YES. SO EASY.
EMBARRASSING RACHEL. EASIEST THING I DO.
WELL, WE ARE NOW ON THE SECOND DAY OF THE TRUMP IS A MORON
CONTROVERSY CREATED NOT BY THE TENS OF MILLIONS OF AMERICANS
WHO SAY THAT EVERY DAY BUT BY THE SECRETARY OF STATE HAVING
REFERRED TO THE PRESIDENT AT A MEETING AT THE PENTAGON AND NO
ONE IN WASHINGTON HAS TRIED TO MAKE THE CASE THAT PRESIDENT
TRUMP IS NOT A MORON. THAT PART OF THE STORY HAS BEEN
SKIPPED OVER BY THE WHITE HOUSE. AND ON DAY TWO OF THIS
CONTROVERSY, THE SECRETARY OF STATE CONTINUES TO REFUSE TO
DENY THAT HE CALLED THE PRESIDENT A MORON.
THE STATE DEPARTMENT SPOKESPERSON HAS SAID THAT THE
SECRETARY DID NOT CALL THE PRESIDENT A MORON BUT SHE WAS
NOT PRESENT DURING THE MEETING AT THE PENTAGON.
WHERE IT IS SAID THAT REX TILLERSON CALLED THE PRESIDENT A
MORON AND NOTHING COULD BE EASIER FOR THE SECRETARY OF
STATE THAN TO ISSUE A ONE-SENTENCE WRITTEN STATEMENT
SAYING, I DID NOT CALL THE PRESIDENT A MORON.
THE SECRETARY OF STATE VERY DELIBERATELY HAS NOT DONE THAT.
WHICH IS INFURIATING TO THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES
ACCORDING TO A NEW REPORT TONIGHT.
NBC NEWS REPORTS TONIGHT THAT FOUR SENIOR ADMINISTRATION
OFFICIALS SAID THE PRESIDENT FIRST LEARNED OF REX TILLERSON
CALLING HIM A MORON EXACTLY WHEN THE REST OF US LEARNED IT,
YESTERDAY MORNING WHEN NBC NEWS REPORTED IT.
PRESIDENT TRUMP COMPLAINED IMMEDIATELY TO WHITE HOUSE CHIEF
OF STAFF JOHN KELLY ON WEDNESDAY MORNING WHICH LED TO GENERAL
KELLY CANCELING HIS PLANS TO ACCOMPANY THE PRESIDENT TO LAS
VEGAS AND THE ABSENCE WAS NOTED IN LAS VEGAS AND THERE WAS
SPECULATION IT'S RELATTED TO THE MORON STORY THAT BROKE BEFORE
THE PRESIDENT LEFT FOR LAS VEGAS.
OFFICIALS TOLD NBC NEWS THAT TRUMP WAS FURIOUS WHEN HE SAW
THE NBC NEWS REPORT WHICH WAS PUBLISHED SHORTLY BEFORE 6:00
A.M. WEDNESDAY. FOR THE NEXT TWO HOURS, THE
PRESIDENT FUMED INSIDE THE WHITE HOUSE, VENTING TO KELLY, JOHN
KELLY SUMMONED TILLERSON AND DEFENSE SECRETARY JAMES MATTIS
TO THE WHITE HOUSE WHERE THE THREE OF THEM HUDDLED TO DISCUSS
A PATH FORWARD ACCORDING TO THREE ADMINISTRATION OFFICIALS.
VICE PRESIDENT MIKE PENCE MEANWHILE WAS FUMING IN PHOENIX
WHERE HE WAS TRAVELING SEVEN OFFICIALS TOLD NBC NEWS.
HE AND TILLERSON SPOKE ON THE PHONE BEFORE THE SECRETARY'S
PUBLIC APPEARANCE ON WEDNESDAY MORNING.
AND AFTER ALL OF THAT, REX TILLERSON WENT OUT ANDND GAVE A
VERY RARE PRESS CONFERENCE. HE DOESN'T GIVE PRESS
CONFERENCES. THAT ALONE WAS A VERY RARE
THING. REX TILLERSON GIVING A PRESS
CONFERENCE. AND AFTER ALL OF THAT, HE WENT
OUT IN THAT PRESS CONFERENCE AND POINTEDLY AND DELIBERATELY DID
NOT DENY CALLING THE PRESIDENT A MORON.
NBC NEWS REPORTS THAT THE SECRETARY'S REFUSAL TO DENY THAT
HE HAD CALLED THE PRESIDENT A MORON IN HIS OPENING STATEMENT
AND IN HIS RESPONSES TO QUESTIONS FROM REPORTERS STOKED
TRUMP'S ANGER AND WIDENED THEHE RIFT BETWEEN THE TWO MEN
OFFICIALS SAID. AND HERE IS A PICTURE OF THAT
RIFT. HERE IS THE PRESIDENT IN LAS
VEGAS YESTERDAY. ACTING AS IF HE WASN'T BOTHERED
AT ALL. BY REX TILLERSON AND THE
PRESIDENT IS A MORON STORY. >> I'M VERY HONORED BY HIS
COMMENTS. IT WAS FAKE NEWS.
IT WAS MADE UP. MADE UP BY NBC.
THEY JUST MADE IT UP. THANK YOU SO MUCH.
TOTAL CONFIDENCE IN REX. I HAVE TOTAL CONFIDENCE.
THANK YOU VERY MUCH, EVERYBOVER. >> AFTER WATCHING THE
SECRETARY'S RESPONSE WEDNESDAY, ONE WHITE HOUSE OFFICIAL SAID
WHEN TILLERSON DIDN'T DENY IT, I ASSUMED IT WAS TRUE.
TONIGHT, THE PRESIDENT MADE SOME OF THE MOST BIZARRE COMMENTS HE
HAS EVER MADE TO THE NEWS MEDIA. >> YOU KNOW WHAT THIS
REPRESENTS? HEALTH CARE.
THE CALM BEFORE THE STORM. >> WHAT'S THE SORM?
>> COULD BE THE CALM, THE CALM BEFORE THE STORM.
>> WHAT STORM IS -- -- >> WE HAVE THE WORLD'S GREAT
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AND THANK YOU ALL FOR