Chris that we will ask secretary of state mike pompeo live only ont reaction from demc senator Chris Van Hollen. Then, Congress Returns from brake to its standoff over impeachment over impeachment. We cant hold a trial without the articles. We are no closer to establishing the rules for a senate trial than when we last met. Chris we will ask our sunday panel where the process stands more than two weeks after the houseboat. And our power player of the week, the true hollywood story of the head of the Motion Picture association. I went from working to kermit and miss piggy to the president of the United States. Chris all right now now on fox news sunday. And hello again from fox news and washington. The Deadly Strike on iranian general Qasem Soleimani marks a major escalation in a standoff between washington and tehran, raising fears of allout war. The u. S. Sending more than 4,000 additional troops to the middle east this week as iran promises to seek revenge. In a moment we will speak live with secretary of state mike pompeo, but first lets get the latest from kevin corke at the president s maralago retreat in kevin. An extraordinary session this sunday, they are considering whether to ask the was to withdraw troops from their country. That consideration comes just a couple days after that american drone strike took out an iranian general on iraqi soil. Sparking fears of a wider regional conflict. Over the weekend, iraqs Prime Minister strongly criticized the u. S. Drone strike that killed iranian general Qasem Soleimani and permanently took part in the massive antiu. S. Protest in baghdad. White house officials said it was soleimani who directed the recent assault on the u. S. Embassy in baghdad and was responsible for killing hundreds of americans worldwide. In iran, a massive funeral procession through several cities to honor the slain general who many consider the second most powerful man in the Islamic Republic. Overnight, President Trump tweeting if iran attacked an american base or any american, we will be sending someone for that brandnew beautiful equipment their way. And threatening to strike 52 iranian sites representing the 52 american hostages taken by iran many years ago. Iranian foreign minister survives every respondent targeting cultural strike to sites as a war crime and irans Telecommunications Minister told trump a terrorist in a suit. After a twoweek vacation here in florida, the president makes his way back home where eanglemd and a possible impeachment trial here in the states. Chris. Chris kevin corke reporting from maralago. Kevin, thank you. Joining us now here in washington, the secretary of state mike pompeo, welcome back to fox and the sun sir. Secretary pompeo great to be with you, thanks for having me on this morning. Chris you know that the Iraqi Parliament is holding an emergency session today to discuss the question as to whether u. S. Troops, the 5,000 trips we have there should remain in the country. It has just come across the wire that the iraqi Prime Minister says it is in the interest of both iraq and the u. S. To end foreign troop presence in iraq and he also says that the killing of general soleimani and also a top militia leader was backed by iran were political assassinations. Your reactions are . Chris, the American People should know that President Trump will never shy away from protecting and defending america. Its what weve done over these past weeks and days, its what weve done over our our entire three years with our middle east strategy. The activity are seeing is fully consistent with that. The American People should know we will continue the president waited again last night, we will take the actions necessary to keep americans safe. After the activity of the day with respect to iraq with that in the country, supporting iraqi sovereignty, continuing to take them a terrorist threat against the iraqi people. Prime minister is the resigned Prime Minister, he is the acting Prime Minister. He is under enormous threats from the very iranian leadership that it is that we are pushing back against. We are confident that the iraqi people want the United States to continue to be there to fight the counterterror campaign and we will continue to do all the things we need to do to keep america safe. Chris but if iraq it is a sovereign country. If they demand that we leave, will we leave, and if we do, wont automatically hurt the fight against isis and stability in the region . Secretary pompeo we will have to take a look at what we do when the iraqi leadership in government makes its decision, but the American People should know we will make the right decision. We will take actions that frankly the Previous Administration refused to take to do just that. Chris President Trump says that general soleimani was planning a imminent attack against americans. Youve said it was a big action that could potentially kill hundreds of american diplomats and soldiers. It was the plan . Who were the targets, and how soon . Secretary pompeo President Trump was right and what he said, so was i. We will share all the intelligence that we can. I was the cia director for a little while. Theres things we simply cannot make public about what it is we knew at that time and what in fact we know