Every day and we agree there must be the highest level of coordination between our diplomatic efforts and our military efforts. You cannot have a stronger partner then he secretary of defense who embraces diplomacy. I hope he feels he has the partners he needs the state department. The beginning of the partners and friends who are working for the american people. And wes much to be done are just getting started. To address a few specifics that have been erroneously reported this morning. The Vice President has never had to persuade me to remain as secretary of state because ive never considered leaving this post. Andlue the friendship counsel the Vice President and i admire his leadership within president Trumps Administration to address the many important agendas of President Trump, from a foreignpolicy perspective and a diplomatic domestic objective. Let me tell you what i have learned about this president , whom i did not know before taking this office. He loves this country. He puts americans and america first. Resultsart, he demands wherever he goes and he holds those around him accountable for whether theyve done the job he do. Actually send them to accountability is one of the bedrock values the president and i share. , ile i am new to washington have learned there are some who try to sow dissension to invest their own agenda by tearing others apart. In an effort to undermine President Trumps own agenda. I do not and i will not operate that way. The same applies to everyone on my team at the state department. In the morning, my first thoughts are about the safety of our citizens at home and abroad. There is no more important responsibility i care with me than ensuring americans are safe. Providing for the security of the United States must be the number one goal of our american foreignpolicy. President trump and his administration will keep moving forward as one team with one mission, doing great things for the United States of america to make America Great again. Thank you. I think it is the most important in the articles to reaffirm my commitment to this role that President Trump has asked me to serve and to dispel with this notion that i have ever considered leaving. I have answered that question repeatedly, for some reason it continues to be misreported. There has never been a consideration in my mind to leave. I server the appointment of the president and im here because i feel im useful to achieve his objectives. Do you agree with secretary mattis that the u. S. Should stay in . We will give the president a couple of options to move forward to advance the important policy towards iran. Itp l. A. Represents represents a small part of the issues we need to deal with when it comes to the iranian relationship. It is an important part, but not the only part. We cannot let the iranian relationship be defined solely by that nuclear agreement. Can you address the main headline of the story that you call the president a moron . Where do you think these reports came from . This is what i dont understand about washington. Im not from this place, but the places i come from, we dont deal with that petty nonsense. It is intended to do nothing but divide people and im not going to be part of this effort to divide this administration. Did you speak with the president about the report . Spoken to the president this morning. I believe he is on his way to las vegas. Do you have a reliable partner in pakistan now . I believe we do. I think the pakistan relationship is extraordinarily important. As we rolled out the southeast strategy, we spoke about it in a regional context. It is not just about afghanistan, its the importance of pakistan. And pakistans longterm stability as well. We have concerns about the future of pakistans government in terms of we want their government to be stable and peaceful. Many of the same issues they are struggling with our our issues. We think there is an opportunity to strengthen that relationship. We will work very hard at all , the state department, defense department, our intelligence communities as well as economic commerce opportunities as well. It is a regional approach. Pakistan is critical in the longterm stability of the region. Thank you very much. You have been watching u. S. Secretary of state Rex Tillerson speaking at the state department. Some of what he said includes that he remains committed to President Trump and the foreignpolicy agenda. He enumerated many of the pillars of that agenda, including creating an International Unity around the socalled peaceful pressure we are bringing on north korea. s caliphateisis being on the brink of extinction. Then he got to the meat of it saying he will address reports that he had been about to resign , they came to a peak last summer and he said he wasnt going to deal with petty stuff like that. That he never thought about resigning. That the Vice President never had to deter him from leaving his role. Lets bring in Kevin Cirilli at the white house and bloomberg Senior Executive editor of freire ws john fraher. Let me ask you about the meat of what the secretary of state said. Did we learn anything new or was this whole statement for the purpose of showing unity . John i would be interested to hear what kevin has to say. Sitting here in moscow after , it just sounds pretty remarkable we are in the state of affairs where the secretary of state of the u. S. Has to make a Statement Like this. It underscores just how extraordinary a state of affairs we have in washington right now where someone like tillerson is to come out and say that. Its interesting when you compare whats going on in the rest of the world. Using president putin and other youes were very fixed have president putin and other countries who are very fixed in their foreignpolicy. Here