Thank you. [applause] withspan recently set down hillary to get her account of the 2016 president ial campaign. In our conversation, we spoke about her new book as well as other topics, including that speech you just heard from former president bush. President bush thursday talked but the cruelty in american politics. He did not mention the president by name. Your reaction to what he said. I really appreciated president bush delivering it. He covered a lot of ground. He talked about how White Supremacy is an absolute blasphemy to the american creed. He talked about the importance of listening to each other and working with each other. I do not agree with president bush as i think any democrat today would say to you. But i never doubted his patriotism and i never doubted that he worked really hard all day. He went to bed worried, woke up concerned about what he would do. I was in the oval office with him two days after 9 11 and i understood a lot of what he was having to face. Out andia
Mr. Tillerson we apologize for being late. This years prayer breakfast, people felt the need to pray longer. [laughter] mr. Tillerson i welcomed them all. Thank you for such a warm reception. It is a pleasure to be here. Ive been anxious to be here and so anxious to have my wife of more than 30 years. She has been steadfast through this process, encouraging me on and reminding me what this is all about. Thank you. [applause] mr. Tillerson i also want to acting want to thank secretary tom shannon, who has been superb. Tom, thank you so much. [applause] mr. Tillerson it was truly an honor that tom joined us in the Oval Office Last night for my swearing in. I want to recognize and thank all of you here at headquarters of our state department, the staff and partners around the world who have faithfully perform your duties regardless of who was in charge, so important. I know many of you have assisted ambassadors and other officials during the Senate Confirmation process, and some of you ha
Chaffetz argued about the issue. Let me go on to the russian thing. I understand the chairmans resistance on sources and methods, i get that. Myill like to introduce letter asking for a hearing on to the russian hacking. Secondly, i would like to enter into the record an fbi investigation regarding malicious cyber activity. They did a whole investigation on this. It is called grizzly steppe. I want to enter into the background the assessing of russian activities into u. S. Elections, the analytical process produced by the office of national intelligence. I would like to submit a worldwide threat assessment by james r. Clapper, director of national intelligence, february 9, 2016. So we have enough here, just with this. We have enough here to do an investigation, and this is just the stuff that is unclassified , that the Intelligence Community has put out. Will be gentleman yield . Yes. Two points. Number one, sources and methods are the sole jurisdiction of the Intelligence Community. N
Chaffetz argued about the issue. Let me go on to the russian thing. I understand the chairmans resistance on sources and methods, i get that. Myill like to introduce letter asking for a hearing on to the russian hacking. Secondly, i would like to enter into the record an fbi investigation regarding malicious cyber activity. They did a whole investigation on this. It is called grizzly steppe. I want to enter into the background the assessing of russian activities into u. S. Elections, the analytical process produced by the office of national intelligence. I would like to submit a worldwide threat assessment by james r. Clapper, director of national intelligence, february 9, 2016. So we have enough here, just with this. We have enough here to do an investigation, and this is just the stuff that is unclassified , that the Intelligence Community has put out. Will be gentleman yield . Yes. Two points. Number one, sources and methods are the sole jurisdiction of the Intelligence Community. N
Mr. Tillerson we apologize for being late. This years prayer breakfast, people felt the need to pray longer. [laughter] mr. Tillerson i welcomed them all. Thank you for such a warm reception. It is a pleasure to be here. Ive been anxious to be here and so anxious to have my wife of more than 30 years. She has been steadfast through this process, encouraging me on and reminding me what this is all about. Thank you. [applause] mr. Tillerson i also want to acting want to thank secretary tom shannon, who has been superb. Tom, thank you so much. [applause] mr. Tillerson it was truly an honor that tom joined us in the Oval Office Last night for my swearing in. I want to recognize and thank all of you here at headquarters of our state department, the staff and partners around the world who have faithfully perform your duties regardless of who was in charge, so important. I know many of you have assisted ambassadors and other officials during the Senate Confirmation process, and some of you ha