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Good morning, everyone. I want to comment on a few terrorism related matters. A terrorist regime and a couple other items as well. I want to confirm with a heavy heart that a United States citizen of california was killed in terrorist attack on a u. N. Vehicle in kabul on november 24. There were five other civilians who were injured including staff. Condolences to the family and friends of the victim following the tragic incident and send our best wishes on a speedy recovery for those injured. Personnel are we condemn this act. In the strongest possible terms. 11th also marks the anniversary of the mumbai terrorist attack. We remember the innocent victims including the six americans. Affront to the victims and their families those have still not been content been convicted. President trump and i have been following closely the protest that have broken out across around. Iran. Oss instead of addressing the peoples grievances, tehran has claimed people across the country. They have shut down the internet to prevent the truth from getting out. I asked iranians to share their message with the United States so we could expose and sanctioned the abuses of the Iranian Regime. We received early 20,000 messages, videos, pictures, notes of the regimes abuses. I hope they will continue to be sent to us. We will continue to sanction iranian officials responsible for the human rights abuses just like we did last week. The Iranian Regime also continues to export cruelty outside of its borders. Last week, and iranian dissident was assassinated in istanbul after he defected to turkey from iran. His killing is another tragic example of assassination attempts outside of iranian soil. To the courageous people of iran who refused to stay silent, i say simply this. The United States hears you. We support you. We continue to stand with you for your struggle for a Brighter Future and a great nation. Withrt of our partnership egypt, we continue to raise the need for universal freedoms and a robust civil society. The call on the Egyptian Government to risk to respect freedom of the press and release raid. Lists detained in turning to the chinese calmness party, papers detail the brutal detention and systematic uyghurs. Of we call on the Chinese Government to medially release all those arbitrarily detained and to end its policies. It is not just muslims that are the largest that are the target of their hostility. Otherians, tibetans, and minority groups have felt their heavy hand of oppression. We congratulate the people of hong kong on free, fair, and peaceful District Council elections. The United States continues to support Democratic Values in hong kong as guaranteed by the one country, two systems framework. I also have a short announcement on cuba. Today, the United States is taking action to prevent cuba metallics from circumventing u. S. Sanctions. They are the primary facilitator of illegal imports from venezuela. We are putting sanctions on pursuantuban company to executive order 13850. They have since had trouble finding companies to conduct business with it. Declared illegal by the government of venezuela. The venezuelan and cuban people continue to suffer at the hands of despotic actors. Todays action will further squeeze the illegal profitmaking scheme cuba carries out to help the and it was help the illegitimate dictator, nicolas maduro. Inally, after the holidays, will be hitting the road for some important diplomatic activities. I will head to louisville, kentucky. The university of louisville will host me for remarks at the mcconnell distinguished speaker series. I will share some thoughts on what the Trump Administration is continuing to do in the western hemisphere to protect the American People. I will travel to london for a nato leaders meeting. Celebrating its 70th anniversary. I will travel on to morocco to one of our strongest partners and in the region. I am looking forward to reviewing our countrys strong Economic Security partnership. Finally, onto portugal. As is the case with so many of our european friends, our ties are based on shared freedom and democracy. With that, i am happy to take a few questions. Happy thanksgiving, mr. Secretary. Thank you for coming down. It is twice in two weeks. Good tradition to get into. I just wanted to thank you briefly about hong kong. He has not made up his mind on the legislation that came out of congress. It would involve sanctions. I am just wondering, is this something you are personally supportive of iago are you supportive of iago are you willing to take actions, sanctions or otherwise, in relation to the uyghurs . Except you will not like this question or think it is not relevant or important. Last friday, the Department Released telephone call logs and some correspondence that show you had two brief conversations with Rudy Giuliani in late march. This has led to speculation reports you were involved in the campaign to recall ambassador jovanovich from ukraine. Did you discuss ambassador jovanovich in those calls with ambassador juliet with really with Rudy Giuliani echo that the president mislead the circumstances of departure in the two letters that were sent . Thank you. As for hong kong, the administration has been clear about our expectations about how beijing will treat people throughout the country. And other secy. Pompeo hong kong is no different. In addition, we have a