Good morning i want to welcome you. I want to thank the faculty, great program. A special thanks to secretary of state mike pompeo who has been so much of his valuable time with us this morning. The secretary has a tremendous background as most of you know he was number one at west point. He was a captain in the army, served in congress, head of the c. I. A. And now of course secretary of state. Any one of these accomplishments would be a major accomplishment for any one of us but he has them all. So with that, i want to welcome you again and hand the program over to our great editor bob who is now going to interview the secretary. Have a great day. Thank you. Thank you, mr. Secretary for joining us. I want to jump into the news. Recently, you said that the u. S. To make than tiktok and other chinese apps. Is it going to be a decision this summer . First of all, thank you for having me. Jimmy, thank you for that generous introduction. I made a comment about tiktok. We have to go back to first principles. Protect National Security. In this case, the information of american citizens. Whether it is tiktok or any of the other Chinese Communications platforms, apps, infrastructure, this Administration Takes seriously the requirement to protect the American People from having their information and up in the hands of the Chinese Communist party. So we are working through a process where all of the relevant agencies and the private sector are saying their piece. We hope to have a decision shortly which will reflect the central understanding we have been working on. We are pleased to see the United Kingdom make its announcement it will pull out huawei. We watched Telecom Companies across the world from range and others to say, no, we want to make sure our data flows that is really the mission set when it comes to applications that our kids may be touching. I got lots of notes from others saying, please, please, make it go away. That is for the parents to decide. It is our test to make sure that information of the children does not end up in the hands of the Chinese Communist party. You and others have said russia meddled in the 2016 election. You fault of the Obama Administration for not doing more. Is russia meddling in the 2020 election . If so, are you being successful in stopping t . I am confident many countries will do their level best to have an impact on our election. This is not new. I was reading about talking about senator kennedy dealing with this issue back when he was running for president. Fort efforts to interfere in american elections, something we constantly must contend with. We will contend with that here. We did a good job in 2018 during the midterm elections. I am hopeful we will do ive seen the work that is got in, largely from the department of Homeland Security, little work done by the state department as well, to make sure our foreign counterparts understand the cost that will be imposed if they choose to engaged in maligned activity related to our elections. I think the American People should rest assured no matter what influence committee country, even nonstate actors who now have capabilities to try the metal and our elections, know this Administration Takes seriously its responsibility to make sure every american vote is counted, country properly, and foreign influence is minimized. Its ability to impact the american outcome. Did the reported bounties on u. S. Troops come upand or russias support for the taliban . Of course. I spoke to my russian counterparts a lot. I spoke to them when i was the head of the cia and my two intelligence counterparts in russia. We talked about afghanistan a great deal and the need to achieve the outcome that President Trump has set forth, which is get americas role greatly reduced and get our combat forces out of afghanistan in a way that leads to a peaceful reconciliation among the afghan people. I was on the phone just yesterday talking about the progress were making. It is tough work, but i believe we are making Real Progress. I made clear to the russians we needed their support in that effort as well. Theres a lot of history of russia in afghanistan. Those remember all that took place when russia was forced to leave afghanistan, theres a lot of history, a lot of russian footprint, Weapons Systems there. We made clear to our russian counterparts we have to Work Together to get a more sovereign, more independent, peaceful afghanistan. We think it is in russias best interest and chinas best interest. We know it is in the afghan peoples best interest. President trump is working diligently to make sure we do that in a way that protects the market only and gets our boys nd girls home. Should rest of should russia be allowed the g7 or should be conditional . The president has made clear any support i agree. I have lots of conversations. There are places it is not a democracy. They have a different regime than our state. There are places where we can Work Together. We ought to do everything we can to maximize those opportunities to Work Together on behalf of the American People and in the places where we disagree. That is russias involvement in venezuela. The work theyre doing today in syria. We ought to make it clear to them as well and have conversations with them about how we can reduce the risk to america from the russian maligned ctivity. The last time we interviewed in person, you said you would stay on in the job as long as the President Trump once you. Should he win reelection, would you serve in a second term . I think the last time, was