president undercuts people and does it at sensitive types. rex tillerson was in china meeting with chinese officials critical to the role in trying to force pyongyang to the negotiating table, to stop the missile tests, china is critical. tillerson is at the table with them,age knowledges a big announcement that the united states is in direct contact with the north koreans saying how critical it is to turn down the volume. and the president of the united states tweets i told rex tillerson our wonderful secretary of state he is wasting his time trying to negotiate with little rocket man. save your energy, rex. being nice to rocket man hasn t worked in 25 years. clinton failed, bush failed and obama failed. that s ripping the rug out from under your guy. it s interesting to hear when you talk to people close to the administration who want to explain what he s trying to do. good cop, bad cop theory, you get the crazy person theory and you get the we re not totally
moments away from a big announcement on capitol hill. the chairman and co-chairman of the senate intelligence committee saying where they are so far in their months long investigation into russian election methoddling. a dramatic announcement in washington morning. nbc news the latest to report that secretary of state rex tiller on so frustrated with his.disagreements with the president and his other disagreements with others on team trump in the white house was considering resigning again. nbc saying had he considered resigning in the summertime, late july. the vice president had to intervene nbc said as part of an effort to get him to stay. secretary tillerson adding an event this morning at the state department to say never happened. the vice president has never had to persuade me to were as secretary of state because i have never considered leaving this post. i value the friendship and the counsel of the vice president and i admire his leadership within president trump s administ
because he is not one of those press friendly secretaries of state at all. he did not say i never used that word. he said i m not going to talk about that petty stuff. denied. you can get past the semantics and see this is part of a pattern from the beginning of the presidency. this is a very tough work environment particularly for somebody like tillerson who is another alpha executive type. donald trump isn t always comfortable with that guy. i think he s tried to do his best to stay in a role that would make trump comfortable. look, donald trump is, the president is going to undercut you at times and that s going to be very frustrating for tillerson attempting to do this job. the report is not surprising and shows how upheaval will be the rule. it s not just the reporting we ve heard how difficult it is to in that position. it s the public undercutting. it s the tweeting. sorry, rex, kim jong-un isn t going to listen to diplomacy type of tweeting. all of that. let s bring t
trip and the historic nature and super frajistic expy al doeshious of the trip, you could almost see trump sitting there writing it with him. he was certainly wanting to stroke donald trump s ego. he s wanted to do that from way back. think about his first press briefing was all about the crowd size. that s where he lowered the credibility bar and since then hasn t raised the credibility at all. during the trip itself, one interesting element from those of us who were on air force one or in the briefing rooms because we were in the fool a lot was to the extent which you saw rex tiller on, h.r. mcmaster, gary cohn, very senior officials who have policy portfolios not comes portfolios not just participating in the briefings but running them. off and on the record sometimes on background with a combination of other top officials. part of that it seemed to many of us there was a test to find out whether that would drives the coverage in a more positive
him disruptive and belligerent. he said adding our customers with each other with respect and dignity is at the core of who we are and we must always remember this no matter how challenging the situation. chicago aviation has placed one of the security officers on leave pending a review, saying his actions were not condoned. let s switch gears and head overseas where james mattis says last friday s cruise missile strikes damaged 20% of syria s operational aircraft. in a statement mattis also says the defense department assessment shows the mission damaged or destroyed fuel and ammunition sites and air defense capabilities, adding, quote, the syrian government has lost the ability to refuel or rearm aircraft. at this point, use of the runway is of idle military interest. his statement ends with an ominous warning. the syrian government would be ill-advised ever again to use chemical weapons. rex tiller on is set to make his first diplomatic trip to