with russia to drill in the arctic. and that was stopped because obama placed sanctions on them and they couldn t proceed with that. and to tillerson, who has this great relationship with putin, is going to do everything that he can to lift those sanctions and that s going to be their achilles heel. i m curious, have you seen