and tillerson has been -- he's been keeping such a low profile and that's tillerson's style. since he's been out of office. but the very few times that we've heard from tillerson he's been very subtly critical of president trump. sometimes in the answers he gives and many times in the things that he declines to say. >> and beyond the tension it's about what are the qualifications for these people who have these positions. thanks very much. >>> all right. sad news for you this morning. we've just learned about the death of a sixth migrant child, this a ten-year-old, while in the care of the u.s. government. we will tell you more next. o li. when it comes to reducing the sugar in your family's diet, coke, dr pepper and pepsi hear you. we're working together to do just that. bringing you more great tasting beverages with less sugar or no sugar at all. smaller portion sizes, clear calorie labels and reminders to think balance. because we know mom wants what's best. more beverage choices, smaller portions, less sugar. balanceus.org when i needed to create a better visitor experien

the president called rex tillerson dumb as a rock today again today because rex tillerson spent seven hours in a closed-door session with the house foreign affairs committee talking about donald trump and vladimir putin and how putin has outsmarted donald trump. we have so much to cover in breaking news tonight that we will get to that. only at the end of this hour you will want to hear exactly what rex tillerson had to say about donald trump and donald trump's values. but first, the breaking news we're going to begin with tonight is the statement released by the white house that rachel was just referring to, a statement saying today at the request and recommendation of the attorney general of the united states, president donald j. trump directed the intelligence community to quickly and fully cooperate with the attorney general's investigation into surveillance activities during the 2016 presidential election. the attorney general has also been del gatd full and complete authority to declassify information pertaining to this investigation in accordance with the long established stand

the president called rex tillerson dumb as a rock today again today because rex tillerson spent seven hours in a closed-door session with the house foreign affairs committee talking about donald trump and vladimir putin and how putin has outsmarted donald trump. we have so much to cover in breaking news tonight that we will get to that. only at the end of this hour you will want to hear exactly what rex tillerson had to say about donald trump and donald trump's values. but first, the breaking news we're going to begin with tonight is the statement released by the white house that rachel was just referring to, a statement saying today at the request and recommendation of the attorney general of the united states, president donald j. trump directed the intelligence community to quickly and fully cooperate with the attorney general's investigation into surveillance activities during the 2016 presidential election. the attorney general has also been delegatd full and complete authority to declassify information pertaining to this investigation in accordance with the long established stand

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in rex tillerson voluntary testimony this week, "the washington post" is reporting rex tillerson revealed that trump was outprepared by vladimir putin when they first met at the vital g-20 back in 2017. that put the united states at a distinct disadvantage. committee aides to the post quote the u.s. anticipated a shorter meeting for exchanging courtesies but it ballooned into a globe spanning meeting. that struck a nerve with the president tweeting, the president wrote that his secretary of state is, quote, dumb as a rock. we've been talking about protection this hour. rex tillerson totally ill prepared and ill equipped to be secretary of state made up a story. he got fired. that i was out-prepared by vladimir putin at a meeting in germany. i don't think putin would agree. look how the u.s. is doing. you can't make it up, eugene robinson. >> no, you can't. >> he called someone else dumb as a rock, he called nancy pelosi crazy. i think he worries someone thinks he's dumb as a rock and crazy. he said i was prepared ask putin. how about ask mattis. ask putin? what? >> i know. you can't make

a, the president did hire rex tillerson and says he hires rex tillerson. rex tillerson is not dumb as a rock but if he were, why did he hire him and why is he up briefing members of congress this week? >> not only did he hire rex tillerson. he was pretty darn excited to have scored rex tillerson. big ceo, powerful businessman, exactly the kind of figure that trump imagined himself surrounded by when he came into washington and exactly the kind of figure he was trying to get respect from when he was a businessman in new york, so the fact that this fell apart and that tillerson was insulting his intelligence that has gotten under trump's skin. still amazing to see this play out even more than a year after tillerson left washington. >> two fast points. the number of former trump aides that had a falling out with him keeps growing or growing. he's turned on them or they have turned on him or both. i look back at a focus group done last month for the house dem campaign committee that asked people swing voters about what issue do you think of when you think of t

