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Fox news sunday exclusive. Plus, tensions spike in the middle east as iran and israel face off across the Syrian Border. We will ask the sunday panel will this trigger a wider war. And power player to have week, the changing role of the uso has developed home away from home. We were no longer working with young men who were being drafted into the military. All of a sudden, we had families. Chris all right now on Fox News Sunday. Hello, again, happy mothers day from fox news in washington. North korea has scheduled what it calls a dismantling ceremony in Nuclear Test Site ahead of singapore summit. Thats now less than one month away. The plan to negotiate a nuclear deal with north korea comes as the president pulls out of an agreement with iran and mr. Trump says he wants to signal the kind of hard bargain he will demand from kim. In a few minutes, we will discuss the summit, what happens next with iran and growing tensions in the middle east with secretary of state mike pompeo in his first interview since he returned from north korea this week. But first, kevin cork at the white house with impact of dramatically changing u. S. Policy around the world. White house officials characterized the president s Foreign Policy decision each by the way with major Global Implications in four simple words, promises made, promises kept, but a more nuance assessment might be simpler. America first. Thats because whether its north korea, iran, syria, even israel, what you have now is a clear departure not just from the previous administrations approach but washington orthodoxy. In each case, for example, north korea, you have policy of engagement bathed in subtle aggression but by promise of cooperation. Americas support for Korean People is second to none. If north korea takes bold action to quickly denuclearize, the United States is prepared to work with prosperity on the par with South Koreans friend. The administrations rejection to washington orthodoxy also on full display also at Jared Kushner and ivanka trump as move seen symbolic stake in ground in full support of israeli and against the growing influence of tehran in the region which was further disrupted by the president s decision to break the terms of the Iran Nuclear Agreement this week. There is talk, chris, that decision by the president embolden the iranians to attack the israelis as you know israelis struck back hitting iranian targets in syria. It is certain that they have support in washington to do so, chris. Chris cell kevin cork reporg from the white house. Thanks for that. Joining us the very busy mike pompeo. Mr. Secretary, welcome back to Fox News Sunday. Great to be with you. Chris lets start with breaking news. Savage attack in paris, knifing, killing one person, wounding four others, what can you tell us about a possible link to terror . We dont know much more, we know that the caliphate isis has claimed responsibility. They said he was one of the soldiers. We cant verify that. The french authorities with all the intelligence and United States can provide we will do this to unpack in the coming hours. Chris lets talk about other breaking news. North koreans announced yesterday that they will blow up their nuclear site in 10 to 12 days. How big a development is this and is that do we believe their only Nuclear Test Site . Chris, its good news. Every single site that the North Koreans have that can inflict risk upon the American People thats destroyed, eliminated is good news for the American People and for the world and so this is one step along the way. I had a good set of meetings this past week aimed at heading in exactly this direction. Chris i want to go comment on friday if kim chooses, quote, the right path, the u. S. Is prepared to work with north korea to achieve prosperity. What does that mean in terms of direct u. S. Investment in north korea and are we as part of this willing in effect to guaranty kims security that regime change will be off the table . Chris, here is what this will look like, this will be americans coming in private sector americans, not the u. S. Taxpayer, privatesector americans coming in to help build out the energy grid, they need enormous amounts of electricity in north korea to work with them to develop infrastructure all the things that the North Koreans need, capacity for american agriculture to support so they can eat meat and healthy lives. Those are the things the complete verifiable, irreversible denuclearization of north korea that the American People will offer them. Chris as we saying that kim, if you give us what we want, you can stay on and pow sner. We will have to provide security assurances to be sure. This has been the tradeoff thats been pending for 25 years. No president has ever put america in a position where the north korean leadership thought that this was truly possible, that the americans would actually do this, would lead to the place where america was no longer held at risk by the north korean regime. Thats the objectives. When i said earlier this week that i think chairman kim shares objectives of American People, i am convinced of that. Now the task of President Trump and he to meet to valid date validate the process to set out markers so we can negotiate outcome. Chris do you have any problem given kims history and the history of his family as oppressive regime any problems with the idea of the u. S. , even if we get our deal in effect giving security guaranty to kim regime . Look, we will have to see how negotiations proceed. Make no mistake about it, americas interest here is preventing the risk that north