At Stanford, Tillerson talks about Syria, Trump's tweets 1/17/2018 10:11:07 PM Secretary of State Tillerson CBS News, January 17, 2018  - Secretary of State Rex Tillerson on Wednesday at Stanford University gave a rundown of the United States' work to stabilize Syria. After the speech, set up by the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies and the Hoover Institution, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice pressed Tillerson on everything from President Trump's use of social media to North Korea's nuclear threat. In the past, Tillerson has made it clear that the way forward in Syria does not include Syrian president Bashar al Assad, something he reiterated Wednesday. In recent days, troops backing Assad have said they want the U.S. presence in Syria to end, according to Syria's state-run news agency. The U.S. has at least 2,000 troops in Syria, according to figures the Pentagon released in December. 'For many years, Syria und...