27,000 acres have been destroyed so far. Californias worldfamous wine country is not the only part of the golden state in trouble. All together, some 100,000 acres have been charred as fires rage in eight california counties. More than 100 people are missing right now. Neighborhoods are literally being wiped out. And just a few moments, we will take you to the fire zone where thousands are still being evacuated. Also happening right now, Vice President mike pence is in california. He is getting a briefing on the fire. The response to the fire. Well get to california again in just a few moments. But we start with politics and a president on the brink of war. And perhaps an i. Q. Test. A few moments ago, President Trump sat for lunch at the white house with two members of his National Security team, secretary of defense as well as the man whom nbc first reported had called the president a moron. Rex tillerson. Even as defense secretary mattis tells troops, quote, to be ready for war with north korea, the president could not resist another shot at the man charged with diplomatic effort to avert war. President trump had this to say to Forbes Magazine about secretary tillersons now infamous comment. I think its fake news but if he did that, i guess well have to compare i. Q. Tests and i can tell you who is going to win. Did the president undercut his secretary of state . H we asked him. Did you undercut the secretary of state today with the i. Q. Comment . No, i didnt undercut anybody. I dont believe in undercutting people. Thank you very much. Lets start with the white house, with our chief white house correspondent, hallie jackson, whos standing by. Hallie j. , tell us about this lunch. As well as a new insult lobbed at senator bob corker. Reporter all right, lets start with lunch. We know secretary of state Rex Tillerson was just spotted walking into the grounds here at the white house. So lunch happening now. Were expecting to get a briefing from Sarah Huckabee sanders in just about an hour and a half or so. So presumably well find out a little bit more about the policy topics the two discussed. Imagine north korea would be at the top of the list along with presumably iran with the president based on our reporting set later this week to decertify the Iranian Nuclear deal, kick it over to congress. Thats what all signs are pointing toward. Now the big question, though, is will this back and forth come up . The, hey, lets take an i. Q. Test, will that be brought up . Will the president ask secretary tillerson to go ahead and do that with him . Highly doubtful, but you would imagine that the interpersonal relationship between the two may be a topic of conversation as well given everything thats come out over the last week. Publicly, tillerson has been very vocally loyal and a big backer of his boss, privately, obvio obviously, you hear different kinds of rumblings but increase what this shows, craig, to pull back and put it in bigpicture context here, the president kind of on an island, isolated. Weve said those words before in this administration. Right now hes burning bridges with not just his own staffers but with folks just down pennsylvania avenue on capitol hill like, of course, bob corker. Who told the New York Times in an interview on the record, by the way, in an sbrinterview tha everybody knew was on the record that the president may be taking this country toward world war iii if he continue this kind of unpredictable behavior. Heres what the president had to say in the pool a little bit ago. Is senator corker right youre putting the u. S. On the path to world war iii . We were on the wrong path before. All you have to do is is take a look. If you look over the last 25 years through numerous administrations, we were on a path to a very big problem. A problem like this world has never seen. Were on the right path right now, believe me. Reporter so President Trump taking questions from reporters including our own Kristen Welker with that good set of lungs there shouting at him. Och of course this comes on the heels of the tweet earlier today. You mentioned the new nickname, a nickname we heard before, spelled differently. Little bob corker according to donald trump tweeting the failing New York Times set little bob corker up by recording his conversation, made to sound a feel and that is what i am dealing with. L let me note, not only was bob corker aware he was on the record, talked about being on the record, two of his staffers were on the line also reporting the conversation. This was not a scaramucci moment, craig. Hallie, does the president have full faith and confidence reporter he says he did. He was asked that very question in the last 60 minutes or so, cut he have confidence in our secretary of state . He said yes. Hallie jackson starting us off from 1600 pennsylvania. Than than thanks as always. Ned price, msnbc contributor and former spokesperson for the nsc under president obama. Kevin baron, executive editor of defense one. Hugh hewitt is an msnbc host, hes also a political