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Still ahead on "morning joe," last time nbc broke news about donald trump and rex tillerson, he ended up challenging the secretary of state to an iq contest. what can we expect today? live to the white house next on "morning joe." in its economy, in medicine, in science and in national security. one company designs and builds more supercomputers than any other. an american company. hewlett packard enterprise. leading the way to discover... to innovate... and to protect. hewlett packard enterpris...

Tougher on the iranian regime support of terrorists as well. critics argue the iran deal is the united states best chance at monitoring irans nuclear program. that is amid the backdrop of our reporting, willie. youve been talking about this throughout the morning, new details about the meeting at the pentagon that preceded secretary of state rex tillerson calling the president a moron. that included the defense secretary, vice president and top military advisers. one key moment came when the pre...

The presidents position raised immediate questions about his understanding of american nuclear posture and left some national security officials rattled about his grasp of other national security issues. it was shortly after the meeting concluded that secretary of state rex tillerson was heard calling the president a moron. we dont exactly know why tillerson said that about the president. get a gander, though. nbc news national security and military reporter, courtney kube. you can take the firs...

Associate editor of commentary magazine, noah rothman. good to have you all this hour. president trump and secretary of state rex tillerson had a face-to-face sitdown at the white house yesterday. it was their second meeting since the president learned through nbc reporting that his top diplomat called him a moron in a meeting with officials last july. this morning, we have a stunning new nbc news exclusive on that tense national security meeting last summer. the bombshell report cites three off...

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The presidents position raised immediate questions about his understanding of americas nuclear posture, unless some national security -- and left some national security issues rattled. shortly after the meeting concluded, secretary of state rex tillerson was heard calling the president a moron. we dont know why he said that about the president. but carol lee, we certainly can guess at this point. tell us more about this explosive story and other details around that meeting. >> sure, well, mika, ...

With afterwards was rattled and the impression was, my god, the conclusion was, my god, could you ever imagine this guy getting his hands on the nuclear arsenal? and this, actually, here we are over a year later and he does have his hands on the nuclear arsenal and he is still, instead of state your nameing disturbing top foreign experts, its now the secretary of state and everybody else around him that leave badly shaken calling him a moron an worse for not understanding -- for not understandin...

Advisers have told us that people whomp in the room told us it wasnt just that, as they went around the globe, the president looked at everything and said i want more of that, we need more troops there. why dont we have more military equipment here? so they had this two-hour long meeting, times that ten they had to explain how all of this went. as we know, that meeting breaks up, some officials lingerred t. secretary of state was overheard calling him a moron. we dont know exactly why. we will s...