you see confusion and chaos. Vonnie Kevin Cirilli at the white house. The secretary was asked if he is spoken to President Trump about this and he had not spoken to him this morning. Was this the secretarys urge to make the statement or is there something behind this . Kevin Rex Tillerson faced intense scrutiny not just within the past 24 hours about his professional relationship with President Trump, but has for quite some time including in the lead up to the u. N. General assembly meeting, including the with nikkishares haley. There has been intense scrutiny and speculation about the political future of secretary tillerson. Sometimes he has been quite removed from his role in washington, opting to spend time elsewhere. That said, a headline crossing the terminal as we speak the general john kelly, the president s chief of staff was supposed to accompany President Trump on the trip to las vegas and now has not gone on that. He is headed to washington. What you just saw was secretary tillerson reaffirming his commitment to the administration , denouncing these reports. Also saying he has never at any time suggested he would leave the administration. What johnared rate pointed out reiterate what john pointed out, the fact he had to do this illustrates the political reality between the state Department Officials and the administration. Mark can they start singing from the same hymn sheet . Tillerson often says one thing followed by comments from trump that seem to go against what he just said. Is it possible they will start out speaking from the same page . Kevin its a great question, its a great point, especially of the recent tweets from the past couple of days regarding north korea. Ive spoken with several sources who suggested to me that that is actually a part of a broader communicative strategy of good cop, bad cop so to speak mentality where the secretary of state and other state Department Administration officials are privately engaging in back channel discussions not as with north korea, but a host of other issues. On the flipside side of that, the president embracing that rhetoric of unpredictability. Critics suggest that is not the right strategy to take. But police from the administrations perspective, that they suggest the mentality in terms of keeping options open is exactly at the sites they would the president and the administration were looking to do all along. Were looking to do all along. John fraher spoke with Vladimir Putin today and you asked him about his relationship with President Trump. I want to listen to a soundbite of what he had to say. We saw each other just one time. We had a couple of telephone conversations on various issues , we also interests discuss the syria issue. On certain issues we are cooperating with the americans. Vonnie that was president putin and john fraher, u. S. The opportunity to speak to him for quite some time. What were your overall impressions of the relationship right now with donald trump . Whereent through a period they were great friends and a very much cool period. John he says he doesnt have much of a personal relationship, but there was another part where we were talking about north korea. He appeared to let something slip. He said President Trump listens to me. That was an interesting point. He listens to be on north korea. I try to follow up and i said if you look at his rhetoric on north korea, it doesnt necessarily sound like hes to bring downutin the noise and temperature. It was interesting, perhaps putin sees in front again whos here he has perhaps. Little tantalizing glimpse of what might be going on behind the scenes. You wouldnt expect them to downplay the relationship and well limit once in hamburg, but clearly there is a lot more going on behind the scenes. A fantastic interview and a long interview. Did it help your thoughts evolve on what president putin might be looking for in the world in terms of a geopolitical outcome . President putin is always a very difficult man to read. We spent a fair bit of time talking about the middle east and president putin has very skillfully inserted himself into the geopolitical game there. He was quite happy to talk about the middle east and clearly he is enjoying his new role as one of the masters of middle east politics. He is not the only one, there are also others. Mentioned his meeting tomorrow with the king of saudi arabia which was a must be in moscow. He is also underlined the fact that he is quite tight at the moment with saudi arabia on a range of issues. I think the middle east right now is an area where can sees a lot of where he sees a lot of traction. Washington is distracted by various political infighting and other issues. He sees a vacuum there and he is acting quickly to fill in and put russia in the heart of it. Mark you also asked to president putin about oil and further production cuts. Lets listen in to what he had to say. Im saying we dont know yet whether we are going to extend or not. The question is being asked until when. , thate decide to extend is when we are going to decide on the time frame. Overall speaking about the possible extension is a minimum towards the end of 2018. Mark it seems as if the president is playing the wait and see game until the current round of production cuts are close to expiring in march next year before coming to a solid decision on whether to extend them. Hand, president putin is a wily operator. He is were hard to pin down sometimes. When he was talking about opec and the production cuts, my take away from it was certainly that he is very open to extending these cuts. The way he was talking about it, he spoke about russias arrangement with the opec quite positively. He did not knock down at all the idea these cuts might be extended. He talked