commitment to the Chinese Government. Their obligation is to maintain one country, two systems. That is what they need to work toward. Congress has taken action. I will not get out in front of what the president will do before too long, but suffice to say i think the administration has been pretty unambiguous in our support for the Chinese Communist partys continued commitment to the promises that were made and i think you saw that from the people of hong kong this week. That is what they are asking for, the maintenance of the understandings that were committed to under international law. I dont have much to say with respect to the ukraine investigation other than this. We continue to comply with all the legal requirements. We supplied documents last week and will continue to do that as required by law and as appropriate. So appropriate oversight can be conducted. With respect to the larger set of issues, we had a very clear policy with respect to ukraine and we executed it successfully. There are still many challenges. We still have russians in the donbass. We still have a president in ukraine working to the challenges to make sure we work through the challenges the country has had for a long time. The state department has been working on that for a year and a half plus and will continue to work on it. Every action i have taken is driven toward that objective. Voice of america, thank you. Reporters without borders strongly condemned the iranian threat against journalists. There is intimidation on social media and of relatives in iran. Some are in for interrogation. What is your take . Sec. Pompeo i have seen those reports and i have seen iranians engage in activity that is at odds with understandings we have in america about how the press ought to be treated. I dont know that i have much more to add other than that the entirety of how the president has thought about the middle east and the level and activity of the Islamic Republican Islamic Republic drives toward working to eradicate what you just described. What we have advocated for inside the Islamic Republic is a change in the behavior of the regime, a change that permits people to engage in commerce, hard to engage in commerce take care of their , families, and have normal press freedoms. That has been the policy for the entire time of the Trump Administration. Those reports remind me that our work is not complete. Two questions. One on turkey. Now that turkey is testing the 400, it looked to be on f16s is , that cause for concern . Will the u. S. Take any action in response, possibly levying sanctions . Do you believe the u. S. And ukraine should investigate the theory that it was ukraine, not russia, that hack to the dnc emails . Secy. Pompeo anytime there is an indication that indicates any country has messed with american elections, we not only have a right but a duty to make sure we chase that down. I served as the cia director for the first year and a half of this administration. I can assure you there were many countries actively engaged in trying to undermine american democracy, our rule of law, and the fundamental understandings we have in the United States. And you should know we were diligently working to make sure we addressed each of them with every tool of American Power that we had. And so whomever it is. I said nations, i think. It is not just state actors. There are nonstate actors, too, who are out there acting in ways that are inconsistent what we with are trying to do. If we have information to suggest there might have been interference or an effort to interfere in our elections we , have an obligation to make sure the American People get to go to the ballot box and cast their ballots in a way that is unimpacted by malevolent actors trying to undermine our western values. Our western Democratic Values. Your first question about turkey and the s yes, it is concerning. 400. We are hopeful. We are still talking to the turks, trying to work our way through this thing. I dont want to get out in front of what the president may or may not do. But we have made very clear our desire to see them move away from putting into full operation the s weapons system. 400 happy thanksgiving to you. On hong kong, a quick followup. Would you recommend President Trump to endorse the Bipartisan Legislation on hong kong human rights and democracy act . The reason i ask is because the enacting of it would require the secretary of state to certify if hong kong retains enough autonomy for favorable trading terms. Separately, ive seen a new leak of documents published by the International Consortium of investigative journalists that reveals the strategy behind a campaign of reeducation of Muslim Minority groups. Would you say that u. S. Pressure has had any effect on chinas actions . And do these new documents allow more concrete action to be taken against china . Sec. Pompeo your first question i cannot really answer because you point out, quite frankly, in quite correctly in the second , part of the question that the issue will come to me if it becomes law. If the president signs it and it becomes law, that will come to me and i will have to make that determination. I dont want to prejudge that. I want to make sure the process here can be run in a fair and neutral way. And no one thinks the secretary of state got out in front of the analysis that will be tasked annually to do under that statute to evaluate if the requirements can