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Across the country, fortune 500 ceos doing well when they go to washington d.c. working in cabinets? give us give some examples other than mike barnicle the goldman sachs executives that always run the treasury department. it s almost impossible. steve pointed out a reality of a ceo going into government. a ceo runs a company. he bounce things off selected members of your board of directors. keep your key members happy. government is different. you have to have collie jalty. i would be willing to bet you this morning, right now, that more republicans and democrats in the senate especially, have heard more from joe biden in the last nine months than they ve heard from rex tillerson. you can t operate this way. even the goldman sachs guys, bob reuben served first in the white house at the nec. hank paulson was in the government under a prior republican administration. ....
Rang out. yesterday, of course, also much talk about rex tillerson and it started on this program, carol lee coming on with her exclusive nbc news report and it was such a blockbuster report. it s like when mika said she was talking halfway through a certain show she said uh-oh i provoked him and the tweet came. carol lee was doing hard reporting and carol should have seen it coming like a freight train coming out of the mist. come it did. the tweets came but a lot of news around that tweet and that s of course rex tillerson saying he s not going anywhere. at least for now. this is the trump administration being like the trump administration we know rather than the president we see in vegas. the administration blasted back against that nbc news exclusive ....
Before where the president compared trying to rebuild afghanistan with how the owner of the 21 club rebuilt his restaurant. the next day it was after a meeting with a national security officials, his close allies in the tank. it was a that that he used that phrase. there s been a lot of white house. the white house has been leaking continuously officials dismissing tillerson and giving detailing about all the conflicts and the fact that the president doesn t like the way he speaks back to him, and even his demeanor, the way he sits in meetings tells you this is not going to end well. the one thing he has going for him that foreign policy establishment both parties, senator corker is a great example, torn between the fact that they rejected his budget. they added $11 billion to his budget in the markup saying he was undermining national security with his budget. ....
To the president and the other is til s job as secretary where jobs are unfilled and we know the situation over there. do you believe at this point that secretary tillerson should leave for either or both of those reasons? do you think he s past the point of being able to be effective? i think that s a decision that the secretary and the president need to reach. i am gravely concerned about morale in the state department, about unfilled senior positions as i mentioned, the conflict that we have emerging with north korea is probably top of his list, yet, we don t have an assistant secretary of state for east asia. we don t have an ambassador to south korea. there s not eve an nominee for those positions. there s lots of places around the world where some of the most senior positions in the state department, we don t have anyone in front of the foreign relations committee nominated. that s who does the diplomacy. i think there are structural challenges making it hard for ....
Doesn t have that many friends on the hill. they said they can t get him to return their phone calls. he doesn t respond to their letters. that s establishment republicans, people like bob corker and lindsey graham, and so if the president does distance himself from him, from tillerson in a significant way, who does he turn to? maybe he has bob corker now given his comments yesterday, but he hasn t really built relationships anywhere. and this has been a complaint steve rattner of rex tillerson from the start, whether you talk to people inside the white house or people on the hill, whether you talk to people in the diplomatic community. rex tillerson has not operated like secretaries of states. forget about dealing with people on the hill which you have to deal with. mika told the story hundreds of times when people have asked about her father when he was national security adviser. he had republicans as a democrat, over to his house having dinner almost on a weekly ....