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Driveway briefing today, talking about folks on the left and elites. two of the widely quoted people in the book, rear tired from the military with four stars on their shoulder. that's been a bone of kwon tension with that white house. >> reporter: no doubt about that. brian, you have secretary of sta state -- secretary mattis talked about in the book. chief of staff john kelly and, of course, are quoted, john kelly calling the president an idiot. by the way, confirmation of a report we first aired on nbc news. secretary mat irs accotis accor the book the president has capacity to understand t...

House at their word is profoundly naive here. and lastly, the administration clearly has decided to wage political war against the state of california. and i think this is just one more front in that war. one of the dynamics we'll see continuing to play out over the next year or so is this dynamic between the presidency to the sta state. >> eugene, it may be why you have a pulitzer prize. but you write very thought provoking columns. president trump's most urgent political problem doesn't involve robert s. mueller iii, stormy daniels or the hundreds of voters who marched for gun control. it's ...

Yo-jong has been buy her brother's side. >> she has become unparalleled in political figure in terms of influencing kim jong-un's decision. >> reporter: over the week, sta state need ya announced a -- a role once held by kim's aunt, kim jong-he who disappeared from public view after the murder of her husband. >> kim jong-un's aunt assumed a -- but his younger sister is perhaps at most, 30. it clearly shows she's on the fast track. >> reporter: also on the fast track, foreign minister, north korean diplomat who ridiculed president trump, calling him president evil in a fiery speech to the u.n. ...

Skr secretary of state secretary of sta state, the confidence the world has that he's speaking for the president. if he's not, it's making it difficult. >> when he says on a visit to china, i'm working on the diplomatic back channels to ease the north korea crisis and the president tweets, don't waist your time, what does that say to you. >> that was after he spent most of the day with the chinese leadership. the president is going 10 days to asia beginning november 3rd, working with the chinese who are critical in the north korean strategy, he comes out and is undercut by the president. it's ...

Correspondent, of course. david chalian is a cnn political director, global affairs correspondent, elise labott, and kaitlan collins, white house correspondent. kaitlan, you have some new reporting on all of this. tell me what you have. >> reporter: so we have confirmed that the secretary of state, rex tillerson, who we just heard from there, did refer to the president addss a moron s summer. i'm told by sources from the white house that the president was aware about this remark, but that the situation has gotten worse now that it's become so public after nbc news first reported it this mornin...