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Let's do iq test. i guarantee my iq is much higher than any of the people. i want to match my iq with those guys with all of them. >> he was joking right. randal lain and michael san antonio. randal when the president said this was he joking? >> i listened to the tape before i came out to get the nuance. i laughed when he said it, he did not laugh. it's a judgment call that president trump knows. when i first asked him about tillerson he paused and thought about the answer. he gave a vague answer about his background and at the end of the day he's in charge. difference of opinion. i asked him ...

Tillerson. why don't you tell us what happened. >> reporter: that's right. i asked president trump if he undercut secretary of state rex tillerson because he gave an interview to forbes magazine, essentially saying, i don't know if the moron comment is accurate. he calls it fake news. of course, we broke that here on nbc. but he says, i guess we'll have to compare iq tests, and i can tell you who is going to win. the president effectively disputing that that comment undercuts his secretary of state. then you heard him say, i don't believe in undercutting people. which is a striking comment for...

Pence. it is fake news. they should issue an apology to america. today in las vegas, the president was asked about secretary tillerson's comments, the question did not clearly refer to the moron comment and so the president seemed to be responding to secretary tillerson's comments at his press conference today. >> i'm very honored by his comments. it was made up. it was made up by nbc. they just made it up. thank you all. total confidence in rex. i have total confidence. thank you very much, everybody. >> tonight, the daily beast reports that some aides in the white house held out hope that se...

Spokesperson later did issue a denial on his behalf about the infamous moron comment. >> the secretary did not use that type of language to speak about the president of the united states. he does not use that language to speak about anyone. so i hope that that clarifies it. >> he never said that? >> he did not say nat. >> and the president, as you might expect, pushed back in what is now a predictable fashion. >> it was fake news. it was a totally phony story. thank you very much. it was made up. it was made up by nbc. they just made it up. taung all. thank you. total confidence in rex. i have...

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