tillerson has been subtle. we don't see very much of him since he left office, but virtually every time he's asked questions about his relationship with trump or what went on behind the scenes, he is none too complimentary. this is a serious situation in which lawmakers on capitol hill have been trying to get to the bottom of what went on in these either private or semi-private meetings in particular with vladimir putin. why do they want to know this? because nobody -- there are very few people on this planet who know the details of those meetings. rex tillerson is one of them. and lawmakers are worried about what trump may have said to putin, what he may have promised him, was he played by vladimir putin, as so many had concerns he might be? and at least in part, tillerson was saying that that seems to have happened. that trump was outflanked by putin, that putin took every opportunity to press his points and state what he wanted. and that he outflanked trump. and at the time, before this hamburg meeting, cnn

rex tillerson gets tonight's last word. "the 11th hour" with brian williams starts now. >>> tonight we have breaking news on when congress and the american people may first hear testimony from robert mueller himself. also tonight the president who again today described himself as a stable genius today forced his closest aides to come forward and talk about how calm he was during yesterday's dust-up with the visiting democrats. trump went on to say speaker of the house nancy pelosi has lost it and is a mess. that all came after the speaker accused the president of crying out for impeachment and saying she prays that his staff or family hold an intervention for the good of our country. and like a tyrannosarus, rex tillerson roars to life telling lawmakers that trump underprepared for that first meeting with putin, the former spy chief. all of it as "the 11th hour" gets under way on a thursday night. >>> well, good evening once again from our nbc news headquarters here in new york. day 854 of this trump administration. we've l

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. >>> president trump is firing back at his former secretary of state, rex tillerson, after tillerson criticized trump's first face-to-face meeting with vladimir putin. here's some background. trump called tillerson dumb as a rock, totally ill prepared and ill equipped to be secretary of state. you hired him. this came about because of this reporting in the "washington post," and we quote. "tillerson told members of the house foreign affairs committee that russian president vladimir putin outprepared president trump during a key meeting in germany, putting the u.s. leader at a disadvantage during their first series of tete-a-tetes. the congressional aide telling the post there was a discrepancy in preparation, and it created an unequal footing." we are happy to have back with us tonight michael mcfaul, former u.s. ambassador to russia. and ambassador, in its politest, most respectful form let me th put it this way. you could have a fully briefed-up president, could you not, who would be at a disadvantage sitting across from among the most cagey leaders in world history going back a co

tillerson never denying he called him a moran. five months later he was tweeted out of office. >> god bless america. >> his true feelings on trump, now share. >> it's pretty undisciplined, doesn't -- doesn't like to read. doesn't read briefing reports. if our leaders seek to conceal the truth or we as people become accepting of alternative realities that are no longer grounded in facts, then we american citizens are on a pathway to reling wishing our freedom. >> for months three house committees have been trying to get information from the white house from the state department on trump's various contacts with vladimir putin. they haven't had luck. rex tillerson is one of the few people on the planet who has at least some knowledge of that. it's obvious he is willing to talk, having spent so many horsepower with the lawmakers, also clear just how unhappy this is making the president. erin. >> absolutely thank you very much michelle. and next the fight for 2020, presidential candidate congressman tim ryan going after the same blue c

then it was rex tillerson. he was the crowned jewel of the donald trump cabinet because he was the only guy who could convince someone of the stature and business aptitude of rex tillerson to come into the cabinet. it was -- that was 819 days ago. now he's dumb as a rock and not equipped and not prepared. maybe you should have thought about that then. >> quickly, rex tillerson is not alone. we have heard from john kelly, general mattis, gary cohn, it goes on and on. you know, dozens of people who left the administration. >> everybody stick around. there is more news we're following. millions of americans now facing very severe weather tonight. we're going to get the latest on the tornadoes, flooding, ravaging parts of the midwest and leaving at least three people dead. plus, the u.s. files serious and controversial new charges against the wikileaks founder julian asank. the matters.ar... introducing the all-new 2019 ford ranger, it's the right gear. with a terrain management system for... this. a bash plate for

the first thing i thought of is who hired rex tillerson in the first place? the president of the united states. nobody forced him to hire rex till rse tillerson. he brought him into the add mrgts. whatever you feel about exxon mobile, i don't think somebody gets to be the ceo of exxon mobile if they're dumb as a rock. i think it's extraordinary that this kind of really sort of -- to call it a personal attack is to dignify it. the context of i don't want to characterize what he said in seven hours based upon a couple of secondhand reports of a few sentences here and there. >> in fairness to every one concerned. i do want to you about your new cyber security plan. are you proposing this because you think the administration is not doing enough? there's been some concern after tom bosert left the white house that kirsten was good on this one issue and there's nobody running cyber security. >> the project i'm working on and i'm co-chair with a republican from green bay, wisconsin, it's not about this administration or the obama administration. it's about the fact

