secretary pompeo: thank you for being here. secretary mattis and i are pleased to welcome our canadian counterparts to washington. welcome. and it is myt day, honor to host the state department to plus two strategic dialogue. plus twodepartment two strategic dialogue. we have achieved a lot together. comes after the historic signing of the united states, canada, mexico agreement. i want to thank you for your efforts to make this happen. a modernizes nafta to address 21st century economy, opportunities for u.s. farmers and manufacturers and reduce trade barriers. the four of us discussed how we can build off this, take this achievement and make progress on a world wide range of issues. we discussed joint efforts to ensure north america is protected by our militaries in close cooperation with one another. we discussed bilateral cooperation to promote security by countering property transfers , intellectual property theft and other attempts to acquire technology. this will enhance security by preserving military capabilities. the

several weeks ago secretary pompeo outlined maligned behavior, ongoing assistance to militias. regional conflicts, support for terrorist organizations, the development and proliferation of ballistic missiles and the stabilize the region. and our partners. we also remain deeply concerned withiranian regimes . human rights abuses against uranian people. and these abuses include around continued arbitrary arrests of individuals solely for exercising their rights to freedom of expression, opinion association and peaceful assembly. as well as its detentions of foreigners and dual nationals. we see international support for efforts to change iranian behavior pressure, difference and support for the people. we want every single country on board and this is among the presidents diplomatic priorities. in the wake of the president's decision to cease us participation in the jcpoa, companies face a choice. we pray to the recomposition of the sanctions that have been listed under jcpoa, most significantly we reimpose sanctions on the purchase of uranian petroleum and petrochemical from ira

secretary pompeo will be addressing that in europe today. that's important for the russians and they are not going to see that treaty survive. >> as the polish defense minister said the russians have withdrawn from the treaty by 10 years much of violations. in addition to the threat posed by russia, no other countries are bound by this treaty other than the united states and russia. one person in the world is bound by the imf treaty, us. china is not bound by it. a third to a half of their existing missiles would violate the treaty if they were in it. iran just tests one this weekend. we are enormously concerned about our nato allies in europe. but we have global responsibilities in asia and the middle east. we have to be responsive there, too. gerry: when people look at russia and the policies toward russia. there seems to be a disconnect between the sanctions, the diplomatic axes, your language, secretary mattis and secretary pompeo and the president himself. the president seems to be reluctant to engage in the kind of verbal diplomacy tha

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i'd like to thank secretary pompeo and mattis for hosting us. canada deeply values and appreciates our partnership and opportunities to work even more closely together. and it is now my pleasure to introduce a tremendous public servant, a great friend of canada, secretary mattis's to minister freeland and i echo secretary pompeo's comment that ours was a discussion among friends. we saw each other eight days ago in ottawa and today's meeting will how our two militaries work to stay closely aligned on arange of issues worldwide . for american and during will be an almost consideration with canada and in my case it is familial, my mother's family immigrated to america and my grandfathers wounded action in world war i and the canadian infantry. canadian and american forces fought bravely alongside each other in the great war at normandy. and, heart afghanistan following the 9/11 attack on our country and today we continue our cooperation in pursuit of our mutual security. we are united in the north american air defense command where canadian and us

why doesn't mike pompeo care? are the pathetic deflections we heard when he appeared on "fox and friends", is that a patriot speaking? are these the words of a patriot? >> he debased himself. he once again undercut the conclusions of our intel community. he may think that he's being too clever, he is wiggling out, but he's not. when he says the saudis paid enough for the luring, the torture, the slaughter, the carving up of a washington post columnist and father of two american citizens, mike pompeo puts himself not only on the other side of lovers of freedom and democracy everywhere, lovers of free speech everywhere, but also of most people on capitol hill, right? even republicans. >> reporter: in some cases especially republicans. you talked about lindsey graham who said very directly there's no smoking gun, there's a smoking saw. i think the question is going to be what are they actually going to do to follow-up on this. there are relatively limited tools, but i am interested to know what our members of congres

she was a spokesperson for pompeo at the state department in her current role. there's criticism that she's not a diplomat. te is she going to negot with these people? how is she going to have leverage there especially with a subordinated role reporti through pompeo? this was a victory for pompeo over john bolton. robert: how many stories are there today? john kelly still there as of 8:20 in the evening. will he be there tomorrow or nick aires coming? >> we're on kelly watch. all signals fro the white house, all of our reporting that he and trump are at a breaking point. it might be a mutua decision to split. but he's not been fired or resigned y . it could happen this weekend. it could happen monday. nick is the leading contender to replace kelly. but th is by no means a done deal. robert: for divided government, how important is that role?>> it's tremendously important. it's a person who a lot of times runs interference directly on the hill and could be murder of a surrogate on the president. nick aires has worked f and has a connection there. i still think th

