service by america's cable television companies. bring youcontinue to unfiltered coverage of congress. the white house. the supreme court. and public policy events in washington, d.c. and run the evening -- country. c-span is brought to you by your cable or satellite provider. at the state department tuesday, secretary of state mike pompeo paperport is an update on the investigation into the death of washington post columnist kirchoff schalke -- jamal khashoggi. >> good afternoon, everyone. i want to start off by offering a somber commemoration, 35 years ago today has blood terrorists

drove a chock-full of explosives into the marine barracks in lebanon. that act ofr forget terrorism or the euros who came in peace and gave their lives that day. the president just spoke, as many of you know. there are five topics i want to address today. first, we are encouraged by the high voter turnout in the afghan parliamentary elections this past weekend. we commend their efforts to facilitate credible elections. there were some technical issues. despite that, we remain committed to assisting the election commissions in their work for the presidential election that will come in april of 2019. caravan is migrant

violating mexico's sovereignty, laws, and immigration procedures. president trump will not stand for this to happen to the united states. say that this is a hardhearted stance, let's not forget that the united states is a historically generous nation when it comes to immigration. one million people per year are granted permanent legal status here in the united states. over 33 million people are currently here who have immigrated to this country legally. here,se who want to come come here legally. legal immigration is the surest way to obtain the better life you are looking for here in the united states of america. from a security standpoint, there is no proper accounting of who these individuals are. this poses an unacceptable security risk to the united states. many of these people

are targets for human traffickers and others who would exploit them. we don't want that to happen. i've spoken twice in the last , wedays to my counterparts trust that mexico's leaders know what the best steps are to resolve the situation and we urge timely action on their part. the united states also has a message for those were currently part of this caravan or any caravan which follows. at will not be successful getting into the united states illegally. no matter what. the caravan will not cross our southern border under any circumstances. , goou seek to come here through the normal refugee process. status,pply for refugee a permanent solution is possible or it -- in mexico or a third country. -- third world country. we are determined that illegal entry into the united states from this caravan will not be possible.

third, the state department will continue to seek all relative facts and work with other nations to hold accountable those responsible for the killing of democracy. the ministration is also taking appropriate actions now, given the information currently available to the united states. we have identified at least some of the individuals responsible, including those in the intelligence services, the foreign ministry and other saudi ministries who we suspect to have been involved. we are taking appropriate actions, which include reviews -- revoking visas and other measures. we are working with the treasury department to review the applicability of global sanctions to those individuals. these penalties will not be the last word on this manner from the united states. we will explore additional measures to hold those responsible accountable. we are making very clear that the united states does not

tolerate this kind of ruthless action to silence mr. khashoggi. maintain a strong partnership with the kingdom of saudi arabia, neither the president nor i are happy with the situation. our shared strategic interests with saudi arabia remain, we remain to view as achievable the twin imperatives of protecting america and holding accountable those responsible for the killing of mr. khashoggi. week, a delegation of cuban diplomats through a childish temper tantrum at a un-sponsored gathering. highlightinging the cuban regime's intolerance of political operation. response, i have written a letter to the un's secretary-general requesting to know what measures the you will take to respond to these actions and make sure that they do not happen again. finally, it is my honor to tell you that investor dan smith will

become the new director of the foreign intelligence institute. i will devote a piece of my time and attention to this as a secretary of state. this is a very important institution here. dan will lead the state department responsibly. dan shares my vision. i knew him when he was head of inr and i was in my previous role. he shares my vision of having the best diplomatic corps in the world. he is impeccably qualified and i look forward to him taking the helm. i will take a few questions. the president just called what the saudi operation or attempts to conceal the worst cover-up in history of coverups,

i'm wondering if you agree with that characterization. if you could be more suspicious specific about the visa regulations, how many are we talking about? on the migrants, what would you say to people who would criticize your comments just now as being disingenuous by telling them to apply for refugee status when this administration has slashed the number of refugees it will limit. >> you just us three question. i assume everyone in the room would've been very disappointed in you. let me take the last one. this is a historically generous nation. there is no mistaking that. it will continue to be so. those who want to come here legally have every means available to do that. people can file to be refugees and other countries.

