pompeo: yes.these are toy soldiers. it's a bit of an inside joke. i have about 40 pairs of these. mr. rubenstein: 40 pairs? sec. pompeo: yes. friends from all across the world send them with the first photo when i was with my north korea counterpart with these and rubbed he was funny. mr. rubenstein: you are leaving tomorrow. how do you deal with jet lag? sec. pompeo: just keep going. everybody travels a lot. i am fortunate that i can sleep just about anywhere. get a couple of hours of sleep and be ready. it doesn't bother me. mr. rubenstein: ok, thank you for your service and thank you for coming here today. sec. pompeo: thank you all very much. [applause] appreciate it. thank you. [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2019] [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. visit ncicap.org] c-span, brought to the public service by your cable or satellite provider. announcer: here's our live coverage for tuesday. on

pompeo: no talks. he spoke. the american media gave him a microphone and the chance to live vociferously to the american people. i look forward to having a chance to speak to them honestly about what's going on in their own country. so far, they have not taken me up on that offer. mr. rubenstein: do you think iran is on the negotiating table or not? sec. pompeo: remember the objective. the national security strategy that was laid out two and a half years ago with respect to the middle east. we tend to focus on the tactical. we need to step back and think about what we are doing more broadly in the middle east. iran is the world's largest state sponsor of terror. it has the capacity to work toward developing a nuclear weapon system. although we are very concerned about that as well, our chosen strategy is to take a 180° turn from what the previous administration has done. it created enormous opportunity for kleptocrats and those who even as we speak are preparing to continue their attacks on saudi arabia. we deci

pompeo: it's early. mr.rubenstein: what is the secret of your success in your relationship with the president? you didn't know him before you worked with him, did you? sec. pompeo: i did not. i did not meet him until i became the cia director. mr. rubenstein: who recommended you for that job? sec. pompeo: i'm not sure. mr. rubenstein: you mean the cia doesn't have the ability to figure out who recommended you? [laughter] somebody recommended you. sec. pompeo: i think the vice president was likely the person who i had known and served with as a member of congress. mr. rubenstein: did you say i like the cia but i would like to be secretary of state or did this come as a complete surprise to you? sec. pompeo: it was a surprise and i was honored to serve as director of the central intelligence agency. mr. rubenstein: some people have said you should run for the senate. can you say definitively that you will not run? you consider that or are you putting that off the table? sec. pompeo: it's off the table as a pra

pompeo: what a miracle that was. today i want to talk to you about serious matters and tell important stories about anne hathaway. i want to -- important stories about our path forward. i want to thank pastor john hagee for inviting me to be with you. [applause] sec. pompeo: it is truly heartening as secretary of state that there are so many americans working to make our relationship with israel the strongest it has been. [applause] sec. pompeo: you all know israel is an important partner. it's an ally. israel is a friend. can i get an amen? >> amen! of. pompeo: i want to kick my remarks by telling you seven you will know what a lot a lot of folks truly don't. missions in america -- christians in america are among israel's greatest friends. [applause] sec. pompeo: this isn't a new development. christian support in america for zion, the jewish homeland, goes back to the puritan settlers and has been true for centuries. our second president a couple years back said, "i really wish the jews in judaic an independent nati

pompeo: what a miracle that was.oday i want to talk to you about serious matters and tell important stories about our path forward. i want to thank pastor john hagee for inviting me to be with you. [applause] sec. pompeo: it is truly heartening as secretary of state to know that there are so many americans working to make our relationship with israel the strongest it has ever been. [applause] sec. pompeo: you all know israel is an important partner. it's an ally. israel is a friend. can i get an amen? >> amen! sec. pompeo: i want to kick off my remarks by telling you something you all know, but a lot a lot of folks truly don't. christians in america are among israel's greatest friends. [applause] sec. pompeo: this isn't a new development. christian support in america for zion, the jewish homeland, goes back to the early puritan settlers and has been true for centuries. our second president a couple years back said, "i really wish the jews in judea an independent nation." a little more recently, just over 100 years ag