it follows last week briefing by mike pompeo and -- this was what pompeo and mattis said last week after the briefing without haspel. >> there is no direct reporting connecting the prince to the order of the murder of jamal khashoggi. >> we have no smoking gun that the crown prince was involved. >> all right. so then take a look at that redaction. >> let's talk about that for a second. >> it was painful. >> the rough line really maybe they think they're using terms of art. i think pompeo was especially dreadful there by being actually emphatic about the lie that he knows. and this is what gets me in trump's america. he knows he's lying, we know he's lying, the world knows he's lying and yet he will still go out -- here's a relatively young man with great credentials, a great past behind him who's going out and sullying his reputation for a man who may not be in the white house for another year. it's just -- it's shocking to me. >> and for what specifically, i would ask secretary pompeo and secretary mattis as well. because that's not a lie they repeated after that. >> was it another purv

i will give secretary pompeo credit. the first paragraph of that editorial suggests our raising the question of khashoggi is caterwalling. i don't like being accused when i raise a question about the murder of a journalist who lives in my state of being engaged in a media pilon. let me switch for a moment and ask this. do you have a good estimate of the number of uighers currently being detained in detention camps in china? >> thank you, senator, for the question. in my statement, what i said, and this is derived from what our intelligence bureau estim e estimat estimated, there are east 800,000, and possibly a couple million folks in these detention facilities. >> that's staggering. i've seen press reports that it's a million, and i think you're right, it's hard to get a fix on the exact number. but that's a staggering number. press reports indicate that a million hahn chinese have been recruited to forcibly occupy the homes of uighers. so those who are not in detention camps, are having hahn chinese placed in their hom

you ask secretary of state pompeo the right question. whether he believes mohammad bin salman was involved in the murder and he perfected the art of the dodge. he did not answer your question and said there was no direct evidence linking the crown prince to the murder. he did not say whether he thought the crown prince was involved or not. >> max, "the washington post" is reporting that the crown prince sent messages to his adviser who oversaw the team that eventually killed jamal khashoggi in the hours before and after his death. is it smart? is it accurate? is it wight for secretary pompeo and secretary matic and the president and other senior officials to say there is no direct evidence linking the crown prince to the murder? >> this is just ridiculous, wolf. pompeo and mattis and trump are turning the united states into a laughingstock by denying what is so obvious. this hit team of saudi operatives, many of them members of the crown prince's own security detail, they could not have walked into a saudi consulate and killed a high pro

>>> plus ellen pompeo's dr. mcdreamy diss. >> we haven't spoken since he left the show. >> what she's saying about former "grey's" co-star patrick dempsey now. >>> and -- >> you have the friend that makes you laugh until you pee. >> jlo with her bestie leah remini. the hilarious story of how they first met. >> i went to the premiere hoping she was gonna be ugly in real life. i hope she's dumb. >>> this is "entertainment tonight." >>> how much money does it take to book beyonce as your wedding singer and who has that much money? >> not any of us ladies and gentlemen. >> we'll answer all those questions. we begin with news about a "modern family" that will have us all counting our blessings. sarah hyland is revealing the serious health battles she has faced most of her life that once had her thinking about ending it all. >> emotional and candidly showing her surgery scars -- >> it kinda looks like a samurai sword attack or a shark bite. >> for the first time sarah reveals she had a second kidney transplant after t

but why doesn't mike pompeo care right now? are the pathetic afflictions that we just heard when he appeared on fox & friends, is that a patriot speaking? or a want to be dictator's boy? i'm dead serious. i'm asking, are these the words of a patriot? as being one up questioning his patriotism, unbelievable and over the top. then she issued a apology on twitter about her language. some bad choices in language, i should have said water boy, like for a football team. yes, bad choice of words. but we are consistent on this program. we don't call for boycotts or firings of any kind. in fact when she was in hot water over a conspiracy filled blog that she had, we never called for her to be fired or per show to be boycotted. people make mistakes and what people are not perfect and i don't believe anyone's career, in my honest opinion, should be ruined over a stupid mistake. and by the way she's no fan of mine and neither is liberal joe. there were many warning signs as the anti-trump vitriol got worse and worse and worse. take a look.

