hisamitsu. >>> when the state department inspector general was abruptly fired late on friday night, theth inspector general to be fired in six weeks, we already knew that he had reportedly been investigating allegations that secretary of state mike pompeo had been doing things like making state department staffers walk his dog and pick up his dry cleaning and get his chinese food for dinner. that's an investigation we knew about already. this morning we woke to news of another potentially more concerning investigation that that same i.g. had reportedly been working on as well. "the washington post" was first to report that at the time of his firing, the state department inspector general steve linick had almost finished an investigation into whether pompeo had illegally approved billions of dollars in arms sales to saudi arabia. the saudi arms sale was pushed through by pompeo last year over the bipartisan objections of congress. he used a somewhat dubious emergency declaration in order to do it. republicans and democrats in congress wanted to block that arms sale because of, among othe

you're right that in this case there were two investigations the state department and -- the state departmentting. one was if secretary pompeo was misusing federal funds. more substantively, an investigation was -- into whether the state department was improperly advancing an arms sale to saudi arabia by improperly declaring a national emergency. those are bread-and-butter issues for an inspector general to be conducting. that is why we have grave concern about moving him and putting in his place a political appointee. host: here is what mike pompeo said. [video clip] >> i have seen the story where someone was walking my dog to sell arms to my drycleaner. it is crazy stuff. i didn't have access to that information so i could not have possibly retaliated. i was asked questions, i responded with respect to a particular investigation. that was sometime earlier this year. i responded. i do not know the scope, the nature of that investigation other than what i would have seen from the questions i was presented. i do not know if that investigation is continuing, has been closed. it has -- it is not

most recently at the state department he has been the director of foreign missions. but the anger is growing among democrats with the chairman of the house foreign affairs committee which oversees the state department calling the firing outrageous alex marquardt cnn washington. >>there's a quick live look outside our camera the market arrow showing us a pretty calm looking start to this monday morning though it is wet out there. we have some overnight showers to deal with and that's making the roads a bit slick this morning. reports of sun, minor flooding here and there and a few spinouts as well so be real careful on the roads this morning. and we're back at 4.45 as more cities begin to partially reopen a lot of people might be considering summer trips. >>but officials at lake tahoe are still warning visitors to stay away. we have christensen most to explain. >>these marina employees are happy to be back on the job after the tahoe regional planning agency announced a phased in approach to boating on lake tahoe, if you have an intact inspection seal then you'll be ab

linick, the state department's inspector general. pelosi responded in a statement saying the president's late night weekend firing of the state department inspector general has accelerated his dangerous pattern of retaliation against the patriotic public servants charged with conducting oversight on behalf of the american people. steve linick was punished for doing his duty as required by

earlier today mike pompeo held a news conference with reporters at the state department. this is 20 minutes. sec. pompeo: good morning, everyone. this morning, i had the chance to drive through arlington cemetery. as we approach memorial day weekend, i want to reflect on the sacrifices of our military who have given their lives for the cause of freedom. as a veteran, i spend all my days working to use diplomatic power to secure freedom without putting service members in harm's way. i want to thank the family members who have lost loved ones in their service to our country. from lexington to valley forge to all the other fields of battle, i would like to thank them. i want to begin with a few observations on china. the media's focus on the current pandemic risks missing the bigger picture of the challenges presented by the chinese communist party. first, basic facts. china has been ruled by a brutal authoritarian regime, a communist regime, since 1949. for several decades, we thought the regime would become more like us through trade, scientific exchange, diplomatic outrea

often attended classes with my counterparts in state department. for example they were convinced in 1991 that the united states was going to have a hard time beating saddam hussein. the people in the state department seemed to think it was their job and the other civil servants to set state department policy and the politicians got in the way. host: thank you. guest: you bring up a wonderful point and i am glad you called in. true, as iutely mentioned, there are 14,000 people going to work every day and the work is by and large assistant -- the if they are audited by the assistant ig for auditing. thatre absolutely right those assistant ig's are the ones that are going to be doing those reports and there will be questions about recommendations or findings and actually getting into the nitty-gritty of the work, you are correct. i don't know who you talked to at the state department, but for a long time up until the most recent ig you had foreign service officers who were rotating through to the inspector general. there was a lot of criticism of reaso

