in the senate. senate foreign relations voting on the nomination of now cia director, hoping to be secretary of state mike pompeo. there s been at least one very vocal republican critic who says he s not going to vote for him, and he doesn t think he is the right fit for the president and what he thinks is the president s foreign policy. let me tell you. rand paul ran for president and got beat like a drum. i ran for president and got beat like a drum. i think we owe it to president trump to give him the ability every other president has to pick a qualified person to be secretary of state. rand paul is a libertarian. there is no way trump is going to take a libertarian. i hated when liberal democrats basically neutralize the election. they don t recognize trump winning, but they expect us to vote for obama s people. so rand paul is a member of the republican party. he s undercutting the republican president who has picked a highly qualified republican, number one in his class at west
will listen to him. he is straddling intelligence and diplomatic posts. it s widely known that pompeo is one of trump s most trusted advisors and that he is fully authorized to speak on behalf of the commander in chief. shannon. shannon: gillian, thanks very much. time for where in the world. officials in puerto rico say it could still be another 36 hours before power is restored to nearly 1.4 million customers. excavator who accidentally downed a transmission line is being blamed for the islandwide blackout. violent protests in france over changes president emmanuel macron wants to make to the labor laws. rail workers resuming their strike, threatening months of new transportation disruptions. over the plans to overhaul the nation s state run rail company. chilean students taking to the streets of santiago to demand government funded education. the first major protests against
things when they made their decision. they are not surprised. the allegations coming out, you are right they are not as surprised. the kind of know what they were getting going into it but christians we talk to, evangelicals, they will tell you that they are not voting for president trump because of his tweets were because of the things he has allegedly done in the past. they are voting for him, shannon, because of policy, things he continues to deliver on, issues like the supreme court and the federal judges, israel, all these issues, abortion, they are so important evangelicals. shannon: there more about policies than the man. i want to ask about this meeting at wheaton college. sincere, christian institution. they gathered and said they are going to talk about all kinds of different things where evangelicals could be doing a better job on immigration, race relations. apparently somewhere along the way there was a lot of discussion about president trump and i want to read somethi
the conservative president s-month-old and administration. scuffles in nigeria. a thief grabbed the ceremonial mace which is a symbol of authority of the legislature and took off. it usually sits on a table. decisions can be made without i it. their identity is unknown but the maze was found under a highway overpass. despite president trump s alleged affairs and sometimes faulty language, his popularity among evangelical voters is sky-high. we will dig into it. we will ask jenna browder. she joins us live next. k every six months i m accident free. and i don t share it with mom! right, mom? righttt. safe driving bonus checks. only from allstate. switching to allstate is worth it. you might be missing something.y healthy.
got along with him really well. president trump making it clear he thinks mike pompeo is exactly the right man for the job when it comes to laying the groundwork for negotiations with north korea. plenty of critics on capitol hill are voicing concern about choice. the administration continues to marginalize the state department. no reason why the cia should be prenegotiating meeting between the north korean leader and u.s. president. it should be the state department. other lawmakers point out the usual rules of diplomacy don t apply in this case. because the u.s. doesn t actually have formal diplomatic relations with kim jong un s regime. we have always known that our contacts with north korea have been through the intelligence community. i forget made a lot of sense for him to be the person you meet with him. i can understand whether question might be raised but our back channel to them has always been through the cia. even if president trump wanted to conform to tradition