together with rex tillerson we discussed the outcome. that took place in new york yesterday where they reviewed the state of our relations. when all the problems have been -- we, i would rather say the year address attend summer artificially introduced in our relations. approach.usinesslike we can't solve all the problems overnight. there is a desire to move in the direction of the settlement of the problems. president trump clearly stated his interest in build diplomatic relations with russia and to important boths president trump and president putin can obtain concrete results that would help in moving -- removing problems from the international -- that's what we wanted to start with. any questions? mic.e use the sanctionsu discussed and the issue of restoring seized russian property? situation that -- it is not our problem as a result of unilateral actions taken against us. regarding our property, well, that ishat is an issue a priority in our talks. it is our property, diplomatic property. legal documents given to us. it is our prope

it is high time for us -- >> secretary of state rex tillerson talked about the state of u.s.-russia relations on nbc "meet the press today, while nikki haley previewed president conn's upcoming overseas trip on abc's "this week." >> i don't understand how this is not a top issue for you to in order toth them essentially start with a clean slate. cannot start with a clean slate until may be they either own up to what they did, or we punish them in a way that they are not going to do this again. i think it is important to understand we are not trying to start with a clean slate. ares like having a reset overused. you cannot reset or erase the past. you cannot start with a clean slate. we are not trying to start with a clean slate. we are starting with the slate we have it all the problems are on that plate, we do not dismiss any of them or give anyone a free pass on any of them. they are part of the entire nature of the discussion we are having with the russians, and yes, there are a large number of issues we have to get around to addressing in order to put this relationship ba

together with rex tillerson. that meeting of our deputies took place in new york the day before yesterday. they reviewed the state of our -- saw, we wantems we good. that the pace is we agreed to continue down this child to address the irritants that were artificially introduced into our elections. there is a desire to move. and to solve issues -- it is important that both president trump and supporters are willing to obtain concrete results. that would help removing problems from the international part. that is why i don't want to start any questions. -- that is why i will start questions. >> your seizing russian property and my second question is, is this upheld? we will not this out -- discuss the issues. not until action is taken against us. property, indeed, that is an issue. it is a priority. it is our property. recognizes this by documents. and it isgiven to us our property and no one denies that. they will not deny that it is our property. >> there are tricks. >> our diplomats were ordered. everyone under

[speaking in native tongue] >> today, we have had our meeting with rex tillerson and state department and we have been in talks with him. first of all, it is cooperation on the international arena and despite all known difficulties our countries can and should contribute jointly to the most urgent issue in international affairs. we discussed syria in the context of the ideas that have been put forth regarding the de-escalation areas and regarding the facts if that should be established that would contribute to violence throughout the country of syria to contribute to humanitarian problems and forms the framework to achieve political substance base and resolution 2224. we agree to work together where the u.s. is an observer and appreciate the constructive criticism of the u.s. this meeting will continue to accomplish the process which is supposed to resume next week according to secretary tillerson. we hope that all the participants of the talks will be constructive. we also discussed many other issues and challenges wooektd tu -- we could turn the ties on the israeli and afghanistan s

secretary of state rex tillerson. we'll bring that to you live. that's the room where it'll happen. the president just finishing up a signing and agreement with king salmon right there in those images, but as the world watches, the president takes his first steps into diplomacy on a grand world stage. the storm cloud over the white house is growing. with two new explosive reports. current and former government sources tell cnn that during the 2016 campaign, russian officials bragged about their relationship with former nsa advisor michael flynn and believed that they could use flynn to influence donald trump. and the "new york times" reporting that during the president's meeting with russian officials early this month, right there in the white house, the president trash talked fbi director james comey and said firing -- the firing rather was done of what president trump described as comey as a nut job and that the firing eased, quote, great pressure of the investigation. russia's foreign minister now denying that topi

