Merkley: I’m Going to Vote No on Tillerson; ‘I Was Deeply Disturbed By His Testimony’

‘He was testifying as an oil executive, not as a leader among the free world’

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SCARBOROUGH: "Senator, let's begin with you. How are you going to vote when it comes to Rex Tillerson?"
MERKLEY: "I’m going to vote no. I was deeply disturbed by his testimony. He was testifying as an oil executive, not as a leader among the free world, a person to guide the United States in bringing the world together. It was one disturbing commentary after the other. Not being able to put his hands around the problem of barrel bombs in Aleppo or propping up the dictator in Equatorial Guinea or bypassing our sanctions on Russia..."

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