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So you have to ask what is tillerson doing, what is the point of having all these meetings, trying to reach out to the south koreans to the japanese, signal to the north koreans that maybe we want to have some kind of diplomatic engagement. none of it will go anywhere because trump undercuts you at every stage. i think theres again one of the questions weve always had is why are people who are clearly men of honor, women of honor, competent, have real lives, have had real regiments, why theyre p...

We have seen the use of more colorful language than anywhere else, like moron, castrate, dotard, i want to point out the rich vocabulary here is kind of fun for all of us observers. look, its terrible for tillerson, but it also signals something i think weve known that there really does not seem to be any desire or impetus to a diplomacy in this administration. you cant have a secretary of state who is going around trying to negotiate when you undercut him in exactly the way bob corker was sayin...

President of china was sitting there at dinner with him in malabo. at that sends a message a china that if you want to do this peacefully, we want to do it peaceably, we need your help. >> martha: reminds me of some ways of richard nixon, this feeling in the world that people werent quite sure what he would do next and his state department sort of did the diplomacy behind the seas, we have tillerson doing that now and you are with the state department. is there sort of a good cop bad cop for lac...

>> i think the interesting thing is that the u.s. doesnt have a foreign policy. you have simultaneous foreign policies within the administration. so you have rex tillerson who has been saying his own sort of thing on syria and not really going in the ra jeek change direction where others like h.r. mcmaster has taken a stronger line saying we might be prepared to do more. and nikki haley similarly. so i think that people will say, this is totally incoherent and what is tillerson doing. but cohere...

That shot that syria while the president of china was sitting there at dinner with him in malabo. at that sends a message a china that if you want to do this peacefully, we want to do it peaceably, we need your help. >> martha: reminds me of some ways of richard nixon, this feeling in the world that people werent quite sure what he would do next and his state department sort of did the diplomacy behind the seas, we have tillerson doing that now and you are with the state department. is there sor...