state department investigation found that blackwater quote was over billing the state department and manipulating personal records its guards were partying drinking and even crashed an armored car and saw themselves as quote above the law pretty damning the u.s. state department saying this but the company they're giving contracts to over billing and manipulating we never paid any fines for anything like that that's a fact you paid fines for a lot of things the only thing we paid a fine for it was a. and i gave an example of the only to say the only thing you paid a fine for you paid $7500000.00 fine and 2012 to settle 17 criminal charges you paid a full 1000000 dollar settlement are a department in 2010 for illegal arms sales. 2012 it already sold the business i sold it in 2010 but the cases go back beyond 2010 the criminal charges raided all sorts of things that went back years including south sudan you broke u.s. sanctions to try and sell weapons to south sudan knowing going to there's no weapons in south sudan there was a proposal on the table you never put a proposal on table to

her excellent reporting, the feeling on capitol hill as well, those who do oversight of the state departmenthat it was those two investigations that made the secretary of state look bad. and just think about what the president just said, the clip you just ran, wolf. the president kind of through the secretary of state under the bus, although throwing him under the bus is what it would be in normal times. if he doesn't really care, i guess they're all just kind of doing everything that seems so inappropriate even though it is legal, they're doing it in plain sight. >> yep, a dramatic development indeed. dana bash, kylie atwood, thanks to both of you for that. >>> coming up, how schools are dealing with the decision of whether or not to hold classes in person this fall. usaa was made for right now. and right now, is a time for action. so, for a second time we're giving members a credit on their auto insurance. because it's the right thing to do. we're also giving payment relief options to eligible members so they can take care of things like groceries before they worry about their insurance or

state department the u.s. government says be on the lookout for a white kiya in all the other cars in the traffic circle stop except for a white kiya sadly sometimes the guys have a split 2nd to make that the source black what to say the white kids thought of as you well know because you've discussed this far more than i have all of the eyewitnesses say that there was no white kid heading towards you the us colonel who turned up on the day said that there was no enemy activity involved he said it was a criminal event and an excessive shooting a us court of law in december prosecuted one of your men for 1st degree murder for killing his mother and. 3 other hold on let me finish 3 other men were prosecuted for manslaughter 4 of your men murder and manslaughter in the iraqi courts u.s. court that's right they prosecuted them 4 times and they finally got a conviction the 1st time it was thrown out for prosecutorial misconduct guilty they found the guilty you know the 1st time it was thrown out for prosecutorial mi

i will make sure the state department continues to deliver. host: let's dig into a little bit of what he said about how this investigation by the fired ig was working. he says he does not know the nature of that investigation to a seriesesponded of written questions. explain that more. guest: i can't because it makes no sense. you cannot say i knew nothing about an investigation but i answered questions pursuant to it. it is not a credible response. if he has nothing to be concerned about the last thing removeould have done was the person who was going to make a judgment on whether there was a problem shared -- on whether there was a problem. host: tim in minnesota. caller: i thought roland was spot on. i like his comment. the way i understand the ig is there is supposed to be a type of internal watchdog. to me, transparency is key to a democracy. i do not think a president has any business appointing them. i kind of think the congressional vetting process is more of a formality sometimes. the president eventually gets his way. this guy has fi

had reportedly tried to convince a colleague the contract was given by the state department and your parent bill host of red lines show from the gray zone news site spoke to that colleague. oh i'm sure if you go 30 minutes one operation which a beautiful moment could be a big part of an operation great so why do you say it was state department. and state park contract. for you did not appear. to speak of her but he was trying to suggest it was going to be reset of the most interesting detail that drew shared with me was the fact that when jordan good dro initially came to him and to discuss this operation he claimed to have a state department contract to carry it out drew white says that he didn't feel comfortable he didn't feel as though the contract he was presented with was totally illegitimate if there were u.s. government hands of this operation there is no way they would want a contract explicitly printed out that had state department markings or added their their character to it but what i would like to know is why jordan goudreau was under the impression that he had a state d

