bill: we have significant news on the foreign policy front today. the u.s. withdrawing from a reagan era nuclear arms treaty for russia citing persistent violations by moscow and north korea launching a third round of missile tests in a week s time. dan hoffman, good morning to you. mike pompeo tweets this. the u.s. and nato agree russia violated the inf and leaving the agreement is in the best interest of our security. treaties are worthless unless respected by all. so much for going easy on russia and putin. trying to get russia to agree to this and it hasn t worked. why not? russia has been violating this treaty for years. i think we have to consider this in the context of our overall relationship with russia. and under kgb operative in the kremlin vladimir putin russia behaves like a rogue state.
deciding to pull out of a reagan era nuclear arms treaty with russia and the pentagon will withdraw thousands of troops from afghanistan as a potential deal with the taliban hangs in the balance. bill: kevin corke begins all of that from the north lawn. good morning. the u.s. has long contended that that treaty tied its hands with respect to china. for that matter the russians were not in compliance. i want to share part of a statement from the secretary of state mike pompeo. it reads in part dating back to the mid 2000s. russia developed and tested and fielded multiple battalions of its non-compliant missile. the u.s. will not remain a party to a treaty deliberately violated by russians. it dates to the cold war. reagan and gorbachev signed that treaty in an effort to
or so we re told right now. on that topic, i don t think there s going to be much compromise. now, the president could focus on other things and make the speech more of a jeremiah, and more of a different issues, dinner kind of tone. what that means going-forward is hard to say. previously, in years past, the white house has told us to expect an aspirational unifying speech and soon we re back in political warfare. even some of the president s allies can see, we re going to be back in the heart of the immigration fight next week. josh, thank you for your reporting. breaking news now from the state department. the u.s. will pull out of a key reagan era nuclear arms treaty. how russia is responding, you re live in the cnn newsroom. ily hi. went to ancestry, i put in the names of my grandparents first. i got a leaf right away. a leaf is a hint that is connected to each person