Tillerson's Exxon Affairs

Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Rex Tillerson and Exxon's Russian Affairs*  (*But Were Afraid to Ask)

Transcript

00:00Is Vladimir Putin a war criminal?

00:02I would not use that term.

00:10And we have sanctions against Russia.

00:12Mr. Tillerson came out against those sanctions.

00:30Russia today poses a danger, but it is not unpredictable in advancing its own interest.

00:52They said Treasury helped them to understand back then that it was okay to do some business with the company,

00:58just not personally with Sechin.

01:02Treasury, though, came back and said, no, that's not how sanctions work.

01:06When you read the sanctions, it makes it clear.

01:08And that Exxon should have known better.