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| SecState-Designate Rex Tillerson Nomination Thread | |
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| Webster | Jan 11 2017, 04:01 PM Post #1 |
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(The Guardian) Tillerson confirmation hearing begins --As we continue our coverage of Trump’s denial of the accuracy of pages of “sensitive information” circulated about him and his alleged secret salacious ties to Russia, we’re going to check in on the confirmation hearings of secretary of state nominee Rex Tillerson, which have just started. -Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/jan/11/rex-tillerson-senate-congressional-hearing-key-points-live |
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| Webster | Jan 11 2017, 04:03 PM Post #2 |
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(The Guardian) Senator Bob Corker of Tennessee, the chairman of the senate foreign relations committee, which will question Rex Tillerson this morning, has just concluded his opening statement. Corker, a Republican, expressed confidence that Tillerson would be a good secretary of state. “My sense is” that you’ll rise to the occasion, Corker told Tillerson. The committee’s ranking member, Maryland senator Ben Cardin, is delivering an opening statement now. |
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| Webster | Jan 11 2017, 04:05 PM Post #3 |
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![]() (The Guardian) Corker, the top Republican on the foreign relations committee, left, and Cardin, the top Democrat, right, with Tillerson, center. ![]() (The Guardian) Demonstrators carry signs through the Dirksen Senate Office Building on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, Jan. 11, 2017. |
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| Webster | Jan 11 2017, 04:06 PM Post #4 |
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(The Guardian) After about an hour of senators talking, Tillerson is about to say something. Tillerson introduces his wife of “more than thirty years,” Renda St Clair; his sisters and brother-in-law. |
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| Webster | Jan 11 2017, 04:08 PM Post #5 |
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(The Guardian) Tillerson: American leadership 'must be asserted' --Tillerson digs into a rather generalist opening statement. “American leadership must not only be renewed, it must be asserted.” He’s interrupted by a protester. “Rex Tillerson, I reject you. My home was destroyed by Hurricane Sandy.” That sounds like a warning about climate change, about which Tillerson is skeptical. |
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| Webster | Jan 11 2017, 04:09 PM Post #6 |
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(The Guardian) Tillerson comes out as an American exceptionalist: “We are the only superpower with the means and the moral compass capable of shaping the world for good.” But in recent years the US has “stumbled” with “actions and non-actions” that have created a “void of uncertainty,” Tillerson says. Tillerson says he wants to explain Trump’s vision for a bold new foreign policy. |
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| Webster | Jan 11 2017, 04:11 PM Post #7 |
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(The Guardian) Tillerson: Russia 'invaded' Ukraine --During his presidential campaign, Donald Trump told ABC News that Russian president Vladimir Putin was “not going to go into” Ukraine. His secretary of state nominee has just said that Russia “invaded” Ukraine. Tillerson also makes a statement that sounds like support for US commitments to the Nato alliance in eastern Europe: “Russia must know that we will be accountable to our commitments and those of our allies, and Russia will be held to account for its actions.” He says that Russia “has invaded Ukraine” and that allies “are right to raise the alarm” about Russia. “Russia today poses a danger, but it is not unpredictable in advancing its own interests,” he said. The Trump transition Twitter account is tweeting standout lines from Tillerson’s opening statement: "We sent weak or mixed signals w/ “red lines” that turned into green lights. We didn't recognize Russia does not think like we do" Tillerson Tillerson had just finished describing the Isis threat. “When everything is a priority, nothing is a priority,” Tillerson says. “Eliminating Isis must be our foremost priority in the Middle East.” Tillerson says he “make sure the state department does its part in recognizing” Muslims who aid the USA in its combat against designated enemies in the Middle East. Tillerson says China has helped fight jihadist terrorism. |
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| Webster | Jan 11 2017, 04:13 PM Post #8 |
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(The Guardian) Tillerson concludes. Corker asks him if he’ll commit to testify before the committe. Tillerson says yes. Corker dishes the mic to Cardin immediately, saying he’ll reserve his time for interjections. After Cardin is Florida senator Marco Rubio. Tillerson: Russia took 'territory that was not theirs" in Crimea Cardin asks Tillerson if Russia has a legitimate claim to Crimea. “No sir. That was a taking of territory that was not theirs.” |
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| Webster | Jan 11 2017, 04:14 PM Post #9 |
