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Policies around this take a team, and we don t have anybody in place. there is no ambassador in poland. there is no ambassador in germany. there is no ambassador in france. there s a controversy also between jared kushner and rex tillerson about qatar and the president accusing qatar of basically being a terrorist oriented government. tillerson trying to make peace there. and tillerson believes that it was a foreign ambassador that actually wrote words that the president spoke about qatar. well, indeed we know that there are some ambassadors who have a very strong relationship with jared kushner. that s been reported in the newspapers and that he listens very carefully to them. we know that secretary tillerson and secretary mattis tried to settle down and work with the kuwaitis for rapprochement between saudi arabia and qatar at the same time that the president of the united states was declaring that he stood on the side of saudi arabia.
So i understand secretary tillerson s frustration with the white house, but i also understand the people inside the state department s frustration with secretary tillerson. in addition, lawrence, he s about to go off to a meeting with vladimir putin. he s having a meeting tomorrow with moon jae-in. he s going to be meeting with angela merkel. all of these leaders, all of the policies around this take a team, and we don t have anybody in place. there is no ambassador in poland. there is no ambassador in germany. there is no ambassador in france. there s a controversy also between jared kushner and rex tillerson about qatar and the president accusing qatar of basically being a terrorist oriented government. tillerson trying to make peace there. and tillerson believes that it was a foreign ambassador that actually wrote words that the president spoke about qatar. well, indeed we know that there are some ambassadors who have a very strong relationship
Combat terrorism over the next four months. i m joined with the chair of contemporary middle eastern studies at the london school of economics and author of isis: a history. let s talk about this decision with qatar who just announced they re hiring attorney general ashcroft to head this audit. what is the significance of this move, do you think? qatar is terrified. they are very anxious. here you have the president of the united states, which basically has one of the largest military bases in qatar, accusing qatar of financing terrorism in very blunt words. not only that, saudi arabia, the emirates and other states are accused of supporting and financing terrorist organizations. these are very serious concerns and the qataris is trying to clear the air, basically mushing
Find your awesome with the xfinity x1 voice remote. breaking news tonight, president trump blasting one of america s biggest allies in the middle east, accusing qatar of financing terror at the highest levels and today the president leveled a new warning. the nation of qatar, unfortunately, has historically been a funder of terrorism at a very high level. the time has come to call on qatar to end its funding, they have to end that funding. now of course that funding is backed up business multiple statements of the united states treasury over years, but qatar is home to a u.s. military base