going to run for the senate in kansas, as i recall. No one believed me last year when i said i wasnt. Perhaps folks will have some skepticism about what i say here as well. I love what im doing. It is an incredible privilege to serve the American People and to do every day the tasks that increase americans to have the opportunity we have because of the exceptional coming unique nation. It President Trump asked me to serve, it would be ruly an honor. What would be your second term agenda . You want to talk about what youve done now may be the biggest thing since he joined the state, but going forward, what would you do in a second term . We talked about the Global Missions that secure american freedom. If you asked me what the biggest challenge is going to be for the second term from a National Security perspective, it is certainly going to be the Chinese Communist party. It is something we have been focused on since the beginning of the trump administration. Something the Previous Administration allowed us to get rolled by them in every dimension, whether it was to massively unfair trade relationship, chinas advancement in the child south china sea, the Previous Administration simply refused to take the actions necessary to secure freedom for American People. President rump has told our team we need to do everything we can to preserve the freedom and pushback to make sure we have fair and reciprocal set of relationships with the Chinese Communist party. On china, it is a tense time with the south china sea, hong kong conflict, but what is the status of the u. S. China relationship . We are engaged in dialogue. I travel to honolulu two or three weeks back. Sadly, they want to talk about cooperation. They want to talk about being a global power that complies with the rule of law, yet every place we see their actions, their actions belie that. Examples, promised would not militarize the south china sea. In 2015. The rose garden. He militarized the south china sea. He made a 50 year commitment, agreement between china and the United Kingdom and hong kong that there will be one country and to systems and he has fundamentally violated that. Every place the Chinese Communist party commit was under the paris climate aboard, not remotely close to complying with. This is a Chinese Communist party that is acting in a way that poses real threats to the world and the United States will respond in each of those venues to make sure we preserve american National Security and impose costs on the Chinese Communist party in order to achieve the change in behavior that will have a good outcome. The chinese, Party Continues to treat the body of water is its own maritime empire. We are not oing allow that to happen. There is Bipartisan Legislation in house and the senate that would give certain hong kong residents refugee status. Is that legislation a good dea . The president has made has not made a decision on this yet. I am confident people coming from anywhere in the world that seek asylum, the United States has always been a place that welcomes those people. It has been a little slower. A little slowed down by the virus that imitated from china. Emanated from china. The United Kingdom has graciously allowed them 3 Million People to come from hong kong. Australia is set up. The world democracies understand with the Chinese Communist party is doing. We will make sure to take care of those Freedom Fighters who want to travel who dont feel like they are safe and can continue to do good work inside hong kong or any other country, for that matter. On the coronavirus, how sure are you that it originated from a lab in wuhan . And what is the proof of that . What i can say is we know this much, we know it began in wuhan, china. The Scientific Community is quite confident of that. We dont know precisely from where it imitated. Cash emanated. Theres evidence that it came from a laboratory and others they came from elsewhere. Idling, we know this, the Chinese Communist party has prevented anyone from finding out the answer to that question. They denied access to the laboratory. Anyone who wanted to talk about it that was inside that laboratory, whether they were a journalist or doctor, has been precluded from talking about that. They have either been told they cant talk or worse. Indeed, the Scientific Community who desperately still needs to figure out where patient zero came from, has been unable to get that information. This is a result of the Chinese Communist party hiding the data. Bob, none of this. Countries that want to be global powers. They have a corresponding obligation to comply to the promises they make most of china made a promise. When you have any incident on your country that could potentially lead to a pandemic, of an obligation to that and allow others to come in and help you betray. About it. The Chinese Communist party coopted the World Health Organization that coverup most up the result today as with hundred of thousands of people have died angeles of dollars in global damage as a druze i direct result of the chinese ommonest partys decision. Should china pay a price for hat . I think the world will make them pay. Everywhere you go, they recognize what china has done to the world. Im confident the world will look at china differently and engage with them on fundamentally different terms than they did before this catastrophic disaster that could well have been mitigated had china behaved in a way that was consistent with the promises that they had made. There is debate on americans as far as voting this