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?
understand the person who would be the secretary of state, facing one of the most geopolitical challenges in terms of our p information wi of our information with russia. there is a difference between cutting a deal, a commercial deal, and getting a country to rejoin the international order and do the right thing and move away from the various activities. i didn t necessarily walk away with the understanding that he is up to that task. do you believe he has taken all the adequate steps to previpr prevent any conflict of interest? has he done enough? well, that s why i agree with senator cardin, the ranking member to get greater disclosure on his income tax issues as well as understanding the transactions that he made with exxonmobil to leave exxonmobil.
he has gotten a windfall. he is going to have tax deferrals and a higher tax price and dealing with aexxonmobil is one year. in a year from now, they will be able to call on you knowing that you will be the secretary of state and that you spent a lifetime at a company and you have a global view as to how that company operates and other companies similarly situated. i don t know that they did or didn t. it raises a serious question. i would like to have seen him say he was going to for his-term exclude himself and many actions on exxonmobil. i would like to have a better understanding of this trance section that he gets all of this
stock at a price that s accelerated, at a higher price. how does that affect potential judgments in the future? senator marco rubio met with reporters after he emerged from the hearing room before the senate foreign relations committee, he refused to say whether he is ready to announce he will vote to confirm rex tillerson as the next secretary of state. he needs to consider it a bit longer. what about you? are you ready to confirm his nomination? no. i am going to need a lot more information. i am going to look forward to a series of responses to a slew of written questions that i am presenting for the record. i want to see his responses. i want to see responses to other colleagues so i know i am pursuing other lines of questioning. i want to see his answers to that. i find it difficult to understand that as the ceo of exxon ploe exxonmobil that he didn t understand his company was
well, that s one of the things i was trying to deduce at the hearing. i walk away not quite assuaged. someone who received the order of friendship and the next year, exxonmobil was lobbying against sanctions against russia as a result of sanctions in ukraine. sanctions i offered and passed here in the senate, has continuously lobbied against sanctions against russia and other entities and cannot squarely define that the indiscriminate bombing in aleppo by russia including of hospitals, for example, is, in essence, an act that not only violates the international norm but violates the international standards of what is considered a war crime. whether you consider putin or not a war crime, his answer would have been that those actions were in violation of what, in essence, is a war crime. it is really troublesome to