on and on. so they re going to dig deeper and deeper and he s going to have to he s going to have to find that battle. you said democrats and republicans, the one i m going to be watching is rand paul, who is he s already said he s he said he s going to vote against it. he has a platform. he sits on this committee, to really press pompeo on these issues of surveillance, but maybe not so much well, that would probably be his issue that is rand paul s big issue, but on broader world view issues with regard to this administration. so that s going to be a really even if he loses rand paul, which he almost certainly will, rand paul will impose his nomination, and even if john mccain, let s say, is recovering from brain from brain cancer, out in air, he canrizonarizona,p for a vote, there will be moderate democrats who will support this nominee. there were 15 who supported his nomination for cia director. that s right. and a lot of those were those
white house, he was dealing with that, he was dealing with potential dealing with military strikes in the balkans. so this is not unusual for a president to have to deal not unheard of, unprecedented, to deal with an investigation while actually being commander in chief. the question is how they deal with it. and so far, he s sort of conflated the two in a way that is very uncomfortable for many of his military leaders. it certainly that tweet yesterday when he suggested, you know, very specifically that so much of the deterioration in the u.s./russian relationship was connected to the russia investigation, the probe ongoing here in washington. president our relationship with russia, he said yesterday, is worse now than it has ever been and that includes the cold war and he said a lot of this is the result of this russia investigation. i mean, it is an odd rewriting of history, right? i mean, if you look at what
and i ll listen. i had an old crusty sergeant first class when i was a brand-new second lieutenant, if you ll shut up and listen, your life will be a whole hell of a lot better. he was right about that. he taught me a lot about how to be a good platoon leader. i plan to do that with the talented people that reside at the state department. i ll talk a little bit about the work itself. by definition, the jo be description is to serve as the president s chief foreign affairs adviser. this was driven home to me in those conversations with every former secretary of state to a person that were remarkably consistent by saying the job number one is to represent the president. for me this means building substantial relationships with our allies, relationships that president trump and i can utilize for both tough conversations and productive cooperation. it also means working with our adversaries where needed to make clear objectives and let them know the means by which we intend to achieve them
how if i m confirmed i would be most likely to be a successful secretary of state. if you know me at all, two people sitting to my right rear provide my balance, susan keeps the home front humming. as always there to remind me family issues that affect not just the pompeiios, but family issues that affect every officer at the central intelligence agency as well. that keeps me humble, keeps my sense of humor alive. they had lots of opportunities to tell me to step back, to step away, but they haven t, they have encouraged it, they have promoted it, and they are incredibly supportive of my efforts to serve america. a moment here too, to the men and women of the cia. to say that it has been an honor and privilege and a joy doesn t do just to these past 15 months. i ve tee mademanded a lot of yo set the expectation bar high, i pushed responsibility and authority down to each and every one of you, and a long with that
has significant, still, chlorine at his dissupposal that can be weaponized. an industrial agent. weaponizing it is against international law. it has all the signs of what would be a chlorine attack. when macron said that, he said we have evidence of at least chlorine. the frothing at the mouth, red eyes, respiratory problems that some of the survivors had, all of that indicates from a circumstantial look at it as evidence of chlorine. how far is the state department in going in saying there is 100% proof that assad was responsible for this poison gas attack and potentially that the russians knew about it? we re not going to hear them go that far at this point. they sounded close to that the last time we heard them talk about it. they said they have evidence that this is the syrian regime. they stated that pretty definitively. they didn t leave a whole lot of room in there for it to be anything different. what do you think, phil? you used to work at the cia. a lot of people are sk