In, officially sworn in. What does mike pompeo bring to this job and this department, hogan . He brings a wealth of experience and knowledge about issues, conflicts across the globe. It was an outstanding pick by President Trump. I got a chance to be in the room when the votes came in. It was a bipartisan effort. Every member of Congress Took a look at the nominee. We picked up a few democrats, which is rare, considering how they have been so obstructionists in many of the president s picks. I went to the Supreme Court when they did the swearing in. But at a time when theres so many issues across the globe with the impending conversation with north korea, iran, the conversations with israel and other partners and allies, its so important to have someone in this position who is experienced, who has bipartisan support and can do the job. He has the president s confidence, near in lock step on the issues. Its vital. In addition, the president nominated someone with equal amounts of experi
Among other things, sanctions, which the president told us he did not have to do anything of this. The president say basically stay tuned because if you were doing a word cloud over the president s head today, i think the word process would have come up the most because it seems to me that what the president is saying that originally the United States had said we want them to denuclearize before we even get to step one and now it seems to me what the president is saying is this is going to be a long process, which is more like what south korea has been talking about, which is set some benchmarks, have they will denuclearize, ease a sanction here, a sanction there and we do it over a long period. And i think just in reading between the lines today, it seems to me that maybe the president is tending towards that idea more. A gettingtoknowyoumeeting plus. Elise, i was watching your reaction. You were reminding everyone normally a meeting of this stature is done months, weeks in advance, i
A toxic link. Two british nationals are in Critical Condition right now after being exposed to a dangerous poison. Following the Detailed Analysis of those samples, we can confirm that the man and woman have been exposed to the nerve agent. So how did a nerve agent used against a former russian double agent and his daughter sicken two seemingly innocent people nearly four months later and eight miles away . And swinging left. An exclusive look inside one groups mission to flip the house of representatives one district at a time. You either lie down or you say im going to stand up, im going to join with you. It takes a village to flip a house. But we begin today with the news about Michael Cohen. The man we know as President Trumps longtime fixer who spent at least part of his fourth of july scrubbing references to the president from his twitter bio. And on linked in, he makes it clear hes no longer the president s attorney or an employee of the trump organization. The obvious question
The Susan Collins way or the protest way. Who do you want to run the government . This man has been mistreated and they were designed to trip him up. 14 men arrested as the crowd cheered them on. The mob was not able to intimidate the senate. We did the right thing for a good man. Good saturday morning, we start with the fox news alert, confirmation confirmed, senator Susan Collins sealed the deal for Brett Kavanaugh and the senate will head to final floor vote later today. Rachel and chris this morning, it was historic. Senator collins is not the favorite of the Republican Base but was the hero yesterday. A joke that Susan Collins is on the fence about an issue here and there but mark my words, the words of senator collins on the floor yesterday will be referred to in the near future time and time again . For the stance she took on principle of the presumption of innocence. Here is what senator collins said yesterday, take a listen. Brett kavanaugh received rave reviews for his 12 you
Russia. Mr. Bolton emerged with mr. Trump unmoved and instructed the aid to look for new unts to get those officials in front of mr. Trump. The testimony tying trump directly and seemingly unilaterally to the decision to withhold military assistance comes against the backdrop of more new testimony tying trump to the conditioning of military aid in exchange for investigations into biden. From the transcript of morrisons closeddoor testimony released over the weekend about trumps reliance on e. U. By any chance Gordon Sondland to carry out his orders. The Intel Committee chairman adam schiff asks. Sondland understood his responsibilities to be doing what the president asked him to do . Morrison replies he related to me he was actinghe was discussing these matters with the president. Schiff asks, and, in fact, every time you went to check to see whether he had in fact talked to the president , you found that he had talked to the president . Morrison supplies yes, mr. Chairman. And perhaps