. >>> new nbc reporting that the ousted state department inspector general was investigating secretary of state mike pompeo and whether he was having a staffer run personal errands for the secretary of state. next, lawmakers on both sides of the aisle are demanding an investigation into that. >>> we're learning new details this morning about the state department inspector general who was abruptly fired by president trump over the weekend, once again. nbc news is reporting that the ig, steve linick was investigating whether secretary of state mike pompeo improperly used the political appointee to do personal errands for him and his wife. late friday night, president trump informed congress of linick's dismissal giving no specific reason but telling lawmakers he no longer had full confidence in him. democrats are launching an investigation into the move. officials tell us they believe it was an act of retaliation. nbc's josh lederman in washington with reporting on that and garrett haake is on capitol hill following those developments as well. josh, what else can you tell us about this f

the state department has not responded to that accusation. linick had a small but important role in the impeachment inquiry and also had issued previous damning reports about the state department under pompeo it was pompeo according to a senior state department official who recommended that linick be fired this morning, the president has repeatedly shown and voiced opposition to his agency's watchdogs fixated on getting rid of those he sees as obama loyalists who aren't sufficiently loyal to his administration did i hear the word inspector general really. >>it's wrong and they'll talk to you that it's wrong. it was the intelligence community's inspector general michael atkinson whose actions sparked what became the ukraine investigation and then impeachment proceedings of the president last month atkinson to was fired. in addition to linick in atkinson last month the pentagon's acting inspector general glenn fine who was overseeing spending on coronavirus response. >>was removed from the top job and 2 weeks ago the official serving as watchdo

the state department has not responded to that accusation.innik had a small but important role in the impeachment inquiry and issued previous damns reports about the state department under pompeo. it was pompeo according to a senior state department official, who recommended that linnik be fired. the president has repeatedly shown and voiced opposition to his agency's watchdogs. fixated on getting rid of those he sees as obama loyalists who aren't sufficiently loyal to his administration. >> did i hear the word inspector general? really? it's wrong. they'll talk to you about it. it's wrong. >> reporter: it was the intelligence community's inspector general michael add kinsen whose accesses sparked what became the ukraine investigations and impeachment proceedings of the president last month, atkinson too, was fired. last month the pentagon's acting inspector general, glenn fine, overseeing spending on coronavirus response was removed from the top job. and two weeks ago, the official serving as watchdog of health and human services replaced af

the state department has not responded to that accusation. linick had a small but important role in the impeachment inquiry and also had issued previous damning reports about the state department under pompeo. it was pompeo, according to a senior state department official, who recommended that linick be fired. the president has repeatedly shown and voiced opposition to the agency's watchdogs, fixated on getting rid of those he sees as obama loyalists who aren't sufficiently loyal to his administration. >> did i hear the word, inspect general? really? it's wrong. and they'll talk to you about it. it's wrong. >> reporter: it was the intelligence community's inspector general whose actions sparked what became the ukraine investigation and then impeachment proceedings of the president. last month, atkinson, too, was fired. in addition to linick and atkinson, last month the pentagon's acting inspect general who was overseeing spending on coronavirus response was removed from the top job. and two weeks ago, the official serving as watchdog of healt

most recently at the state department he has been the director of foreign missions.ut the anger is growing among democrats with the chairman of the house foreign affairs committee which oversees the state department calling the firing outrageous alex marquardt cnn washington. and we are back again just checking the markets as we head to break here. the dow as expected up strongly now more than 763 points to the good side now 24,004 54. >>optimism high on wall street as we're getting some hopeful positive news about a coronavirus vaccine study that seems to be making some progress so stay tuned for more on that. >>morning news major league baseball is trying to sell its plan to resume play to the players. but are they i wanted my hepatitis c gone. i put off treating mine. epclusa treats all main types of chronic hep c. whatever your type, epclusa could be your kind of cure. i just found out about mine. i knew for years. epclusa has a 98% overall cure rate. i had no symptoms of hepatitis c mine caused liver damage. epclusa is only one pill, once a day, taken with or wi

