the white house and state at a time when rex tillerson doesn't need anymore problems with the president. from a source close to the white house, rex doesn't like the fact that he's supposed to be our nation's top diplomat and now jared and ivanka have stepped all over rex tillerson for a long time. he's not sending senior people from the state department and he's not supporting ivanka trump. when you look at this event in past years, president obama attended, last year it was kerry, and assistant secretaries. officials are telling us tillerson and his staff aren't letting anyone above the deputy assistant level go. originally the acting assistant secretary for the region was slated to be on the trip and she was then pulled by tillerson and his staff. when i asked a state department spokesperson who are the senior people going on this trip, and the list hasn't been officially published yet, they gave a short list of the top u.s. government officials, but none of them were