>>> plus ellen pompeo's dr. mcdreamy diss. >> we haven't spoken since he left the show. >> what she's saying about former "grey's" co-star patrick dempsey now. >>> and -- makes you laugh until you pee. >> jlo with her bestie leah remini. the hilarious story of how they first met. >> i went to the premiere hoping she was gonna be ugly in real life. i hope she's dumb. >>> this is "entertainment tonight." >>> how much money does it to singer and who has that much money? >> not any of us ladies and gentlemen. >> we'll answer all those questions. we begin with news about a "modern family" that will have us all counting our blessings. sarah hyland is revealing the serious health battles she has faced most of her life that once had her thinking about ending it all. >> emotional and candidly showing her surgery scars -- >> it kinda looks like a samurai sword attack or a shark bite. >> for the first time sarah reveals she had a second kidney transplant after the first one >> i went into rejection. saying that out is weir

but why doesn't mike pompeo care right now? are the pathetic deflection we just heard when he appeared on "fox & friends," is that a patriot speaking? or a wannabe dictator? i'm dead serious. imax can come are the words of a patriot. >> sean: while mike quade questioning his patriotism, unbelievable. over the top. following the show on the other part of the issue, she issued an apology on twitter about her language. braids and bad choice of words. "i should have said water boy, like for football teams or something like that." yeah, pretty bad choice of word words. we are consistent on this program, we don't's call for boycotts or firings. in fact, when her collie, msnbc host joy reid, when she was in hot water over a homophobic blog, we never called her to be fired. people do make mistakes. people are not perfect. i think we are all human, and i don't believe anybody's career, and my own honest opinion, should be ruined over a stupid mistake. by the way, she is no fan of mine and neither is liberal joe. i doubt they would do th

i will give secretary pompeo credit. the first paragraph of that editorial suggests our raising of the khashoggi murder was caterwauling, and in the 11th paragraph he says the murder of murder journalist -- the of a journalist is against american values. i don't want to be accused of engaging in caterwauling or media pile on. i don't think my colleagues appreciated. you have a good estimate of the number of uighurs currently detained in china in detention camps? busby: this is derived from what our intelligence. have as estimated -- our intelligence bureau has estimated, that there are at least 800000 and possibly up to a couple of million folks in these detention facilities. it is hard to get it right because we don't have full access to that region. but that is our current. kaine: that is staggering. i have seen reports that it is a million. it is hard to get a fix on the exact number but that is a staggering number. press reports also indicate a million hon chinese have been recruited to occupy the homes of uighurs. s

when we found out pompeo made the call, that was certainly noteworthy. >> all right. jeff ben it for us at the white house. thank you. for more on all of this, i'm joined by bill crystal, philip re ryan, and steve clemmons. mr. crystal, i'll start with you. your first reaction when you heard that secretary pompeo had called to relieve the general of duty early. >> he really can't. he has no authority to do that. he's a peer of secretary mattis. i suppose when the president asked you to do it, there no fundamental problem. it shows the president is too cowardly to deliver the message. and john kelly who would be an appropriate person to deliver a message directly from the president, i'm sure john kelly refused to. he and mattis go way back. he wouldn't set up a two-month transition to make things go smoothly, he wasn't going to be the person who says the president is peeved because you're getting good press and i'm not so you have to leave. >> general mark hurtling reacting to the abbreviated time line. take a listen. >> secretary mattis wanted to stick around for a wh

ha but might be what the president likes about her and also what mike pompeo likes r.out he pompeo, our reporting at cnn wants that role to be not --ot a cabinet level transition in part to treamline the foreign policy through the state department which is more traditional for presidents. so i think we'll see that role diminishing with nauert in that role. robert: your read? tic e doesn't have diplo experience. she was a spokesperson for mpeo at the state department in her current role.th e's criticism that she's not a diplomat. how is she going to negotiate with tese people? how is she going to have leverage there especiall with a subordinated role r through pompeo? this was a victory for pompeo over john bolton. robert: how many stories are there today? john kelly still there as of 8:20 innihe e. will he be there tomorrow or ck aires coming? >> we're on kelly watch. all signalsrom the white house, all of our reporting that he and trump are at a breaking point. it might be a mutual decision to split. but he's not been fired or resigned yet. it could happen this weeken it could happen m

