tillerson is a guy who spoke soft with a big stick and this press is all about that talking and stuff and two different ways to do business. sandra: what did you think with the statement coming out of the state department and tillerson didn t know it was coming and thought he was on the job for an indefinite period of time. well, the guy who likes to say you re fired, doesn t like to say you re fired as it turns out and i think tillerson could wait trump out and president thought he could make the person suffer, embarrass them publicly. let us not forget the moron-gate where tillerson would not deny or affirm he called the president a moron once and the president i think thought he could torture tillerson out of
affect the outcome of the election. that wasn t quite right. they didn t say that if the russians had an impact, the election would go one way or the other, the cia clarified their director s remarks. also moving forward tonight, the judge in the case overseeing charges against paul manafort says he is now a flight risk because he faces, quote, the very real possibility of spending the rest of his life in prison. all of this unusual staffing is coming at a time where you have one situation that is more normal. this would happen, i think, probably at most workplaces, if you let it be known in public, you think your boss is a, quote, moron, you re not going to have a lot of job security. can you address the main headline of this story that you called the president a moron and if not, where do you think these reports are i m not going to deal with petty stuff like that.
to that. because this is a president who likes to say you re fired publicly. it s part of his brand. but he actually is pretty meek about doing it. sure. but the writing has been on the wall for this. i mean we know that this is a secretary of state who privately called the president a moron and then held a press conference to not disavow it. to a great degree. they disagreeden issues. the president tweeted about rex wasting his time negotiating with north korea. i was told this evening by a very good source that there is a disagreement over moving the embassy to jerusalem. there is a lot of disagreement. i think that there has been trouble in terms of tillerson and reorganization of the state department. and that there are a lot of complaining from dip low plats that they can t get through to rex tillerson.
year, particularly maggie haberman and her team is there strategy in bringing up the access hollywood tape again or the birther thing again? there could be, and i have believed that he s got a strategy, even when he says things that are false, i believe there s a strategy. this week i m beginning to question that. or it could be to distract from north korea or the tax bill is hugely unpopular and yet it s likely to pass. so more attention on the tax bill is actually bad for passing the tax bill. so there is, perhaps, a strategy here. but when you combine that with other reports from the people closest to him, from the secret of state, who apparently called our president a moron, general mcmaster was reported to, in a private conversation, call him an idiot. these aren t democrats trying to undermine him, these are his closest aides. it s crazy in a sense, but i want to believe he s just dishonest not delusional. but i do think some of it is
him, because the secretary of state who called our president a moron, general mcmaster was reported in a private conversation to call him an idiot. these are his closest aides. i m shifting. it s crazy in a sense but i want to believe he s just dishonest, not delusional. i think he has bigoted views. we saw him talking about mexicans as rapists. this is in fact the problem that s facing the world, if you let muslims into your country they re going to smash statues of the virgin mary as if this is a national threat in the u.k. or the united states. i think he believes that. and so he has no problem tweeting this out. he doesn t see a problem with it. you see sarah sanders defending it, this is what we have to be