Best away leaving a lovely wife and family. I want to express my condolences to him. He worked together on prolife issues at my time in congress. If you have some questions, i will take questions today. I want offer my condolences to the people of australia for the tragic loss of and property with the tragic wildfires. Americas thoughts and prayers are with them in the personnel putting their selves in harms way and the dozens of u. S. Firefighting personnel standing sidebyside with our australian friends fighting the flames. When i was in sydney, we had a truly Unbreakable Alliance and they are great friends and we are happy to be able to help the aussies in this time of need. In asia, we noted the appointment of the new head of the Hong Kong Chinese liaison office. He has expects hopes expressed hopes that hong kong will go back to the right path in that is for the right path. Guarantee the independent rule of law and freedoms that the chinese living on the mainland unfortunately do
Lawmakers standing and shouting death to america. Iran announced it will abandon another key commitment under its International Nuclear deal, meantime neighboring iraq, Parliament Members there holding a vote today, urging the government to end u. S. Troop presence in the country in the wake of soleimanis killing. U. S. Secretary of state delivering a message to people who are not convinced that soleimani posed an urgent and imminent danger. Mike pompeo saying it was the right move. Theres no need to guess about what soleimani would have been up to the day after, the day after, the day after. This was a bad guy. We took the right action. President trump will never shy away from that. Fred pleitgen, you actually sat down with a military adviser to the supreme leader. Tell our viewers what he said. He is part of the processes that go on here with the leadership in tehran. He told me three key things. First of all, there will be a response by the iranians, a military response against mili