on june 21st, 2018, secretary pompeo and secretary mattis formally endorsed aria in a letter to this committee. they passed the committee on september 26th, 2018, and anticipate hopeful it will be signed into law by the end of the year. in the subcommittee we held two hearings on north korea, coming the shift from strategic patience policy of the last administration to the maximum pressure and engagement policy of this one. we agreed that clearly much more work needs to be done to achieve complete, verifiable and irreversible denuclearization of the regime required by u.s. law. we held a hearing on cyber security policy, a national security concern for the united states that needs to be immediately addressed. this hearing today will be the final hearing in a three part series of hearings titled "the china challenge" that examines how the united states should respond to the challenge of a china that seeks to upend and s suplant world order. today's hearing will focus on democracy, human rights, and the rule of law, values that have been fundamental to the conduct of u.s. foreign polic

the khashoggi killing. >> why doesn't mike pompeo care. are the pathetic deflections we just heard on "fox and friends." is that a patriot speak for a wannabe dictator's butt boy. howie: she a. jieds on twitter for her super bad choice of word. but cons wouldn't let it pass. if a conservative made the slur, that person would have been banned from television. >> the term is crass and offensive and i apologize to everyone, especially the lgbtq community and my colleagues for using it. it was a mistake. my father would have found it so you be becoming and disrespectful. and he would have told me, i will work hard to be better. but i wanted to say on camera, i'm really, really sorry. howie: it was a mistake. it would have been better if she included pompeo in her apology. i think she didn't consider the implications of that rather hours after tyler murray won college football's heisman trophy, a paper decided to ruin the celebration by digging. you homophobic tweets when he was 14 and 15 years old. but he was a teenager. this was way out of bo

and a very careful answer from mike pompeo, who is a careful, knowledgeable -- he led the cia a long time in congress, to sort of play with what he could say publicly about intelligence. because he said both things. he said all the intelligence i saw showed no direct link. but when you pressed him, he said, i can't comment on intelligence. well, listen. you had senators get what apparently was an identical briefing. republican senators. and they came out of that room with no doubt, wolf. and that is a problem for the president. because this briefing by gina haspel was delayed. it came on a tuesday, the week of george bush's funeral, which you heard from some on the hill saying was that timed to hide this in the midst of other news. if the intention of that briefing was to bring republican senators on the fence away from penalizing the saudis with legislation, you've heard discussion of stopping arms deals, stopping support for the war in yemen or other penalties. if that was the intention, it appears to have failed. >> jim sciutto, reporting for us. thank you very much. let's get som

secretary of state mike pompeo announced that the u.s. would pull out if the russians don't comply. >> today we must confront russian cheating on their arms control obligations. always i told my fellow ministers, our nations have a choice. we bury our head in the sand or take common sense actions to russia's disregard to the inf treaty. >> president trump said he wanted to tear up the inf treaty. jim mattis convinced him not to go it allow but by bringing european allies on board. nato issued the following statement. nato said we support the following that russian is in material breach. russian's foreign ministry spokesman said they comply with the treaty and the u.s. knows it. >> shepard: it doesn't. they know for the last five years they've been out of compliance. why the request to pull out now? >> the u.s. feels their hands are tied by the treaty in the middle east and in asia where china is not bound by the treaty. 90% of china's missiles fall into this range. iran is also not party to the agreement. the u.s. has leverage over russia

here's the thing the media has missed, here's the question you need to ask pompeo and mattis. they keep saying there's no direct evidence. ask them, do they disagree with the cia's conclusions? the they're answering a question they want to answer, they're not answering the real question. if the cia has looked at all of this information and says with a high degree of probability that we think the crown prince was involved, does secretary mattis and secretary pompeo disagree with the conclusions? that's not what they're seeing. >> have you asked them? >> i can't go anything i've asked them in a classified hearing. but i'm saying, i would, if i were in the media, ask them. if they're honest, they'll tell you they don't disagree with the conclusions, that the compilation of all the facts are, yes, he was involved. no direct evidence, no smoking gun, you know, i think that's open to argument. i really think that there's direct communication, the media's reported that the crown prince's brother directly communicated with khashoggi. and then the media's also reporting that there's co

the western roundup after the break. ♪ >> shannon: and a >> in a speech to the united nations mike pompeo told world leaders the iran nuclear deal shielded that country from accountability and because of that the danger continues to grow. richardson has the latest from the state department. >> the united states will never stand for this. no nation that seeks peace and prosperity should either. >> since the nuclear agreement iran has developed its ballistic missile program, defied multiple international resolutions and exploited the goodwill of nations according to secretary of state mike pompeo pushing the security council to restore stronger restrictions against iran's ballistic missile program. >> the regime is pursuing the same district of revolutionary goals that it has for the last 39 years except now it has money to achieve them thanks to the nuclear deal. >> the secretary advised against lifting arms embargo on iran and recommended security council establish inspections to thwart iranian arms exports. mike pompeo says iran has the largest ballistic missile force in the middle east,