argue how to participate in collective scientific efforts it's not beyond the purview of the state department to design that economic health the united states would coordinate with others and it's also not be on the purview but to focus on all the other problems it's understandable that history has not stopped north korea is still developing nuclear weapons and missiles and with the 2015 agreement. and did choose to make the - - from nuclear weapons. russia is still occupying primary on - - crimea and eastern ukraine and with the presence in the south china sea. plain and simple when he the state department to be focused on american policy and national security. one of the things to say about this crisis and now we have a whole new set of problems than all of this comes at a time to be focused and word. this is a really dangerous combination. >> and then you answer the next question is on the numerous television appearances this is a precarious time and then to keep you up at night and then mention the hot spots of what you think is being ignored while we are preoccupied with covid. >> it rea

most recently at the state department he has been the director of foreign missions. but the anger is growing among democrats with the chairman of the house foreign affairs committee which oversees the state department calling the firing outrageous. that was alex marquardt reporting for us tonight from washington d c. >>today president trump fired back at former president barack obama after his predecessor. >>said leaders in the current administration, where it even quote pretending to be in charge should amid the coronavirus pandemic when asked about president obama's comments president trump had this to say. >>but he wasn't confident residents that's all i can say >>that was all since leaving office president obama has largely avoided weighing in on politics are how he thinks president trump is doing, but recently the former president has become more outspoken. in part due to the coronavirus pandemic. >>ford says it will provide coronavirus testing for workers who show symptoms of covid-19 the automaker announced that plan saturday ahead of reopening some of its fac

id -- the usaid and the state department are providing assistance as well.hat is what we do all around the world. saying to taiwan, i want to congratulations to the president. the process has matured into a model for the world despite great pressure from outside. taiwan has demonstrated the wisdom of giving people a voice and a choice. in hong kong, our dennis -- our decision on whether or not to identify hong kong as having a high degree of autonomy from china is still pending this week,. week, demonstrators were manhandled. actions like these make it more difficult to assess whether hong kong remains highly autonomous from mainland china. we are also keeping an eye on human rights. i was pleased that france alleged a person who is to have played a key role in the rwandan genocide. we are monitoring grundy -- grundy -- burundi. nicaragua too. we are concerned about reports of hospitals filling up antibodies being buried under cover of night, pointing to a more severe situation then the regime is acknowledging. we are concerned that individuals around the wo

this is a terrible virus going across the world. >> now the state department of public health denied her license to operate nine additional nursing homes. from san jose to central and southern california. the state said she submitted a fraudulent transcript from college and cited dozens of violations over three years. patient raped by cna. patient fell, broken hip not diagnosed for six days. failed to address aggressive patient who stabbed another with a fork. i questioned her about violations that the state said placed patients in immediate jeopardy. >> what is going on? >> there's a will the of things i would like to speak about. and when the time is right. you'll be the first to talk about it. >> she e-mailed a statement. >> make no mistake it is common throughout the nursing home industry to see very serious violations. meaning violations in which peoples lives are at risk. >> mike of the non-profit advocates tells me in pandemic is poeexposing problems that lad years. >> dhint stop from operating. they can appeal a denial. and can even lose that appeal but the state department of

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most recently at the state department he has been the director of foreign missions. anger is growing among democrats with the chairman of the house foreign affairs committee which oversees the state department calling the firing outrageous alex marquardt cnn washington. >>and our coverage of the coronavirus pandemic will always be there for you on our website at kron 4 dot com. the latest headlines. they are found right there on the front pages we updated minute by minute with the latest information coming into our newsroom. so make sure you check it off and throughout the day. we'll be bac home. it's not just where we live. it's where we make a life. this memorial day, and every day, we honor those who gave everything to keep our home safe. lowes. home unites us. >>im 56 in kron 4 continues to salute the class of 2020 highlighting a different senior and today, it is lauren campbell yet lauren is graduating from summit high school out in el serino she says she'll be a tent attending azusa pacific university in southern california where she plans to pursue a major. >>

it also allows the state department to deny visas to foreign researchers seeking to access sensitive u.s. research when there is a threat to our economic or national security. this may surprise you, but they can't do that now. career foreign service officers, employees at the state department have begged us for that authority. our bill also requires research institutions to have safeguards in place to prohibit unauthorized access to sensitive research because we've found that to be a serious problem. and our bill ensures transparency by requiring universities to report any foreign government of $50,000 or more and empowering the department of education to fine universities that repeatedly fail to disclose these gifts. right now, our number one priority is and should be solving the coronavirus crisis. and i get that. and, by the way, the f.b.i. sent a notice around last week to universities, research institutions saying, watch out ... because there are actually chinese hackers trying to get your research on coronavirus. this just happened last week. but i got to tell you, in the conte