korea will launch Nuclear Weapon in la or denver or the place we are sitting this morning, chris. Thats the objective. Thats the end state the president layed out and thats the mission he sent me on, to put us on trajectory to achieve that. Chris lets talk about denuclearization. Two weeks ago john bolton sat in this very seat and he told me that the u. S. Negotiating position going in is that kim has to ship out, has to dismantle and take out of the country all of his Nuclear Weapons, all of the nuclear infrastructure, all of longrange missiles before the u. S. Can grant any concessions. On the other hand, this week, kim met with chinese president xi and he called for, quote, phased measures, in other words, action for action, have you and kim agreed what the sequencing is, is it all actions by him first or is it step by step and is that something as i say that youve agreed with or something that kim and the president will have to work out at the summit . Chris, weve had discussions on how this would proceed. Theres still a great deal of detail to be worked on and in the coming weeks we will work on so we can be in a good spot in singapore for President Trump. Make no mistake about it, we have done this before, moment for moment, you give me x and you give me y, it has failed repeatedly. Chairman kim understands that. I think he appreciates the fact that this will have to be different, big and special and something that has never been undertaken before. If we are going to get to this historic outcome, both sides have to be prepared to take truly historic measures to achieve it. Chris how confident are you, you are going to be putting the president of the United States in a room with kim with the whole world watch it, he will deliver on our expectations . Well, to quote President Trump, we will see. We are not to the place yet where we should be remotely close to declaring that we have achieved what it is we want. Theres great deal of work to remains. Our eyes are wide open with respect to risks, it is our fervent hope that chairman kim wants to make strategic change, strategic change for country and his people and if hes prepared to do that, President Trump is prepare today assure that this can be successful transition. Chris all right, i want to talk about that. We understand and john bolton talked about that nobody in the administration is starry eyed, the president has been raising expectations for the summit, he thinks they will great deal, thats his phrase, predecessor at cia says brennan thinks hes playing into kims hands. Take a look. I think we we will have a success. I think this will be a success. Rehe he is masterful in how he duped the president. Former brennans director are silly on its face. We will get into negotiations with two nations that are consistent with objections and goals, i think we now understand that theres the potential that there are shared objectives and our mission is to prepare the ground work. We are pretty far along the way in doing so and we will continue to work in the days ahead, 30 left to prepare for june 12th. So the president can have successful outcome, the two of them can meet and see if there is sufficient overlap so we can achieve the objective for the American People. Chris after you brought the american hostages home and the whole world celebrated that, President Trump praised kim for releasing them and that praise, not the release of hostages, the praise upset some critics, take a look at this. Kim jong un did a Great Service to himself, to his country by doing this. We cant be fooled into giving north korean regime credit for returning americans that never should have been detained in the first place. Chris according to your state departments latest report, north korea still holds at least 80,000 Political Prisoners in its labor camps and other facilities. Is human rights an issue in this summit or is it just going to be about the Nuclear Issue . Yeah, chris, always concerned about human rights, thats the case not only Political Prisoners, americans held around the world by other rogue regime too. I can assure you, this administration, as my role as director as cia and first two and a half weeks of secretary of state is intently focused on achieving the return of each of those as well. We had a success this week. We are happy for those families and for america that those three americans returned home, but we recognize theres much work to do, we still have americans held and we are working delight diligently on behalf of them. Chris when people found out that you were going to be on the program today, they all had the same question, what is kim like with the possible exception of denise rodman, he has spent more time with him than any other westerner, at least two and a half hours the way i figure it, what is he like, give us any kind of personal insight, how aware is he of what President Trump has been saying, any mention of little mact man . Well, ive got a lot fewer rebounds than denise rodman. The conversations were professional. He knows his brief, he knows what he is trying to achieve for the north Korean People, hes able to deal with complexity when the conversation requires it. He does follow the western press. He will probably watch this show at some point. Hes paying attention to things that the world is saying. He too is preparing for june 129, he and his team will be working with them to put our two leaders into the position where its possible we might pull off a historic undertake. Chris any mention of exchange of insults . No, we didnt cover that, chris. Chris thats probably wise. A lot on your brief, iran and israel got