that is according to secretary of state mike pompeo. pushing the united nations security council to restore stronger restrictions against iran's ballistic missile program. >> the regime is pursuing the same destructive, revolutionary goals that it has for the past 39 years. except now, it has more money to achieve them. thanks to the nuclear deal. >> the secretary also advised against lifting an embargo on iran and recommended the security council establish inspections and port and at sea to thwart iranian arms exports. mike pompeo says iran has the largest ballistic missile in the middle east, exports in yemen and transfers them to iraq the security council report also says the u.n. examine launch units, the saudi led coalition discovered in yemen and found that characteristics of iranian manufacturing from 2016 and 2017. >> we take very seriously what the iranians are doing in terms of activities, in terms of terrorism, in terms of aggression. we are ready to work with the americans on that. >> the european governments as they oppose

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take a look at this trump tweet just in -- "mike pompeo is doing a great job. i am very proud of him. his predecessor, rex tillerson, didn't have the mental capacity needed. he was dumb as a rock and i couldn't get rid of him fast enough. he was lazy as hell. now it is a whole new ball game. great spirit at state!"

. >> secretary pompeo and mattis are following the lead of the president. there's not a smoking gun, there's a smoking saw. >> a smoking saw, as in the bone saw alleged lily used to dismem khashoggi's body. two cnn global affairs analysts are here with us now. max boot and aaron david miller. max, lindsey graham says he's not going to support saudi arms sales, he want sanctions. if congress does in fact act, is that enough to outweigh the way the president has so far? >> it will send a very strong message. last year the president did not want to get tough with russia so both houses passed veto bills that were enacted. i think you can see something similar happening with saudi arabia. i think the president, pompeo and mattis who have all been offering these lame, uncredible denials and that is backfiring right now. it's at odds with the reality that members are receiving now. >> but the fact that pompeo and mattis, who are two seasoned people on these matters are backing what the president is saying, how do you explain it? >> this is the kind of loyalty that

and just like you i'm not surprised by that in pompeo's case, at this point. i think he's very ambitious politically and has sort of prioritized the audience of one, the audience of donald trump over everything else it seems. you know, maybe that's not fair, but it certainly seems that way. mattis has been a different case. in nthis case i'm unkofrtable wi with his approach here. he's perhaps one of the only senior members of this administration who i genuinely trust. maybe he's trying to play to an audience of one here solely because he knows how important it is for him to stay in that role and for the whole country. for him to stay in that role i shudder to think what would happen if trump became unhappy with mattis he replaced him with someone like whitaker over at doj. it could be a disaster, a real, real disaster for the country. so maybe that's what's running through mattis' head. i hope it's something like that. but mattis and pompeo are playing with intelligence, playing on the reality that the american people because they don't -- they're not consumer

he knows mike pompeo. he said he is giving them the benefit of the doubt, if he didn't know them and was not friendly with them, he would say they were in the pocket of saudi arabia. do you know that's true or it's possible? >> without having sat in both briefings and the senator didn't and neither did i. without having said that, no one can say this was briefed here. >> as a member of the intel committee, you are saying if nobody can know, you don't have a factual basis for that assertion and you believe that's plausible? >> it's a possibility. >> but you are not sure. >> yes. >> i want to be clear there. what happens now when you have senator who is feel very knchtly than you do. you are giving them the benefit of the doubt. he said he will believe they are good soldiers. some senators believe that something was covered up with the background of the trump administration or president trump saying maybe the saudis did it and maybe ta didn't. he doesn't care. >> we can go back over the last few weeks and wo

and just like you i'm not surprised by that in pompeo's case, at this point. i think he's very ambitious politically and has sort of prioritized the audience of one, the audience of donald trump over everything else it seems. you know, maybe that's not fair, but it certainly seems that way. mattis has been a different case. in this case i'm unkofrtable with his approach here. he's perhaps one of the only senior members of this administration who i genuinely trust. maybe he's trying to play to an audience of one here solely because he knows how important it is for him to stay in that role and for the whole country. for him to stay in that role i shudder to think what would happen if trump became unhappy with mattis he replaced him with someone like whitaker over at doj. it could be a disaster, a real, real disaster for the country. so maybe that's what's running through mattis' head. i hope it's something like that. but mattis and pompeo are playing with intelligence, playing on the reality that the american people because they don't -- they're not consumers of