. >> we expect and on camera briefing from rex tillerson at 11:00 eastern. we bring you that as well. mike pence sitting down, megan smith was chosen by her classmates to give a speech at the commencement address. >> should we expect anything from the vice president or down the middle? >> he will offer what everybody offers at a commencement address. talk about what that road is going to go? tell them sometimes it might be hard and you might get knocked down but how you get up matters. most wants to hear that message, it is a special time, a time to have the president of the united states addressing it. >> he is speaking in grove city, pennsylvania. their motto is because faith and freedom matter, something we have seen that is unique with his administration, we saw recently with donald trump at liberty university's they are not afraid to touch faith, they are not afraid to go there. >> there is nothing wrong with touching faith which i wish democrats and even some republicans would agree with that. there are ways in which faith has promoted people in value

rex tillerson is in the building we understand. you can tell from the first few hours of the visit it looks like a new day centered around the $110 billion arms deal. problem for saudi arabia, can can't buy its way to security. and they're number three in the world in terms of military spending, but 127th in terms of readiness and their ability to mount an effective defense in the country and go after terrorism. so there's a little bit of a disconnect there so something clearly they'll need to work on. but this is $110 billion in business for the american arms and electronics industry, because a lot of this involves electronics as well as missile. and it's a $350 billion deal over ten years, so, in terms of the military/economic relationship between the two countries, off on a very strong footing, it's also interesting to watch the body language between president trump and ki killng-- king salmans. and the president meeting with the deputy crown prince and bin salmans is trying to reenact reforms in saudi arabia and loosen up the d

. >> there will be a statement from rex tillerson at 11 am. >> the vice president landed in grove city, live footage of him landing at the tarmac giving the commencement address is that we will cover live when he is speaking. he is greeting people at the bottom of air force ii. why is "fox and friends" still on the air at 10:00 eastern time? a lot of historic moments, first time this has happened, a little over time, we will be on for the next hour. historic things happening around the globe. >> benjamin hall, you have been following this all afternoon, what a busy day, some busy moments to come. >> no way we can cut away from this. we are getting new information out of this. what started the moment is a lot of ceremony and formality welcoming, the president has moved on quickly, just eight hours into his trip and they have gone to the big deals we were expecting. in bilateral talks at the moment. the commerce secretary on the president's left and rex tillerson on his right and after the meeting we get a signing ceremony. we are hearing there will be eight letters of acceptance and one

rex tillerson was the one who brokered that deal. again this is a photo opportunity here and we will continue to follow president trump's visit to saudi arabia. right now we are going to go back to our regular programming. thank you for joining us. we'll follow president trump for the rest of the day. >> four days after beverly carter disappeared, police pulled up to this remote cement plant. they frantically searched for the missing real estate agent. you just now have this gut feeling that that's where she's at? >> yeah. >> shortly after arriving, an officer stumbled on something straight out of a crime novel. an elbow sticking out of a shallow grave. it was beverly. detective allison went to see carl. >> you never forget the look on somebody's face when you tell them that you found their spouse, it's hard. that's probably the hardest part of it. >> they said we found beverly. i said, well, was she alive? and i'm sorry but she wasn't. >> we had worked so hard i mean, to find her. i mean we just really tried to do right and it wasn'

rex tillerson is not. he understands the economics of oil, the economics of oil power, but i'm not sure that anyone other than an mcmaster understands the strategic and military challenge for saudi arabia on the ground. a lot of saudis don't like the fight in yemen. they don't want to be extended and helping america so visibly in syria. so, there are a lot of domestic pressures the saudi king has to cope with and the pressures that he has to fight against in order to maintain and to rejuvenate this alliance with the united states which really kind of flagged under president obama. >> judy miller, pulitzer prize winner. and you think about this, liz, the first u.s.-saudi alliance happened in 1990, there was the invasion of iraq and all of a sudden norman schwarzkopf and the president and dick cheney putting together the alliance to take on saddam hussein. it was simpler. it was the saudis and much of the arab world and much of the world against iraq out of kuwait. judy pointed out in a way only she can, now

i sat down with secretary of state rex tillerson and asked him whether he agrees with the president the russia story is fake news and a witch hunt. >> chuck, the president, i think, has made it clear that he feels it's important we re-engage with russia. the relationship with russia, as he has described and i have described as well, i think at an all time low point since the end of the cold war with a very low level of trust. i think the world and it's in the interests of the american people and russia and the rest of the world we do something to see if we cannot improve the relationship between the two greatest nuclear powers in the world. the president, i think, has committed to make an effort in that regard and he has certainly asked me to make it an important effort as well. >> i understand that. you look at what's happening in the western european nations, france and germany and italy and accusations of russian interested interference in their democratic process. what message does it send to those countries that their number one ally, the president of the united states, their presi