what we know is this. we are a nation built on laws. we have an obligation to protect american sovereignty and to secure our borders, to make sure we know who was coming in and out of our country. it's the duty of the united states government. we will continue to execute that with great energy and vigor. second, i will get you the numbers. i want to make sure i get them right. iere's not a lot more that can say about it, other than to say this is not the last step. we will continue to do our own efforts, our own fact-finding to make sure that decisions that the united states makes are based on real facts and data that we can confirm ourselves. we will certainly take information that comes from other sources, the turkish intelligence service. we will evaluate that information and validated. we will form our own judgments about the fact and hold those responsible accountable based on the fact that we determine are appropriate. congress, i with

have spoken to our allies around the world. we want to make sure that everyone understands that the united states doesn't believe that the killing of jamal khashoggi was anything other than a horrific act. we help we can work together with congress and our allies to hold those responsible accountable. thank you very much, you talked about the afghanistan election. we are very happy about that. , the incident, a report that says past six and -- pakistan was behind that action. what will be the next action of the united states to pakistan? >> i had a chance to meet the new leader of pakistan. we made clear that the u.s.

policy with respect to south-central asia has not changed. the expectation is that pakistan will not provide safe harbor to terrorists on their western border. we couldn't have made that message anymore clear. pakistan will be held to account if they don't achieve that. we don't believe we can get to the place that everyone wants. everyone wants a reconciliation in afghanistan. to achieve that, you can't have a safe harbor for taliban and others inside of pakistan. the pakistani government knows that's our view. this administration has already made significant efforts to hold them accountable. we help that they will achieve the goal that we have set out for them. thank you very much. commente president's about the worst cover-up ever, does the trump administration still have trust and confidence

in the crown prince of saudi arabia as a reliable security partner? is there a believe that he might have been part of the cover-up? should he step aside until it has been established whether he played a role of any kind in the killing? >> we are learning the fact. as the facts unfold, as we continue to develop our understanding of the individuals that were responsible for this, who not only executed it but lead and were involved, the world should know that we intend to hold those individuals accountable when we develop that. we hope to continue to learn facts. we have learned a lot over the last few days. we hope to learn a lot over the next 72 hours. thank you. president erdogan said today

that this was a predesignated murder. the president says it is the worst cover-up. the saudi's telling us it was an and at to hold khashoggi turkish safe house for two days. do you accept that expiration? you personally were told one-story and it has evolved over the days. do you think that the saudis are still covering this up? do you feel misled by them? you feel personally misled by the crown prince? do you accept what president erdogan has it to you? >> i haven't said what the crown prince told me. i don't talk about those discussions. i don't intend to. we are going to accept what erica learned. we will accept the data set we are able to develop. we have people working all across the world to figure out what we can determine to put our

own understanding together. i talked about the work that we have helped the state department with. that has to be our work. we have to develop our own data set. it will be our work, we will take in all the data sets. we will validated. we will in the facts for ourselves. >> are they giving you what you need to know? >> the turks have been very cooperative with us. the turks have told us that the saudis have cooperated with them as well. officials heard the audio tape? >> i don't have anything to share with you about particular data sets. we will continue to keep you informed as we learn. you will see the united states hold the persons that we believe should be held accountable, hold the mcgonagle.

president trump is committed to that. i will take one more. >> the senate and the house, they signed a new bill. it is now on the desk of the president. his administration going to sign that before the midterm election? >> i don't know. thank you all. have a good afternoon. [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. visit ncicap.org] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2017] >> while congress is out of session, the senate judiciary committee continues to hold confirmation hearings for judicial nominees. tomorrow, members of the committee consider the nominations of eric miller and bridget baker to serve on the ninth circuit court of appeals. that is live at 10:00 eastern here on c-span. day, utah senator orin talks about the supreme court confirmation process in the senate's role of advice and consent.

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