you know, the secretary of state job is vacant. if it s mike pompeo, he won t agree with mattis on many of those things, and john bolton replacing h.r. at the white house leaves mattis in many ways exposed. i don t expect mattis to stop making the same arguments that he s been making, and getting overruled. the question is, what will the president do or think about that relationship going forward. perhaps a general own island. traveling with the president, in sunny, warm mar-a-lago. thank you both, ladies. appreciate you. saying good-bye to a woman who will be remembered for her whit and wisdom in equal parts. how this country plans to honor former first lady barbara bush and the lasting impression she made on that wellesley graduating class of 1990.
still yes! xfinity delivers gig speed to more homes than anyone. now you can get it, too. welcome to the party. new jersey democrat senator menendez announced he will be opposing mike pompeo s nomen aches as secretary of state. before we get to your opposition
120,000 people detained in four known camps who are subjected to torture and other maltreatment. right now there are three americans in detainment as, quote, prisoners of war in north korea. none have been seen since june of last year. ali, it is so important to alert our audience, really, who we re dealing with here. if you don t know, one world leader and another. this ain t just a world leader. joining us now jane harmon, the president and the ceo of e woodrow wilson center. jane, let s start with you. we re getting mixed reaction to the meeting from democrats this morning. let s listen. i think we should all admit that it s good not bad that the trump administration is trying to do some work ahead of this meeting. director pompeo is the wrong person to be engaging in diplomacy. we need a secretary of state, and not a cia director doing
another case of politicizing intelligence and in this case a top secret mission for a political end. sounds like, ned, you think this administration might have leaked this whole thing to make mr. pompeo seem a little less hawk and a little more dove? the reporters who were on this washington post story are dogged reporters. i have no doubt they came upon this information themselves, but there were other outlets that were quickly able to match this citing in most cases two administration sources, which is highly unusual. seems the administration as soon as it knew it had a leak on its hands decided to make lemonade out of lemons and quickly spread word of mike pompeo s trip to help his candidacy. i think that s rinchts president trump sright. president trump saying in a tweet a great thing for world but also for north korea. ned does denuclearization, does it mean the same thing to kim
through the president s worst instincts which is a knee-jerk reaction more often to a military force than a diplomatic solution. i don t think that this in and of itself meets the threshold of establishing mike pompeo as someone who will stop the president s worst instincts and be a forceful advocate for diplomacy as the first line of defense in our national interests and security. that was video of mr. pompeo walking into the office of virginia senator mark warner there. senator, let s talk about this meeting between the president and kim jong-un. again if it happens, do you have confidence in a positive outcome from a trump/kim meeting? well, i m hopeful, but a meeting is not a strategy. and what this administration is devoid of, whether it relates to north korea, whether it relates to iran, russia, syria, is a