that is why i'm so grateful to rex tillerson, u.s. secretary of state, for coming here today in an instinctive act of solidarity between the u.s. and the u.k. we've talked about all sorts of things today, much of which you would expect. iran, theations with dprk, north korea, the vital importance of the work we do together across such a range of fields. including intelligence, sharing, and around the world you will find the u.s. and the u.k. facing the same problems together, and defending our ideals together. we defend democracy and the rule of law. our values and our freedoms. not just because they are hours, but because they are universal. unite world community can in the way the people of manchester have come together and united, i think together we can prevail and we will prevail. rex, your visit is an important sign of the closeness and harmony of our cooperation. thank you very much for coming. sec. tillerson: thank you, boris. i am here today in great britain on behalf of the american people. i can tell you all across america

that is why i'm so grateful to rex tillerson, u.s. secretary of state, for coming here today in an instinctive act of solidarity between the u.s. and the u.k. we've talked about all sorts of things today, much of which you would expect. syria, relations with iran, the dprk, north korea, the vital importance of the work we do together across such a range of fields. including intelligence, sharing, and around the world you will find the u.s. and the u.k. facing the same problems together, and defending our ideals together. we defend democracy and the rule of law. our values and our freedoms. not just because they are hours, but because they are universal. if the world community can unite in the way the people of manchester have come together and united, i think together we can prevail and we will prevail. rex, your visit is an important sign of the closeness and harmony of our cooperation. thank you very much. sec. tillerson: thank you, boris. i am here today in great britain on behalf of the american people. i can tell you all across a

it's quite interesting that rex tillerson is front and center has never been to israel before. because as head of the oil company and someone who spent his entire career at exxon mobile was always dealing with the arab world and therefore thought with israel. remarkal. >> as you mentioned rex tillerson having to work on the relationships on the israeli side, jared kushner has very close tied the israeli leadership now has to build his relationship on the palestinian side as he becomes a central figure in these toalks the american president wants to jump start. you see them walking down to the red carpet. we're expecting them to make brief remarks. we'll take a listen to those when they approach that. >> and you didn't hear from president trump much. he made a few brief remarks there. but before that address, he made very brief remarks on that very first day. so wondering how much and how often if he's in on the ground there. >> obviously there's going to be a lot of discussion. >> reporter: lot of talking. >> a lot of discussions between the israeli about the saudy visit. any b

tillerson and trump wa nt to that both rex tillerson and trump want to try to reach out to the russians. i do think they're going to focus mostly on syria, that is where the low hanging fruit is and thatis where the low hanging fruit is and that is because russia is in a commanding position now that alaba has fallen in the syrian regime has control of most of the populated areas of western syria. the key question i think that the trump administration is are they going to support this deal, is there when it comes to de—escalation, and the situation just got comes to de—escalation, and the situationjust got more comes to de—escalation, and the situation just got more complicated yesterday because the united states announced it is going to train and arm the syrian kurds and that is going to strain relations with turkey just before going to strain relations with turkeyjust before president erdogan arrives next week to see mr trump. i want to pick up on what charles was saying. the white house is going to give heavy arms to the kurds, we have the announcement of another 3000 american t

that is why i'm so grateful to rex tillerson, u.s. secretary of state, for coming here today in an instinctive act of solidarity between the u.s. and the u.k. we've talked about all sorts of things today, much of which you would expect. syria, relations with iran, the dprk, north korea, the vital importance of the work we do together across such a range of fields. including intelligence sharing and around the world you will find the u.s. and the u.k. facing the same problems together and defending our ideals together. we defend democracy and the rule of law. our values and our freedoms. not just because they are ours, but because they are universal. if the world community can unite in the way the people of manchester have come together and united, i think together we can prevail and we will prevail. rex, your visit is an important sign of the closeness and harmony of our cooperation. thank you very much for coming. sec. tillerson: thank you, boris. good afternoon to all of you. i am here today in great britain on behalf of the america

you just heard rex tillerson talking about beating isis in cyberspace. i think that's a big part of this that quite often isn't talked about. >> it's a real big part. we've got to provide a constructive alternative to the people that are trying to radicalize at-risk youth, people in prisons, people who feel marginalized by society. we've got to figure out how to make them come back into the mainstream and to realize that islam is a religion of peace, just like the other abrahamic faiths. >> there are a lot of people like us, we're watching this day in and day out with each other, but there are a lot of people, it's a saturday afternoon. they're turning on and don't know all the ins and outs of the politics of all of this. what is the takeaway from today as far as what we've just heard? >> if i had to say one word, i would say reset. i think president trump and secretary tillerson have reset the relationship with saudi arabia and our sunni allies. i think he's made a huge trade deal, which is both good for our united states enterprises, general electric a