i know pompeo pretty well, and think well of him. trump got to really like him when he came to do the briefings at the white house. i think pompeo figured out a way to try to con vaet intelligence in an honest way but in a way that trump liked digesting it. sew makes him secretary of state when tillerson gets fired. and pompeo i think has spent an awful lot of time not always to his advantage in the way he comes across, tries to be a fairly responsible secretary of state while catering to trump. and that is a very tough -- secretary of state in particular, the demands of that job are not -- are really -- will not push you in a trumpy direction. but he's very attentive to keeping close to president trump and not letting happen to him what happened to tillerson, what may have happened to jim mattis at defense, trump being told by people in the white house, he's gone native, he's part of the establishment, he's not a trump loyalist. >> it was very pained, both the sort of trumpian use of just -- i mean, basically just saying ing? that i

if pompeo and mattis did mislead, what is the consequence for them? >> i plane, omean, one this evet -- thing that is so striking to me is we seem to forget that mike pompeo was director of the cia just last year. it's stunning to have a former cia director now seemingly wanting to throw the work of his former agency under the bus. you know, it just speaks to -- it calls into question the judgment when they're making assessments on who america should be in bed with basically. and so if we have so much evidence that's pointing to the violent tendencies, the recklessness of mohammed bin salman, it absolutely undermines the credibility of mike pompeo and secretary mattis and only sets them up for first confrontations with our lawmakers. >> as far as consequences are concerned, would you -- what would justice look like, if they are misleading? >> right. i man, from the very start, right here, right now today, the fact that a former -- or the saudi ambassador flew to washington, business as usual, likely with assurances from our government that he would no

take a look at secretary of state pompeo. what we have heard from president trump, from secretary pompeo and others in recent days have been these strawman arguments. there's no direct reporting we heard from pompeo tying salman to the murder. we heard from president trump, maybe they did, maybe they didn't. what this amounts to is strongman arguments from yes, men, yes men like salman. the trump administration even during the transition period in between the obama and the trump administration has ceded our foreign policy to salman. we have followed him into yemen hook, line and sinker. we have followed his ideology in taking on iran in every corner of the globe. even when it's not in our interest. we have done nothing when mohammed bin salman engaged in diplomatic spat with our canadian neighbors to the north and the administration looked the other way when salman essentially kidnapped the lebanese prime minister. what we have here is a foreign policy in the middle east that doesn't make sense, it doesn't make sense from ame

secretary pompeo was specific, u.s. saudi relations will continue as is, despite the murder of jamal khashoggi. >> i was struck by a couple of things in that, that he created this as of now impression. he said we're going to continue to work on this issue, as if there's still other things to be done, and you pressed him on the point of responsibility of the crown prince. he said this is the statement we are making today. i am sure you heard it in the interview there, that emphasis on today. i did feel that this still has a way to play out. it is obviously the president's position and seems to be the position adopted by many other world leaders, that the crown prince, whatever he's done in the words of the president that he may or may not have directly had a hand in the killing of jamal khashoggi, the leaders of the world are going to get on with him for right now, of course. some leaders will put more pressure than others. president macron saying he must allow international investigators to join the investigation. this

the khashoggi killing. >> why doesn't mike pompeo care. are the pathetic deflections we just heard on "fox and friends." is that a patriot speak for a wannabe dictator's butt boy. howie: she a. jieds on twitter for her super bad choice of word. but cons wouldn't let it pass. if a conservative made the slur, that person would have been banned from television. >> the term is crass and offensive and i apologize to everyone, especially the lgbtq community and my colleagues for using it. it was a mistake. my father would have found it so you be becoming and disrespectful. and he would have told me, i will work hard to be better. but i wanted to say on camera, i'm really, really sorry. howie: it was a mistake. it would have been better if she included pompeo in her apology. i think she didn't consider the implications of that rather gross phrase. hours after tyler murray won college football's heisman trophy, a paper decided to ruin the celebration by digging. you homophobic tweets when he was 14 and 15 years old. but he was a teenager. this was

i had the opportunity to talk with secretary mattis and pompeo this weekend. both said this would be exactly the wrong time, at a key diplomatic moment, to have the u.s. limit and end its military assistance to saudi arabia. mr. president, i know sometimes people do not like to think this way, but military strength and --erage is often critical critical -- two successful diplomatic negotiations. and for the first time, there is promise, promise in negotiations in sweden. all of us want that to succeed. however, i believe we undermine in thesees of success diplomatic efforts if congress forces the u.s. to e military assistance to the saudins. we also have a more direct and real national security interest in the region. yemen is an important front in the war on terror. ac.is home to al qaeda and aq they have multiple times cole, killed 31 injured 19 others, and they were responsible for massacre in hebdo" paris. i think it would be unacceptable for the american people. third line of the argument we have seen on the broader thanmuch just the relationship between

