unambiguous, very clear. i have worked personally on an arrangement with mexico. now a week and a few days ago. i am confident that we will get this under control and it is important for american national security that we do in fact achieve this. thank you all. melissa: okay, that was secretary of state mike pompeo at centcom in florida. he was talking about, among other things, the additional troops heading to the middle east as a result of rising tensions with iran, saying that the goal now is to reestablish deterrence with respect to iran. that this is not about the past two years or five years but about the past 40 years. let s bring in national security correspond at jennifer griffin, live at the pentagon. jennifer, what did you hear? melissa, what i heard, what you heard him say, in terms of reestablishing deterrence, it s very clear that for the secretary of state to go down to the u.s. central command remember, he did not travel down
increased military presence near iran. that s very unfortunate, because the problem isn t directly challenging iran with some of their misbehavior. the problem is getting into another afghanistan and another protracted military campaign melissa: why do you think that s what this is? kennedy: because that s what we ve seen. we haven t seen the opposite and we haven t seen any administration be able to do something surgically and short term and then get us out of there with better results. we are still in afghanistan. it s 2019. it s been quite some time. there are people like charlie on the republican side who are very hesitant to use any military options melissa: let s listen to the man himself. secretary of state mike pompeo at centcom now. secretary pompeo: thank you for joining me here today. i had a good evening and a really good morning. spent time getting briefed by the generals at centcom, general clark and his team. the purpose of my visit was to
those attacks, i think they re supported by the pakistanis. they have a safe haven inside of pakistan, the united states policy is trying to push back on the pakistani. this is likely something of a reaction to that before the spending offensive begins. in other words, it puts you back on u.s. policy. lea: i recently spoke with a source at centcom who told me that a lot of the air assets that were working on syria have moved over to take the same strategy in afghanistan. in syria they were going after the oil, and in afghanistan now they ll go after the drugs that s creating revenue. what do you think of this. i overall agree with the trump strategy on afghanistan, they made a decision to stay and that s totally different than the previous administration. secondly, they ve decided to increase the resources as you indicated, more lethal resources and also, a policy change. you know, afghanistan s the
melissa: i know somebody who isn t tired after the super bowl last night. jon scott. fired up. what do you have coming up? we re awaiting an address from president trump at centcom in florida today. the president s interview with our bill o rielly making lots of news. we ll have the latest on that, including a response from russia. also a prominent reporter from newsweek argues the media are not treating president trump fairly. are they out to take him down? is he right or just trying to get access? we have that coming up for you happening now. melissa: the new england patriots winning the super bowl if dramatic fashion and jim gray, the man in the middle here, got to see it all unfold. look at that. he joins us next.
contradict current policy. i don t know what we ll discover with respect to what was going on at centcom. what i do know is my expectation, which is highest ability to the data, the truth. you can imagine why the president calls paris a setback if he s actually being told something different. it s a long list starting with isis being the team, et cetera. here are important facts about this. this isn t one analyst who feels like his information was ignored during this compilation of data, it s dozens, number one. number two, it s the new york times group that found this out and is bringing it to the forefront. number three, the inspector general is going to find out what happened. dozens of analysts think their