and can i follow up on geena haspel? reporter: mike pompeo, secretary of state, a and john bolton, have been among the most prominent critics of the iran deal is there any reason to think the president won't kill the deal? ms. sanders: the president will announce that very soon. >> on the e.p.a., andrew wheeler is confirmed as second in command at the e.p.a. does the president think he'd be able to continue the deregulatory agenda that pruitt has been in charge of working to remove mr. pruitt and given the cascade of ethical problems, how close is -- what's the status of the rejew you -- review yo guys have been doing and is the president closer to removing mr. putin if office? ms. sanders: i don't have any personnel announcements on that front. we have confidence in the number two or the president wouldn't have asked him to serve at such a senior level position at the e.p.a. i don't have anything further on that front. reporter: i want to catch back up about china after the delegation came back. the president had some s

. >> wrapping up today's bress briefing a number of questions and comments about geena haspel, president trump's nominee to run the c.i.a. she's on capitol hill today for meetings ahead of her senate intelligence committee confirmation hearing. we're hearing she's speaking with senate democrats today. a hearing is this coming wednesday and we'll have live coverage starting at 9:30 a.m. eastern on our companion network c-span3. more live coverage shortly right around 3:00 p.m. eastern, about 15 minutes from now, and you heard spokesperson sarah sanders mention it, the white house rose garden will be the scene when first lady melania trump arrives to talk about her policy priorities. we'll have that for you live starting at 3:00 p.m. eastern here on c-span. while we wait for that, a discussion from this morning's "washington journal." "washington journal" continues. us on aw stettner joins discussion on how the federal government can prepare for the impacts of technology on the future. he's a senior fellow at the century foundation. for those who aren't familiar, xplain what the century fo

geena davis has been doing incredible work. up until about two years ago, this is going to blow your mind, 82% of crowd scenes were male. men. just think about that. and it's not that big a deal to put 50% women in your damn crowd scene. years ago when james cameron made "alien," i don't know if you know this, but that was written for an all male cast. and somebody had the bright idea of casting a woman as ripley and they didn't change a word of dialogue and that became an incredible film, but nobody ever recognized it as the feminist landmark that it was because that was incredible. and then nobody ever did it again. they put the women right back in the back. the second "alien" ended up being some stupid mom plot. so the women who are doing this now have really brought a full acceptance that when we paradigm shift, there's no point in doing it unless it shifts for everybody. i feel like i should -- >> hi. i'm teresa sipputeo, columbia college, columbia business school. and i was very struck by what you said, that you found com