secretary of state mike pompeo. this is bloomberg. ♪ caroline: live from his headquarters, i am caroline hyde. slew of big earnings after the bell. amazon is lagging, off 1.9%. net sales looking good. -- operating income will be $3.1 billion, the estimate was more than 4 billion. alfa bank -- alphabet was killing it. they will be buying back shares and beat net sales and profit. a nice move in the other revenue. intel, athen you have big chip maker. they are guiding higher for the third quarter and the full year. they beat on second quarter revenue and starbucks reported fastest cell growth they have seen in about three years. that is largely because of the higher traffic and they are boosting full-year outlook to about 282 per share. that is from a range of 275. taylor: we are going to stick with these earnings. i want to bring in bob o'donnell, chief analyst at a consulting firm. thank you for joining us from san francisco. i want to focus on amazon, because those shares are declining among what has otherwise been

do you think the same thing is happening now with mike pompeo? >> it could be. what's troubling is that at least secretary mike pompeo was confirmed by the united states senate. here you have people with very little foreign policy or diplomatic experience who are take these roles and positions and edging out people who do have either experience or have a confirmation by the senate. so i think this is not a good way to run american foreign policy. and on the issue of north korea, it's a really big deal for the american president to step into north korean soil and the united states got exactly nothing for that. >> if you are concerned kind of of the role of secretary or lack thereof of mike pompeo and ivanka trump, you do sit on foreign affairs. is there something you want the congress to do about it? >> first we want to know what kind of strategy does the trump administration have for variety of conflicts including north korea, including iran. the american people have no idea what the administration has in terms of iran, what they want iran to do. that's why toda

that is what mike pompeo said. mike pompeo... mike pompeo may like to make statements.r region, saudi arabia, spent $67 billion a year on military equipment. they are bombing the yemenis, are we doing that? we only spent $16 billion last year on the entire military budget. there is the case of the woman nazanin zaghari—ratcliffe, who has been in prison for three years in iran. you have said that you are sorry she's in prison, separated from her daughter, and you have talked about in the past of a possible prisoner swap between the us, which is keeping some iranian prisoners as well as a woman in australia. you have said that nazanin has gone through due process of law in iran and so forth, but can i ask you this — could she be released soon on compassionate grounds? you see, that's not a decision for me to take, but it is an ideal situation for which i have tried and will continue to try. compassionate grounds? compassionate grounds. let's put it this way. she went through the legal process — we have people in europe who are being extradited to the united states for vio

pompeo: it is always important to remember history.like escalation because of the news but this is 40 years, 40 years of malign behavior so whether it was seizing a british tanker that was in international waters are thating down american uav was also in international airspace or assassination campaigns in europe or trying to kill an ambassador in the united states, iran has a long history of malign behavior. we came in set when was to create as much stability in the middle east as we could. we watched iran in gauging in this behavior. we had a terrible deal the asvious administration had, one of its side effects, for the wealth leadership and they used in malign ways. we put pressure on the iranian regime and are forcing them to make decisions about how they will behave. in behavior from the iranian leadership so the iranian people can get what they deserve. >> how do you get that change in behavior when foreign minister was in new york the other day, saying the sanctions will "backfire." how do you get that change in behavior? sec. p

se convertirÁ en un tercer paÍs seguro, asÍ lo afirmÓ el canciller mexicano tras la reuniÓn, que pompeoxplica jessica, el chapo guzmÁn y el tráfico de armas fueron temas abordados en esa reuniÓn. >> el secretario de estado me que pompeo se moviÓ en la ciudad de mÉxico bajo un discreto dispositivo de seguridad y su reuniÓn con el canciller fue rÁpida, durÓ cerca de una hora. los funcionarios hablaron de los esfuerzos de este paÍs para frenar el flujo de migrantes a los estados unidos. maÑana se cumplen los 45 dÍas del caso .mac y pompeo tweeteÓ que reafirmÓ los lazos culturales compartidos. mÉxico es uno de nuestros socios mÁs importantes para aumentar la seguridad y la prosperidad de los paÍses en la regiÓn. un mensaje que profundizo en el salvador despuÉs de su encuentro con el presidente. dice que estÁ muy complacidos con los esfuerzos de mÉxico tras el acuerdo firmado el 7 de julio. la cancillerÍa emitiÓ un comunicado en el que se resaltÓ que el encuentro fue cordialy positiva. puntualizÓ que no era necesario que mÉxico se convertirÁ en tercer paÍs seguro y que los operativos migrato