analyst as well. Hugh, let me start with you, Rex Tillerson calls him a moron, the president challenges him to an i. Q. Test. Today the president insists he did not undercut him, that he has full faith and confidence and, again, heres a look here at secretary of state Rex Tillerson outside the white house. Is this a live look, guys . Or is this taped from earlier . Were not sure. We can tell you this is secretary of state Rex Tillerson. Hugh, are you buying it, are you buying he has full confidence in his secretary of state . No, im not. I agree with David Ignatius who was telling Andrea Mitchell in the last hour saying, an degree c andrea, you cant imagine the secretary of state staying on long in his position. The president has talked a ee e asking pompeo to state, asking senator tom cotton to go from the senate to the cia. I believe thats going to happen sooner or later. You cannot this is a cyrus vance, jimmy carter moment. You cant keep two people together who dont like each other and dont respect each other publicly. With Rex Tillerson out of the white house, hugh, what does that mean moving forward . I think if director pompeo replaces secretary tillerson, that means an alignment between President Trumps foreign poll sane his secretary of states Foreign Policy. I dont believe hes an island as was said earl yer. A lot of people support his get tough rhetoric with north korea. Point autotout the failure from forward, to obama administration, including bush administration. I dont know, frankly, craig, how can get much worse. The president is right about that. Bob corker really thinks were headed to world war iii, you have is to ask why does he have a hold on so many nominees for the department of state ambassadorial positions . Im not buying the feigned panic. Im just not. We assume north korea is a big topic at the lunch thats happening with Rex Tillerson, matti. Mattis says to the army, be ready should military action be ordered. If youre undercutting the secretary of state, are you also undercutting u. S. Strategy as it relates to north korea . Well, youre certainly not making it easier. Look, i wouldnt make too much hay about what mattis said. Mattis was at the u. S. Armys convention, given a question, what can the army do to help tamp down the questions of north korea . His answer was be ready, be ready for any and all options. Im more concerned about what hugh just said, this potential shift of pompeo to state department, tom cotton to the intelligence community, if you look at it in the intelligence communitys perspective, that is a real lessening of the star power of cia. No offense to tom cotton. Hes new. Hes capable. Hes an up and comer in h National Security. Previous directors were general petraeus, leon panetta, these are guys who have decades of experience, already were revered in washington, maybe one party or not, but they were capable and known managers of the massive agencies and have credibility in the intelligence community. I think thats a major shift and it just shows how shallow the bench is if someone like tillerson doesnt even last past these ten months, you know, thats a much more, i think, concerning problem for the National Security community. Ned, theres a new set of polls out, and, again, talking about the politics of all of this, this is actually a pretty expansive poll here. This is a morning consult. It shows that President Trumps net approval has dropped in all 50 states. Ohio, wisconsin, michigan, which won him the election, hes now in negative territory there. Some southern states, hes either no longer in positive territory, for instance, in tennessee and mississippi, his net approval down more than 20 points. And, again, we should note that this is a poll that was conducted among roughly 450,000 people over the better part of a half year. The poll says the immediate problem isnt so much isnt so much 2018 as it is this reduces the president s influence to secure legislative victories. What do you say to that . I dont think the president has done himself any favors, craig. Look at the war of words between President Trump and senator corker and, you know, its President Trump who is questioning Rex Tillersons i. Q. , but i think we also have to question President Trumps i. Q. Because he seems to have a big problem counting all the way to 51. 