in fact, that state department ig concluded that using her personal account to send emails to state departmentcounts was not an appropriate method of preserving any such emails that would constitute a frad record. wow, it does seem to make a scandal out of that, doesn't it? a lot has changed. because now mike pompeo is the secretary of state. some things have not. the ig's report he touted, the inspector general steve linick, the same guy investigating him, the guy that pompeo just had fired, is just the latest shady move from a guy who has been the center of a host of scandals from the official apologetics for the murder of "washington post" journalist jamal khashoggi to the impeachment of donald trump. michael pompeo was the center of that. and now he seems to have his eyes on a higher office. former state department senior adviser here with me now, i guess first, we just start with the strangeness of this, of a cabinet official, telling the president, to fire an i.g. that is investigating. >> there's i.g. in every agency and their whole job is to give a layer of transparency to what is happ

we definitely have a lot of questions centered around what should be the goals of state department in particular, both in washington and overseas for those ambassadors here who run a country team. you know, how do states interact with the health and economic experts within its own country team. how should it be interacting and outwardly facing with its counterparts. what is the really, specifically of diplomacy in this area, how would you sort of articulate a top three kind of immediate priorities in this crisis? and some of the folks here who could do this. maybe i'll start with ambassador patterson because she made the comment about getting the diplomates kind of out of the embassy and we have a few questions about that. >> so, look, we've always had usaid people, c.d.c. people, in egypt, we had a naval laboratory that had been there since world war ii. there's always been strong health component of american diplomacy. we had the global health initiative, and we had the smaller programs, too. so our job is to coordinate this and there wasn't a post i was in, either as ambassador or

senate democrats have already called for anreporting that thi inspector general and state department king into misconduct by the secretary of state, using staffers to run personal errands that are not part of that person's job description. secretary of state pompeo went to the white house. in fact, white house officials confirmed that over the weekend, and asked president trump to dismiss the inspector general conducting this investigation. which, of course, triggered a real outcry, an outrage from a number of democrats on capitol hill. senator romney, the one republican so far that's really spoken up about that. that seems to be -- he's often the lone voice in terms of the gop members, criticizing the president. taking a step pacback, it's mor than one isolated incident. this is the fourth inspector general in the last six weeks to two months that have been dismissed. many of whom have played a role in the impeachment inquiry, whose jobs led to the ukraine investigation. they played some big, some small, but played a part in that. it speaks to a larger degree of oversight and account

the state department has not responded to that accusation. linnoc had a small but important role in the impeachment inquiry and also had issued previous damming reports about the state department under pompeo. it was pompeo, according to a senior state department official who recommended that linnoc be fired. the president has repeatedly shown and voiced opposition to his watchdog, fixated he sees as obama loyalists who aren't efficiently loyal to his administration. >> the inspector general, it's wrong. and they'll talk to you about it. it's wrong. >> it was the intelligence community's inspector general atkinson who parked what became the ukraine investigation and impeachment proceedings of the president. last month, atkinson too, was fired. last month the pentagon's acting inspector general flynn fine overseeing coronavirus response was removed and two weeks ago the officials serving as watchdog of health and human services was replaced after investigators found shortages of testing kits and masks along with delays and coronavirus test res

printed out that had state department markings or added their their character to it but what i would like to know is why jordan goudreau was under the impression that he had a state department contract why would he tell his best friend and business partner that this was a state department endeavor unless someone had given him confidence or promised him that this was the kind of support he would receive for carrying out the operation venezuelan government still suspects washington itself was behind the operation the us authorities have denied any involvement. and wouldn't. a small little group no no no be called an army we ever did a thing with venezuela it wouldn't be that way it would be a slightly different it would be called invasion was no us government direct involvement in this operation. would have been a ball that would have gone differently well of course the u.s. government is denying involvement but the us government has a long history of lying and more and more evidence continues to show that the us government was absolutely involved going up to the highest levels this te