into Armed Conflict across the Syrian Border this week after President Trump pulled out of nuclear deal with tehran, do you think that theres any connection that iran feels less constrained now that the u. S. No longer is part of this this deal about iran nukes . Thats ludicrous. Thats ludicrous. To suggest that iran feels less constrain, they have now fired missiles into an airport where americans travel each day in riyadh. They have fired missiles into israel. To suggest that somehow the withdrawal from the jcp is drawing iranian conduct is taking place during jcp in yemen, the rise of hezbollah, all of those things took place during jcpo, indeed, i would argue that they felt they could act with impunity. They watched, they watched europe put exactly zero sanctions on their Missile Program during the jcpoa. They need to explain why its the case that while this agreement was in place iran continued its march across the middle east. Chris President Trump made it clear that hes not only going after iran but hes also prepared to sanction European Companies that continue to do business in tehran. Here is the president. We will be instituting the highest level of economic sanction. Any nation that helps iran in its quest for Nuclear Weapons could also be strongly sanctioned by the United States. Chris but the leaders of france, of germany, of britain all say they are going to stay in the deal and look for a way to protect European Companies that continue to do business, the question is, how hard is the Trump Administration prepared to go after European Companies that ignore the u. S. Pulling out . Two things, chris, first, the wealth that was created in iran as a result of the jcpoa drove iranian malign activity, provided resources for work in syria and iraq. President trump withdrawal in denying them and taking money away from them. I worked hard over the short time ive been secretary of state to try and fix the deal. We couldnt Reach Agreement with our e3 partners, im hopeful in the days and weeks ahead we can come up with a deal that really works, that really protects the world from iranian bad behavior, not just Nuclear Programs but behavior as well and i will work with europeans to achieve that. Chris what about the European Countries say, look, theres not going to be a renegotiation anymore than theres renegotiation of the paris climate accord. Is the u. S. Prepared to go after companies in our allies, like britain, france u and germany, if they try to continue to do business . The sanctions regime thats now in place is very clear about what the requirements are. My mission that ive been given by President Trump is to work to strike a deal that achieves the outcomes that protect america. Thats what we are going to do. I will hard at it with the europeans in the next several days. Chris couple of final questions, israel, the u. S. Opens embassy in jerusalem tomorrow. The palestinians are talking about a day of rage, violent mass protests and plo wont event talk to the u. S. Anymore in terms of the middle east. Is the Peace Process dead and given the threat of violence, what are you as a secretary of state saying to americans in the middle east in those parts of the world over the next few days . The Peace Process is most not dead, we are hard at work on it. We hope we can achieve successful outcome as well. With respect to security, we are aware of situation on the ground, the United States government has taken a number of actions to ensure not only governmental interest but people are secure as well and we are comfortable we have taken action that reduces that risk. Chris finally, and its pretty remarkable given all thats happened, all thats on brief, you have been secretary of state for barely two weeks now, whats your vision for the state department . Chris, i hope i havent peaked in the first two weeks. Its clear, we have to putty plomatic team on the playing field. It should be the United States state department thats at the front of Foreign Policy to solve problems without result of military force. I will build a team, we will get our swagger back and the state department will be out in front and every corner of the world leading americas diplomatic policy achieving great outcomes on behalf of President Trump and america. Chris secretary pompeo, thanks for your time and very busy schedule, always good to talk with you. Thank you, chris. Chris up next, reaction from the former chairman of joint chiefs of staff admiral mike mullen and grewing tensions in the middle east. Breakfast can make you feel like your day never started. Get going with carnation breakfast essentials®. It has protein, plus 21 vitamins and Minerals Including calcium and vitamin d, to help your family be their best. Carnation breakfast essentials®. 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What are the prospects that this will work out, that kim will give up as you just heard the secretary say, give up Nuclear Program and agree to give us means to verify it . I think its really uncertain. I think i want to give President Trump credit for getting to this point, hes moved the needle on this when that has not been done in the past but i also think given the stakes its a very much highrisk, highreward opportunity and i think the downsides are potentially significant as well. Chris all right, i want to talk to you about that because you gave a speech in washington this week and you talked about what could happen if this summit falls apart, if they walk away from singapore without a deal. Let me put it up on the screen. If the talks do fall apart, excuse me, you didnt cough, i did, the failure to stir the