51 votes are what is needed to secure passage of some legislation in the senate. Without senator corker on his side, the senator who, by the way, is the chairman of the Senate Foreign relations committee, President Trump is going to have a very difficult time advancing his domestic agenda including tax reform, as well as his key Foreign Policy initiatives. You know, President Trump it sounds like later this week is set to decertify the iran deal sending the deal back to congress. Senator corker is going to be a key vote there, and the more President Trump alienates him, the more difficult of a time President Trump is going to have moving that forward and moving anything else forward in the on capitol hill. Ned, you mentioned iran. We are expecting and actually its happening as we speak, to a sen extent, another rollback of an obamaera policy, hugh, this thyme a rule regarding coal plants. Last week it was the Birth Control mandate. The dismantling of obamacare continues through executive order by in large. Again, iran. How much of this today is about coal . How much of this, hugh, is just about President Trumps desire to reverse anything obama . Well, i always preface comments on the epa by noting my son works there, craig, but ill say this, the new rule on water of the United States that scott pruitt the administrator is putting forward, rollback of the Clean Power Plan, parts of the republican platform and pretty much every republican on the debate stage agrees with these actions so those are, in fact, cohesive actions taken by any regulatory rollback conservative who believes that president obama overreached with his executive orders and with his regulatory framework. The Clean Power Plan is about goal but its also about constitutional rule and the rule of law. That regulation was in excess of the rule of law. The circuit courts of the United States. Think administrator pruitt is doing the right thing. Its a win win for everyone on my side of the political aisle. Ned, to the larger point, though, in terms of whether we think any of this is personal. Well, craig, i think almost all of it is personal. You look at what President Trump has done in terms of the paris climate agreement, in terms of the iran deal, in terms of tpp, you name it when it comes to signature Foreign Policy and domestic achievements of the obama administration, and President Trump has made a concerted point to dismantle those just about as soon as he can, or at least to try to dismantle them. He has had difficulty in some areas. And, in fact, there was reporting, craig, when President Trump first visited europe, and european leaders came away from their meetings with President Trump believing that it was president obamas legacy in particular, that President Trump was most interested in dismantling. Anything that carried president obamas name, or that was negotiated, finalized or culminated in the obama administration, that is what President Trump had his sights on according to these european leaders and, frankly, it sounds i think we can certainly believe it. Kevin, before we go, you had an interesting reporting in defense one about generals and admirals and other highranking Defense Department officials now being encouraged to talk to folks like me and you, is that right . Thats right. Secretary mattis on friday was meeting at the pentagon with the combatant commanders, highest level of commanders in the military and other Senior Leaders and told them, its time to start talking. And what happened was there was a belief in the top staff of the pentagon that the commanders and their staff thought they were supposed to keep quiet. Because they were watching mattis and mattis doesnt come on tv, but he does talk to reporters behind the scenes. Mattis said, no, no, you need to keep talking, stay in your lanes, though, but also because of this budget coming up, continuing resolution which the pentagon, every pentagon in the last ten years, however long this has gone on, has said would be horrible for future readiness. I think also what it shows is he wants the National Security leaders to be out there talking because really, theyre the guys that kind of tamp down a lot of the hype that we get caught up on when were trying to make hay out of what, you know, President Trumps tweet means and whats going to happen with this lunch today, for example. And it made me think of the last thought ill have, what would secretary robert gates think . Robert gates was the guy who helped put tillerson in that job. Gates once rejected the director of National Intelligence job because he thought it had no power. If you didnt have power in washington, why take that job . He wasnt going to do that. He knows how to play this game in town. If youre undercut and dont have power, you not going to do it. Thats the guy who put tillerson in that job. If that means anything, i think we might be short for his life span as secretary of state. Thats a good spot to leave it, kevin, thank you, ned, thank you. Hugh, we did not get to the president s obsession with the nfl. Well save that for next time. More women coming out now to the new yorker accusing Harvey Weinstein of sexually harassing or assaulting them. Well have the new revelations for you and play for you an audiotape sting involving the filmmaker. Also, powerful wildfires are ravaging northern and Southern California right now. Our own Steve Patterson is live in the fire zone in californias wine country. Steve . Reporter state of emergency here in napa. Thousands of people without power. Thousands of people evacuated. Thousands of structures burned. Well give you a live look at the devastation and what firefighters are now cautioning. Thats coming up next. 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