this is a terrible virus going across the world. >> now the state department of public health denied her license to operate nine additional nursing homes. from san jose to central and southern california. the state said she submitted a fraudulent transcript from college and cited dozens of violations over three years. patient raped by cna. patient fell, broken hip not diagnosed for six days. failed to address aggressive patient who stabbed another with a fork. i questioned her about violations that the state said placed patients in immediate jeopardy. >> what is going on? >> there's a will the of things i would like to speak about. and when the time is right. you'll be the first to talk about it. >> she e-mailed a statement. >> make no mistake it is common throughout the nursing home industry to see very serious violations. meaning violations in which peoples lives are at risk. >> mike of the non-profit advocates tells me in pandemic is poeexposing problems that lad years. >> dhint stop from operating. they can appeal a denial. and can even lose that appeal but the state department of

what do you make of what's going on at the state department with pompeo?are lots of theories. one is that he's a trump loyalist who will dr. trump's bidding. there's another theory that it's about pompeo, but under all of this is the idea that the work of the state department has been undermined. >> my sense is that pompeo is an ambitious man. i'd be amazed if secretary of state will be the last job he aspires to. he has been interested in running again in kansas. it's hard to know if there were improper assets. secretaries of state often give dinners arranged by their spouses. so the dinners, part of this strikes me as a secondary issue. the thing is is it seemed as was often the case he was acting out of almost personal anger over what he thought were leaks coming out of the inspector general's office. there's no evidence that the inspector general was leaking and just regarding him as not a team player. that's not on inspector general's job. i really go to good leadership, standing behind our diplomats around the world. those have been the recurring iss

i will make sure the state department continues to deliver on behalf of the american people. >> what about the house foreign affairs committee? sec. pompeo: thank you all. everybody have a great day and a wonderful memorial day weekend, too. >> c-span's "washington journal," live every day with news and policy issues that impact you. thursday morning, the project on government oversight director will join us to discuss the role of inspectors general in government and president trump's firing of multiple ig's. and how americans should modify their behavior as covid-19 restrictions are lifted. he sure to watch c-span's "washington journal," live at 7:00 a.m. eastern thursday morning. join the discussion. at our live look coverage thursday. on c-span, the senate judiciary committee meets at 10:00 a.m. eastern to consider subpoena authorization for documents and witnesses related to the committee's investigation of the pfizer process and the 2016 russia probe. on c-span two, the senate is back to debate and vote on the nomination of john ratcliffe to be the next director of national inte

it's obviously not beyond the review in the state department to focus on all the other problems. there is no giant pause button in the world. north korea is still developing nuclear weapons. and gradually moving to the 2015 agreement. we would have if in fact it did choose to make a -- for a nuclear weapon. russia is still occupied crimea and parts of eastern ukraine. we can go around the world. my point is simply that we need the state department to stay focused on the rest of foreign policy. one of the things i would say about the crisis is we have all of the old problems in the world now we have a whole new set of problems and all this comes at a time where the united states is going to be focused and we are to be spending trillions of dollars not on the world but on ourselves. it's a really dangerous combination. in this case the rest of the world. you have said not just in the book but on your numerous talent vision appearance is that this is a very precarious time. that the order and the lack there of. and the decline and want you to dig into what you think is being ignored

so president obama and other people throughout the state department realize using a private server and they all realize what a significant risk that posed as well as the law, and the espionage act subsection f states that not only somebody who mishandles national security information through gross negligence is vulnerable or culpable under that legal standard but anybody who has knowledge of it as well. so you have people throughout the state department including president obama that should have had knowledge of and that was one of the reasons we saw the exoneration of hillary clinton, and of course, that same group of people, they are high members of the fbi, edited that exoneration e-mail to make sure that gross negligence was taken out of that and anything else that was really including for hillary clinton was removed from that initial memo so that it could exonerate back on july 5 of 2016 setting up the election and setting up the investigations for president trump or into his campaign. maria: and senator we've got all of these texts from peter strzok and lisa page his then girlfri