president s aggressive instincts. Are you saying, admiral, if there is no deal that we could be worst off than if there was a summit in the first place . If the talks fail, the likelihood of options are dramatically reduced to potential conflict and thats a huge worry. I think despite the progress thats been made to try to understand kim jong un, theres a lot we dont understand, and that he would be significantly different from his father and his grandfather to make the changes that are being discussed would be huge, huge shift. And im more skeptical than i am optimistic that he would do that. That said, it could happen, but i do worry about the down side of conflict breaking out where tens of hundreds of thousands people particularly in south korea could die very quickly and kim has a huge arsenal to include Chemical Biological weapons and if the outbreak there could be huge and i dont know that weve had much of debate in the country of potential outbreak of use of Nuclear Weapons which havent used since 1945. Chris but you have said, youre on the record assays that we cant live with north korea as active nuclear threat, so if this agreement were to fall apart, what would you have President Trump do . Well, i mean, thats im not really sure, those are the stakes that we are playing for right now. I would i really want this agreement or i want the result to be denuclearization complete, exactly what the president is seeking and also not have any outbreak of war. Thats a pretty thin lane to get into particularly if the talks break down. I also think we need to put as much pressure on china to ensure that combat doesnt there is no combat outbreak and certainly include our allies in japan as well as South Koreans in generating this kind of outcome. What im most concerned about is if this doesnt result in a positive outcome, the potential for, i think, military conflict goes up and therefore you get into whether or not he would use the Nuclear Weapons. Chris do you think i mean, the question i have is, would we be better off because youre saying if we get together and it falls apart, then theres not much more to talk about, would it be better not to have the summit, are you seghting that suggesting we are doing it too quickly . Actually its a hypothetical at this point. We are going to have it its another 30 days. Another 30 days of prognosis. I am convinced that its going to happen. I want to try to manage not manage, but to understand what potential outcomes could be both on the upside and the downside. Chris lets turn to iran and President Trumps decision to pull out of the nuclear deal with tehran, here he is. It is clear to me that we cannot prevent an Iranian Nuclear bomb under the decaying and rotten structure of the current agreement. The iran deal is defective at its core. Chris you were the former chairman, the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff with the president s decision to pull out of the deal has the risk of iran developing a Nuclear Weapon, has it increased or diminished. I think its increased fairly dramatically. One of the things we forget how bright and capable the iranians are and that they can rebound from setbacks pretty quickly, technically and i think their capability could be developed very rapidly. Chris but you have criticized iran for continuing its nuclear its Missile Program, ballistic Missile Program and the jcpoa, Iran Nuclear Deal, did not stop that, it clearly did not curtail irans bad actions across the middle east in its support for terror groups in number of countries. Arent there flaws in the deal that president obama and john kerry negotiated that had to be addressed . I think we lose the context, if you will, of the jcpoa which was very specifically focused on the Nuclear Weapons and those weapons are so devastating that that focus, i think, was very well deserved. The other thing that i am concerned about is if iran gets Nuclear Weapons, it will proliferate Nuclear Weapons in the region. Secondly, we ought to press them as hard as possible to push back, bring as much pressure on their nefarious activities with respect to terrorism and support of terrorists as well as their Missile Program and do that with every available capability and iran has not acted well since the implementation of the jcpoa outside its requirements. Every one ive spoken to says iran is in full compliance with the specifics of the jcpoa which eliminates their ability to develop Nuclear Weapons over a period of time. Chris the period of time ends and thats one of the concerns of President Trump in 2025 you have the sunset claws and claws clause. We knew there was a sunset aspect of this. 10 years is a long time and in some ways to look at it in which case you would hope that there be developments where they wouldnt develop, once the sunset once that sunset clause went into effect. Chris i want to ask you two things, what do you think of gina haspels nomination to head cia and do you believe as some democrats that her involvement in enhanced interrogation after 911 somehow disqualifies her. I have aligned myself with senator john mccain for a long time on views of torture. Hes the Gold Standard there. And i recognize lots of intelligence professionals i talk to think gina is an extraordinary person with great background, that said, she has a past and recently while she stated that she was in compliance with the law where i think senator mccain is where i am that morally it was wrong, it was torture and that she should be held responsible for that. Chris and therefore should not be the cia director . Im not voting, i will let those that vote make that