culpable -- culpably negligent had we not recommended that the president take this action against sewell manny. he made the right call -- soleimani. he made the right call and america is safer because of that. [talking simultaneously] reporter: [indiscernible] mr. mnuchin: we're going to do one question for everybody so as many people can get questions. i don't mean to cut you off. but we're trying to -- go ahead. reporter: six months ago, secretary pompeo, the president said that u.s. intelligence agencies had been running amok. he spent most of the past three years he's been in office denigrating and attacking the intelligence community and disputing findings, whether it's on russia or north korea, or really any area that contradicts things that he has -- [indiscernible] -- why then should americans suddenly believe your assertions that you had good intelligence on this when the head of the executive branch has been casting aspersions on the intelligence community for most of his time? office? -- of his time in office? mr. pompeo: i served as the c.i.a. director for the first year and a half