it's not clear whether the tasks were initiated by pompeo or someone on his staff. whistle-blower said there's a culture to please pompeo and not make him angry. >> these are not the kinds of people that go around complaining. they do their jobs and they do them proudly and they do them quietly. you have somebody who felt so strongly about this that they decided to go to congress, that has to be taken seriously. >> reporter: investigators seeking to understand why pompeo's wife has her own security detail. this sun usual according to a former senior ds official who said if security was granted to a spouse in the past, it was for short periods time. the whistle-blower told congressional investigators that multiple agents understood that the normal procedure was not followed and that they were warned not to use her call sign, which is shocker, over the radio because they, quote, know it's not kosher. something a state department spokesperson calls absolutely and definitively not true. the spokesperson tells cnn only that an initial threat assessment was done for susan

pompeo: i would welcome the chance.gets to go drive around the most wonderful city in america and speaks to the media, the american public, puts iranian propaganda out on american airwaves. i would like a chance to go. not to do propaganda, but speak the truth to the iranian people about what it is that their leadership has done and how it has harmed iran. i think the reason they won't permit that to happen is that they know the truth as well. nejra: that was u.s. secretary of state mike pompeo, speaking to bloomberg's kevin cirilli. let's talk about emerging markets, specifically turkey. the new central bank governor yesterday delivered the biggest rate reduction in at least 17 years. basis point cut, more than analysts expected. one money manager said it was "a very risky strategy." joining us is turkey's bureau -- bloomberg's turkey. chief and a strategist at rabobank. second,t your take in a but i wonder your interpretation, the fact the lir a didn't weaken despite such a big rate cut? >> it was a surprise to many t

they said that the threat is real against susan pompeo.es, though, say that in the past, when diplomatic security was afforded to a secretary's wife, it would only be for a very specific threat and for a short period of time. furthermore, this whistleblower says that agents were asked to not use her call sign, which is a shocker, over the radios because they, quote, knew it was not koeshsher. the state department vehemently denied that that radio issue took place. and on the issue of susan pompeo, they say that an initial threat assessment was done in july of 2018, wolf. >> michelle kosinski with that exclusive report for us. michelle, thank you so much. >>> coming up, there's more breaking news. a new cnn poll shows joe biden clinging to a narrow lead after dropping ten points. kamala harris jumps into second place, closely followed by elizabeth warren. so, was the first set of debates a game changer? [alarm beeping] {tires screeching} {truck honking} (avo) life doesn't give you many second chances. but a subaru can. (dad) you guys ok? yo

pompeo: sure. >> would you appear on television? sec. pompeo: i would welcome the chance.to iran -- to new york, drive around in the most wonderful city and he talks to the american public. gets to put iranian propaganda out into the iranian airwaves. to go andke a chance not to propaganda but to speak the truth about what is their leadership has done. i think the reason they won't permit that to happen is because they know the truth as well. matt: that was mike pompeo talking to bloomberg's kevin cirilli in washington. let's get to our top stock stories. guest: vodafone -- dani: vodafone is spitting out the tower infrastructure. they also reported earnings in line, but shares are trading on track to trade the highest since 2018. , at one point, the shares were nestle, atrecord -- one point the shares were touching a record. finally, vivendi, another earnings story. shares are trading higher by more than 5%. it is the universal music group which is standing out. citigroup calling those earnings superb and that the sales process for that is on track. anna: thank you very mu

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secretary of state ike pompeo talking to bloomberg -- mike pompeo talking to bloomberg's kevin cirilliir tools into the debate next week. according to an early ohio quinnipiac poll, joe biden has taken the lead over even president trump while all democratic candidates tie the president or are slightly behind. kristol, the bill weekly standard cofounder and editor of defending democracy better. the first story i want to touch week,e debates into next what is the key message we need to hear from democrats? are stillmployment very strong so what do we need to hear? not so focused on the general election message. that will be the critique of the trump presidency and it has been done pretty comprehensively. biden is the big story in the debate. he faltered in the first debate. he allowed others to get some air. the question is, does he hold the lead or does he look weak again? how fast could the erosion go? i have talked to a lot of people and that for them is the big question. maybe someone likes -- like harris makes a move by contrasting him or herself with biden. taylor: biden had a miss

wherever pompeo is this is an opportunity for him to talk to the press. i expect the reporters are going to want to know what this is. the president's a little unclear on this, he seemed to be blessing this effort by senator rand paul to serve as a mediator, at the same time, rand paul was one of many senators that are out there. and at one point he seemed to be suggesting that things are going to work out great with iran. another point he said iran is in big trouble. it's not so much mixed message, it's inconsistent from the president, and we'll see if pompeo can clear it up. >> i should note to our viewers we're hoping to get that news conference or that statement from mike pompeo live, if that's the case, we will bring it to you live. we will continue to monitor that, and see what he has to say. back to tehran and ali who's over there. you get a sense that tensions are increasing. >> reporter: there seems to be an absence of dialogue, the rhetoric seems to be heating up, and we've had a lot of close calls over the last few months. it's been alarming ho

