gone on for quite a while now. but has reached another crescendo. the subsequent denials and reaction to that. it s interesting the president is taking great issue with that, and said that it just it s not true, and but i mean, his denial was sort of, it wasn t even that tillerson hadn t called him a moron, it was that he hadn t threatened to resign. we know the president was furious when he heard about this. and i think the president probably doesn t know what the exact truth is. tillerson is denying it. but there are people obviously who heard it, who leaked this story. and the president s furious, and i m sure tillerson is not going to stay forever. the president now has this cabinet that he s not he s not comfortable with, right? tillerson wouldn t deny the fact that he used
trump administration. drama that s gone on for quite a while now. but has reached another crescendo. with reports that rex tillerson called the president a moron and the subsequent denials and reaction to that. it s interesting the president is taking great issue with that, and said that it just it s not true, and but i mean, his denial was sort of, it wasn t even that tillerson hadn t called him a moron, it was that tiller son hadn t threatened to resign. we know the president was furious when he heard about this. and i think the president probably doesn t know what the exact truth is. tillerson is denying it. but there are people obviously who heard it, who leaked this story. and the president s furious, and and i m sure tillerson, as we were saying before, is not going to stay forever. the president now has this cabinet that he s not he s not comfortable with, right? tillerson wouldn t deny the fact that he used the press secretary.
peter alexander, donald trump is talking about this immigration executive order with sheriffs today. we know he s now in this room for this listening session with top aides. you re right, jared kushner among the aides in there. president trump focused on this issue, hosting this meeting with county sheriffs. they are zeroing in on the issue of immigration. president trump talked about his commitment to working with law enforcement in an effort to stop terror going forward, about the wall specifically. he said that they re going to begin building it soon. the bottom line is he said he s going to be partnering with these individuals to try to be tough on crime and on terror. this afternoon he s also going to meet with his new secretary of state, that s rex tillerson. that s certain to be another topic of conversation, given the fact that tillerson hadn t been confirmed by the white house, announced its travel restrictions.
spoken to the president-elect about your world view and his world view about russia. his answer was that they didn t. that was extraordinary. with everything that is happening, with the hacking and russia s evasion of ukraine and bombing in aleppo and all of the circumstances in which russia is play playing a negative force in the world, to believe that you had a conversation about the world and never spoke about russia is enormously alarming. tillerson says he believes the intelligence reports of russian interference and cyberattacks in the u.s. election but he dodged questions on russia s role on possible war crimes in syria and russian assassinations of journalists and diplomats. are you confident that he can hold vladmir putin accountable in light of what they used to have at one point a pretty close relationship, the former exxonmobil ceo and putin?
have moral clarity and be clear about what you are saying around the world and in marco rubio s views. mr. tillerson was not clear on some of those key questions. so i asked him if he will vote against him. he has not made that decision yet. wolf, if he does vote against him, that could mean he will get enough votes to prevent him from getting on a committee. we will see if that happens. significant that marco rubio has not made a decision on what to do for mr. tillerson. we ll see how all the ten democrats and 11 republicans, see if all the democrats were united against tillerson. that s a big if, at least right now. manu raju, up on capitol hill, thank you very much. republican senator, james resh. thanks very much for joining us. are you stunned that one of your fellow republicans, senator rubio, is not yet ready to commit to confirming rex