NBC Fights Back On Tillerson Scoop

[azgreg]

Regardless if Tillerson said it or not it's ****ing accurate.

 

[lurchadams]

NBC would not have run with the story without multiple confirmations. I totally believe Tillerson called Trump a moron. I wonder what Trump had to give Tillerson in order for Tillerson to recently pledge his loyalty?

 

[justabubba]

NBC would not have run with the story without multiple confirmations. I totally believe Tillerson called Trump a moron. I wonder what Trump had to give Tillerson in order for Tillerson to recently pledge his loyalty?

tRump threatened to tell tillerson 'you're fired' publicly is my speculation

 

[Media_Truth]

NBC would not have run with the story without multiple confirmations. I totally believe Tillerson called Trump a moron. I wonder what Trump had to give Tillerson in order for Tillerson to recently pledge his loyalty?

Absolutely! There is no question. NBC had three sources that heard the comment first-hand. Tillerson was upset about Trump's comments to the Boy Scouts of America. Trump is rubbing off, on his cabinet members, telling them to LIE.

 

[nota bene]

Absolutely! There is no question. NBC had three sources that heard the comment first-hand. Tillerson was upset about Trump's comments to the Boy Scouts of America. Trump is rubbing off, on his cabinet members, telling them to LIE.

Have these three sources been identified? I'm asking because I went Googling and found this at Newsmax:

NBC News White House correspondent Kristen Welker and NBC national political staffer Carol Lee, two of the reporters who's reporting that Secretary of State Rex Tillerson was slammed by both him and President Donald Trump, said they are standing behind their story, even though the president has declared it as "fake news."

"Despite everything the secretary said, he actually didn't knock down our story," Lee said during MSNBC's "Andrea Mitchell Reports" program.

...Just after Tillerson's statement, MSNBC anchor Hallie Jackson slammed Trump for his tweets saying their story was fake news. "Secretary Tillerson did not refute directly that he, in fact, called the president a moron in earshot of others," she noted. "The secretary didn't refute that." https://www.newsmax.com/Politics/NBC-reporters-stand-rex-tillerson-story/2017/10/04/id/817654/

Tillotson's not refuting the claim is the basis for these three people standing by the story. Who are the three people who heard it?

 

[Media_Truth]

Have these three sources been identified? I'm asking because I went Googling and found this at Newsmax:

NBC News White House correspondent Kristen Welker and NBC national political staffer Carol Lee, two of the reporters who's reporting that Secretary of State Rex Tillerson was slammed by both him and President Donald Trump, said they are standing behind their story, even though the president has declared it as "fake news."

"Despite everything the secretary said, he actually didn't knock down our story," Lee said during MSNBC's "Andrea Mitchell Reports" program.

...Just after Tillerson's statement, MSNBC anchor Hallie Jackson slammed Trump for his tweets saying their story was fake news. "Secretary Tillerson did not refute directly that he, in fact, called the president a moron in earshot of others," she noted. "The secretary didn't refute that." https://www.newsmax.com/Politics/NBC-reporters-stand-rex-tillerson-story/2017/10/04/id/817654/

Tillotson's not refuting the claim is the basis for these three people standing by the story. Who are the three people who heard it?

NBC just cites "three officials familiar with the incident". They don't mention names.

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/fi...ng-clips-tillerson-called-trump-moron-n807361
The tensions came to a head around the time President Donald Trump delivered a politicized speech in late July to the Boy Scouts of America, an organization Tillerson once led, the officials said. Just days earlier, Tillerson had openly disparaged the president, referring to him as a “moron,” after a July 20 meeting at the Pentagon with members of Trump’s national security team and Cabinet officials, according to three officials familiar with the incident.”