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Jake pressed the sec of state on whether or not he called the path moron. listen. >> im not going to deal with that kind of petty stuff. this is a town that seems to relish gossip, rumor, innuendo and feed on it. >> you have a cattle ranch. you dont want to say anything about the senator calling -- suggesting you will be gelded before the world? not anything that bothers you? >> i checked. im fully intact. >> so, betsy, kudos to the secretary for comic timing. that was fantastic, the response to...

When tillerson used the word moron. we live in a country where the -- one of the least stunning things you can say about the current president of the united states is moron. its manager thats said throughout the country by millions of people every day. whats to be stunned about in that room? >> well, that may be so but this is the secretary of state after a meeting with the president, somebody that agreed to take the job and work for the president whose flaws all but all known already so, you kn...

That help separate our country from chaos. >> in an exclusive report this morning, nbc news revealed that the secretary of state referred to the president as a moron in a room full of witnesses at the pentagon. the presidents response to that report today was that it was fake news. the nbc news report said tillersons stunned a handful of senior level officials calling the president a moron after a tense two-hour long meeting in a secure room at the pentagon called the tank. according to three of...

Lasting image is throwing paper towels. it is just one gaffe after another or him going to a golf club and presiding over a golf tournament instead of working on hurricane relief and then did kating the hurricane -- the golf trophy to the hurricane survivors. you know? which is a little bit like, you know, marie antoinette saying let them eat 9 irons. any president would not be doing this and getting, you know, approval ratings in the mid-30s. >> and the striking thing about the day is the only ...

In other words, as always, but especially, watch this space. that does it for us tonight. rachel will be back tomorrow. hope to see you tomorrow on "the beat" which is every night at >> good evening. every night at 6:00 p.m. right? "the beat". >> i lost you for a second. >> im trying to do a promo for your show. you dont have to be involved at all. doesnt matter what you hear. i just told the -- doubled underline the 6:00 p.m. >> i was embarrassed. went quiet. thank you, lawrence. thank you. ill...

By halloween unless congress gives up some more emergency money and without the assistance of congress puerto ricos government wont be able to operate next month and hurricane recovery comes to a halt. in other words, as always, but especially, watch this space. that does it for us tonight. rachel will be back tomorrow. hope to see you tomorrow on "the beat" every night at 6:00 p.m. now its time for "the last word with lawrence odonnell." good evening. >> good evening. every night at 6:00 p.m. r...

Club and presiding over a golf tournament instead of working on hurricane relief and then did kating the hurricane -- the golf trophy to the hurricane survivors. you know? which is a little bit like, you know, marie antoinette saying let them eat 9 irons. any president would not be doing this and getting, you know, approval ratings in the mid-30s. >> and the striking thing about the day is the only mutterings out of the white house and the unnamed sources group is that, you know, is that we wish...

Eli, the one reference in the nbc news reporting about this that i dont quite get is the part where it reports the people in the room to have been stunned when tillerson used the word moron. we live in a country where the -- one of the least stunning things you can say about the current president of the united states is moron. its manager thats said throughout the country by millions of people every day. whats to be stunned about in that room? >> well, that may be so but this is the secretary of...

>> im not going to deal with petty stuff like that. >> he didnt deny calling the president a moron. >> the secretary did not use that type of language. he did not say that. >> made up by nbc. they just made it up. >> for the record, nbc has total confidence in its reporting. >> fake news. it was a totally phony story. >> the president can call this fake news but he himself has made it very clear that hes broken with his own secretary of state on a whole host of policy issues. >> he ends up not b...

Rare thing for him to do. he did it specifically to respond to the nbc news report. >> the vice president has never had to persuade me to remain as secretary of state because i have never considered leaving this post. i serve at the appointment of the president and im here for as long as the president feels i can be useful to achieving his objectives. >> and then, of course, came the question about referring to the president as a moron. >> did you address the main headline of this story that you...