be certified. We are aware of it. Our teams already has a lot of foundational activity in place we can perform a pretty thorough analysis pretty quickly to see if that certification can be made if in fact it becomes law. When we do that will be a , published certification. We will send it to capitol hill as required by the statute. The second question is about the effect of the newly released information. I think there are a couple. First, i think it confirms what we have been saying at the state department and the United States government for some time now about what is taking place. Very significant human rights abuses. It confirms and it shows that it is not random. It is intentional. It is ongoing. I think those papers confirm that. I think the world can see that. Which leads me to the i think it second point. Is the case now that you will see many more countries around the world acknowledging what is taking place there and working , alongside the United States to create space and improve human peopleconditions for the of that area. I am hopeful that the release of those papers will encourage others to join in what we view as a very important outcome we are trying to achieve. Yes, maam. Do you have a comment for the department on the new numbers reports coming out. There is new information that the communist party has detained uyghurs. 1 million a quick followup, the resident tweeted a short while ago. Sec. Pompeo our best analysis is that is a reasonable number if you think about the number of persons who have over time been held, detained, or wrongfully denied their fundamental human rights. We think that number is about right. The president tweeted a short while ago that he would encourage you to testify in an impeachment investigation. Is that something you are considering . Sec. Pompeo when the time is right, all good things happen. [laughter] iraq is cracking down on protesters with live ammunition. What steps are you considering to help Peaceful Demonstrations in both countries. On lebanon, any updates military on the aid to the lebanese army, will the u. S. Be able to provide Internet Access to the iranian people soon . Sec. Pompeo as for Internet Access, it has come back on just a bit. We have urged the leadership of the Islamic Republic regime to turn it back on so that people can communicate. That was done to tamp down on the protests and deny the world access to see it. Its not working. It is working at cross purposes. I talked about the 20,000 messages we received which we believe all came from inside the Islamic Republic of iran. We expect to get thousands and thousands more in the coming days. There is the capacity for iranians to communicate outside of the country. The second piece should not surprise anyone. When you turn your internet off, the little bit of commercial activity taking place inside iran is diminished. Lots of commerce takes place around the world through Electronic Commerce and the inability to speak there will further decrease the iranian economy which will further deny them the resources to conduct terror campaigns around the world. The first question was about iraq. Lebanon. Sec. Pompeo i dont have anything to say on the lebanon funding issue today. As for iraq, we have been in contact with all the various elements inside of iraq that we deal with and our mission there is largely counterterrorism. Thats what our troops are on the ground for, an effort to help the people stand up a free and independent, sovereign iraq. That is what the Vice President what therefore. We are prepared to work with the , to try torship deliver that on behalf of the iraqis. We have no qualms talking about the fact that we think the iranian presence there is harmful to that. Decreases the risk that the iraqi people can have the sovereignty they deserve. We are confident the iraqi leadership wants the same thing we are helping them work towards. Great. Thanks, everybody. Anything gets to that . Have a wonderful thanksgiving. A green light on friday. Announcer the impeachment inquiry hearings continue when House Judiciary Committee hearing gerald now there holds the committees first impeachment inquiry hearing into President Trump, focusing on the constitution and the history of impeachment. Watch live coverage wednesday at 10 00 a. M. Eastern on cspan3. Chairman nadler extended and invitation for the president and his counsel to appear before the committee. Read the letter to the president on our website, cspan. Org impeachment. And follow the impeachment inquiry live on cspan3. Online at cspan. Org, or listen live on the free cspan radio app. Announcer now a discussion on the social impact of technology and innovation with mark dean who worked at ibm for more than 30 years, and helped create the ibm personal computer. This took place at the American Museum of science and energy in oak ridge, tennessee. This is one hour and 10 minutes. Good afternoon everyone. Glad you made it in the increment weather. We have a nice representation of people for what i think is going to be an exciting talk. We are taught glad you are here we are glad you are here. Im harold connor, a member of the Museum Foundation board. Jim campbell who just stepped in a moment ago is the president of the board, so ive a stake in the series of talks. Dr. Mark dean agreed to do this talk several months ago. And he was the first when i saw wh

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