secretary of state rex tillerson and saudi's foreign minister al jubeir. and you heard rex tillerson there making reference to the ironen election, re-election, of president rouhani there, and he says he is -- his hope is he wouldn't reveal expectations, his hope would be that it would put an end to ballistic missile testing and restore the rights of ironens. a lot -- iranians. other things were talked about in terms of what's being described as a productive and historic visit, according to the foreign minister there, and they talked about the strengthening of the partnership between the u.s. and saudi arabia as it pertains to economic deals, military deals and strengthening existing relations between the two countries and he said, they signed a declaration, the president of the united states and the king of saudi arabia, signing a declaration to elevate a strategic relationship. all right. mean time, now let's get a peek into the meeting, bilateral meeting, that took place between the president of the united states and the crown prince of saudi arabia. le

honestly rex tillerson needs to stand up and absolutely say we understand where they are. this is how we see it. we understand their concerns about iran and iran's behavior, we share many of those, but we're also hopeful given the election of rouhani today in iran there's steps forward. we know that iran has been messing in yemen, but the saudis have bombed too much, have hurt too many people and in fact the houthis are a legitimate part of the yemeni political establishment. >> i see what you're saying as opposed to just standing there. >> you don't have to give in. that's right. absolutely. if it had been john kerry, he absolutely would have drawn a line that was different. >> interesting. it's interesting you talked about it because i have to tell you we were certainly looking at that. secretary tillerson puts the total saudi investment in u.s. interests at $350 billion with a number of u.s. companies benefitting, so i guess i have to ask the question, is this really more about business? >> i think it is very much. if there's one thing that donald trump is consistent on

that is why i'm so grateful to rex tillerson, u.s. secretary of state, for coming here today in an instinctive act of solidarity between the u.s. and the u.k. we've talked about all sorts of things today, much of which you would expect. syria, relations with iran, the dprk, north korea, the vital importance of the work we do together across such a range of fields. including intelligence, sharing, and around the world you will find the u.s. and the u.k. facing the same problems together, and defending our ideals together. we defend democracy and the rule of law. our values and our freedoms. h just because they are ours, but because they are universal. if the world community can unite in the way the people of manchester have come together and united, i think together we can prevail and we will prevail. rex, your visit is an important sign of the closeness and harmony of our cooperation. thank you very much for coming. sec. tillerson: thank you, boris. i am here today in great britain on behalf of the american people. i can tell you all

. >> we want to let you know that secretary of state rex tillerson and his saudi counterpart will be speaking in just about four minutes as well. we will take that for you live when that happens. but nick, before we watch this signing. we were having this conversation about the breaking news here in the u.s. from the "new york times" and some comments that the president allegedly made to his russian leaders when they were at the oval office. how much of a white house under investigation is of concern to the saudis, to israel, to the vatican on this trip? how much of that will overshadow, if at all what's happening in these countries with the president's visit? >> all of this would be a deep worry. jrt mcmaster was clear, there was only the conversations he said were wholly appropriate in the oval office that day by the president. when it comes to saudi arabia, saudi arabia has take an very firm stance behind the united states, behind president trump, pretty much from the get go. and in a way you can call it a gamble. it can backfire. it can backfire more in a democracy. you take for

that's one thing secretary rex tillerson pointed out. maybe this is evidence some of our pressure is working because they are trying to make a show. thank you so much. appreciate it. leland: as a brett baier noted earlier, the president ought as they reset the narrative. the narrative will ship back to domestic issues and former fbi director james comey testifies before the intelligence committee. he will respond to reports that president trump called him a nut job and firing him takes off some pressure. secretary of state rex tillerson said they had been misinterpreted. >> my take away from a away from a conversation with not that point at all. the president was simply saying these issues at home are not going to get in the way of my after and the way of my government to move this relationship will work. leland: it was not only the secretary of state talking about this today. eric tenney as it seems unlikely to go away anytime soon. reporter: as you mentioned, the president, it isn't the only part raising some eyebrows on capitol hill.

