there s other things we have to work on together and i ll remind you this week the president of france, emmanuel macron, is in town. there will be a state dinner tonight, an address to congress tomorrow and what he s pressing is for president trump not to pull us out of the iran deal. he sees clearly the threat iran presents to the region, to syria with its ballistic missile program, its human rights violations by my hope is that we won t pull out of that agreement and i wasn t convinced that mike pompeo sees iran, sees syria, and sees that agreement the same way i do and at the end of the day i hope to be proven wrong. i hope mike pompeo will end up being a secretary of state who does lead with our values and does promote partnership with our allies. senator coons, it s willie geist. if you look at previous confirmation votes for secretary of state, tillerson received 56, but go back before trump, both john kerry and hillary clinton received 94 votes in the senate, condi rice receiv
highway mika and i have noticed as you re going south around 72nd and 57th street there were about seven or eight trump-branded huge condos, skyscrapers to the left of you. i think the trump name has been scraped off of five maybe five out of the seven. i don t have the exact numbers but most of those buildings no longer bear the trump name. what happened? you re right, this was a development trump had been an owner of, the banks made him sell out of it but his name wound up on a number of them so i think there were five buildings that had the trump name on them, three of them had apartment buildings and after trump won, before he took office residents complained and the owners took the name off. that leaves two buildings that have trump place in big letters and as you said for people driving up and down the west side highway in new york this is a good name placement for trump so there will be a hearing next week in new york where one of
issues of values in ways that don t reflect the best of american values and, frankly, more of my problems were with president trump and his conduct of foreign policy. it is encouraging to see that rather than tweets about fire and fury we are seeing a genuine diplomatic opening to north korea. there s a long way to go to actually accomplish denuclearization and to get kim jong-un and north korea to give up their nuclear weapons but mike pompeo and hopefully president trump seem to be making real progress in negotiating rather than threatening imminent attack on north korea. that s a positive. there are many vacancies at the state department and our ambassadorial posts around the world and i hope to have a chance to work with my colleagues on both sides of the aisle in the committee to move folks forward. most of these don t have nominations for the administration, for the south korean ambassador for example or assistant secretary for the region for east asia and pacific.
still ahead, french president macron brings his charm offensive stateside, will he be able to change president trump s mind about pulling out of the iran deal. and two members of the senate foreign relations committee, senators rand paul and chris coons will be our guests. we ll get to that and steve rattner s charts on the deficit. but first bill karins with a check on the forecast. mika, an area that joe knows well, fort walton beach. this tornado that started on land and went over the water. this is sunday, you see the debris flying around the tornado it goes over the water, it s classified as a water spout. you can see how impressive it is, the waves churned up. no one was injured or killed. but some damage was done. nothing like that today. we re still tracking the same storm moving up the east coast. richmond, umbrella day for you,
to go, but president trump doesn t want to be told what to do by the press. he doesn t want to be pushed into a corner. so maybe down the road he gets to a place where he asks pruitt to step aside. he s not there yet. he wants to do it on his terms and as sarah sanders said yesterday, he likes policiwise what scott pruitt is doing in that position. but elise, this is what i don t understand about republicans on the hill and in the white house saying oh, we agree with what scott pruitt well you know what, i m sure there are people in prisons across america who also have more of a libertarian view, have more of a libertarian view on the epa. you certainly can find, you can find dozens of people that are actually sitting members of the house and the senate, who agree completely with scott pruitt on these issues and who won t embarrass the president. and the white house daily. aren t there? no, joe, it s the most