decision. Chris but you would say that what she did was wrong . Yeah, im very much where senator mccain is. Chris im sure that someone is going to know it after your appearance here that back in 2016 Michael Bloomberg considered running for president and he at one point vetted you as possible running mate, im sure someone is going say and i want to give you an opportunity to respond, hey, youre a never trumper. No, im not, ive never said and worked hard to stay out of politics of all of this, quite frankly. Chris whats your attitude towards the president and the fact that you were thinking of running with Michael Bloomberg . That was a time that i was focused with Michael Bloomberg on the possibilities. It never really came to fruition and in tend, i honestly came to a point with my family that it really wasnt my kind of life or that we would pursue anything like that. 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When i make promises, i keep them. Chris President Trump stating aggressive Foreign Policy as he announces the u. S. Is out of Iran Nuclear Deal and prepares with talks with north korea. Its time now for sunday group, gop strategists karl rove, charles lane of the washington post, former democratic congresswoman Donna Edwards and former National Security Council Spokesperson Michael Anton now with hills dale college. We asked you for questions for the panel and we got this on facebook, what are the chances of denuke to go a treaty giving kim security, you heard secretary pompeo, how would you say . Thats one of the goals, the korean war never formally ended. They want a peace treaty that formally ends the war. I would hold that out as carrot towards the end. You see what you can get on the denuclearization. Its very positive but for this to work, theyre going to have to be robust inspections, the North Koreans will have to lay bear the entire program, let people crawl all over it and confirm that they are shutting things down. Chris were you surprised that pompeo made explicit in interview, look, if we get all that, kim, you can stay in power . I was not surprised because i have known from the beginning that the policy of this administration has never been regime change. I think people such as admiral mullen that are most concerned about conflict, the point i would make to them, making u. S. Policy explicitly regime change thats how you up the chances of conflict and you scare that it thinks survival is on the line its more likely to do risky things where if the United States is willing to live with it, reduces pressure and more less likely to do risky things. Chris what do you think of the way President Trump is approaching the summit and when the president praises kim for releasing hostages and you see Democratic Senate leader Chuck Schumer on the floor criticizing him for that, doesnt that add that the democrats wont give credit to donald trump for anything he does . No, i mean, i think it was positive that these three americans were released. The question is, you know, that is a precursor even the dismantling of the nuclear site is a precursor. My question is what are americans going to get and how are we going to verify that weve gotten something. I remain a little skeptical the availability to negotiate denuclearization in north korea but it would be a positive development, obviously, if that happened but i dont want to hang too many hopes on whats going to happen on june 12th in singapore. Chris lets also turn to iran and the president s decision to pull out of the Iran Nuclear Deal, here was part of mr. Trumps announcement. If we do nothing, we know exactly what will happen. In just a short period of time the worlds leading state spon ser of terror will be on the cusp of acquiring the worlds most dangerous weapons. Chris karl, we understand that there are gaps in the deal about iranian behavior, irans ballistic Missile Program, about the question to have sunset clause but after fail to go get a deal with the europeans and that was the effort to, yes, we will keep the deal but we will add on the other measures, you heard the president , you heard pompeo talk about the iranians coming to the negotiating table, how realistic is that . Actually realistic, he talked first of all the threat, we are going to restart our program on, quote, industrial scale, but then he pivoted and said basically we will be sitting down with europeans to see if we can salvage the deal and literally this week chris salvaging the deal with the french not with the u. S. I know, here is the deal. This is the risky strategy of the Trump Administration in my opinion. The 3ms will be meeting with him, may, merkel and macron. Has the United States through pompeo and others, we know that there have been conversations with all three of them, has the administration signaled what it wants and then are the europeans going to be be willing to carry those issues forward with the iran aints and are iranians willing to do a deal, the three steps could fall apart at any one of them but i took it as a sign when the iranians after their typical rhetoric said we are going to try and salvage the deal. Remember, theyve got problems, economy thats in meltdown, domestic unrest and you have the europeans concerned about the impact of sanctions in the United States that would affect companies in their country which are nervous about doing working with iran, if the president has been clear with the europeans as to what he wants out of a better deal, whether its any time any place inspections, get rid of make prohibitions rather than caps, maybe theres a way for it. Chris do you think thats the method here, im going to