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Acting like he is the prime minister and the other guy is a sort of aging monarch. put it together. morale going down because he treats women condescendingly. and he treats the boss, the president condescendingly. >> well, you know, chris, my first question when i read this fabulous story, you cant believe the story as you read through it. but you do believe it. my first question was why is this coming out now? who is leaking this? because somebody is talking to kristen and her colleagues. and i...

Department and our partners to the 300 plus million americans, thank you for your devotion to a free and open society. >> you could sum up tillersons farewell speech like this. he had kind words for his colleague, harsh words for russia and no words for the president. the only time he mentioned president trumps name was to tell us that he got a call from the president today at noon which was more than three hours after the tweet came out that fired him. sometimes things are messy in this adminis...

Effort to undermine the presidents own agenda. i do not and i will not operate that way. >> shepard: again, no mention of the moron comment. the state department spokes woman after ward said secretary of state tillerson did not use that language with president trump. though she wasnt there. and then theres north korea. president trump seemed to undercut the secretary of state when he tweeted. i told rex tillerson our wonderful secretary of state that he is wasting his time trying to negotiate wi...

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The world stage and in congress. because trump says stuff and they dont know exactly where he stands on things. >> remember when all this happened? one of the sources in this piece said that, essentially, they had this meeting, the next day, there was a july 19th meeting in the situation room and the july 20th meeting at the pentagon. that was sxrenpre-scheduled, th president seemed distracted. it was not as productive as advisers hoped. that same day, the president is going up and talking with ...

Lets do iq test. i guarantee my iq is much higher than any of the people. i want to match my iq with those guys with all of them. >> he was joking right. randal lain and michael san antonio. randal when the president said this was he joking? >> i listened to the tape before i came out to get the nuance. i laughed when he said it, he did not laugh. its a judgment call that president trump knows. when i first asked him about tillerson he paused and thought about the answer. he gave a vague answer ...

Tillerson. why dont you tell us what happened. >> reporter: thats right. i asked president trump if he undercut secretary of state rex tillerson because he gave an interview to forbes magazine, essentially saying, i dont know if the moron comment is accurate. he calls it fake news. of course, we broke that here on nbc. but he says, i guess well have to compare iq tests, and i can tell you who is going to win. the president effectively disputing that that comment undercuts his secretary of state....

Pence. it is fake news. they should issue an apology to america. today in las vegas, the president was asked about secretary tillersons comments, the question did not clearly refer to the moron comment and so the president seemed to be responding to secretary tillersons comments at his press conference today. >> im very honored by his comments. it was made up. it was made up by nbc. they just made it up. thank you all. total confidence in rex. i have total confidence. thank you very much, everyb...

Spokesperson later did issue a denial on his behalf about the infamous moron comment. >> the secretary did not use that type of language to speak about the president of the united states. he does not use that language to speak about anyone. so i hope that that clarifies it. >> he never said that? >> he did not say nat. >> and the president, as you might expect, pushed back in what is now a predictable fashion. >> it was fake news. it was a totally phony story. thank you very much. it was made up...

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