That will part of the discussions when I visit Moscow next week is to call upon Foreign Minister Lavrov and the Russian government to fulfill the obligation it made to the international community when it agreed to be the guarantor of the elimination of the chemical weapons, and why Russia has not been able to achieve that is unclear to me. I don't draw conclusions of complicity at all, but clearly they've been incompetent and perhaps they've just simply been out-maneuvered by the Syrians.

Rex Tillerson

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I could see the color go out of the face of the foreign secretary of Mexico as I very - I smiled big and I said: 'Welcome to Washington,' and I said: 'I don't want to interrupt what y'all are doing.' I said: 'Give me a call next time you're coming to town.' And I left it at that.

I had to adapt to the fact that it wasn't going to be useful to give him something and say this is, you know, this is an article worth reading.

It makes me angry. by Rex Tillerson

It makes me angry.

When the President would say,' Here's what I want to do and here's how I want to do it.' And I'd have to say to him,' Well Mr. President, I understand what you want to do, but you can't do it that way. It violates the law. It violates treaty,'.

What is most important is to ensure an orderly and smooth transition during a time that the country continues to face significant policy and national security challenges.

That kind of a threat to the American people by a regime like this is not acceptable, and the president's meeting his responsibilities as commander in chief of asking our military -- Secretary [ Jim ] Mattis at the Defense Department -- to ensure we are prepared for anything.

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We're using large sticks, and that is what they need to understand. This pressure campaign is putting -- is having its bite on North Korea, its revenue streams. It's having a bite on its military programs.

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There is simply no denying that Russia, by shielding its Syrian ally, has breached its commitments to The United States as a framework guarantor and has betrayed the chemical weapons convention and the United Nations Security Resolution 2118.

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Despite Iranian and Russian support for Assad, Tillerson said the U.S will attempt to isolate the Syrian regime government by cutting off international reconstruction aid flows to any parts of the country controlled by Assad. Once Assad is gone from power, the United States will gladly encourage the normalization of economic relationships between Syria and other nations.

We have never had Chinese support for sanctions like we’re getting now, russia’s a slightly different issue, but the Chinese have leaned in hard on the North Koreans.

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We are getting a lot of evidence that these sanctions are really... by Rex Tillerson

We are getting a lot of evidence that these sanctions are really starting to hurt.

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What they learned is that they are being sent out in the winter time, because there’s food shortages, and they are being sent out to fish with inadequate fuel to get back.

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In fact, he was very clear, I think, the final status of Jerusalem, including the borders, would be left to the parties to negotiate and decide.

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They had a very robust and lengthy exchange on the subject. The President pressed President Putin on more than one occasion regarding Russian involvement. President Putin denied such involvement, as I think he has in the past.

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We have a long list of additional potential sanctions -- some of which involve additional financial institutions, the Treasury Department will be announcing those when they’re ready to roll those out.

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We still hope for diplomacy, this is all part of continuing to turn this pressure up and we’ve continued to turn the pressure up on North Korea by getting other countries to join in and take actions on their own.

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We’re asking a lot of the Chinese, we are going to test China’s willingness to help address this serious threat.

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The president speaks for himself. by Rex Tillerson

The president speaks for himself.

Neither the President nor I are very happy about that. by Rex Tillerson

Neither the President nor I are very happy about that.

There are a lot of alternative means with which we use the agreement to advance our policies and the relationship with Iran, and that’s what the conversation generally is around with the president as well.