about russia deepening ties with saudi arabia on a range of issues. He did not say it outright. Certainly the read between the lines and look at the body language in that segment of the panel discussion, he seemed very open to cuts. Whether it happens or not, we dont know. It he definitely seems open to it. Mark great job. Next on the oh , cataloniase Regional Government may decide on whether to declare independence from spain. Theresa mayinister is interrupted by a protester who walks right up to her onstage as she was giving a speech of the conservative Party Congress conference. This is bloomberg. Live from bloomberg World Headquarters, im vonnie quinn. Mark counting you down to the european close in roughly 12 minutes. Lets get to the spanish story. Spanish bonds stocks slumping. Continuing to reverberate around markets. Yields on the 10year note rising to the highest level little more three months. The nation stocks falling the most in europe. On the news catalonia would release a statement. The leadership dismissing the condemnation of king felipe a, asserting nothing will disrupt them from setting up a republic. Maria is in the heart of catalonia. Its a countdown for the atalanta president s speech. What will he say . Maria we are waiting for this statement because he was meant to release a statement at midday. Essentially replicating what the king did yesterday night when he said the administration has gone broke, we need to stand united. Hear fromre going to the regional catalonia leader . Eightt think it will be unilateral declaration of independence but we will get a sense of the steps that will be triggered. The catalan parliament. Parliament will meet monday. They have the power to enact measures that would turn catalonia into a republic. This is all based on a referendum which was deemed a legal that nobody outside of catalonia recognizes and the Spanish Government does not recognize. A declarationwas of independence, there is a question as to who would vonnie what about the Companies Based in catalonia . Are they thinking about relocating because of uncertainty . That is a question here. The Business Community here is seriously concerned. Listing are public taking a big head. They are making other money in spain when you look at their figures. When you look at the Pharmaceutical Company just they moved to madrid. A lot of pressure on these companies because they may be based here but their business is in spain. Mark great job, thanks a lot. We will see you later. Lets get to u. K. Politics. The conservative Party Conference in manchester, Prime Minister theresa was giving a speech when she was interrupted by a protester. Made their life in this country. I know you will feel unsettled and nervous. We value clear that the contribution you make to the lives of our country. You are welcome here. Mark the protester was identified as a comedian. The piece of paper was an unemployment form this gives people who are laid off. The office says there will be a thorough investigation of how he was able to get into the highsecurity venue. Joining us, bloombergs managing editor. , could this speech of gone any worse given what went wrong . It could have gone worse, but not much worse when you are a politician or a Prime Minister like theresa may, when the two choices outcomes are either you are pitied or laughed about, not really where you want to be and not only that, you will be having on social media, replayed , you mightvetv seen behind are the letters, the f selloff and the second he fell off. Mark she had coughing fits and wasnt able to properly give the speech. Jim thats correct. She was able to make light of , the chancellor gave her a cough drop. She was able to make something of that. She had one mission in this whole conference which was to establish herself as the paramount leader of the conservative party, especially as she went in with Boris Johnson nipping at her heels. Standing ovations yesterday. He seems to be able to reach out to the conservative party, at least given the reaction. Can she . You saw the telegraph would just seen to pick sides in the debate. They compared Boris Johnson to churchill the other day on the banner frontpage and today they have they are questioning theresa mays standing as Prime Minister. Mark a couple of interesting things were announced. Social housing. Will they even reach the first two paragraphs . Jim the tricky thing about the Energy Policy is that you will thatl that was a policy was introduced two years ago by the labour party and it was by the tories were interfering in the free market and she will have a big problem selling the Energy Policy. She said she doesnt want to interfere with the free market, but she is interfering. Mark will she be leader of the next tory Party Conference . Jim the good news for her is that none of the other possible challengers really rose up above. Mark there is resentment towards johnson within the party. Jim i think the view of those is that he is only out for himself, he is a bit of a self promoter. The others, based on a reporting othersich was of the really impressed. We know they are planning for the worstcase scenario with brexit. We are planning for the worst. Jim every day there is a new message on brexit and there has been no progress because for the u. K. , theyve been negotiating with each other and europe is waiting by the sidelines waiting for them to come up with something behind which they are united. We have a tweet from the president. Vonnie President Trump just waiting moments ago the following. Secretary of state vowing to stay. Refuted news story is by secretary tillerson and Vice President pence. It is fake news, they should issue an apology to america. Mark live from london and new closethis is the europea