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trump and senior white house officials, among them secretary of state rex tillerson. he held a joint news conference with his saudi carpark to discuss bilateral relations. talked about the recent presidential election in iran. this is 30 minutes. >> good evening, everyone. ready? i would like to welcome everyone to the kingdom of saudi arabia. honor toeasure and welcome might collect and friend, rex tillerson, on his first trip to saudi arabia. while this may be your first visit as secretary of state, you have been here many times over many years. you know our country and region extremely well and i believe that your country is fortunate to have you as secretary of state during this. period. we feel fortunate to have you at the helm of the state department. today was an historic day and we theeve at the beginning of turning point of the relationship between the united states and the arab and islamic world. president donald strategiced a joint declaration that sets the stage building of a truly strategic relationship between our two countries. our relationship will def

secretary-- >> you have been listening live to secretary of state rex tillerson and the saudi foreign minister jubeir there, they talked about it being a historic day between these two men, the beginning of a turning point and we initially heard the foreign minister from saudi arabia say this is a beginning of a turning point, as i mentioned, to fight violent extremism, defense, infrastructure, trade, he said it was unprecedented and we heard the same tone from the secretary of state rex tillerson, what we found right off the bat is these two men have a woven history together and known each other for quite a long time. >> they're friends, seem comfortable together. >> and we heard rex tillerson talk a lot about the arms deal signed just hours earlier by the president and the king there. and talked about how it would improve not only the defense in that country, but bring jobs back to the united states and it would be obviously pivotal for the war against extremism, but said it would get iran in line, too, they covered their bases and they took about three or four questions from the me

however, the us secretary of state, rex tillerson told the ministers, that his country would not rush to make a decision. in football, manchester united and ajax will contest the final of the europa league.man united beat celta vigo 2—1 on aggregate while the dutch side beat lyon 5—4 over the two legs. the final is in stockholm on the 24th may. now it's time for world business report. zooming exports and crumbling classrooms. the paradox of germany's lopsided economy. plus will iran stay open for business? conservatives pledge to roll back rouhani's reforms, as companies nervously await next week's presidential election. welcome to world business report. i'm tanya beckett. also coming up, playing for big "steaks." china agrees to buy us beef as trade talks continue. but first: we start in europe's economic powerhouse, because in a couple of hours‘ time, germany will release its latest gdp figures. growth is expected to have accelerated in the first three months of the year, fuelled by global demand for the country's exports, like cars and machiner

why would rex tillerson put himself out there. >> it demonstrates how clearly, how clearly limited rex tillerson's capacity is. at least to me it does. >> i think all of it demonstrates like you said inexperience on the part of this administration and this is what happens when you put a bunch of people who are used to running businesses or real estate empires playing by their own rules into positions of political power. they start making very questionable moves like this and they're not used to having any type of brains or restrictions placed upon them. i do think this will be a good test for donald trump. he's willing to turn his back on anybody, but his family. that's what we believe. "new york times" is reporting this morning. maybe he's been cooling towards jared kushner a little bit recently. i think it will be an interesting way to tell whether the unpredictable president can go so far to flip on family. >> we need to be careful. we have to be very, very careful. getting ahead of our skis. putting the cart before the horse. i think we need to be careful here to see what is actual

this is from rex tillerson, "we do not seek a collapse of the north korean regime, we do not seek accelerated reunification of the peninsular, we are not out to bring the regime to its knees." that may be an important signal to beijing. i think it is an important signal especially to beijing and another reason why the chinese liked dealing with the president and secretary rex tillerson. there is no question that the trump administration has been very clear about this. whereas, during the bush administration, those statements were similar to what condi rice would say but quite dissimilar to what vice president cheney would say. so they were hearing mixed messages from the bush administration, we were very worried about that. i this case, there is a clear messages. we want to see north korea get rid of their nuclear weapons, we are not seeking regime change. i want to emphasise that when we reached an agreement with the north koreans, we explicitly put that in, that we were looking forward to living peacefully together with north korea. we put that very explicitly. so, i'm not sure that this is

joining me are secretary of state rex tillerson. lindsey graham and chuck schumer. >>> and new words on our poll about what a skeptical public is thinking. >>> and west wing shakeup watch. a report this morning says a frustrated president trump is considering firing many of his top white house aides. we'll get the latest. joining me for insight and analysis are -- nbc news chief white house correspondent, hallie jackson. "washington post" columnist eugene robinson. bbc anchor, katy kay. welcome to sunday, it's "meet the press." >> from nbc news in washington, the longest-running show in television history, celebrating its 70th year. this is "meet the press" with chuck todd. >> good sunday morning. happy mother's day to all the moms out there. after the firing of the fbi director james comey, conflicting administration explanations and open disagreement about what comey and president trump said to each other, at what is now an infamous dinner. what happened on friday feels like a capstone to a whiplash week. president trump tweeted j