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(The Guardian) Tillerson calls for 'proportional show of force' against Russia --Tough question: what would you have done about Crimea and Ukraine? Tillerson said he would have provided air surveillance of the Ukrainian-Crimea border and done more to support Ukrainian forces. Then he describes a military showdown. “I think what Russian leadership would have understood is a powerful response that ‘yes, you took Crimea, but that stops right here.’” “That is the type of response that Russia expects. .. The taking of Crimea was an act of force. And so it required a proportional act, a proportional show of force.” Do we get a follow-up question about the risks of a military showdown over Crimea? No, we do not. Tillerson invokes Teddy Roosevelt’s “big stick.” “Whether you use it or not is the question,” he says. Tillerson says “threats of climate change” “require a global response.” |
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| Webster | Jan 11 2017, 04:15 PM Post #10 |
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(The Guardian) Tillerson sees indications that Russia tampered in US election --Rubio asks Tillerson whether he believes that reports of Russian tampering of the US election were accurate. Tillerson finds the intelligence reports persuasive in a way that the president-elect markedly does not. Tillerson: I’ve had not classified briefings... I did read the interagency report.. that report clearly is troubling... and indicates all the actions you described were undertaken.” Tillerson says he can’t determine whether Putin personally directed the hacking. Pressed, Tillerson says it’s “a fair assumption” that Putin directed the hacking. |
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| Webster | Jan 11 2017, 04:18 PM Post #11 |
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(The Guardian) Tillerson resists branding Putin as war criminal --Rubio asks: Is Vladimir Putin a war criminal? “I would not use that term,” Tillerson says. Rubio says, let me read you a description of Russian atrocities in Syria. He does and then moves on to the bombing of Chechens in Grozny. Tillerson is staring at Rubio and blinking. Rubio is hammering him a bit, with descriptions of Putin’s war crimes, which is an interesting fix for the secretary of state nominee to find himself in, pressed in the direction of defending Putin. Rubio: “But he’s not a war criminal?” Tillerson: “Those are very very serious charges to make, and I would want to have much more information before reaching a conclusion.” Tillerson says he’d want “to be fully informed about what’s happening.” Rubio: “It should not be hard to say that Vladimir Putin’s military has committed war crimes in Aleppo. I find it discouraging your inability to cite that.” Rubio asks Tillerson whether he accepts that Putin has had dissidents shot, poisoned and killed. Tillerson said “it’s important in dealing with information” and “I am not willing to make conclusions with what is publicly available.” Rubio: “None of this is classified Mr Tillerson. These people are dead.” |
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| Webster | Jan 11 2017, 04:18 PM Post #12 |
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(The Guardian) Tillerson is asked whether Trump agrees with him about Putin and Russia. “The president-elect and I have not had the opportunity to discuss this specific issue, or the specific area.” Really? asks senator Bob Menendez of New Jersey. The men have spoken “in a broad construct and in terms of the principals that are going to guide that,” Tillerson says. But not specifically about Russia? “That has not occurred yet, senator.” Menendez: “Pretty amazing.” |
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| Webster | Jan 11 2017, 04:20 PM Post #13 |
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(The Guardian) Protesters warning that “oil is dead” interrupt the Tillerson hearing. “Senators, be brave. Reject this man! Protect the vulnerable,” a protester says. |
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| Webster | Jan 11 2017, 05:02 PM Post #14 |
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(The Guardian) At the Tillerson hearing, meanwhile, the secretary of state nominee does not tie a US commitment to Nato allies to membership dues, as Trump has. --Tillerson just broke with Trump on NATO — said he thinks Article 5 is binding and he would not advise breaking it if allies don't pay dues (Rebecca Berg, Real Clear Politics - 11 Jan. 2017) |
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| Webster | Jan 11 2017, 05:07 PM Post #15 |
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(The Guardian) Tillerson wants seat 'at that table' for climate talks --Rex Tillerson, the secretary of state nominee, has said the United States is “better served by being at that table” of climate change talks “than leaving that table.” Here’s the exchange: -Senator Tom Udall: In your capacity as CEO of Exxon Mobile, you praised the Paris agreement, noting that addressing climate change, I quote “requires broad based practical solutions around the world”. Do you personally believe that the overall national interests of the United States are better served by staying in the Paris agreement if so why, and if not, why not? -Tillerson: “...I think having a seat at the table to address this issue on a global basis, it is important. It’s I think, 190 countries or thereabouts have signed on to begin to take action. I think we’re better served by being at that table than leaving that table. |
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