so despite mike pompeo's hawkishness and john bolton's walrusness, most foreign governments aren't ingo to war. but there's another person who also doesn't like the idea of war, and you'll never guess who it is. >> president trump is now playing down the attacks, telling "time" magazine, "so far it's been very minor." >> we'll see what happens. they are a much different country today than they were two and a half years ago when i came into office when president obama signed that horrible deal. they were screaming, "death to america." i haven't been hearing that lately. >> president trump has said he doesn't want to go to war. >> mr. president, are we going to war with iran? >> i hope not. >> trevor: i love how the press is waiting outside of his house. "are you going to have a fight with iran?" "i hope not." but, yes, it turns out, president trump is not keen on a war with iran, which i am all for. maybe he thinks this is a bad idea. or maybe he's just worried the military might try to draft him again. "mr. president, we recommend a war against iran." "my bone spurs are back." despite

secretary of state mike pompeo describes his directive from president trump as unambiguous — end thess wars. the afghan war is america's longest, with about 1a,000 us troops still there. two were killed on monday in an apparent insider attack by an afghan soldier, and although peace talks continue with taliban militants, the chances of real progress look uncertain. peter bowes is our north america correspondent. peter, what is behind this, would you say? this appears to be a sign that president trump is becoming increasingly impatient over a lack of progress in afghanistan over the last couple of years, and he has a lwa ys last couple of years, and he has always made it well—known that he prefers to, as he puts it, to end these endless wars, and of course, this is currently america's longest war. he would rather be taking troops out and putting troops in all living with the status quo. and i think the key in terms of the phrase, what mike pompeo was talking about today, he was asked whether us forces would begin to come out before the next presidential election. and i think that is s

that is what mike pompeo said. mike pompeo might like to make statements.r on military equipment. they are bombing the yemenis, are we doing that? they already spent $16 billion last year on the entire military budget. there is the case of the woman nazanin zaghari—ratcliffe, she is in prison, separated from her daughter, and you have talked of a potential prisoner swap, but you have said that she has gone through due process of law in iran and so forth, but can i ask you this? could she be released soon on compassionate grounds. that is an ideal situation for which i have tried and will continue to try. compassionate grounds? compassionate grounds. let's put it this way. through the legal process, we have people in europe who are being extradited to the us for violating the sanctions that europe does not recognise, that europe does not recognise! i was just recognise, that europe does not recognise! i wasjust asking about nazanin zaghari—ratcliffe, because her health is suffering and it is of great concern, she is on a hunger strike... i am not happy to se

they've talked about this issue. >> sandra: we heard a mike pompeo this morning. the president tweeted as well. want to move on to the back and forth with the so-called squad and president trump. this morning the president tweeted quote, i don't believe the four congresswomen are capable of loving our country. they should apologize to america and israel for the horrible, hateful things they have said. they are destroying the democrat party but are weak and insecure people who can never destroy our great nation. does this behoove the president to continue to take on these four democratic congresswomen in such a direct way, kellyanne? >> i've been taking on these congresswomen for a while on policy and will continue to do so. i was one of the earliest and loudest voices calling out the four of them were the only four in the entire congress to vote against any type of humanitarian aid for the border. it was a disgrace, a wrong vote. every democrat voted for one form or the other of the humanitarian aid package. 95 only did not vote for the 4.6 million dollars working

pompeo: it will be a couple weeks, i anticipate.important than the date, if we wait two weeks or four weeks or six weeks, to make sure we have enough conversations to have productive dialogue when the teams get together. that's the real objective. if it takes us another two weeks or four weeks, so be it. ♪ juliette: this is "bloomberg best." i'm juliette saly. let's continue our global tour of the week with the top stories in business, finance, and politics with a victory for the ruling coalition in japan's upper house election. >> japanese prime minister shinzo abe has won the upper house election, but has fallen short of a super majority that would have let him push through his revised constitution. he didn't win the super majority, fine, but he won. so what does that mean if he tries to move ahead? michael: it is another mandate for shinzo abe as he attempts to become the longest-serving japanese prime minister. by november he will be the longest in modern history in japan, but he also solidified his mandate to push forward with

