>> your unfiltered view of politics. today is 18th anniversary of the 911 terrorist attract. watch her life had coverage on c-span three from the 911 memorial plaza in new york city. the moment of silence. the reading of the names. the writing ringing of the bell. at 9:00 a.m. eastern on c-span, and the pentagon, a ceremony. live coverage of the 18th anniversary of the 911 terrorist attacks. on c-span. an online at cspan2 .org. free c-span radio app. >> earlier today it hours after resident trump in the twitter, john bolton, secretary of state mike and treasury secretary

stephen, answered several questions from reporters about the resignation. >> hello everybody. sec. pompeii and i were here today to talk about the president his new executive order. after that we be happy to take a few questions. so today, the president signed new executive order which underscores his decisive leadership inviting global terrorism. this administration is intensified our counterterrorism sanctions effort, we designated more than 230 individuals and entities in 2018, the most designation of any year the last 15 years. the new executive order, modernizing sanctions to combat errors in, which was signed to

be greatly enhances our ability to identify and sanction and deter, perpetrators of terrorism worldwide. among other provisions, the io allows usa government to better target and terrorist group leaders, provides new tools to pursue individuals who participate in terrorist training. authorizes secondary sanctions on current financial institutions that have knowingly conducted or facilitated significant financial transactions we put sanctioned persons, and targets those actors were behalf of specially designated global terrorists. utilizing this new executive order today treasury sanctioned over two dozen individuals and entities from 11 terrorist groups. specifically, we have leaders and financier from over 11 terror organizations including rns forces, isis, keita, and

their affiliates. the government has taken more action than we ever have before. the us is treasury is enhancing our efforts to deny terrorists access the us financial system. we will continue to make sure that the security of the united states and to protect innocent people from becoming victims of terrorist attacks. [inaudible conversation] >> thank you stephen. today's executive order marxist most significant update to terrorists. since 2001. specifically, today's action amends executive order 1324, buy adding causes that allow the department state and treasury, to first directly target leaders of terrorist groups and to their associated entities while having to tag tears leaders to specific acts. second more effectively and

efficiently targets entities who participated restraining, and provides new authorities to both sanctions of knowingly do business we put terrorists. the trump administration has already used existing sanctions authorities more aggressively. than any administration before us. now, we were immediately putting these new authorities to new use. today the department of state, announces the designation of 12 terrorist leaders. they include, isis iraq, former mayor explosive devices, forcing a member council, leaders from hamas, islamic jihad, isis, isis west africa anti- tb in pakistan. further, were announcing the designation of a vein, and of in syria. specially designated globalist to entity.

executive order buy president trump to be help us ensure the deadly attacks of september 11th that occurred 18 years ago this week, were never repeated on american soil. never. at this time, secretary and ire happy to take a few questions. [inaudible conversation] >> celestine the president asked for ambassador bolton his resignation as i understand it. it was received this morning. >> wasn't because of the disagreement. >> only two president made the decision but i would say this, the president is entitled to the staff when he wants. and at any moment.

if there's a staff person who works directly for the president of the united states, when he should be able to have who will trust. when it president makes a decision like this, when he is well within his rights to do so. [inaudible conversation] >> can you describe your working relationship we put josh: as it was and also is this going to make it easier for you to make your do your job. the foreign policy agenda. >> i don't talk about how this all goes, we all give our many times best. bolton disagree. thus to be true. but that's true we put lots of people who i interact we put. i run the department of state is to deliver america's diplomacy. . . .

i would say secretary pompeo and myself and the president are completely aligned in our maximum pressure campaign. we've done more sanctions on iran than anything. it's absolutely working.the president has made clear he is happy to take a meeting with no preconditions but we are maintaining the maximum pressure. [inaudible speaking] >> can you foresee a meeting between president trump and the iranian leader later this month around the united nation? >> sure. >> with this a president support that? >> the president has made it very clear his plan to meet with no preconditions.

[inaudible speaking] >> on the original guidance of this briefing, bolden was on the guidance to be here. were you two blindsided by what occurred today? that he is no longer with the administration? was it news to you today? >> i'm never surprised. [laughter] >> let me ask you ã >> and i don't mean that on just this issue. we work very closely with the president of the united states. we have a pretty good understanding of how he's thinking about things. you think you'd agree stephen, nearly all times. our mission is not to talk about the inner workings that i know yet you're so curious about what talk about the things that matter to american foreign policy i would just add that people should know and don't get into the administrative things of a notice went out yesterday. [inaudible speaking]

>> thank you very much. question about syria, we reported on the refugee camps last night. talked about how the refugee camps blending in. children dancing around the ices flight. are you concerned about these refugee camps become a breeding ground? a trading ground for terrorists? >> there's a long history of exactly what you're describing. campsin iraq . extremist elements breeding in those places but we been working diligently on this.we conducted enormous operations against ices even after the fall of the recently as the last handful of days. we are very focused on this. the successful he had moving down the euphrates river valley the department of defense led with the fdr forces was truly remarkable. we will not take our eye off the ball in sharing that whether ices or other radical islamic groups continue to be under pressure from the united states of america. just to close it up, that would

include in these camps you are referring to. >> the white house says that. [inaudible] how is it out of alignment? >> i will leave that to the white house to talk about. other than to say i think president trump, i watched his campaign, i've now worked with him as ci director and secretary of state now, someone asked with the policy be different absent any individual being here? these are but the president's policies. we give him our best wisdom, we share with him our understanding with our intelligence director we did our best to make sure they have the facts and data available to make good decisions but i don't think any leader around the world should make any assumption that because someone of us departs that president trump's foreign policy will change and materialize. >> the one thing i would say

follow-up it's been the president has been very clear on that, the president's view on the iraq war and paren bones was very different. [inaudible speaking] [inaudible question] >> looking forward to our meeting with foreign minister vargas and a little bit. we will talk about the progress that's been made. which has been substantial and real and material and has made america more secure. at the same time we know there is still work to do and we will talk about how best we can jointly deliver that. we are deeply appreciative of what the president of mexico and the foreign minister have done to increase the capacity to deter migration into the united states. you can see the numbers have improved substantially. we also know it needs to be sustained it, we still got real work to do. >>. [inaudible question]

>> i think you know the treasury department and the state department have been incredibly active on sanctions. everything we do is in consultation. but the state department. we have a massive sanctions program working but i would just add that we are concerned about the people they are and what's going on the humanitarian crisis and the secretary has worked with the neighbors extensively. the national security team consists of the national

security advisor, the secretary of defense, secretary of state, myself, the chief of staff and many others. >> do you disagree with ã [inaudible speaking] we will take one more. ma'am, in the red. >> there are reports this week that the cia had to pull top russian assets out because of concerns his identity could've been exposed. under which administration was this source and is there currently investigation into how this identity got leaked to the media? >> i've seen that reporting. i won't say anything more about it. i know the cia put on the statement. suffice to say the reporting is factually wrong. >> thank you everybody.

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