mike pompeo issued his ultimatum to the russians giving them 60 days to return to compliance. putin fired back today chaining that the pentagon was simply trying to blame russia so they could build new missiles and russia is really a scape goat. >> it looks like the american side has now decided that the situation has change saad much that the u.s. as well has to have such weapons. what will our response be? very simple. we will do the same. >> but tip pointed to the pentagon having budgeted for two new low yield nuclear weapons. evidence that he says that the u.s. has an ulterior motive in tearing up the 1987 arms control agreement or inf treaty. the weapons are sea-based and not in violation of the treaty according to the pentagon, shep. >> shepard: the defense secretary talking about the relationship between the two countries, the u.s. and russia. >> that's right. jim mattis did not mince his words when he spoke at this weekend's reagan national defense forum in describing how the relationship has grown more tense during the trump administration. >> mr. putin is clearly a s

secretary pompeo, is there anything the u.s. is going to do to lean on china to get them to release the people that has been detained given that president trump appears to have a relationship with president xi? is it something he will do to help canada get these guys back? >> let me go first. we are going to work to get every citizen unlawfully detained returned to the countries to which they have a very right to go back to. we do this in cases of our own people. it's something that weighs on those of us who served, to make sure our citizens do have the opportunity to be returned home to their family. we will do it in this case, as well. >> thank you for that. so adrian, i have spoken this week with the chinese ambassador to canada, and we've had many contacts with chinese authorities. chinese officials in their contact with canada have not drawn a connection between these different issues. theseanada's perspective, kinds of issues ought never to be confused with one another. ming, detention of miss canada was, as i've said, act

meanwhile, though, pompeo and bolton are trying to pop back up. saudi arabia and jordan and egypt, and they are effectively pursuing that. general mattis was not 100% with that strategy. >> can i just say also i think we're undermining the fact that when you look at the president's foreign policy over the last year and a half and this week the withdrawal from syria is only part of this. all of this actually demonstrates a kind of keen kinship at the very least with russia's interests. it is not in our interests. it is in russia interest. and i think the thing we should focus on is we had a secretary of defense write a letter, in which he did not say very many positive things about donald trump, and did say that the president of the united states was not taking our adversaries seriously and did not have a keen understanding of malignant interest essentially. i think that should deeply disturb any american. >> the president and secretary mattis have had disagreements on the paris accord, on the jcpoa and now on syria. >> the jcpoa, the iran deal. >>

i thing it's a real problem for secretary pompeo. and i think that democrats when they, you know, come in in january, you know, ought to get them in under oath and try to sort out what the credibility issues are here. >> i was told on the day that all of this sort of unfolded by two former senior intelligence officials, work at the highest levels of america's national security agencies, for democratic and republican presidents, that this was above all else an intelligence scandal in the making. that this was a scandal where the intelligence community made an informed assessment with really good screams of intel, and part of the world that they know pretty well. and the white house rejected it for political purposes. do you think democrats are ready to do what charlie just suggested? >> absolutely. i think they're going to have some oversight and they're going to ask pompeo and mattis to come before them and really answer those questions as to what is going on and why did they not follow the intelligence -- why didn't they even listen

secretary pompeo will be addressing that in europe today and that's important to the russians and they're not going to see that treaty survive. >> gerard: the europeans seem to be more concerned with that than the russians. >> sen. bolton: as a polish defense have said they've already withdrawn from the treaty in addition to the threat by russian intermediate range ballistic missiles no other countries in the world are bound by this treaty except the united states and russia. the russians are violating it. that means one country in the world is bound by the inf treaty, us. our estimates are between a half and a third of their ballistic mental illness would violate the treaty if china was in it. iran has excessive capability they tested one this weekend. this is a threat on a global basis where enormously concerned about our nato allies in europe but we have global responsibilities in asia and the middle east we have to be responsive there too. >> gerard: when people look at russia and the administration's policy to russia there seems to be a disconnect between the policies that you descri

he put people in like mike pompeo who agree with him, like john bolton who agree with him. what we have to assume is that he is putting heather nauert there to be an effective spokesperson and channeler of his own view at the united nations which does under state the that position often does have in terms of actually doing the tough work of diplomatic negotiations with really tough adversaries around the world. now a lot of the questions at the confirmation hearing is can she do that work. >> nikki haley is not afraid to stand up. she said no, i don't get confused. i wonder if her successor will have a similar action. we will see where it goes. >> up next, elizabeth warren snubbed from the hometown newspaper. what would you like the power to do? ♪ ♪ i can do more to lower my a1c. because my body can still make its own insulin. and i take trulicity once a week to activate my body to release it, like it's supposed to. trulicity is not insulin. it comes in a once-weekly, truly easy-to-use pen. and it works 24/7. trulicity is an injection to improve blood sugar in adults wi

