Article snippet: Secretary of State Rex Tillerson during his week in Europe sought to shoot down any perceptions of distance between him and President Donald Trump. He faced questions from allies at every turn about the president’s most controversial decisions, including his bombshell midweek announcement that the U.S. was recognizing Jerusalem as the capital of Israel. But Tillerson defiantly made his way around Europe regardless. And when asked by reporters when he's planning to leave his post, the secretary of state said, “You all need to get some new sources.” On Tuesday in Brussels, he stood next to the NATO headquarters, Turkey's Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu, ahead of walking into a meeting with Tillerson, called the U.S.’s Jerusalem decision a “grave mistake.” After that, the U.K.’s Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson stepped away from Tillerson to insist that the U.S. implement their Middle East process immediately. Throughout the week, Tillerson faced questions from the press about whether the U.S.'s European allies will still stand with the U.S., given the new administration has abandoned the Europeans on agreements like the Paris Climate Accord and the Iran nuclear deal. But Tillerson seemed to suggest that the door is still open on issues that Trump has wholly dismissed. “[The] truth of the matter is, we’ve not disengaged from the climate discussions,” Tillerson said at press conference in Vienna. He noted that the U.S. still sent a representati... Link to the full article to read more