today about the continuing activity. I think the general got it right when he said we were culpably negligent had we not gone after soleimani only had the opportunity. He was actively engaged in plotting against american interests. We need look no further than what he had personally done over the days before that when an american was killed on december 27th. If theres no surprise, theres plenty of public evidence about the bad behavior of soleimani, he was a designated terrorist and would have the right thing. Chris i just want to press to this degree, he had been targeting americans and other people around the region for decades, the blood of 600 americans was on his hands during the iraq war. The question is that there are some intelligence agents who are talking to Media Outlets who are saying yes, he was doing bad things, but it was another day in the middle east and some congressional leaders who have been briefed now say that the intelligence was not of an imminent attack that was bigger, more worrisome. Dont the American People have the right to some understanding of what it was, why it was so urgent to take out soleimani n now . Secretary pompeo havent heard any of the congressional leaders who have seen the full set of intelligence make the comments that you just described but i think any reasonable person who saw the intelligence that the senior american leaders had in their possession would have come the same conclusion that President Trump and our Leadership Team did about the fact that there would have been more risk to america, more risk through inaction than the action we took. I think its very clear, its very plain we will do everything we can to share this information with the American People but i think the American People understand there are certain things you just cant put out in public. You got to protect americans who are out collecting intelligence. The intelligence we will need in the days and weeks ahead to continue to defend and protect them. Chris irans leaders are bowing a crushing response using words like hard revenge. What do we do if they strike back, if they retaliate . Is there a plan . Because of the fact that we went after soleimani, has there been a change in u. S. Response or where no longer going to go after the enemy in the field, we are now going to go after irans command and control . Secretary pompeo the American People know there is a strategy, its a strategy that has been several years in the making now that weve been working on. Its been a diplomatic strategy, and economic strategy. You are now seeing elements of the military strategy and with respect to targets, President Trump talked about 52 targets that night. Thats not new in the following sense. Weve made clear to the theocrats and pop regrets that are running around today, running into the ground against the will of their own people, we made clear to them that we would not respond just against these proxy forces that they run in yemen and in syria and iraq and lebanon. We made clear that this would be brought home to them, to the leadership regime in iran and that we would raise costs. We wouldnt just attack their asymmetric efforts, we would respond in a way that impose costs on the decisionmakers who are putting american lives at risk. Chris so youre saying to the supreme leader, youre saying to president rouhani, youre saying to leaders of the revolutionary guard, dont think that you are offlimits . Secretary pompeo what im saying is exactly what President Trump has said, we will take responses that are appropriate and commencement with actions that threaten american lives, thats what weve done so far, theres no reason the American People or the Iranian Regime should ever expect we will do anything different. Chris you talk about the strategy. The president has been pushing what he calls the maximum pressure strategy since he took office. He pulled out of the Iran Nuclear Deal in may of 2018, he imposed tough economic sanctions and this summer he suggested that the strategy was working. Take a look. Iran is a much different country than two an and a half years ago when i took over. Iran was all over. If they had 1418 different sites of confliction. They were all over. And now they just want to oh, they want to negotiate a deal so badly. Chris but in 2019 alone, iran hit ships, shot down a u. S. Drone, launched an attack against Saudi Oil Facilities, a damaging attack and for all the talk of isolating a run, they just conducted joint exercises with china and russia. So the question is, has the president s maximum pressure strategy made iran less aggressive or more . Secretary pompeo panic aggression on the part of the iranian leadership because they know that the iranian people are demanding enormous change. And they know that the iranian people are supported by america in that demand for change. We build out a huge coalition. At gulf states, israel, countries all across the world for joining us. They are joining us not only in the efforts in the straits of hormuz, but in the airefforts. All across the region. The malign actor of iran has been identified. Remember where we came in. 2015 the Obama Biden Administration essentially handed power to the iranian leadership and acted as a quasially of