Rex Tillerson warns of "crisis of ethics"

• "If our leaders seek to conceal the truth, or we as people become accepting of alternative realities that are no longer grounded in facts, then we as American citizens are on a pathway to relinquishing our freedom."
• Tillerson added that "America's future [should] be fact-based — not based on wishful thinking, not hoped-for outcomes made in shallow promises."
• “When we as people, a free people, go wobbly on the truth even on what may seem the most trivial matters, we go wobbly on America.”

Flashback: Tillerson feuded with Trump during his short term leading the State Department and was abruptly ousted in favor of Mike Pompeo, whose foreign policy views align more closely with those of the president.