Clinton on current diplomacy

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"Get over the Twitter stuff and get on the diplomatic negotiations."  Hillary Clinton has a lot to say about how Secretary Tillerson is running the Department of State!

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00:00We need smart diplomatic intervention. We have experienced diplomats who have dealt with North

00:06Korea, but this needs to be happening right now and get over the Twitter stuff and get on to the

00:12diplomatic negotiations. What I hear from inside the department is that there's a very small group

00:24of people around Tillerson, none of them experienced diplomats, that he has brought in

00:29to be his palace guard, so to speak. I think they don't know what they don't know, to be honest.

00:35Why take a job that you're not willing to really dive into and learn about and you come in with

00:40preconceptions and you have a model that you're trying to put on top of an institution that has

00:49so much inherent strength. I kept waiting for the aha moment where you'd hear the secretary

00:56actually called in people and said, hey, tell me what I don't know. Tell me what I need to know.

01:02Let's listen. But from what I hear, that doesn't happen. And in fact,

01:05there's a concerted effort to prevent that from happening. I'm hoping that on the really big

01:11issues, there's enough authority to be able to restrain and contain the president. That's what

01:19we all have to hope, because I think this president and some of the people around him

01:24pose a clear and present danger to our country.

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