problems and we need to do that. we need to start to solve some of these. your response is something i d like to shine a light on because the previous occupant of the secretary of state position once indicated that part of the rational behind his funding request for the department of state was that there would be less of a need on account of highly effective near term diplomacy for as much funding. any large organization here in washington or beyond can be made more efficient and we can identify funding decreases that might be made. ids rega
island unto himself, because if you look at pompeo s record, he is an internationalist. he s a hawk on russia. he understands the threat coming from china. in other words, if you think that president trump has isolationist tendencies, doesn t value american alliances and isn t taking seriously enough the problems we re facing from russia and from beijing, mike pompeo is the kind of thinker you want advising the president every day. i think that a lot of republicans are encouraged, even if they didn t like the way rex tillerson was fired, they re encouraged to have mike pompeo and somebody like him the way he looks at the world moving into the secretary of state position. we shall see. david drucker, ana navarro, thanks, appreciate it. thanks, fred. a missing pennsylvania teen found safe in mexico. the 45-year-old man found with her is now under arrest. the bizarre details as authorities try to piece together the personal connection, next.
let s ask paula hancocks live in seoul with the latest. good morning, paula. reporter: hello, dave. it s a very good question, and it s probably one that north korea is asking itself at this point. we still haven t had any kind of public response from pyongyang since the u.s. president said yes to that meeting with kim jong-un. of course, we know that rex tillerson was more positive about engagement with north korea. he had publicly disagreed with his boss, donald trump, in the past about korea. mike pompeo, director of the cia, is more hard-line in his policy. we ve heard him publicly say he supports regime change in north korea. of course when he, if he does become confirmed for the secretary of state position, his personal position could well change to be more in line with the u.s. president. but there are some concerns as to what this actually means for this meeting that s coming up. we also know the south korean
celebrating that there is chaos in foreign policy and the direction of national security. i like to say this is like scandal, where you have this international intrigue and who is dating whom and what is happening instead of focusing on the issues that are important to this country. also, james, how did it go so wrong for rex tillerson? it s not a surprise that he is out. i mean, this is a president who has prided himself on hiring the best and surrounding himself with the greatest and being a great deal maker. how did he get the secretary of state position so wrong, ie choosing someone that he clearly wasn t on the same wavelength with? one of the first things that stands out is he was a successful businessman and there wasn t a ton of time to vet how he operated as a businessman. i think one of the things we learned when he was at exxon, he liked to keep a very close network of people that has translated into the state department. he largely left the state department unmanned.
want differences of opinion around the table the message to people, including secretary mike pompeo, assuming he gets confirmed for the secretary of state position, the president can talk about conflict in public but if you undercut him, if you say something different from him, if you conflict with him, he s going to fire you. so what is it wolf? does he like conflict to get different ideas or does he can you if you get something he says? hold on a moment, adam schiff, top democrat of the house intelligence committee now speaking. last night, the majority on the intelligence committee made the decision to prematurely shut down the russia, the only authorized investigation in the house of representatives into what the russians did in the last election, what the u.s. government response was, and the issue of any coordination or collusion with the trump campaign. that was a terrible disservice to the country and the american people and represented a reneging on the commitment that w