Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20170802:11:11:00
And if jim mattis is handling the pentagon as well as he is, why aren't we seeing more of that at the state department? is it intentional on the trump administration's part to strangle the state department? >> well, there's certainly a problem here because tillerson did embrace the budget cuts, 30%. that is an enormous budget cut, and i think he was trying to prove his bona fides with a president he did not know or have a relationship with and prove not being a general that he could be part of the team and bring a management study to the table and take sort of the business approach to the stat...