conspiracy theory the president has sold the attorney general on, and the attorney general shame fa shamefully, in a disgraceful show of says he s going to investigate the investigators. remember this is the theory that republicans were proceeding on in the judiciary inquiries into peter struck and lisa page, all they had against struck and page they had called the president a moron or idiot, and we can find you lots of comments by ted cruz and marco rubio where they said he s a compulsive liar and serial philanderer and unqualified for office. likely half of america or more have said. congressman, appreciate your time tonight. thank you. delighted to be with you. out front next 11 deaths already this climbing seen on
than what they ve told the american people. and, david corn, the scenes of frustration in bob woodward s book about national security issues are some of the most extreme. there is a confirmation in this book about one word that was in dispute many months ago when stephanie ruhle here at msnbc was the first to report that rex tillerson called the president a moron at the end of a meeting in the pentagon about national security issues. that meeting is described in great detail in bob woodward s book in the way stephanie originally reported the quote, tillerson ended the meeting by calling donald trump an f-ing moron. bob woodward confirms it was f-ing moron, not just moron. and rex tillerson said it in a way deliberately so that
pursued with cuba and russia being responsible for this would make perfect sense. it would make perfect sense that the administration once again is trying to protect its ally in moscow, vladimir putin. its ally in moscow that has an intelligence presence in cuba, that has this technology, that has agents, and that has reason to do this. the russians, of course, have reason to divide us from the cubans, our neighbor in the western hemisphere, and it s my strong suspicion that the trump administration knows a lot more than what they ve told the american people. and, david corn, the scenes of frustration in bob woodward s book about national security issues are some of the most extreme. there is a confirmation in this book about one word that was in dispute many months ago when stephanie ruhle here at msnbc was the first to report that rex tillerson called the president a moron at the end of a meeting in the pentagon about national security issues. that meeting is described in great det
peter what is the secretary of state talking about? well, that s a great question, and i haven t heard the whole speech. maybe there s context i don t personally know about. hard to listen to what you just played and not think of it in terms of the current president. what else would he be referring to? why else would he be making comments to these graduating seniors if not to make commentary about the current state of american politics? he was there obviously for 14 months. difficult months for him. he did not thrive in president trump s environment. he did not come out of it way great deal of respect, we think, for president trump. remember, it was your this network that reported that he called the president a moron in a prirchd meeting. i don t think that view changed. by the time he was fired over twitter. so you know, he s trying to send, sounds like, a pretty clear message that there s something wrong, in his view, in the administration from which he was dismissed t. sho
taking a page from rex tillerson who called the president a moron and never recovered. ended up being fired. four witnesses say john kelly has called mr. trump an idiot on multiple occasions. the chief of staff pushing back hours after saying in part i spend more time with the president than anyone else and we have an incredibly candid and strong relationship. he knows where i stand and he and i know this story is total bs. president trump weighing in on twitter writing the fake news is going crazy making up false stories and using only unnamed sources who don t exist. joining me nbc white house correspondent kristen welker and nbc national political reporter. kristen, first to you on whether or not john kelly gets passed this given he was already on thin ice no matter what they say. reporter: it s a good question and remains to be seen. you saw the very firm pushback from the chief of staff and from