but he said all these things about tillerson. but him calling tillerson dumb as a rock, this is what he used to say about him. here it is. watch this. >> we have a very talented man, rex tillerson. >> as you know, rex, secretary of state has done an incredible job. >> so, of course this is a theme with the president. michael cohen was a very talented lawyer. now he's weak. christopher wray was a man of impeccable credentials, now he provides no leadership. don mcgahn was a really good guy, now trump says he's not a fan. what does this pattern say to you? >> well, it says to me that, boy, think twice before you go to work in the trump administration because one day you're getting praise. the next day you're getting knocked, and it's -- it's all about him. you know? people that turn on him or have an independent mind is not a good thing in this administration apparently which is, by the way, not good for the country. >> director clapper, it's a pleasure having you on. thank you so much. >> thanks, don. >> thank you. >>> howard ster

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. >> exxonmobil, where a great man, rex tillerson is doing an incredible job. i was just watching as an example rex tillerson, i think it's brilliant what he's doing and what he's saying. i want to thank secretary rex tillerson, rex, who has done a tremendous job of leading the dedicated men and women of the department of state. rex is a very good man. i like rex a lot. i really appreciate his commitment and his service. and i'll be speaking to rex over a long period of time. >> okay. >> he likes rex. >> he did. >> or did. >> did like rex. let's get a check on your weather now with nbc meteorologist bill karins. someone else that we like. >> sometimes. make your decision at the end of the forecast. all right. so one of the big stories we've been teasing up all week long what will happen in the southeast when this epic end of may heat wave we're dealing starting to build starting to build and by the time we get to sunday and monday we'll be at the peak of it. today close to record highs. 97 is not comfortable in south carolina. savannah savannah 95. tallahassee

but he said all these things about tillerson. but him calling tillerson dumb as a rock, this is what he used to say about him. here it is. watch this. >> we have a very talented man, rex tillerson. >> as you know, rex, secretary of state has done an incredible job. >> so, of course this is a theme with the president. michael cohen was a very talented lawyer. now he's weak. christopher wray was a man of impeccable credentials you he's not. what does this pattern say to you? >> well, it says to me that boy, think twice before you go to work in the trump administration, because one day you're getting praise. the next day you're getting knocked, and it's -- it's all about him. you know? people that turn on him or have an independent mind is not a good thing in this administration apparently which is, by the way, not good for the country. >> director clapper, it's a pleasure having you on. thank you so much. >> thanks, don. >> thank you. >>> howard stern has two words for donald trump's presidential campaign. quote, publicity stunt. w

yesterday, tillerson called trump a moron after a summer 2015 meeting. he refused to deny it publicly multiple times. let's watch. >> can you address the main headline of this story that you called the president a moron. >> i'm not going to deal with petty stuff like that. >> is it true? >> this is a town that seems to relish gossip, enyou endo, they feed on it in a very destructive way. i don't work that way. i don't deal that way. i'm not dignifying the question with an answer. >> he said it. ha, the trump administration hit back. the daily beast said the then chief of staff tillerson he was fired also in his bathroom. it's not the first time tillerson has spoken out since he left office. this past december, trump called him dumb as a rock after tillerson said he had to stop trump from breaking the law. let's watch. >> it was challenging for me coming from the disciplined, highly processed oriented exxonmobile corporation to go to work for a man who is pretty undisciplined, doesn't like to read, doesn't read briefing reports, doesn't like to get into t

the president chose rex tillerson. he interviewed him for the job. so the president, a, had to have known that going in, but b., why now? why would rex tillerson sit down now and brief the committee on this two years later? >> well, first of all i would guess the committee asked him to come in and i for one am glad to see former administration officials coming up to the hill and doing this kind of briefing. this is how we can shine some light across the entire spectrum of activities. in terms of calling rex tillerson dumb as a rock, that just is a staggering comment in the sense that here's a man who was the ceo of exxon mobil, a fortune 500 company. knows everybody in the international space. i thought was well equipped to be the secretary of state. i'll leave it to secretary tillerson to discuss his relationship with the president. he was a good choice, and i know he's anything but dumb as a rock. >> it's not nice to say about someone. >>> today at the pentagon they're going to present plans to send up to 10,000 more troops to the middle east. they