as long as they can keep him in charge and mike pompeo, reporting directly to mike pompeo, is there iset something done unless we start making more concessions than the photo-op we just gave him. >> that's right. how much of this is part of a grand strategy that trump and his team have mapped out over the course of several years and how much of it is really an impulsive reaction to opportunities that the president sees? he knows he's going to be in asia. he wants to go to the dmz. here is an opportunity to have a photo-op to shake hands with kim jong-un. is that part of a bigger strategy? i don't know. >> mike pompeo was missing from the dinner. several top officials were not at the blue house dinner that president moon was hosting. certainly there was an indication this could have been an ad-libed twitter moment. we knew he was going to the dmz. that could have been an audible. >> i think there's been some preparation, andrea. negotiator was dispatched to seoul a week or so ago. there's been talk, i'm told, for many months about something like this, going to the dmz, trying to get a q

. >> and live now to remarks from secretary of state mike pompeo. he's part of a discussion on foreign policy taking place at the economic club of washington d.c. this morning. this is live. >> so, look it, it's an important question. it's about priorities and resources and how you allocate time and how do you think about the problems that, you know, for me the first -- the first half when i came in now, 16, 17 months ago to the state department after having been the cia director was to make sure that the state department was ready in the moment of crisis. spent a lot of time making sure my team was ready for the day what happens when something bad happens and are your people, and things you hadn't thought about. priorities, the first thing i do every morning is read about china. i talk about the broad array of issues that present opportunities for the united states and risks from china. >> the trade negotiations are going on. you're not the lead in trade negotiations. bob lightheiser is. >> we've had some and then other places we've gone backwards.

or picking up pompeo's dog from a groomer. up his adult son from the station, the train station and driving him to the family home. under long-standing ds protocol, the secretary would be in the car during these trips unless there was a particular threat that necessitated these trips. in one of the statements that the state department sent us, they said that at no time did the secretary or anybody in his family ask anybody in ds to do anything that was inconsistent with protection. does that mean that maybe his staff was asking for these tasks, because they haven't denied that these trips took place. in at least one of the instances, we did see evidence of a staff member of secretary pompeo's asking ds that one of these trips be done. the bigger issue, though, here, brianna, is this whistleblower says multiple people within ds don't understand why pompeo's wife, susan, has her own dedicated full-time security detail. this is unusual. and our sources say that in the past if a secretary of state's wife got a security detail, it

state mike pompeo insisting that the diplomatic door is still open >> these are not the actions of ant that looks like it's headed in the right direction. but we hope as president trump has

i've talked to secretary pompeo about that as well. that, you know, in my questioning about something that's certainly something we'll want to talk about. and then we've also talked about how we have to recruit and retain the best and the brightest. i know the secretary when he was in front of the full committee talked about his efforts to go out there and make a career in diplomacy or development, you know, a sought after field to sell that to campuses, et cetera, and i think that's, you know, certainly incredibly important, and i know he's come out with the new ethos at the state department, ambassador perez, i think you're in charge of executing on that ethos, so we can certainly talk about that a little bit as well. but i also want to make sure this is a partnership. you know, congress in its oversight capacity is a partner with the administration making sure that, you know, as we're authorizing an appropriating funds that we're giving the full attention to the personnel, the full resources to those folks, and those resources are g

is there any truth in what mike pompeo is saying in terms of the comp stiti composition?uth in that there are some people from different sides of the spectrum. but these human rights groups have taken a close look at the roster leading this and they say it's overwhelmingly people who have expressed extremely conservative views before about these issues. it's being led by marianne goaltend glennend from harvard. they found things in the past like opposing same sex marriage, transgender rights and reproductive rights. >> gaby, how have we seen the trump administration prioritize over these human rights and how might that focus play into his re-election strategy of 2020? >> it's clear that what he's doing is making a play for his base and trying to once again excite evangelical voters who have supported him all along. one of the things that's very important to them is reling justi religious liberty at home and abroad. you've seen the president and vice president speak about religious rights of chiftians in the middle east and africa and groups that have been persecuted. i ex

