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Called you a moron? >> reporter: then chose to ignore. tillerson is no moron. he knows how to not answer a question. >> is it true? if you call him a moron? >> i'm not going to deal with that petty stuff. that is a really old question. you want to make a game out of it, and i'm not playing. >> did you call the president a moron? >> i'm not going to dig phi the question. >> reporter: the president dignified it by saying we will have to compare iq tests and i can tell you who is going to win. >> i know i have an iq better than all of them. >> because i have a good brain. >> reporter: there were ...

Need to know and everyone needs to know. >> you would have thought he talked to you about changing the policy before he tweeted. >> and to finish the thought, that has never happened. every time i talk to him, he says the policy hasn't changed. i'm good. that's all i need to know. >> why didn't you deny calling the president a moron? >> you know, that's a really old question. >> do you understand that by not answering the question, some people thought you were confirming the story. >> i think i've answered the question. >> you think you answered the question. >> i've answered the question. >> ...

Suggestion. here's how he handled it. >> jake, as i indicated earlier, i was asked about that. assume not going to deal with that kind of petty stuff. this is a town that seems to relish gossip, rumor, innuendo, and they feed on it. they feed on it in a very destructive way. i don't work that way. i'm just not going to dig phi the question. >> errol, here's the question. the answer doesn't work. it just doesn't. it doesn't sound like he's saying he didn't say it. if you want to deal with the pettiness of d.c., you have a very easy way to dispense of it. i never said it. the report was wrong. w...

To dig phi the question. >> reporter: refused to answer when asked repeatedly if he called the president a moran before pushing back comments from bob corker that they are trying to cast trait him. >> this is an unconvention al techniques to motivate change. >> reporter: also defending the president's decision to decertify the iran deal and the administration's strategy toward north korea. >> the president has also made clear to me he wants to solved diplomatly. he is not seeking to go to war. the efforts will continue until the first bomb drops. >> reporter: president trump is expected to mee...