theirs. But underwriting them, underwriting the very militias that killed americans. Those resources, the money they had to build out those forces was provided to them by the nuclear deal. We allowed europeans to go to business there, provided a 150 billion, all of these things of the very challenge that the Trump Administration has had to correct. Strategy is working, we are going to stay the course and we will protect and defend the American People at every step. Chris just you know i asking senator van hollan about that in the next segment. President trump also says that he is keeping his Campaign Promise to pull u. S. Troops out of the middle east. Heres what he had to say in october. The plan is to get out of endless wars, bring our soldiers back home, to not be policing agents all over the world. It was a quick hit except they stayed for almost ten years. Let someone else fight over this long bloodstained sand. Chris but just this week, the u. S. Deployed 100 marines to the u. S. Embassy in baghdad, plus 752 the region and now another 3500. If the president pulling us out of endless wars in the middle east or with his action this week did he take a big step back in . Secretary pompeo endless wars are the direct result of weakness and President Trump will never let that happen. We are going to get it right, were going to get the force posture right, we are going to get our facilities as hardened as we can possibly get them to defend against what iran may potentially do, but make no mistake, Americas Mission is to have our footprint in the middle east reduced while still keeping america safe. Safe from rogue regimes like the Islamic Republic of iran and from terrorist activity broadly throughout the region. Speeones was it fair to say that while the big strategy is to pull the u. S. Out of endless wars, at least in the short term there could be more of a commitment . Secretary pompeo the Obama Administration created an enormous risk to the American People in iran. This administration is working to reduce that risk. Chris finally, some analysts suggest that the impeachment of President Trump has emboldened enemies like iran and north korea to think that they can confront him. Do you think that is misguided as it may be, that some of our enemies think that this president is more vulnerable because of the impeachment effort . Secretary pompeo you should ask mr. Soleimani. Chris i understand that, but he was going ahead before you killed him and the question is do you think that impeachment is emboldening our enemies . Secretary pompeo i dont. I think that our adversaries understand the President Trump and our administration will do the right thing to protect the American People everyplace that we find risk. Chris secretary pompeo, thank you. Thanks for coming in on a very busy weekend. Secretary pompeo thank you. Chris when we come back, democrats raised questions about the wisdom and legality of the president s decision to take out soleimani. We will talk with a top democratic senator, Chris Van Hollen, thats next. Theyre walking into a trap. Your orders are to deliver a message calling off tomorrows attack. If you fail, we will lose sixteen hundred men. 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Chris as soon as the drone strike took out soleimani he went other democrats started criticizing the action of President Trump and his top officials, say that there was an imminent attack and that taking out soleimani prevented it. You just heard secretary pompeo say that again on this program. Dont you believe them . Senator van hollen i think we learned the hard way come across in iraq, in the iraq war that administrations sometimes manipulate and cherry pick intelligence to further their political goals. Thats what got us into the iraq war. There was no wmd. Chris just to interrupt, i understand thats happened in the past, are you saying its happening now . Senator van hollen im saying they have an obligation to pretense the evidence, they did not notify the gang of eight. At one opportuni just two days ago to brief senior staff at the top secret level, no evidence to support their claim of an imminent threat. Look, Everybody Knows that soleimani was a very bad, despicable guy. Theres no debate there. But the claim of an imminent threat they have not supported and what we do know is this dramatic escalation is not putting americans at greater risk. If, in fact, secretary pompeos own state department right after these attacks urged americans to leave iraq, so obviously they thought it was a more dangerous situation there the day after the day before and as youve just reported, we sent 4,000 additional troops to iraq, this from a president claiming he wants to get out of wars and the middle east. If chris but theres no question and you certainly would agree, that soleimani was our enemy. He had been responsible directly or indirectly for the death of hundreds of american soldiers during the iraq war. Theres no question that he was he wasnt taking a vacation as he was traveling around the middle east this last week, was making war plans for terror attacks, spreading irans malign influence. Why not kill him . Senator van hollen well, because you have to look at what the consequences are. We dont go around killi