during the two-day trip, he and secretary of state rex tillerson will meet with israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu and other top israeli officials. it is tillerson's first trip ever to israel. in a controversial move trump is , also slated to become the first sitting u.s. to visit the wailing wall in jerusalem. trump's visit comes after widespread protests broke out friday across the israeli occupied west bank after a jewish settler killed a young palestinian on thursday. more than protesters were 100 injured as israeli security forces shot live bullets and tear gas at the thousands of demonstrators. the protests were also in support of the ongoing hunger strikes by palestinians in israeli jails. this morning as donald trump arrived in israel, 200 more prisoners reportedly joined the strike. over the weekend, trump visited saudi arabia, where he signed a series of arms deals totaling a record $110 billion. the arms deal includes tanks, artillery, ships, helicopters, missile defense systems and cybersecurity technology. the deal is expected to total more than $350 billion over th

. >> james: we have a response from rex tillerson. "during president trump's meeting with foreign minister lavrov, the russian foreign minister, a broad range of subjects were discussed, among which were efforts and threats regarding counterterrorism. during that exchange, the nature of specific threats were discussed but they did not discuss sources, methods, or military operations." charles prayed >> if there is any relevant context here, it has nothing to do with russian intervention in our elections, it has to do with the blowing up of an airplane over the sinai about a year ago or so in which isis had planted a bomb. that's the issue. that's the problem. here's a common issue we have. it would be perfectly relevant and reasonable for president to discuss the threats but perhaps, we don't know, the story implies he went over a line in revealing too much so that the russians might have had an insight into our methods. other than that, there is nothing here. >> james: do you want to see this added to the list of investigations? i wo

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the white house has also issued a statement from the us secretary of state, rex tillerson, they said that they did not discuss sources, methods, or operations. and the deputy national security adviser also issued a statement saying the story is false. that has not stopped reaction pouring in in washington from both sides of the political aisle, and we have heard from bob corker, who chairs the foreign relations committee, using strong language this evening. he said the white house has to do something soon to bring itself under control and order. he said the white house was going in a downward spiral right now. this has been described as a slap in the face for the intelligence community, and risking sources is inexcusable. we know the donald trump is not a fan of leaks. he has had in the past that he has no tolerance for lea ks. the white house is, of course, denying this story. but it does raise questions about how the white house handles information, and of course about the president himself. much more on the bbc website. it is a classic distraction technique to denying what you are

secretary rex tillerson noted this, talking about going back seven decades. february 1945, this, talking about going back seven decades. february1945, on the this, talking about going back seven decades. february 1945, on the deck of the uss quincy in great bear lake, meeting between roosevelt and his counterpart set the stage for us engagement in the middle east. we got away from that in a 0bama presidency, i am delighted to see the president and secretary of state when it back. and does it worry you that they are talking about new military alliances that could america back in a new and more decisive engagement in the region, including taking more assertive, possibly aggressive action against iran? again, as the secretary said, a bedrock of our relationship has been security. the formula since 1945 was oil and security. we provided the security, they provided the oil. while the united states is no longer dependent on gulf 0il, our allies are in particularly east asia. so i think we're getting back to the past and it has been largely productive past. that's w

later in the show i had a show with the secretary of state, rex tillerson. i conducted it yesterday. he would not give an explanation why the issue of russian interference wasn't even brought up during his meeting with foreign minister lavrov. we went back and forth and not once was it thought of as a top priority. can we move on with russia if we can't confront them on this? >> i don't know. secretary tillerson did a masterful job talking about the threat of north korea. i understand wanting to engage the russians and syria because they're part of the solution if we find one. i'm 1,000% the russians interfered in our election. it was the intelligence service that hacked into podesta's e-mail. they did try to undercut clinton. i don't think they changed the outcome. and i do not believe we could go forward as a nation until we punish russia. i have bipartisan sanctions against russia for interfering in our election, and my goal is to put it on the president's desk and i hope he would embrace it. russia didn't change the outcome of the election, but they sure

