kimberly was saying most sum minutes are gun from tdone fromm up with weeks and months if not years of boring meetings laying the ground work between functionaries. i think this proves the president s style, which we all know. he s winging it. there is no plan. he is taking it day by day. in fairness, sort of lie molke was saying, democratic and republican administrations have not been able to solve this problem. that usually means it is very hard, and donald trump took a gamble here, right, and i think he is still living in this gamble. and it looked like at one point it might pay off. now who knows? but i think probably what is going to happen is the odds are not good of the gamble paying off. if it does, big reward, right? i actually think in terms of a reelection, in terms of his political standing, this would be a big trophy for him. you know, some say, look, i solved or i took a step forward on major foreign policy problem, but i think the likely outcome is it won t work beca
country, for your years of service and i look forward to your testimony. i now recognize the vice chairman for any comments he might make. thank you, mr. chairman. i d like to join you in welcoming ms. haspel. gina s, it s nice to see you again and congratulations on your nomination. the position of director of the central intelligence agency is one of the most important in our government. the cia director serves as a key figure in our intelligence community. he or she leads the premier human intelligence agency in the world. the largest all source analysis workforce in the intelligence community. the cia director is responsible for providing the intelligence that informs policy makers working on every national major security in foreign policy problem facing our country. as former director pompeo s recent trip to north korea demonstrated, the director can
chairman for his comments. thank you. i would like to join you in welcoming miss haspel. gina, it s nice to see you again and congratulations on your nomination. the position of director of the central intelligence agency is one of the most important in our government. the c.i.a. director serves as a key figure in our intelligence community. he or she leads the premier human intelligence agency in the world. the largest all source analysis workforce in the intelligence community. the c.i.a. director is responsible for providing the intelligence that informs policymakers working on every major national security and foreign policy problem facing our country. as former director pompeo s recent trip to north korea demonstrated the director can also be tasked with unusual diplomatic missions.
against assad. i think the israel list didn t admit to it, that there was kinds of things that they say is that they feel oppressed from some of the drones and various things that are coming out that are being supported as one reads about this by hamas or iran. and that there had to be some way of saying this is unacceptable. but the israelis did this, again, they never had admitted it, erpler in terms of stopping a threat to what they consider their security. basically coming from forces that are being supported by iran. dana: also, i wanted to ask you about north korea. in your book you talk about your efforts to try to push back against missile program in north korea. does president trump have a point when he says that the previous administrations failed? and when president obama met with him that first day after he had won, he said this will be your biggest foreign policy problem. i think the issue has been
tour of africa right now. has he become irrelevant? is he even clued into what s happening? even beyond his own position in the administration and in public life now, it s an illustration of in any previous administration, just the ranks of experts and people to try out all the different approaches, ideas, and subject them to questioning and to draw on the history of how things went when bill clinton was trying to deal with north korea and how things went for either of the presidents bush. and the fact that the secretary of state apparently was not aware of this and that there is no ambassador to south korea at all and that the main experts in the state department dealing with north korea have resigned or not been appointed, it s a sign of just for something that is the most difficult foreign policy problem there is right now, of having nobody really other than donald trump apparently lending his attention to it, that would give one