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By halloween unless congress gives up some more emergency money and without the assistance of congress puerto rico's government won't be able to operate next month and hurricane recovery comes to a halt. in other words, as always, but especially, watch this space. that does it for us tonight. rachel will be back tomorrow. hope to see you tomorrow on "the beat" every night at 6:00 p.m. now it's time for "the last word with lawrence o'donnell." good evening. >> good evening. every night at 6:00 p.m. right? "the beat". >> i lost you for a second. >> i'm trying to do a promo for your show. you don...

Club and presiding over a golf tournament instead of working on hurricane relief and then did kating the hurricane -- the golf trophy to the hurricane survivors. you know? which is a little bit like, you know, marie antoinette saying let them eat 9 irons. any president would not be doing this and getting, you know, approval ratings in the mid-30s. >> and the striking thing about the day is the only mutterings out of the white house and the unnamed sources group is that, you know, is that we wish tillerson quit. what you didn't get from any of the unnamed sources is here's the affirmative defen...

Eli, the one reference in the nbc news reporting about this that i don't quite get is the part where it reports the people in the room to have been stunned when tillerson used the word moron. we live in a country where the -- one of the least stunning things you can say about the current president of the united states is moron. it's manager that's said throughout the country by millions of people every day. what's to be stunned about in that room? >> well, that may be so but this is the secretary of state after a meeting with the president, somebody that agreed to take the job and work for the...

>> i'm not going to deal with petty stuff like that. >> he didn't deny calling the president a moron. >> the secretary did not use that type of language. he did not say that. >> made up by nbc. they just made it up. >> for the record, nbc has total confidence in its reporting. >> fake news. it was a totally phony story. >> the president can call this fake news but he himself has made it very clear that he's broken with his own secretary of state on a whole host of policy issues. >> he ends up not being supported in the way that i would hope a secretary of state would be supported. >> i don't t...

Rare thing for him to do. he did it specifically to respond to the nbc news report. >> the vice president has never had to persuade me to remain as secretary of state because i have never considered leaving this post. i serve at the appointment of the president and i'm here for as long as the president feels i can be useful to achieving his objectives. >> and then, of course, came the question about referring to the president as a moron. >> did you address the main headline of this story that you called the president a moron? if not, where do you think the reports -- >> i'm not going to deal w...