Phillip brucker said that the north korea Breakthrough Potential upped the stakes on the mike pompphaoeubmike pompeo. They may be playing with the one opening we have with north korea. Do you agree or disagree with rucker in. Heidi heitcamp got on or board with his confirmation. It will be close. Theres some sense there is an issue where if you oppose pompeo you open yourself up to attacks. Is and some of these red states is not supporting the president on Foreign Policy during this key moment. A lot of people a lot of democrats were forced on thursday to grudgingly acknowledge sort of admiration or respect for pompeo going to meet with kim jongun over easter. It didnt move a lot of their votes. As you saw a bunch of the democrats on the Senate Foreign realizes committee, they still had to reiterate their
opposition is. Anna palmer from politico, what do you think is is the story of the week . I think one of the most interesting stories is u. N. Ambassador nikki haley asserting herself
A very real chance that this trump policy of firmness is leading kim jongun to decide that he wants a deal. I think that would be remarkably historic, and i think that having a willingness to meet with him going through this process really opens up possibilities that are very important. Kevin corke is live in West Palm Beach florida with more on this story. Kevin . Hi, melissa. Mike pompeo given his experience is perfectly suited for such an overture as the administration continues to prepare for a likely meeting with the north korean dictator, one that would come as soon as the end of may and into perhaps even early june. Lets take you to twitter. Youve talked about it today. Mike pompeo met with kim jongun in north korea last week. The meeting went smoothly. You correctly pointed out it was during the easter weekend. Meeting went smoothly and a Good Relationship was formed. Details of the summit are being worked out now. Denuclearization is being worked out. That meeting, as i mentio
it s stunning at a time in politics where there is rare lu a void of the back and forth partisanship and bickering, robert mueller, throughout this entire investigation, has stayed sigh and i think, because of that, has been able to be a figure that is above the fray. doesn t punch below his weight here. and i think that gives him even more standing with the american public and particularly with senators with trump potentially trying to move him. i agree. i continue to hope the president does nothing with the special counsel. hope speck, who do you think? i have an off capitol hill pick. mine is tammie jo schultz who piloted southwest flight 1380. everyone has heard her directing ground control as she brings the flight in, tphefbgs of of steel. she was one of the navy s first ever fighter pilots in the 1980s. she is starting this
tried your hardest to save a life. we have seen pictures of jennifer reardon the last couple of days. she is a mother of two. well loved by her community, her family. have you had any interaction with her family? i have not. my thoughts and prayers are with them daily. there s probably not a moment in the day that goes by that i don t think about them. and i know how devastating this is to them. and i kn how much theyre suffering. yoknow, i just want them to know that she was never left alone. there was always someone with her. and we definitely tried our very best. rally around her in those moments. just to hear that your loved one was not alone on can make such a difference too. we cannot ignore the heroics of the pilot tammie jo schultz. several of the flight
shrapnel when the engine exploded blowing out her windows. she was partially sucked out of the window hole. the engine went out. had a the window went out. the late did went out the window. we couldn t pull her in. a guy helped. we got her pulled in. they tried to resuscitate her. meanwhile, the pilot, tammie jo schultz is being hailed as a hero for landing the plane without more passengers being injured. schultz started at the airline in 1994. listen to her calmly speaking with air traffic control. can you have medical meet us on the runway? we have an injury passenger.