this started days ago when iris kelly pressed pompeo on why he hadn t spoken out in defense of his employees, including former ambassador of ukraine, marie yavonovitch. she later accused him of lying about the topic covered in her entinterview. kylie atwood joins us in the state department. kylie, mike pompeo is berating npr for the statehood? here s what happened. the reporter who has been covering the department for nearly 20 years was kicked off an upcoming secretary of state trip. she was planning on going on that trip. it involved a stop in ukraine. but she was notified over the weekend by the state department that she would no longer be traveling. and i think it s important to note that she wasn t just going to report for npr, she was the
highlighted the significance of the american alliance with saudi arabia going back for decades and decades. that is the pressing question for the state department and the white house as they re figuring out how to handle this. to what extent do they jeopardize the united states ties with saudi? it sounded like a splash of cold water from secretary pompeo on calls to quickly confront saudi arabia even as the evidence seems to be mounting that they were complicit in the murder of jamal khashoggi. you talk about the financial ties, he talked about the counter terrorism alliance, which comes down in large part the shared rivalry with iran. they seem unwilling to back down from it even as the evidence seems to be piling up. hans nichols is joining us from the white house north lawn. i understand you were at the sticks when secretary pompeo came out. not a lot of heads-up. he did take a couple of questions. reporter: our own peter alexander pressed him on what s going to change if the
and joint chiefs chairman. he said the president just made council meetings option for those two officials. let s bring in tara moller, the spokesperson for the counter extremism project. good to see you. good to see you. shepard: this is easy to push away saying there s nothing here. what is this? there is something here. some people might push it away and is say it s bureaucratic reorganization. two things that are significant here. number 1, you re right. joint chiefs and the dni were both given nonmandatory rules on the nfc principal s committee and the promotion of steve bannon, a political advisor. these are departures from the past. i m glad to see sean spicer modified the order saying they will be adding c.i.a. director pompeo on. begs the question why this was happening after the case and not