fall, debate among Election Officials and attorney general barr barr has indicated he is concerned about fabrication of ballots being mailed in. Is this something youre concerned about . Election Officials Say this is virtually in a possibility. That is not really my purview. Ill leave that to the department of Homeland Security and the secretarygeneral. This year, will there be another north korea summit . And what have the prior ones ccomplished . Were getting pretty close to the election. North koreans have given mixed signals. President trump fully was to engage in a summit if we believe there is sufficient likelihood we can make Real Progress in achieving the outcomes that were set forth in singapore now, a couple years back. Were trying to have informed discussions with the north koreans. We believe the denuclearization of the peninsula and ultimately resolution of the conflict there is important instability is incredibly important most of the you need to have a willing partner stop the north koreans have chosen at this point in time not to engage in a way that can lead to potential solution. We hope that will change their mind. We look forward to engaging them in dialogue so get to the right outcome and so do our partners n the region. Make very clear, we need to denuclearize and do so in a way that is completely verifiable. We still continue that mission. We have avoided having a longrange so fired. Now it is time to get to the harder problems and secure a better outcome, not only for the security of the American People, but for the people of north korea as well. The state department put out a report saying globally white is on the rise. What does the state part what is the state department doing to curb that . Wherever we think there are actors that pose a threat to the united dates, we work on that. Anyplace we see she saw the report we put out that is comprehensive. It is the Gold Standard when it comes to the set of issues. We work diligently to try to get other governments to conform to our conception of human rights. Not because it is solely in americas best interest, but we firmly believe getting this right is in those countries best interest as well. On iran, you been very critical. As russia on our side on. . I know youre pushing for more sanctions. Every nation, including russia, signs up on the security resolution 2231, which imposed an arms embargo that denies ira the capacityn to sell or buy weapons until october 18 because of mistakes made by the previous intermittent administration entry into the nuttiest agreement that i have seen. After just five years, the Worlds Largest states to return to begin to freely engage in arms trade and not become only the latest large estate arms of terror, but purchasing chinese and what russian weapons. We are working and we hope alongside the russians to ensure that cant happen. Brush as a very ifferent set of views with respect to their working alongside them in syria. We regret that russia has made that decision. Millions and minds of displaced people from syria, enormous starvation, the United States is the largest contributor to the humanitarian leave relief effort. Iran is orking against that. We have a few minutes left. You got a lot of people talking this week when it was announced youre going to be speaking on friday in iowa, which obviously is a key state. As a president ial run a possibility n your future . I always think it is funny, if i traveled to new york or boston or some corridor state, nobody says a word. When i travel to americas heartland, everybody has some secondary case about why mike pompeo traveled there. I think everyone should hear from the secretary of state. That is why im headed out to talk to them. Im also doing it on the heels of tomorrow, which puts me in philadelphia where im going to announce the results of the commission on an lynn noble rights. Inalienable rights. I want to go back to americas heartland, back to the playset under since the founding of american in such a deep and fundamental way and talk about religious freedom and Property Rights and all the things you will see in the street or that ground american or and policy ncentive understandings, declaration of independence, our constitution that give us the capacity to go around the world as diplomats from the United States department of state and encourage other nations to preserve and protect freedoms for their people, religious freedoms for their people, basic rights that we, as a result of the fact we are made in the image of god come every human being regardless of race, nationality deserves. I will follow to philadelphia quarely. So no Campaign Connection in that visit at all . I am so focused on what i am doing, bob. We know we have lots of work between now and september on so many fronts. Huawei and 5g, was that intense loving that you did to get them to reverse . We were working everywhere in the world to make sure everyone has not just the United Kingdom. We are pleased with United Kingdoms decision. We think they came to an having reviewed the same data we have seen, about the risk of privacy. Facial recognition, data sets, all of that that transits across huawei systems. Hey concluded it wasnt in the nations best interest, the decision you saw this week. We were happy about that outcome. With a good helps the United States as well because you have americans that have their information transcending across the systems when they travel to he United Kingdom as well. Thank you for joining us. We really appreciate it. I will hand it back to steve