created for which the court in its creation have not updated the idea is that there should be a place of accountability for those who commit genocide and those who commit crimes against humanity those who commit war crimes but reason those reasons are many imperative and it s important to the united states as much as is the rest of the world and that is why this court was created you keep repeating that the two weeks ago the u.s. secretary of state might pumpin i referred to a twenty seventeen request from the i.c.c. prosecutor to initiate an investigation into the situation in afghanistan that said poem pale could illegitimately target american personnel for prosecutions and sentencing in twenty eighteen the trumpet ministration warned there would be consequences if you went ahead with that request pompei i understand that request is still pending is it still pending i don t know i don t know that my answer to