jim accosta, thanks very much. now to the russia investigation, the secretary of state overseas talking tough about moscow s election meddling here at home. the special counsel issuing grand jury subpoenas and following the money trail. let s bring in our justice correspondent jessica snyder. jessica, we are getting more mixed messages from the trump administration. we are, would have. wli while the president refuses to acknowledge the assessment, that russia meddled in the election, he is blaming congress forbad relations with the kremlin, while traveling in asia tillerson said it is a topic he took head on with russian officials. tonight secretary of state rex tillerson is speaking out where the president has stayed silent, warning russia that its meddling in the election has hurt u.s.-russian relations. we talked about it in the discussion we had with minister lavrov yesterday, and trying to help them understand just how serious this incident had been
in, right? you must fill that in or think how vulnerable you are. if you re dependent on one person as your lone contributor and they re devastating to the culture e specially in small businesses. we talk about cultural in big companies, but in a small business you have one person that doesn t fit and it s complete wli it kills it. toxic. toxic. which is why you always want to say get rid of them. i ve been in that situation. it s hard. i love your decisiveness about that because i m going to the place of how are we defining toxicity, how old, experienced is the person? maybe we go through a wave of thinking we know everything before we learn we don t know anything. i also think salespeople, and likewise i ve managed and rev e revered salespeople for two decades really good salespeople are often very difficult people in my experience. can t you also kind of put them on the side? yes, if they re individual
worrying a little about al qaeda on the side. we look at and it say, assad has done almost all the killing. so they re looking at this problem. just try to get one side to take the other perspective. it isn t going to work. the only hope sit a new idea that involves some idea of devolution of power, the areas with sunnis and kurds, even if assad is president for a wli, they have a fair amount of autonomy. it is the only type consistent with the two world views. joining our conversation as well. i promised a minute ago that i would reflect about what rex tillerson s history is with russia. let s break that out with a hat tip to our friends at the
and i appreciate the chairman s willingness to have an open hearing on this. i think the testimony will be very important. [ inaudible question ] i m sorry, go ahead. do you have any reason to believe that the president himself or anyone working for him in the white house would be one of the names that may have been swept up? something that could. [ inaudible question ] . [ inaudible question ] ? i think it s possible but we should know that by friday. do you think the president himself might have been swept up in this? it s possible. look we know we think we understand how general flynn was picked up in incidental collection. perhaps there s additional incidental collection or the other intelligence products where unmasking occurred. this is wli we re sending a letter. get it out in the open so we understand. like i ve said many times i m
look at all going after israel instead of state terrorist nations that have been involved in terrorism. they have zeroed in on israel. and my point is this. if you are a true friend of someone, when they are being pushed into a corner and you see this happening in the united nations, obviously at that point the president of the united states should have the sbhelt to look at that. and say i m going stand with them. and we . thirty times. . so the reaction to this. from members of both parts. soon to be top democrat in the senate calling it extreme wli frustrating, disappointing and confounding. that as die yan fine steane fin