pull out and the europeans will basically negotiate what the president wanted . I dont know if thats the conscious method. But if theres any way out, thats one avenue to which it will have to pass. Thats the nice the carrot, the stick by the way, is the hammer saudi arabia is putting down. The israelis with huge massive retaliation and the saudis didnt get enough attention promising to turn the oil taps back on because as you know, the spike in oil prices that was being caused by this, you know, transaction where trump pulls out of the deal was something saudi arabia is now going to counteract so the u. S. Economy wont suffer from it and the iranians wont benefit. The u. S. Has pivoted from europe in support of its other allies, israel and sawed sud and thats sort of the group, u. S. , saudi arabia and israel thats pressuring iran right now. Chris i have left than a minute in the segment. Michael, i want to ask you because the president threaten iran, if they start Nuclear Program back up, they will have problems they have never seen before, from your time on the National Security council in this white house, do you think that President Trump is really prepared to launch launch a strike against iran if it resumes its Nuclear Program . I think he would never rule out anything for the future. Chris youre no longer a spokesperson. Do you really think hes prepare today launch a military strike to take out a new iran it looks like we are ways from that. Whats going to happen significant sanctions will be impose today iran which will require europe to choose between access to the u. S. Financial system and the iranian economy and in the end to have day u its not a choice. This will hurt iran a lot. What they want most, access to european contracts so they can make money. If they dont have that anymore, it will put pressure on the regime and it will also starve them, limit them to resources they need to fuel the program. Thats the next step we will see happen if we cant get a deal such as the secretary described. Chris all right, panel, we have to take a break. 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Chris President Trumps nominee to lead the cia gina haspel facing tough questioning at confirmation hearing about the agencys use of harsh interrogation after 9 11 and we are back now with the panel. I want to play a little bit more about what haspel told congress this week. After 9 11, i Department Look to go sit on the swiss desk, i stepped up, i was not on the sideline. I was on the front lines in the cold war and i was on the front lines in the fight against alqaeda. Chris karl, what do you think of the approach from most of the democrats how people acted during the crisis after 9 11 or after the crisis of 9 11 as to how they feel now after the fact . I think its reprehensible. She was following a program that was carefully crafted by the lawyers and approved by being under International Obligations and the statutes of the United States, its now been ruled by active congress to no longer be applicable, no longer be of tool be available, but if theyre saying she is morally unfit to hayed the cia because she was part of the program, than every one of those people who is in the United States congress at the time who knew about this program and refused to be to condemn it and agreed with it like nancy pelosi and Dianne Feinstein who today find it convenient to attack haspel, they are morally cull panel if shes morally cull panel. She will be approved. Two democrats have announced support. She even with the two chris let me pick up on that, despite opposition, it does look like haspel will be confirmed. Two state red democrat running for reelection this year, joe manchin and John Donnelly will vote for her. Should haspel be blocked for following president ial directive which was viewed legal by the Justice Department and was briefed to democratic members of congress, should she be blocked from serving as the cia director . Well, what i was hearing in the questioning was a question about whether she believed today looking back on it that the program was immoral and she refused to answer that. Look, i think that the two joeys, manchin and donnelley opens pathway for confirmation. I think the question is legitimate for all of us to look back on a program that may or may not have been that may have been authorized chris he would not permit that kind of activity again. What she didnt say and this was going directly to the questions was whether looking back on it she believes the program was immoral. Thats an important question to answer. Its not an important question to ask. We want you to take out a whip and bleed yourself because we didnt like the war in iraq and we decided we didnt like what was done to keep america safe. Its politics pure and simple and hurtful to our country. It tells us what we would do in the future. She has made it clear, she will abide by the laws and statutes of the United States of america, approved by congress and signed by the president. Chris let me bring in our other two. I would make two points. You hear a lot about supposed conflict about president and bureaucracy, the deep state, yet, he has nominated the first career professional to lead the cia since William Colby in early 19 7s and the same people criticizing the president to being hostile to bureaucracy are trying to block this nomination. I find that surreal. The other point i would make too is what this is about, what karl is right, its about trying to relitigate the issue. There was a lot of anger about it. There were investigations done. People were clear, there was a hope in certain quarters of