Secretary of state mike pompeo discussed Foreign Policy and Transatlantic Relations at a Virtual Summit posted by the German Marshall Fund of the United States. He talked about the west relationship with china, warning about that countries influence and their handling of the coronavirus pandemic and treatment of hong kong. Good morning. Good afternoon from brussels. Welcome back to 2020 and today we are very pleased and honored to welcome u. S. Secretary of state Michael Pompeo for a special conversation. We hosted the secretary in brussels and we are pleased to have him back again for what is sure to be a closely watched conversation on typical challenges facing less than Foreign Policy and Transatlantic Relations. As always, let me say a word of thanks to our part Founding Partners in the Belgian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and deloitte and supporting Knowledge Partners we are grateful to all of you. Let me say a very special thank you to u. S. Missions European Union and all three f
Good morning and good afternoon from brussels and the 15th edition we are very pleased to welcome you secretary ofnd state Michael Pompeo for a special conversation we have hosted the secretary be for and are pleased to have him back again which is a closely watched conversation on those critical challenges on both sides of thend atlantic. Let me say a word of thanks toou our partners into all associate we are grateful to all of them also a very special thank you to the European Union and all three missions for their consistent partnership also let me say about the forum today, the secretary will make some brief remarks that we are pleased to turn this over for a conversation you have a conversation with the secretary then he has kindly agreed to take a few questions so once again thank you for being with us and brussels thank you for joining. Thank you welcome to secretary of state to tell us what is on his mind i and then i will take some questions from the audience. Please go ahead.
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that s my line. we have got some headlines for you. let s begin here. big news this morning. ukraine s president volodymr zelenskyy heading in person the g7 summit in japan to meet face to face with president biden and other world leaders. also, that accused pentagon leaker is going appear in court in a few hours and former and current defense officials are expressing alarm that the young airman kept his job even after he was reported multiple times to commanders for mishandling class fight intelligence. disney delivered a huge $1 billion employee to ron desantis florida right before he is expected to announce a run for president. this hour of cnn this morning starts right now. and we have been tracking developments really all morning out of japan this morning where white house now says president biden left dinner early with world leaders at the g7 summit to get an update on what is happening back in washington on the debt limit talks. the crisis in d.c. oversh