tension between tillerson and kushner was well documented. tillerson was fired in march, 2018. in a later interview called president trump undisciplined. >>> the internet and more than a few democrats losing their cookies over ben carson. the secretary of housing and urban development testifying on capitol hill when he was asked a question. his testimony went from bad to worse. >> explain the disparity in reo rates. do you know what an reo is? >> an oreo? >> not an oreo. an reo. reo. >> real estate. >> what's the "o" stand for. owned. that's what happens when a property goes to foreclosure, an reo. why are we having more foreclosures that end with people losing their homes, stains their credit, disrupts the community at fha than gse. >> i would be extremely happy if you would like to work with people who do that. >> mr. carson, respectfully, that was my day job before i came to congress. now, it's my job to ask you to work with the people. >> the people at hud do that. >> i spent a decade working with people at hud on this problem. >> some may have been embarrassed by that. not

we know there is no love loss between the president and rex tillerson. the question is will others speak out the way he has. i mean, he's sort of been an outlier in this case. if i could quickly just go back to bob mueller, we would be kidding ourselves if we think after two and a half years of an investigation and a few hours of grilling is going to somehow get him to the point where he says this president should be impeached. the optics, however, are what democrats are going after. i mean, the mueller report is stunning in and of itself. to read it is one thing, most americans have not. to hear him speak out about some of the conclusions and findings they've made is something entirely different. >> they want to screenplay adaptation of the report that nobody has read, then it will become real or so they think. folks, i think, are exaggerating what this all might mean. going back to the tillerson comment, i mean, whatever it is he told them, he gave them some valuable information or he wouldn't have been there past hour, say, two or three. seven hours m

madge imagine rex tillerson was in the room. he was present. imagine the meeting when he wasn't in the room. >> that's scary thing -- >> without any advisor. >> no. there's no one in the room. putin is good at manipulating him. ands there's a broader question of whether the president's ourt of his depth with foreign affairs. why is he so affectionate towards putin? i was meeting today with senator ron wyden. he wants to continue to look in the president's finances. is there russian money in there. that issue is not going away. more broadly he's struggling internationally. the chinese, north koreans and iran are going to wait out his term. there will be no big trade deal with china is my eguess. iran will tough it out and they essentially, if they can get through these economic times, china, iran, north korea, they will see him as a lame duck. >> was he in the meeting today? >> ron wyden was in the white house meeting. ron wyden is a veteran. of capitol hill. he's interacted with every president since ronald regan. he thought it was plan and a s

rex tillerson, infamously fired by tweet. in spite of that the former secretary of state is another one getting under the president's skin, telling the house foreign affairs committee this week that putin was more prepared than trump for their meeting in germany. the president in a classic i know you are, but what am i moment, tweeting this, calling his former secretary of state dumb as a rock. didn't he call me the dumbest man on tv or something like that? welcome to the club, sir. said he's dumb as a rock and totally ill prepared and ill equipped but then he hired him. i don't know. this from a man who once said this. >> we have a very talented man, rex tillerson. >> as you know, rex, our secretary of state, has done an incredible job. >> oh, wait a minute, didn't he just say dumb as a rock and totally ill prepared, ill equipped? oh, okay. don't forget, too, that the president certainly hasn't -- oh, that was before tillerson privately called him a moron, right? he certainly hasn't done that. actually, tillerson reportedly

the president tweeted right back at tillerson, rex tillerson, a man who is as dumb as a rock and totally ill-prepared to be secretary of state. made up a story and was fired that i was outprepared at a meeting in hamburg, germany. i don't think putin would agree. look at how the u.s. is doing. and let me point out, the way the president at one point spoke about tillerson when he was nominated and how he speaks about him now. a man with experience, one of the truly great leaders of the word. now, dumb as a rock, totally ill prepared and ill equipped. he's the one that brought him in. >> i thought the president only hires the best people. that's what he said all along and he's now calling someone dumb as a rock who he appointed to be the nation's top diplomat and, look, i think that rex tillerson's disagreements with the president when he was serving as secretary of state were very public on -- the u.s. posture towards russia, on withdrawing from the iran nuclear deal. on how to approach negotiations with north korea. on the president's support for the saudi-led blockade of qatar and the l

rex tillerson, infamously fired by tweet. in spite of that, the former secretary of state is another one getting under the president's skin, telling the house foreign affairs committee this week that putin was more prepared than trump for their meeting in germany. the president in a classic i know you are, but what am i moment, tweeting this, calling his former secretary of state dumb as a rock. didn't he call me the dumbest man on tv or something like that? yeah, i guess. welcome to the club, sir. said he's dumb as a rock and totally ill prepared and ill equipped but then he hired him. i don't know. this from a man who once said this. >> we have a very talented man, rex tillerson. >> as you know, rex, our secretary of state, has done an incredible job. >> oh, wait a minute, didn't he just say dumb as a rock and totally ill prepared, ill equipped? oh, okay. don't forget, too, that the president certainly hasn't -- oh, that was before tillerson privately called him a moron, right? he certainly hasn't done that. actually, tille