the democrat party, people would get punished, investigations were launched and everybody was cleared and i think there are some people who never got over that and want to find some way to punish somebody and gina is now the target. The reason people are focused on this, karl, is not the attitude of president bush whom you worked for, its the current president that concerns them and during the campaign he promised to do worse than waterboarding and so i think people we wanted to accomplish gina hapel on the record about it, not because of her and the past but the president. Maybe so. The heart of this is, they are both getting back at bush over the war and getting back at war and this is about the people who didnt stand up and say, who today say it was immoral who back then didnt say it was immoral. Although the president said at campaign, he made clear that he had subsequent conversations with secretary mattis. He does change his mind. Shes now on the record, lets agree shes now said i will abide the law of the United States of america and i will not do anything thats immoral even if it is technically allowed confirm her. Well you know something, they do immoral stuff every day of the week, im not sure how important that is. Theres a separate category which is torture but for the rest of it, i found it a little bit of a everybody was doing posturing when they said, no, no, the head spy will never do anything immoral which what they do blackmail, extort and steal secrets every day of the week. In the interest of the United States. Which makes it moral. Yes, it does. Chris im glad we settled all of that. Next up our power player of the week, uso, you may be surprised, these days its about a lot more than putting on a show for the troops. vo at pro plan, we believe nutrition is full of possibilities to improve your pets life. We are redefining what nutrition can do. Because the possibility of a longer life and a better life is the greatest possibility of all. Purina pro plan. Nutrition that performs. To bring together a group of remarkable people. To help save the universe. From paying too much on their car insurance. Hey, theres cake in the breakroom. What are you doing . Um. Nothing . Marvel studios avengers infinity war, in theaters april 27th. Now. Where were we . [music] [music] chris its an American Institution that for years has worked to lift the morale of our troops at home and abroad. But a lot you may not know about todays uso. Here is our power player of the week. Im just so passionate about our military and their families and i get to meet heros every single day. Hey, hi. Chris Elaine Rogers is president of uso metro and shes been the job since 1976 with ten Centers Across the dc area. It shows how dramatically the uso has changed over the years. Young soldiers used to go to local uso for friday night dances. Bob hope led tours to entertain troops stationed overseas. I just want you boys to see what youre fighting for, thats all. Chris as the military switch to allvolunteer force, the uso had to adjust. We were no longer working with young men who were being drafted into the military, all of a sudden we had families. Chris uso metro now serves 250,000 troops and their families like this 25,000 Square Foot Center at fort belwar outside washington. The uso is truly saving lives today and its with the services that we are doing, whether its art therapy, music therapy, those kinds of programs which people dont normally think as the uso doing. Without you we couldnt have a uso. Chris with a budget of 17 million and 3,000 volunteers, rogers offers all sorts of assistance. If a family flies to washington to visit a Wounded Warrior or bury a fallen hero, the uso meets them at the airport. When a soldier is about to be deployed, they can take advantage of something called united through reading. There are active duty mother or father can come in to our uso and actually read a book, this is the last thing that they do before they leave the United States and then we send that book back to their families so they can see their loved one reading. Chris yes, the uso still haskell bringties lifting troops morale, working with gary and foundation to put on show, stars like tom hanks and cheryl crowe visiting soldiers in the hospital. Fdr started uso just before world war ii and then there was vietnam when so Many Americans scorn the soldiers who bought there. It was the sad part of our history and today we find so many people wanting to reach out to the military, help them be supportive. How are you . Chris through it all, Elaine Rogers has carried on the mission for 43 years. Its so emotional for me because i know how much that we are giving back to our military. I truly know that this organization through our volunteers and our staff are making a difference in so many lives. Hello, my friend. What can i do for you . Chris uso affiliate rogers has also given more than 2 million care packages to troops deployed overseas, all part of being their home away from home. And thats it for today, for all you moms, have a wonderful mothers day and a great week and we will see you next Fox News Sunday. Paul welcome to the journal editorial report. Im paul gigot. President trump upending the Foreign Policy status quo again this week with announcing that the United States would exit the iran nuclear accord. This, as three americans detaped in north korea arrived home early thursday, ahead of a summit now set for june 12th in singapore between President Trump and kim jong un. The president voicing optimism that the meeting would be a success. I really think he wants to do something and bring the country