georgia. and just last week, the department of defense, this is after helsinki, ended an additional $200 until in security operation funds ukra e ukraine. none of this happened for the eight years that proceeded president trump. it s not enough for you, there s a long list, i m happy to go through them. i m guessing sometime today i ll get that opportunity. i look forward to it. finally, i want you to know, president trump has stated that he accepts our xencommunity s v on what happened. i know, i briefed him. i m also certain he respects the dangerous work our patrons in the intelligent community do every single day. and i know he feels the same way about the amazing people that work at the united states department of state. thank you, chairman corker. thank you. thank you very much. the secretary staff has added that we state the seven-minute
have no idea when that will be concluded. yep. excellent points. let me ask you the two of you to standby as we look at the live pictures inside the hearing room. we ll go to capitol hill where any moment now, we ll see mike pompeo, the secretary of state, speaking, being questioned in front of the senate foreign relations committee. our senior congressional correspondent is up in one of these hallways right around the corner from this hearing. and michelle kosinski is there, our medical correspondent. to you first, you have been talking to lawmakers about what they want to know from the secretary, namely the fact that he said in the last 24 to 48 hours, many things came of this summit. no one really knows what the many things are. how do you think that he will be treated today and especially from republicans? well, i think we ll get a good sense of that in a minute. we re actually going to see the senate foreign relations committee chairman right here, bob corker. senator, what is
thank you for your service to the country. thank you. thank you. i m not sure if senator coons wanted you to advertise that again. i m sure social media account have a lot of incoming and explaining. with that, senator coons. i m thankful for the role you played. thank you. i was grateful for an opportunity to just show a little courtesy to a dear friend, senator isakson in the previous incident you re referring. i ll at the risk of not being as gracious as i should be share when the senator and i met with the south african minister that meeting was to hear their concerns about the impact of the steel tariffs on a very important alliance that chairman corker and i recently were in sweden and had a chance to hear about them and their concerns of the tariffs. i am encouraged of the meeting of eu leadership and remain concerned that the closest allies around the world are getting the wrong message in a dinner last night with the
masterful deal maker and a stable genius, but we need to call the president s statements out for what they are, at this point i find them to be misleading and untruthful. so i look forward to your testimony to find out what the truth really is. thank you, mr. chairman. thank you. thank you very much. mr. secretary, we welcome you again. and you can summarize your comments if you have any written materials you would like to enter to the record. we will do so. and with that, we look forward to your testimony. good afternoon, chairman corker, ranking member menendez and distinguished members. thank you for the opportunity to be with you today. during my confirmation hearing, you asked me to work on a host of world problems. and after 12 weeks, i ve been doing just that. i hope we ll get a chance to talk about each of those today. the last few weeks i ve engaged in three areas of particular interest to this committee, north korea, nato and russia. on the subject of russia, i want to br
concern about russia, particularly after this summit. so it s good to see senator corker acting putting a check on this. i wish that more republican senators would, because that s the only way to actually fix this problem. what do we make, though, of pompeo s defensiveness here? is this a performance for just to reassure president trump? he doesn t seem it s weird. he came in with a few prepared things. we ll never recognize crimea. okay. and he wrote down, and by the way, we in no uncertain terms i ve briefed the president. but he doesn t want to placate the skepticism. he can t look frankly like kirstjen nielsen has looked. he looks almost appall jet ix. he better than any other cabinet secretary has managed that relationship with the president by not contradicting him, not embarrassing him, not