madge imagine rex tillerson was in the room. madge an meeting when he's not in the room. >> that's scary thing -- >> without any advisor. >> no. there's no one in the room. ands there's a broader question of whether the president's ourt of his depth with foreign affairs. why is he so affectionate towards putin? i was meeting today with senator ron wyden. he wants to continue to look in the president's finances. that issue is not going away. more broadly he's struggling internationally. the chinese, north koreans and iran are going to wait out his term. there will be no big trade deal with china is my eguess. iran will tough it out and they essentially, if they can get through these economic times, china, iran, north korea, they will see him as a lame duck. >> was he in the meeting today? >> ron wyden was in the white house meeting. ron wyden is a veteran. he's interacted with every president since ronald regan. he thought it was plan and a scene created. but he's never seen an american president do what donald trump did today in

tillerson was a complicated guy. we know he didn't get great rates as secretary of state internally from people who work at the state department, but he felt that jared was kind of freelancing foreign policy, and he let him do it for a while because he didn't want to get in a fight with him, but in the end it made it difficult for him to do his job, and so at this point tillerson isn't giving major media interviews and all the rest, but when he was asked to come in, he sort of said, okay, i need to set the record straight. >> you've been working the phones like you always do. >> you, too, dear. >> another issue which is the president's mood. i reported the top of the hour. someone said he was really angry that democrats are coming after his family, but our hearing more broadly his mood is nottager. >> well, i was told that he was on fire and that he was in good spirits, and can i say both of these things can be true at the same time. >> yes. >> in the same minute sometimes. >> in the same minute with donald trump and

he doesn't have a sense of anything, does he know that he hired rex tillerson? and does he know we, we have a record of his tweets. they don't just disappear like snapchat or something. does he not remember writing congratulations to rex tillerson on being sworn in as our new secretary of state? he will be a stash. now. [cheers and applause] the guy, the star is as dumb as a rock. he's dumb as a rock star is what he is now. trump's also mad at nancy pelosi right now. they had a meeting yesterday to discuss infrastructure spending, but trump stormed out after three minutes. he marched outside. he told reporters i won't work with democrats until they end their investigations of me.y pe president of having a temper tantrum in the meeting which resulted in yet another tweet. nancy pelosi said president trump had a temper tantrum, this is not true. i was purposely very polite and calm, much as i was minutes later with the press in the rose garden. can be easily proven. it's all such a lie. well, just for the record, he denies having a temper tantrum by having a tempe

and then tillerson is gone. he likes pompeo now. but i think that the president wants to be his own chief of staff, he wants to be his own national security adviser, he wants to be his own secretary of state. and there's a sense, kind of, i got this, because there's nobody around him to say, stop, there are no guardrails anymore. >> gloria borger, thank you. dana bash, as well. >>> coming up next, we'll dig deeper into joe biden's tragedy, heavy on fund-raisers, comparatively light on public appearances. now that he's back on the trail, we'll look at how it's been working for him so far and what the pitfalls ahead could be. >>> and later, a family divided by the president's immigration policies and the 6-year-old child caught in the middle. his mom on the other side of the mexican border. (woman) paul, my husband and i need new phones and we're looking to save money. (paul) sprint has a great deal. double the fun. lease the latest iphone and get an iphone xr on us. (woman) the iphone xr has an amazing camera. get in here! (paul) oh.

right before tillerson got fired by tweet that he thank you very much for that is that the natives live in washington d.c. thank you. that iran's foreign minister says the u.s. sanctions on acceptable uncalled for but insists that has country is committed to the 25th nuclear deal mohamad job and zarif is in tokyo for a meeting with prime minister shinzo but japan is a u.s. ally that depends on iranian oil earlier this month washington ended waivers that allow japan and others to buy crude from iran was that i've said wald palace must take action if they want to preserve the nuclear deal also known as the j c p o a. we believe that escalation of tension in the region is not in the interest of anybody but iran will not be the party beginning escalation but you certainly defend ourselves and respond to any threat against our national security to be discussed how. to prevent further escalation discuss how the national community could step in to save case t.p.o. it to say he knew he would be in practice and the only way to do it would be to restore the economic divisions for iran. from j.c.

