‘It makes me angry’: Tillerson vents frustrations with Kushner

Secretary of State Rex Tillerson was having dinner at a local restaurant when the owner came over to tell him that Mexico’s foreign secretary happened to be eating at the same place. Would he like to say hello?

The conversation — which lasted more than six hours, including breaks — occurred with committee staffers. Tillerson also met for about 90 minutes with House Foreign Affairs Chairman Rep. Eliot Engel and ranking member Rep. Mike McCaul. That conversation was not included in the transcript. Kushner, who has pitched in on everything from U.S. trade policy with Mexico to trying to resolve the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, would sometimes travel abroad and not coordinate with the U.S. Embassy where he was going. Tillerson said he raised such issues with Kushner, who promised to “do better.”Kushner’s relationship with leaders in Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates at times hampered Tillerson’s ability to calm tensions in the Middle East, the former diplomat indicated.

Although he avoided delving into details about those conversations, and often said he didn’t remember much of what happened, Tillerson insisted that he was up front with Putin about Russia’s interference in the 2016 election, which he said he stated as a fact. “I don’t recall ever receiving any such report as described in the Mueller report or any other,” Tillerson said.

Tillerson also clarified earlier public comments he’d made about how Trump would often seek solutions to policy problems that were legally problematic. “He was very action oriented: Get it done, get it done, get it done," former Secretary of State Rex Tillerson said about President Donald Trump. | Mark Wilson/Getty Images

A State Department lawyer was present during the interview with the House committee staffers — the department requested a presence and Tillerson said he was amenable to the idea. Tillerson brought at least two attorneys of his own. The committee’s lawyers noted that he was required by law to answer the questions truthfully. The redacted portions of the transcript were done so at either State or Tillerson's request.

Tillerson, who had met with past presidents to talk about such issues, agreed to meet Trump if he could do so discreetly. He refused to go “through the gold-gilded lobby of the Trump Tower because that was the revolving door of everybody that was interviewing for a job. … So I went up through a residential entrance.”

Having some personal advisor meddle in and directly undermine the wheelhouse business of the nation’s chief diplomat is so amateurish, I’m lost for a comparison. The impression that must have left w/ allies and other nations...

AKimCampbell Why does anyone care what Rex Tillerson thinks? It's like Grima Wormtongue holding a press conference and announcing, 'Saruman was a total jerk.'

Big questions about Kushner: - why does he still have clearances? - why was he making decisions impacting Dept. of State? - when did Senate confirm him? (never) - did he financially benefit from influence at US State Dept.? (Quatri loan on 666 Fifth Ave.)

Is there video or a transcript?

As has been noted before, Only dirtbag Trump could turn an Exxon CEO into a sympathetic figure.

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