To give him a pep talk, to have conversations with him about how he might be more respectful to the president. And thats according to a white house official, and other sources have said the same. You know, he didnt deny calling the president a moron. He essentially gave a series of different Policy Issues in which hes saying the president has been successful on, he really backed the president , he supports the president. He also said he doesnt intend to go anywhere, that hes just getting started. It was very much, as our own chuck todd tweeted earlier, it very much seemed like a statement that was serving an audience of one, and that is the president. I think the question all of us has now is what happens to Rex Tillerson . Is this enough for the president . And kristen, we know that President Trump was paying attention to this because we can read his twitter and hes been talking about this. Very clear that the Vice President wasnt among those who specifically talked him out of resigni
state on a whole host of policy issues. and those policy issues, kristen and carol, is a critical backdrop to all of this. we re talking about the secretary of state, as you have, the crisis in north korea that s been intensifying in the last few months. you got what was happening with the u.s. relationship with iran and questions about what happens with the nuclear deal next, carol. right, and those are just two of the issues that secretary tillerson and the president have clashed on. we also know they clashed on how to handle the saudi arabia and the united arab emirates conflict with qatar. you saw the president the secretary say one thing and then the president come out and undercut him on that. you may know that secretariy tillerson, around the time he was considering resigning, really pushed the president on signing the nuclear deal.