let's talk about steve in the state department inspector general position. his firing. >> guest: not only is he fired in a similar fashions to the other when the president gives notice to thee congress only tht hislo -- there is no explanation why he was removed and then immediately had him leave. the law requires a 30 day notice and that was a violation. on top of that, rather than allowing the process of the work, the number two in charge is put in place for some other trump political appointee. and to add insult to injury, that person is going to retainy, their jobs as a political appointee in the state department. so you have this enormous conflict. as we mentioned before, inspectors general are to be independent of the agency so they can eat receiving a complaint and looking into that misconduct but now you have a political appointee that is the part of the administration acting as well as an independent inspector general which is a flagrant conflict of interest.ct >> this was the first sort of warning shots of the concern. the inspector general who rec

president trump firing the inspector general at the state department. the president late today saying secretary pompeo asked him to fire the ig and so he did. pompeo now saying he did not know he was under investigation by the ig. martha raddatz standing by. >>> that deadly terror attack at a naval base in florida, and what we now know. federal authorities now revealing the suspect had ties to al qaeda, allegedly in contact with the group the night before the attack. >>> we're tracking tropical storm arthur off the east coast tonight. and the tornado watches elsewhere as we come on the air. >>> and remembering the famous actor, the beloved troublemaker from one of the most iconic shows. >>> good evening. it's great to have you with us as we begin another week together. as america begins the slow and challenging task of reopening. but it was the president who late today surprised reporters when he said he's been taking hydroxychloroquine for a week and a half. he said he asked a white house doctor who approved it. and the president saying it is preventiv

contract why would he tell his best friend and business partner that this was a state department endeavor unless someone had given him confidence or promised him that this was the kind of support he would receive for carrying out the operation aussies host and acquittal president rafael correa spoke with those who've agreed as vice president of venezuela rip out the failed coup. international intervention in latin america's internal affairs especially by the u.s. has a long history it's hard to understand to imagine why in the midst of a pandemic someone would want to destabilize another country's government to invade a sovereign state because it's bought to be and friendly it's unbelievable it's shocking. our dear the u.s. believes it is a unique contrie that is above all others and who is the development of a global capitalism this exceptionalism is demonstrated by the fact is it does not comply with international law the invasion quantic side by jordan goudreau the head of the us b. and c. was. he just a shame i have never seen anyone trying to overthrow a constitutional government to

according to cables reported by "the washington post" the state department warned in 2018 about safetygement issues. the body of evidence is circumstantial. u.s. intelligence agencies say there's no smoking gun. but what they do believe is that the virus was not manmade and was not released purposely. the trump administration isn't ruling out that the virus came from elsewhere but it has been much more aggressive than other countries in pushing the lab theory which for he rent intelligence partners dispute. >> there's nothing that we have, that we indicate that was the likely source. you can't rule anything out in these environments. >> reporter: that lack of certainty has allowed the trump administration to use the lab theory to be more critical of the chinese government. >> it makes a more compelling occasion for chinese governments fighting malfeasance and cover-ups and foifti ifoisting the globe. >> reporter: without more evidence the world health organization which has been blasted by the trump administration says the lab theory is speculative. >> the markets must have played a ro

. >> all right, robert costa, from "star wars" to the state department. the secretary of state today was asked about the ousting of the inspector general. i'll play for you and our audience his answer. >> i recommended to the president that steve linick be terminated. i frankly should have done it some time ago. let's be clear. there are claims that this was for retaliation for some investigation that the inspector general's office here was engaged in. that's patently false. i have no sense of what investigations were taking place inside the inspector general's office. couldn't possibly have retaliated for all the things. i've seen the various stories that someone was walking my dog to sell arms to my dry cleaner. i mean, it's all just crazy. it's all crazy stuff. >> robert costa, nicolle wallace after hearing that comment said flat out today he's not telling the truth because he was shared some of the questions they were looking into at the state department as part of the i.g.'s investigation. my question to you, does secretary of state pompeo survive thi

state department employees essentially catering to the needs of a potential republican donor class or republican pundits. that's not in the mission of the secretary of state. so once again, in one of the most critical positions in the united states government, the secretary of state, we see personal interest, political interest put ahead of the national interest. and frankly, this is a common corruption of foreign policy in the trump administration. we saw that most, you know, most dramatically in the impeachment proceedings where essentially, they had a shadow of foreign policy to serve trump's personal political interest run through rudy giuliani because the state department wouldn't carry it out. here we have the secretary of state using his office for basically personal and political interest. >> ben rhodes, thank you for joining us. really appreciate it. >> thanks lawrence. >> thank you. >>> when we come back, how can you protect yourself as your state begins to reopen? what is safe? what isn't? are some states moving too quickly? that's next. k? it means helping those who serve