. >>> and rex tillerson said vladimir putin was more prepared than president trump when they first methe putting the u.s. at disadvantage. >>> good morning, everybody. it is thursday, may 23rd. i'm yasmin vossoughian alongside nbc news white house correspondent jeff bennett. we're starting with that fight between houseng democrats and trump white house and it's reaching new heights. an infrastructure ming between president trump and democratic congressional leaders came tocrn abrupt end yesterday after the presidentnd demanded that they e stop investigating him. moments afternv walking out of e meetingt the president made a surprise appearance in the rose garden where reporters had been hastily gathered. watch this. >> i walked into the room and told senator schumer, speaker pelosi, i want to do infrastructure. i want to do it more than you want to do it. i would be really good at it.od . that's what i do. but you know what? youow can't do it under these circumstances. so get these phoney investigations over with. >> so the president's impromptu statement came after house speaker nancy p

president trump lashed out at former secretary of state rex tillerson thursday after tillerson spent seven hours in a closed-door session with the house foreign affairs committee. a congressional aide who was present for the testimony later told "the washington post" "we spent a lot of time in the conversation talking about how putin seized every opportunity to push what he wanted. there was a discrepancy in preparation, and it created an unequal footing." responding to tillerson's testimony on twitter, president trump called his former secretary of state "dumb as a rock" and "totally ill prepared and ill equipped to be secretary of state." an associate paul manafort was indicted thursday on bribery charges. new york city prosecutors say the former chairman and ceo of federal bank in chicago approved means of dollars to high risk was a manafort in order to win a position in the trump administration. prosecutors say that after receiving the loans, manafort made at least two calls to trump's transition team in late 2016 asking for calk to be appointed secretary of the army. calk faces

he went on twitter to say that rex tillerson was a very dumb man. >> well, we'll be seeing what else he tweets because he's got three more days there in japan and we appreciate your insights as always. scott lucas, thank you. >> thank you, natalie. >>> mt. everest it has been a deadlier than usual climbing season. since friday three people have died trying to reach the summit of the world's tallest mountain. that brings the number of dead or presumed dead this year to nine. >> the latest casualty was a british mountaineer who died on saturday. on his post, he warned overcrowding at the summit could prove fatal. that traffic jam, the one you see there earlier this week may have contributed to two deaths. nepal's tourism director calls that will claim baseless and blames altitude sickness. >> alan arnett has climbed mt. everest four times. he's experienced a lot with what he calls the death zone, that's the part of the mountain where oxygen is dangerously low and earlier he told our colleague martin fa savidge his thoughts how high traffic in the death zone might relate to the recent d

and then tillerson is gone. he likes pompeo now. but i think that the president wants to be his own chief of staff, he wants to be his own national security adviser, he wants to be his own secretary of state. and there's a sense, kind of, i got this, because there's nobody around him to say, stop, there are no guardrails anymore. >> gloria borger, thank you. dana bash, as well. >>> coming up next, we'll dig deeper into joe biden's campaign strategy, heavy on fund-raisers, comparatively light on public appearances. now that he's back on the trail, we'll look at how it's been working for him so far and what the pitfalls ahead could be. >>> and later, a family divided by the president's immigration policies and the 6-year-old child caught in the middle. his mom on the other side of the mexican border. (woman) paul, my husband and i need new phones and we're looking to save money. (paul) sprint has a great deal. double the fun. lease the latest iphone and get an iphone xr on us. (woman) the iphone xr has an amazing camera. get in here!

a source tells tillerson that members of the foreign affairs committee was guided by american values such as democracy or freedom but could not or would not say whether the same could be said for president trump. >>> pentagon officials expected to brief president trump's national security team as soon as today on a plan that could send thousands of additional u.s. troops to the middle east over those rising tensions with iran. the officials emphasized no decision has been made, and the troops namay not be needed at a. once the president's approval is needed for a significant deployment, it's unclear he'll authorize the action after criticizing past u.s. interventions overseas. >>> six migrant children have died after crossing the southern border and the latest case being reported happened eight months ago. a 10-year-old girl died while in the care of the office of ref gu resettlement last september. a spokesperson for health and human services said the girl came to their san antonio office in march 2018 with a history of congenital heart defects. surgery complications left her in a c