secretary of state mike pompeo speaking to david rubenstein. david's show on bloomberg tv wednesday at 9:00 p.m. eastern the markets are factoring in a rate cut from the fed meeting this week. how big will that cut be? futures in focus next. this is bloomberg. ♪ ♪ vonnie: live from new york, i'm vonnie quinn. guy: i'm guy johnson, this is bloomberg markets. vonnie: time for the stock of the hour. guy: heineken's or stock of the hour. emma chandra is here. >> it is falling today, headed for its worst day after the earnings that came out which showed profit was a lot worse than expected. came in at .3% way below analyst estimates. rival, ab its biggest inbev. heineken stockhe retreat from a record high on friday and wide in performance. the really big cost was input .osts, particularly aluminum you don't have to say aluminum anymore. up thecally they set rise of the cost of alum any him -- aluminum. the fall of aluminum prices we see, this is something the cfo talked about on bloomberg earlier today. >> the import cost, that is something -- the i

couple weeks ago, secretary of state mike pompeo said the iranians were willing to talk.doesn't emseem like when you see video like that, that seems to be the case. obviously the situation is very dire but where does it go from here? >> the video is shocking because iran is broadcasting that they are violating the u.n. law of the sea. the key word in that come was transit passage. that tanker and that warship have the right to be there. iran is still trying to use the maritime hassling and the nuclear piece to blackmail the europeans, split them off from the u.s., to get europe to do business as normal with iran . talking to foreign ministers zarif. really they are pointing this at the ayatollah and at the revolutionariry guard corps military commanders. those are the ones with wealth, spreading terrorism around the middle east. they have to crack and makes some movement there because in the end we can't reset our forces in the middle east with this crisis level of activity by iran. jackie: rebecca, stick around for a second because secretary of state mike pompeo remainin

roberts said he has spoken with 11 republicans that would include pompeo.d i think he shows a little leg, if you want to use that term. i think the president probably pulled down the cuff pretty quick and i think he has no time to consider it. pompeo plans to spend part of next month in that state for a partial vacation. according to plans, he has asked friends in chance political and business worlds to keep their schedules open. >> joining us again, a reporter from "the washington post" eugene scott. it used to be being secretary of state was the pinnacle of one's career, but mitch mcconnell apparently has other plans for mike pompeo. if he were to jump in, how would that affect this race? >> well, it would certainly give some sense of confidence to mcconnell that he could keep the senate. and that's a major concern. we know that 2018 was a very difficult year for the republican party. and he's thinking what about could happen with an election year, where the president is not doing particularly well. and that could affect turnout from the left, that could

that is mike pompeo, a wide-ranging conversation with kevin cirilli.r editor in singapore. covering a lot of territory. one thing that interests me is the difference between the approach to iran and north korea. and maximumnctions pressure. north korea, missile launches are in negotiating tactic. is there a degree of inconsistency to u.s. foreign-policy? i think there is a big difference in how the trump administration views those actors. they see an opening with north korea that they did not see before in prior administrations. the president has been consistent despite criticism at home and abroad thinking that his play is going to work with kim jong-un. he went actually to north korea, stepped over the borderline on his recent trip to asia. that was a big moment. the president thinks they can make something work there. with iran they don't as much. the white house has signaled it is willing to have talks. that interview he is willing to go to tell ron -- go to iran and talk to the thate in the same way that other man goes in talks to americans when h

of a meeting of the group christians united for israel with remarks from secretary of state mike pompeo and national security advisor john bolton. we are having some technical issues with our signal. we hope to have that results pretty quickly. when we do, we will bring it to you live here on c-span. until then, some of this morning's "washington journal." host: joining us now this morning from seattle, gary locke, the former u.s. ambassador to china, former u.s. commerce secretary, and former governor of the state of washington. thank you for joining us this morning. we ask you to come on as part of your co-chairmanship, honorary co-chairmanship. we are talking about trade here. tell us about your organization and what you are looking to do right now. guest: i'm very proud to be part of this organization, which is made up of so many different industries and business groups from around the country. including agriculture, manufacturing, minority chambers of commerce, pharmaceutical companies, and it is really to promote the passage and approval of congress for the usmca. 2.0nd of call it

who was, mike pompeo cia director before secretary of state. there are public and have the majority in the senate right now. it wouldoint, it big be extraordinary if you saw a republicans go against it. is that theding chairman of the senate intelligence community -- committee has some questions about whether he was qualified for the job. the job is not really that important. kevin: in terms of you mentioning the role of cia director and how those roles are truly carved out in the intelligence community. bet should the role ofdni doing in 2019? >> the director of national intelligence originally was everyone's take analysis from all the intelligence agencies and oversee the process of coming up assessments at the present and the rest of the government would see. and also setting the budget priorities so you didn't have these fights over bureaucratic issues and you can support long-term goals. the director of national intelligence does not really --e the power to force that those decisions so it takes a dnivy operator like former james clapper t