the trump administtion fires a state department watchdog, t latest in its dismantling of oversight. how the pandemic hastens a nationwide move away from often- unequal aptitude testing for college admissions. and much more. >> woodruff: in all but two states, stay-at-home orders are being lifted. many states are still restricting how widely they will re-open and only will do so gradually. but there's no doubt questions are increasingly focused on how that can be done, while minimizing risk to the public health. dr. atul gawande is focused on that and it's the subject of a piece he wrote for the "new yorker" website. he's a surgeon at the brigham and women's hospital in boston and the chairman of haven, a joint health care venture created by amazon, berkshire hathaway, and j.p. morgan. he joins us from boston. dr. gawande, it is so good too have you with us again. you are reminding people that even as we moof a ahead it is important to keep the basics in mind. so tell us again what are the basics? >> well, i think the basics come from the fact that there have brn a group of workers wh

state department inspector general steve linick was fired late last night. cnn white house reporter sarah westwood joining us right now. this is now, sarah, the third firing of an inspector general in recent months. why was linick fired? >> there's still a lot we don't know about why president trump decided to remove steve linick, the state department inspector general last night. we do know he sent a later to house speaker nancy pelosi late friday evening saying he no longer had full confidence in linick. and unsurprisingly, that has sparked a lot of backlash from democrats already including from speaker pelosi. i want to read you part of the statement she released last night. she said the president's late night weekend firing of the state department inspector general has accelerated his dangerous pattern of retaliation against patriotic public servants charged with conducting oversight on behalf of the american people. inspector general linick was punished for honorably performing his duty to protect the constitution and our national security as required b

. >> in terms of the state department inspector general's firing, i read the letter you sent to president trump asking for an explanation that the house foreign affairs chair is launching a probe into this. you said the firing looks like it's retaliation. that can be unlawful. what would happen, then? >> well, the fact is that the president should acknowledge why we even have inspectors general. this followed watergate, to have transparency, accountability, to fight waste, fraud, abuse in our governmental actions. while the law -- the president is correct in saying he can fire anyone he wants, when it comes to inspectors general, he has a responsibility to inform congress first. but it is also essential when he says he has lost my confidence to tell us why he has lost this is the fourth inspector general that the president has lost confidence in, so to speak, and it's a pattern that i think is unhealthy for a democracy. >> he has now said publicly, the president, that he doesn't know anything about this person, that he was asked to do this by the secretary of state and that when he heard

today a state department source confirmed to cnn that the secretary of state mike pompeo was under investigationor allegations he improperly made use of a political appointee. and now the ranking member of the senate foreign relations committee, bob menendez, along with the house foreign affairs committee chairman eliot engel, they've announce aid probe into the firing. senator menendez is joining us right now. senator, thanks very much for joining us. as you know, this is the fourth inspector general in the u.s. government to be removed since the start of last month. what do you think motivated the president to take this extraordinary step? >> well, wolf, it's another friday night massacre. another inspector general gone. this time the state department's inspector general, who has conducted since 2013 when i was chairman, which is when he was confirmed, both tough investigations during the obama and the trump administration. and there are reports that in fact he had opened up an investigation as it relates to secretary pompeo and the improper use of personnel for personal purposes. and one can

because the state department officials had been saying that one of the reasons that steve linick was e request of secretary of state mike pompeo was because there were a series of leaks that they suspected were coming from his office. but what this report find is that there was no such thing with regard to a specific incident last year that state department official versus actually referred to when discussing their frustrations with steve linick's ouster. now, the other thing to consider here, is that president trump said that this was the decision of secretary of state mike pompeo. he noted that there were issues that he was told that linick had with the pentagon. now, our reporting done -- >> all right. lost you, kylie. kylie atwood there on what's going on with steve linick. we'll try to get her back up in just a little bit. ahead here, more than 40 million american versus filed for unemployment since this pandemic started. nearly one in four american workers is now struggling just to keep food on the table. we'll tell you which states are hardest hit next. >>> one in every four wo