rex tillerson was with your house counterparts yesterday. some reporting indicates he was saying about the president's reluctance to take measures to punish russia for its interference in the last election. there are election security bills in the senate that mitch mcconnell will not call for a vote. what's going on? >> it's interesting how eager rex tillerson to appear before congress in a way he did not -- he was not eager in that way when he was secretary of state. there's the opportunity to come together here. we passed a $300 million election security measure a few years ago. it did help make our elections more secure in 2018. republicans for whatever reason are not willing to do a seconds round of that funding. given what we know has happened in florida, given what we know the russians are trying to do other places, we badly need this money in order to make sure that they don't play games again in 2020. i can't explain why republicans were for election security before they were against it. i don't want to believe the worst. our job at

but tillerson criticized jared kushner as well. he said his lack of knowledge of history exposed him to being completely out maneuvered. how plausible is that? >> i think it's going to be dead on arrival but i think kushner believes he has an inside track on this because his family has been close for a long time to israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu who if i read the record correctly used to stay with the kushner family when he would visit new york. so it's not surprising he thinks he has a track. the people left out of this equation are the palestinians. always giving us your perspective which i very much appreciate from paris. new polling in the battle for the white house. what does it really mean? steve kornacki is going to tell us coming up. up ♪ ♪ ♪ applebee's new loaded fajitas. now that's eatin' good in the neighborhood. trust us. us kids are ready to take things into our own hands. don't think so? hold my pouch. my copd medicine... ...that's why i've got the power of 1 2 3 medicines with trelegy. the only fda-a

. >> shannon: president trump mocking rex tillerson as "ill prepared and dumb as a rock." he claims that russian president vladimir putin was more prepared than the president was during a 2017 summit. republicans taking issue with that reports. >> that's insane. the fact that the president walked out of the meeting ended a a press conference immediately following, as did a number of his aides -- >> it's pretty outrageous and it probably explains why rex tillerson is no longer the secretary of state. >> shannon: president trump did fire him last year. the american taliban is a free man tonight. one of the most high-profile terrorists ever captured released early from prison. daughter of the slain cia officer who interrogated and died soon after, she is live with us next. geico makes it easy to get help when you need it. with licensed agents available 24/7. it's not just easy. it's having-a-walrus-in-goal easy! roooaaaar! it's a walrus! ridiculous! yes! nice save, big guy! good job duncan! way to go! [chanting] it's not just easy. it's geico easy. oh, duncan. stay up. no sle

a press conference in may of 2015, secretary of state tillerson talking about the u.s. responsibility with our drug demand in creating violence and murder, murder rates in mexico by enriching and empowering criminal organizations. i absolutely think there is a link. for central america for years, the route of cocaine from the andes to the u.s. stops. we made some progress working with the government of guatemala and the ministry of defense but we need to prevent that from impacting the already challenging situation to develop economically and to provide security and governance to rural areas of all three countries. hat has to be a commitment and they are definitely directly related. >> and then the final question, if you will indulge me. just before you spoke, we were honored to have words from the foreign minister of mexico exosme obviously mexico is and should be a very important player in some of these issues. president trump and haven't pence and others have spoken about cooperation with mexico. this is an area of collaboration. you're committed to that. what form d

>> well, rex tillerson tried admirably. left the administration early and many looking at his tenure think that there never was a good fit there, but i commend him for his service. as far as the president goes i said earlier that there's just no process. process includes preparing for meetings, anticipating what will be said and making sure that the president in the room is surrounded by those who can help support him through the meeting. v vladimir putin is an experienced kgb guy. these meetings are very serious probes into how countries interact with each other. vladimir putin has a long record now of interfering with democracy in europe, of destabilizing the u.s. around the globe. he's a growing presence in the middle east. some of that didn't happen on trump's watch but it is happening big time now and to go to a meeting with him without that kind of bench seems to me to be a very misuse of presidential power. let me just say a couple other things about process. you know, again, i mentioned we're sending troops now to t

on twitter today, president trump accused tillerson of making up the story and said he is "dumb as a rock." in syria, bombings by government forces have damaged two schools in the rebel facility in the last stronghold in the northwest. that came after insurgents at a power station at a government health town. fighting has

as prepared as vladimir putin during a key meeting, trump called tillerson ill prepared. again, over and over again trump says i know you are, but what am i? you say i'm crooked. hillary clinton is crooked. collusion, the democrats colluded. heck, he even said "saturday night live" was guilty of collusion. i think the key for journalists when we're tracking this nonstop nonsense is to keep track of the patterns, to pick up on the patterns, to keep track of them and to examine them in context so we're not just covering every single day, every single tweet, but explaining the tactics behind it. let's get to our panel now and talk more about this, including yet another example of this i'm rubber, you're glue behavior we're seeing today. the thing about what's happening every day, every peek, there is new stories about trump profiting from his presidency, helping out his friends. what did trump do? he mocked joe biden as the real swamp man and claimed biden has a low iq while misspelling his name and siding with a dictator. what do you call this? what do you make of this? >>