if there are protocols on ballistic missiles and other activities, some of the 12 things mike pompeoin his requirement for what we would need for a deal maybe we wouldn't have to rewrite a whole new deal. that's a possibility. heather: thank you so much. the time is 19 minutes after the top of the hour and it was 50 years ago the us landed on the moon. it is one of humanity's greatest achievements but according to the new york times it wasn't inclusive enough. carly shimkus has the growing outrage online. ♪ your home's value. thank you, admiral. so if you need money for your family, call newday usa. >> mark a rubio slamming democrats for what he calls selective outrage when it comes to donald trump. >> the president says something and people cringe but the other side, left-wing politicians, people in the media go crazy with their outrage, can't even pass a resolution condemning anti-semitism by itself. heather: carly shimkus here with the online reaction and there is a lot. carley: center rubio accusing democrats of feigning outrage and they throw around the word racism too much. the

mike pompeo was in india a week or so mike pompeo was in india a week or so back and they had good discussionshit big it companies particularly quite hard, what should be done? a few years back there was a decision to set up local centres and they made a commitment to allow 10,000 people in the us, and we are working very closely with local governments in the us, local governors and cities and our work the us, local governors and cities and ourworki the us, local governors and cities and our work i think is very much appreciated. is india a tricky place to do business? there's been lots of reforms in the past year, for example, there's a system where every state had a different vat, like a sales tax, and now we have a unified goods and services tax so we don't have a set of warehouses in every state, you can have one big warehouse for entire country or region is. we need to make business in india more easy to do. -- regions. samsung says it expects operating profitability to tumble by 56% for the second quarter this year in the face of a weakening chip market. that comes as a drop in shipments

secretary of state mike pompeo describes his directive from president trump as unambiguous — end thess wars. the afghan war is america's longest, with about 1a,000 us troops still there. two were killed on monday in an apparent insider attack by an afghan soldier, and although peace talks continue with taliban militants, the chances of real progress look uncertain. here is our north america correspondent peter bowes. this appears to be a sign that president trump is increasingly impatient over a lack of progress over the last two years. he has a lwa ys over the last two years. he has always made it well—known, as he puts it, that he prefers to end these endless wars. and this is currently america's longest war. he would rather be taking troops out than putting troops in or living with the status quo. i think the key is in terms of this phrase, he would like forces to come out before the next election. i think that is significant, that that is what donald trump has focused in on, because it has been a long—time promise of his. it is shorter when him promise of his. it is shorter when

she's not a cabinet-confirmed position at all, unlike somebody like mike pompeo.s is strange. >> there's always this funny thing that happens when you question ivanka trump's role in the white house. it's the haters. this wol never happen to anybody else. >> of course it would. >> she's a senior advisor to the president and she's holding her own meetings, what are the accomplishments? what's her role? what did she bring to the table there? what were the questions that she asked? what did she offer there? if she's going to be a senior advisor, yes, she's the daughter of the president, but she should be questioned and held to the same standards, we would be asking the same exact things about and we do about mike pompeo, about john bolton, about any other senior member. >> and frankly, she should be answering these questions herself. i can't recall another senior advisor to the president having a low-level spokesperson essentially putting out a statement defending her. if she's a senior advisor to the president like valerie jarrett was, like karen hughes was in the b

pompeo delivered 12 mands after the united states pulled out of the iran deal.'m no apologist for iran and what they're doing in the region. a large part of the tension we're seeing is because the trump administration pulled out of the deal, levied more sanctions and declared the irgc as a terrorist group. we bear some responsibility for increasing the tensions in the region. >> with all the recent incidents in the region help us understand how tense it is. >> i think when you consider the backdrop the fact that, you know, iran is accused by the united states of carrying out the mine attacks against tankers in the region, the two countries have downed each other's drones and the u.s. has been deploying additional forces to the region as well. when you set this latest incident of the seizure by iran of this british flagged oil tanker it gives it a whole different perspective. it is not just a bilateral dispute between britain and iran. it could easily be the spark that sort of ignites this tinder box that is the persian gulf region at the moment. the irony is bri