today, rex tillerson laid out the trump foreign policy doctrine. he is out there working to bring it to fruition. let me tell you, it is boldly different. it is very, very blunt. you will hear his words when general jack keane joins us in romans. also, you just heard charles mention this. jimmy kimmel delivered an emotional monologue about his newborn son. so, why is charlie hurt calling the late-night host an "elitist." key and what jimmy kimmel said about the coverage is that actually true? the architect of obamacare zeke emanuel tells us what happens if the baby turns purple. >> let's stop with the nonsense. this is in football. there are no teams. this is the united states. don't let their partisans gobbles divide us on something like this. ♪ so, i finally broke the silence with my doctor about what i was experiencing. he said humira is for people like me who have tried other medications but still experience the symptoms of moderate to severe crohn's disease. in clinical studies, the majority of patients on humira saw significant symptom reli

tillerson are not doing this and this is from rex tillerson, "we do not seek a collapse of the north korean regime, we do not seek accelerated reunification of the peninsular, we are not out to bring the regime to its knees." —— the axis of evil. it is an important signal to beijing. another reason why the chinese liked dealing with the president and secretary rex tillerson. there is no question that the trump administration has been very clear about this. whereas, during the bush administration, those statements were similar to what congolese rice would say but not dissimilar to what vice president dick cheney would say —— condoleeza. in a sense, they were clear messages. but we want to see north korea get rid of their nuclear weapons, we are not seeking regime change. i want to emphasise that when we reached an agreement with the north korean, we explicitly put that in, that we were looking forward to living peacefully together with north korea. we put that very explicitly. so, i'm not sure that this is necessarily going to solve the problem but i guess it isa to solve the

this is rex tillerson, secretary of state.>> i think it is sending a very strong message to our enemies. there is a bond between us and there is no pathway forward and it will guide our path forward. at the core of our expanding relationship really are the shared security interests. america's security at home is strengthened when saudi arabia's security is strong as well. >> the president literally besieged by venues at home. this was a welcome diversion for him. you can see him dancing the traditional dance called the - before a banquet in his honor at the big palace here. in downtown riyadh along with the king, the saudi leader. to hear the saudi's teller this trip has completely turned around and repaired the relationship between the united states and saudi arabia. here is the foreign minister. >> this is a truly historic summit. this is a turning point in the relationship that will take it from a strategic relationship and partnership towards a -- teacher of partnership and relationship. >> tomorrow morning saudi arabia time, or tomorrow afternoon saudi arabia time, it his tomorrow

and as the meetings began, there were few clues from oilman turned politician, rex tillerson. it is a particular honour for me to join you to celebrate 20 years of peace, stability and cooperation in the arctic through the arctic council. there's particular concern that the us could be about to withdraw from the landmark paris agreement to reduce carbon emissions. if the us does withdraw, it will set the us policy back by a decade or two in terms of responding to climate change. the warming that we have seen in the last 50—100 years is greater than the warming we have seen in any part of the last 2000 years. is human activity causing that climate change? yes, it is. it is a prime contributor. i will put it in those terms. climate change is happening now. outside the meetings, protests were largely directed at the us, which has chaired the arctic council for the past two years. now it is finland's turn. arctic states are the main emitters of greenhouse gases. so it is the most important thing that all of them stick to the paris agreement. there is now doubt about it. climate

rex tillerson said clearly it's in jerusalem, which is like saying that the moon clearly orbits the earth. that's just a fact of life. it is controversial that none of the israeli officials were invited to accompany the president. the president has his mind focused on peace. after coming from the arab summit yesterday, we saw a new spirit of cooperation. he believes he might convert the fight of terror to greater support for a peace process between the palestinians and israeli. listen to what he said earlier today. >> i thank the prime minister for his commitment to pursuing the peace process. he's working very hard at it. it's not easy. it's heard it's one of the toughest deals of all, but i have a feeling that we're going to get there eventually, i hope. a lot of love out there. people from all nations, even nations that you would be surprised to hear, they want to stop the killing. they've had enough. america stands ready to assist in every way we can. >> the president calls this the ultimate deal. shep, it's a deal he would like to see his famous signature on the bottom of. by the way

allison barber has reaction from the washington bureau. >> rex tillerson says the u.s. is still in the early stages of applying economic and diplomatic pressure against the reclusive regime, but today's test is disturbing. >> the ongoing testing is disappointing, it's disturbing and we asked that they cease that because until they seize that testing, clearly they have not changed their view. i think we are early into the game of putting pressure on them and one could also interpret that perhaps they are just acting out in response to the pressure that i believe they are beginning to feel. >> they reportedly launched a medium-range ballistic missile around 9:59 p.m. hawaii time. the u.s. pacific command said the missile launch was tracked until it's splashdown into the sea of japan. this comes a week after one of north korea's most successful test to date. last sunday the communist regime launched a missile, officials said traveled 1245 miles above the surface of the earth. nasa's international space station is about 240 miles above the earth. that means north korea's mi

