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Anything but the flow of information to our president. >> now, if you want a reason why the president sent kelly out for his first on the record press briefing, take a look at some of the headlines from the last week. vanity fair, i hate everyone in the white house, trump seethes. and cnn tense and difficult meeting preceding tillersons moron comment. such an unusual day not just to see the chief affstaff at the podium, but hes ripping the media to their face and the medias saying oh, thank you....

New reporting on what precipitated that now-infamous moron comment from the secretary of state. >> reporter: anderson, we did. we digged a little bit deeper, and it stems from a july 20th meeting at the pentagon, which came after a meeting here at the white house one day earlier that did not go so well. it was with the president and his top military advisers. some of them thought he didnt have enough of a grasp of what was happening in afghanistan and other parts of the world. they wanted to hav...

Extraordinary, but certainly in the united states. also tonight, youve got some new reporting on what precipitated that now-infamous moron comment from the secretary of state. >> reporter: anderson, we did. we digged a little bit deeper, and it stems from a july 20th meeting at the pentagon, which comes after a meeting here at the white house one day earlier that did not go so well. it was with the president and his top military advisers. some of them thought he didnt have enough of a grasp of w...

>> all right. so thats on secretary of state. but at least you have new reporting on this july meeting over at the pentagon between the president and senior u.s. officials that preceded secretary tillersons alleged moron comment. and what is that? >> thats right. and, look, nbc has really been in the lead on this story. and the reporters that were involved are very serious reporters who are quoting several sources in the room. so obviously the white house is pushing back. but we do have some rep...

And tougher on that subject than other people. >> reporter: the president also dismissed an nbc news report today that said he called for increasing the u.s. nuclear arsenal by ten times the amount of current levels. >> no, i never discussed -- i think somebody said i want ten times the nuclear weapons that we have right now. right now, we have so many nuclear weapons. i want them in perfect condition, perfect shape. thats the only thing ive ever discussed. >> reporter: but cnn has learned the j...

Said this, was he joking? >> i listened to the tape just before coming on here to get the nuance. i laughed when he said it, he did not laugh. sole i guess its a judgment call only president trump knows. when i first asked secretary tillerson, he paused and thought about his answer and gave a more vague answer. i asked him about the moron comment and he immediately went into its fake news but maybe we have to take an iq test, then he paused and laughed and said i would win it. he doesnt laugh ve...

Moron comment. there is very little i should say when communicating with folks in the white house, very little pushback on the fact this actually occurred. so while the president is going after you, the people who work for him are quietly accepting, this is the narrative, because they know it happens to be true. >> so i guess, you know, this is coming at a time when some pretty serious things involving nuclear weapons are on the table. theres the concern about north korea. theres concerns about ...

An anti-establishment insurgency, gotten into office, then kind of conformed somewhat to the norms of washington. theyre seeing trump hasnt done that and i think its alarming a lot of people. >> to the tillerson point about the stakes here, to give people context in case they hadnt seen this quote, "forbes" asked about the moron comment, i think its fake news but if he did that i guess iq tests can tell you who is going to win. which the white house later said was a joke. he said he didnt underc...

The moron comment, i think its fake news but if he did that i guess iq tests can tell you who is going to win. which the white house later said was a joke. he said he didnt undercut anyone. thats to me is the thing that its easy to lose sight of the stakes here and the reason corkers speaking out is you heard what gabe sherman said. ultimately hes threatening north korea over twitter. hes about to decertify the iran deal. youve got two massively high-stakes nuclear issues on the table. the presi...

Congress. >> 2018. >> why dont we just go ahead and have primaries against them? i think we will continue to see this moving forward. i dont think this is going to stop. >> not if steve bannon has anything to do with it. what about the lunch today, perfe perry, to be a fly on the wall with the president and secretary mattis. he said to congress its a better idea for u.s. security to stay in this, and the president wants out and the secretary of state tillerson, after the moron comment. >> my und...