secretary of state mike pompeo has described his directive from president trump as "unambiguous — enda's longest, with about 14,000 us troops still there. two were killed on monday, in an apparent insider attack by an afghan soldier, and although peace talks continue with taliban militants, the chances of real progress look uncertain. our north america correspondent, peter bowes, assesses what the plans might mean. this appears to be a sign that president trump is becoming increasingly impatient over a lack of progress in afghanistan over the last couple of years. and he has always made it well—known that he prefers to, as he puts it, to end these endless wars, and of course, this is currently america's longest war. he would rather be taking troops out than putting troops in, or living with the status quo. and i think the key, in terms of the phrase of what mike pompeo was talking about today, he was asked whether us forces would begin to come out before the next presidential election. and i think that's significant, that that is what donald trump has focused in on, because it has bee

am in london and eight o'clock in the evening in washington where the us secretary of state, mike pompeohe government plans to start withdrawing troops from afghanistan before next year's presidential election. our north america correspondent, peter bowes, has more details on donald trump's reaction to this long war. i think this shows that president trump is becoming increasingly frustrated over afghanistan. relatively little progress over the last few years. he once referred to his gut instincts which would have been to probably pull troops out of afghanistan some time ago. and now with mr pompeo being asked a specific question about whether it was the intention of the united states to withdraw troops by the next presidential election, which is november of next year. he said that that was the specific directive from the president. inserting into that phrase the presidential election suggests a political motive here to some extent that this is something that donald trump has long since promised. he often talked about wanting to end all the endless war and this is the ultimate endless wa

and now with mist pompeo being asked a specific question about whether it was the intention of the unitedto withdraw troops by the next presidential election, which is november of next year. he said that that was the specific directive from the president. inserting into that phrase the presidential election suggests a political motive here to some extent that this is something that donald trump has long since promised. he often talked about wanting to end all the endless war and this is the ultimate endless war, referring to the billions of dollars that stationing troops in afghanistan dollars that stationing troops in afg ha nista n costs dollars that stationing troops in afghanistan costs the us. and it seems the president is increasingly keen to see some progress by the time he goes to the american public and asks for a second term in office. and that timeline, pulling them out by the time the election kicks off next year is interesting to we know the pulling troops out comes with a series of risk. and it is a sensitive delicate time with more talks planned between envoys and the talib

up next, mike pompeo on iran, north korea, other hot spots. we will get reaction from the panel.ers tonight, president trump lashing out at sweden after a prosecutor there charged american rapper a$ap rocky. president trump saying he's buried is appointed with sweden's per minister for being unable to react. president trump had spoken to the prime minister on the rapper's behalf. small is government says the suicide bomber who attacked the mogadishu mayor office was actually aiming for the american was the new united nations envoy to somalia. the envoy had just left that office. the bombing killed seven people and seriously wounded the mayor. he remains in a coma. officials in ukraine say they have seized a russian tanker more in the black sea. they say that tanker was used in a russian operation to block ukrainian see traffic last year. russian officials say this move could undermine a much-anticipated prisoner swap between those two countries. just some of the other stories beyond our borders tonight. will be right back. ♪ is me now! i got liberty mutual. they customized my car

to head it uping under the auspices of our great secretary of state mike pompeo. what's going to happen is over the next two or three weeks the teams are going to start working to see whether or not they can do something. very big stuff. for the complicated. not as complicated as people think. drives have great been based on relationship and this is one where it has been a different story. you saw when they were showing us around and they were talking about two and a half, three years ago it was really dangerous out there. you couldn't move. people were being killed. they said since singapore it has been a whole different ballgame. i was telling chairman kim that actually to me how annoyed was a great success. press reported at the opposite. likeometimes need things that to happen but it was a great success because we maintained our relationship so we are going to have teams that are going to meet over the next few weeks and start a process and we will see what happens. i guess you will do a little interpretation and then we will have the president say a few words

mike pompeo has said such a claim is "ludicrous."inistry said it is time for honesty and they have the u.s. really cares about the prosperity of hong kong, it would demand the protesters only stick to peaceful means of demonstration. time for theit is u.s. to make an explanation honestly to the world. if the u.s. can prove it did not meddle in hong kong affairs and promises it will not do so in any way, we welcome that. >> the trump administration is turning up the heat on iran, imposing sanctions on foreign minister job ansari. to act on behalf of analogy oil -- and i a toya -- yatollah ally under u.s. sanctions. disruption after a major complex in suburban houston erupted into flames. at least already seven people were injured, most suffering minor burns, and the city break the ordered local residents deep shelter indoors. analysts say the fire could cripple exxon's u.s. chemical business, as almost half of its operations is based at the site. global news 24 hours a day, powered by more than 2700 journalists and analysts in more th