it's telling that rex tillerson is in charge of our policy. it's clearly a foreign policy companfor oil and coal ies. host: ben schreiber with us for about the next 25 minutes. in dumfries,t virginia, line for republicans. good morning. caller: good morning. all, thank you, c-span, for taking my call. your guest, i have actually three questions for him one, is there really such thing as clean coal? number two, alternate fuel solar, wind, and things of this nature, maybe because the prices of those now in development are so high that they are not really used.ently now, number three, when we talk sources, the way i understand it now, we as americans, the united states, we are actually oil independent. and if that's the case, why we actually lowered our prices of gasoline and start looking for alternate sources. last question. i'm sorry. i did have four. this pipeline that they have, ok , is this pipeline really going to be effective as people say to the economy or is this a ploy to get oil from through our country? asked them all. there you go.

. >> yeah, rex tillerson particularly seemed at home in the sword dance. >> i think as a guy who's run a energy company i'm sure has had to do a sword dance before. >> he said this was not his first. >>> all right, the president moving from saudi arabia with a briefcase full of deals. the saudis are pledging $20 billion to finance american infrastructure. that's part of a fund run by private investment firm blackstone, and it was about a year in the making. it plans to raise $100 billion for infrastructure projects. you can see tligt on your screen the group's ceo steve schwartzman. he runs blackstone and advises president trump. during the campaign, the president vowed to modernize aging u.s. airports, bridges and roadways, and the white house has promised a $1 trillion plan. the administration hasn't released details but is pushing for a mix of private and public funding for this infrastructure build-out. the problem, those partnerships don't always succeed in rural areas. they have less of a chance of being profitable there, so it will be interesting to see how they address that wri

we heard briefly from secretary of state rex tillerson, who held that news conference with the saudi foreign minister yesterday. but he wasn't asked about the many issues that have come up domestically, so i think it is still an open question as to how that is impacting the president here and i think we won't really know until we get to israel, until we get to jerusalem, and we see how the interactions go with israeli officials who have been reportedly very angry to hear about these sensitive information that is shared with the russians. so that is going to be a real test for the president. this may be the most sort of comfortable potentially he feels all trip. he has been warmly received. he has been received in a setting that is almost trump toweresque in its sort of opulence and lavishness. it's palatial. these settings are stunning and historic. he also then has to go to israel with the information sharing concern. he heads to the vatican after his fight with the pope, heads to brussels for a nato summit after his flip flom on nato, then heads to italy to talk economics with his

joining us now from saudi arabia rex tillerson. president trump is urging for battle between good and evil and opening a center against extremism today, muslim leaders are pledging to cut off funding to radicals but the big question i have is, is this just talk or are there are some real teeth here, concrete measures that will help us destroy isis and al-qaeda and to stop the flow of new recruits? >> well, chris, i think it is historic what's happening here in riyadh under the king's leadership, his convening of the gcc council this morning where we had a very productive discussion on the subject of how to counter terrorism and how do defeat daesh and how to bring -- greater stability to the regular owned and this afternoon he'll deliver his important message to the convening of the arab summit. arab nations, muslim nations from around the world. and i think what's the output of this, chris, framework agreements that are going the guide the actions going forward but there are concrete commitments being made as to how we will work t

in what should be omitted if they are on schedule is when we will see rex tillerson, ivanka, jared, h.r. mcmaster, some of the rest of the presidents traveling group head in for this expanded meeting to happen. we should see the proverbial door open and watch that group that we've seen milling around outside head end, pictures right now, the swiss guard standing in the vatican city. that is the picture just outside the door. the president's staff is outside, this meeting has been going on for 25 minutes. >> you did a good job of not arguing with the priest. >> julie: i just want to point something out, when you notice that melania trump walked into the vatican, i'm not sure if anybody saw it, but she was wearing a headscarf, ivanka was also wearing some sort of cover on her head. what's the significance of that? >> that's called the veil, it is the established custom when visiting the pope in rome, that women be dressed in dark clothing and wear a veil, it is a sign of respect. it is not a law but a custom and they are observing that. it is part of the going back and catholic tradition

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