i would argue that the bigger issue is mike pompeo. the morning he went out they had any desire to do that whatsoever. lindsey graham had a clap back. >> that's interesting. it's important because at this moment, the republicans lost the house. january we are going to live in a different world. why would you alienate your friends? lindsey graham has been close with the administration, but to your point, he said to counter mike pompeo in the "wall street journal." same op-ed. they should show that congress is not mugging for the cameras. we are a coequal branch of government exercising leadership to safeguard the interest, values and reputation. after all, someone has to do it. it's that after all, someone has to do it in senator graham's view is not standing up for american values and say we don't have to break completely, but here's what you have to do to get out of the doghouse. >> this is one of the areas where republicans have stood up and said this is too far. you aren't just allow saudi arabia to possibly get away with this horri

i think trump and pompeo are providing cover. i think it's a very nobignoble thing to do. certainly a murder ought to give us moral clarity and we ought to speak out and react to it in substantive ways. unfortunately, trump is not going to do that. that hurts leadership and moral standing on all issues around the world. >> thank you for joining us this morning. >> my pleasure, jim. thank you. >>> president trump has a message, a personal one, for the north korean dictator, but he is asking south korea to pass it along. he wants kim jong-un to know, believe it or not, i like you. ♪ toyland, toyland ♪ little girl and boy land ♪ while you dwell within it ♪ you are ever happy there daddy, it's christmas! ♪ childhoods, joyland never let go of your dreams. the mercedes-benz winter event is back. lease the glc 300 for $459 a month at your local mercedes-benz dealer. mercedes-benz. the best or nothing. discover.o. i like your card, but i'm absolutely not paying an annual fee. discover has no annual fees. really? yeah. we just don't believe in them. oh nice. you would not

the president's secretaries mattis and pompeo tried to tell us something different. the president even said the agency had not reached any conclusion at all. >> they did not make that assessment. the cia has looked at it, studied it a lot. they have nothing definitive. the fact is maybe he did, maybe he didn't. >> keeping them honest, he might simply have said something along the lines of the cia has given them their assessment, i won't say what it was, but i'm still not persuaded the crown prince ordered this. that's not what he said. he might have shaded the truth or dodged the question as other presidents certainly have when they know something they'd rather not reveal. instead the president looked the public in the eye and said just what you heard him say about the cia's assessment. his secretary of defense reinforce td on saturday. >> right now we do not have a smoking gun. except for the last 24 hours, ladies and gentlemen, i have seen all the intelligence we have. we do not have a smoking gun that the crown prince was involved. >> no smoking gun. he has seen a

something pompeo and event secretary james matus had urged lawmakers not to do. let's bring in wall street journal columnist and deputy editor and columnist mary o'grady. you heard mike pompeo say there's no smoking gun and then you heard pat toomey, senator, saith not matter in the conference has to take responsibility for that murder. >> yeah, and then we had this vote in the senate which cut off funding to saudi's for supporting the war in yemen and they only got 37 republican votes in favor of the ministration position this is after both secretary of defense and secretary of state both addressed the full senate urging them not to do this and i have not the slightest doubt they made a compelling case why we need to support the saudi's. only 37 rub against voted in favor of their position? very bad sign politically for the president. paul: what you think about toomey's case, mary, he said look, if handled and bungled it and they have not struck the right balance between american interests and values which is got to make clear with the poor political murder. >>

melissa: in terms of war on yemen, mike pompeo made the argument if the u.s. weren't there, there would be more casualties. it is important to be there to support saudi arabia or promote any kind of stability in the region, on and on. he has a lot of reasons for that. the other side have said, that it is, you know, it is a crisis, we should have a conscience having any involvement in the region. where do you come down on the situation in yemen? >> i have to tell you i'm heartbroken to see images and hear from folks been there. it is humanitarian disaster on order of what is happening in syria. but what is the solution there. solution is not rely on them and pull out and houthis to put pressure to lead to a bigger confrontation which would have us to be involved militarily, et cetera. we need to think this through. we, yes we should have been putting pressure before to stop crimes of humanity done by saudis especially not it mention the iran and houthis. that is not a solution. we can't remove saudi arabia from yemen, think somehow that will solve the problem i