"the daily beast" is reporting former secretary of state rex tillerson met with members of the house foreign affairs committee tuesday about his time working for president trump. he reportedly discussed his tense relationship with trump's son-in-law and adviser jared kushner and russian interference in the 2016 election. according to a congressional aide, tillerson told lawmakers trump actively avoided confronting russia over the issue in an effort to fortify the white house's relationship with moscow. "the washington post" is reporting a confidential memo from the internal revenue service states that congress has the right to request tax returns and that only an intervention by the president using executive privilege can stop it. this contradicts the reasoning given by the trump administration for refusing to hand over his tax returns to congress, as treasury secretary steve mnuchin has argued the refusal was based on the lack of legislative justification for requesting t them. the irs said that the unsigned, draft memo w was writttten by a lawyerer in the ofoffice of chcf counsel a

"the daily beast" is reporting former secretary of state rex tillerson met with members of the house foreign affairs committee tuesday about his time working for president trump. he reportedly discussed his tense relationship with trump's son-in-law and adviser jared kushner and russian interference in the 2016 election. according to a congressional aide, tillerson told lawmakers trump actively avoided confronting russia over the issue in an effort to fortify the white house's relationship with moscow. "the washington post" is reporting a confidential memo from the internal revenue service states that congress has the right to request tax returns and that only an intervention by the president using executive privilege can stop it. this contradicts the reasoning given by the trump administration for refusing to hand over his tax returns to congress, as treasury secretary steve mnuchin has argued the refusal was based on the lack of legislative justification for requestingng them. the irs said that the unsigned, draft memo w was writttten by a lawyerer in the ofoffice of chcf counsel a

that's what former secretary of state rex tillerson told the top democrat and republican in a secret meeting this week. a source says tillerson says he was guided by american values but could not or would not answer whether the same could be said for president trump. >>> pentagon officials expected to brief president trump's national security team as soon as today on a plan that could send thousands of additional u.s. troops to the middle east over rising tensions with iran. the officials emphasized no decision has been made and the troops may not be needed at all. the president's approval is needed for such a significant deployment. it's unclear if he'll authorize the action after criticizing past u.s. interventions overseas. >>> six migrant children have died after crossing the southern border and the latest case being reported happened eight months ago. a ten-year-old girl dying in the care of the office of refugee resettlement. five other minor migrants have died since there were no fatalities in the previous ten impree years. a spokesperson said the girl came to their office wit

tillerson, mcmaster. mattis. david? >> i think bolton lasts longer than maduro does. that's my prediction. >> we'll see. karen finney, take a listen to the top democrat, senator bob menend menendez, speaking with jim sciutto. >> this is the most opaque administration i've ever dealt with over four presidencies. right now we're being asked to make foreign policy and national security decisions while flying blindly. >> your reaction? >> well, look. i think the meeting with the gang of eight is critically important. making sure that both democrats and republicans in congress have all of the information that they need. and again, this point about war powers that klobuchar was talking about is critically important. any time we are anywhere near going up to this line it is really important. this is when these separation of powers. we've been talking about these issues with regard to the mueller report and tax records. but this is a fundamental task of congress. and the american people are going to stand firmly behind their ability to rein this president in and make sure tha

now the question will be what all did rex tillerson talk to these people about, simply because he had, at times, a stormy relationship with the president while he was serving as secretary of state. >> yeah, i'm interested to find out what were the topics of discussion. another interesting moment on capitol hill yesterday, joe, ben carson, who's the secretary of housing and urban development, was asked questions about housing. it had some real problems. what went on here? >> reporter: yeah, well, this was a question that was raised by congresswoman katy porter. she's a former law professor. she asked carson, who's the secretary of housing and urban development, about things that are referred to as reos. these are acronyms for real estate owned, which is how you describe a property that's gone into foreclosure and reverted back to the lender. the secretary of housing apparently misunderstood the question. listen. >> i'd also like you to get back to me, if you don't mind, to explain the disparity in reo rates. do you know what reaso is? >> an oreo? >> no, not an oreo. an reo. >> real est