event, that she's headlining this. this is a quote from a senior state department official, they, meaning tillerson and his staff won't send someone senior because they don't want to bolster ivanka. it's another riff between the white house and state when rex tillerson doesn't need any more problems with the president. a close source to the white house, rex doesn't like the fact he's supposed to be our nation's top diplomat and jared and ivanka have stepped all over rex tillerson for a long time. now he's not sending senior people from the state department to support the issue. he's not supporting ivanka trump. several people see this as a snub. in the past when you look at this event, president obama attended more than once, secretary kerry did more than once. last year there was a huge delegation with an undersecretary and assistant secretaries but you can say, okay, this is an obama-era event, it was their creation, this is at a time when the state department is trying to slash its budget dramatically and there is no permanent assistant secretary for the region in place, but the response that