Secretary of State Confirmation Hearing (Rex Tillerson)

c-span ^ | Jan 11 2017 | Senate Foreign Relations

[Whenifhow]

ExxonMobil CEO Rex Tillerson testified before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on his nomination to be secretary of state in the Donald Trump administration.

[damper99]

Marco showed how lightweight he is with his last question based on public knowledge and trying to get Tillerson to make a legal judgement on that. Rubio will vote no on Tillerson along with McCain.

They keep harping on “what is known in the public realm” to get legal decisions on war crimes.

[xzins]

Rubio just attacked Tillerson

[NeoCaveman]

Rubio wants to be the next John McCain*

*by that I mean a crazy pants neocon war monger

[MayflowerMadam]

“Rubio will vote no on Tillerson along with McCain.”

And Miss Lindsey.

[Jarhead9297]

I believe with what Rubio did this will be the downfall of Tillerson. He and others do not want a non public employee they cannot control at State

[showme_the_Glory]

These morons live in the hypothetical world of “but what if?”

[CedarDave]

If the committee votes him down, does that mean the full Senate can’t take it up, or can they vote to override the committee recommendation?
(Hoping for a few country-first Dems.)

[RevelationDavid]

How many votes does he need to pass? Will he have them? This looks like a public hanging....;(

[workerbee]

What a sad circus.

Of course it is. That's all any of these things ever are, just another way for the goons of the Senate to get their mugs on TV acting "statesman-like". What a damn, sick joke they are. Absolutely sickening.

[CedarDave]

They want Romney if Tillerson goes down.

[NeoCaveman]

51 to pass the Senate.

They bigger question is can he get 51 IF he doesn’t get approved by this committee.

[junkyarddawg]

Tillerson is smarter than any of the idiots on this panel. I don’t think they will be able to rattle him. Why is Rubio acting like a jackass.

[MayflowerMadam]

Rubio’s “questioning”, i.e., “attack”, reminds me of how Megyn and Baier jumped ugly on Trump at the beginning of the debate.

[MayflowerMadam]

Protestor. Idiot.

[Jarhead9297]

Here come the liberal wacko facist protesters

[Jane Long]

Good gawd....who is giving these losers tickets to get in? McCain???

[CedarDave]

Protester yelling “Don’t put Exxon in charge of the State Department. Think of the children.” Now another with a banner.

[bert]

Corker is a newbie by Senate standards. He is just into his second term.

[xzins]

These people want war as a personal toy.

They forget that Chechnya was an islamic insurgency that became a war. Wars have collateral damage.

Even American wars. As I recall many wanted GWBush designated a war criminal over collateral damage.

[xzins]

The Senate generally follows its committees. I don’t think it is a requirement, though.