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Confirmed he had taken a couple meetings with rudy giuliani with respect to this request giuliani was making to let off this gold trader from prosecution for avoiding u.s. sanctions. >> did rudy admit to that, senator? just to have the audience follow along, did rudy tell the official i represent this guy, im his lawyer? >> so we certainly didnt learn that today. what brian hook, the state department official, said was former attorney general mukasi came in and he brought rudy giuliani with him ...

Blame iran for carrying out the attack meanwhile, the houthi rebels in yemen who are fighting the saudis in yemen in a brutal war have claimed responsibility for the attack and if you want a real sense of the white house perspective right now, look no further than brian hook the u.s.s special representative for iran. hook was on a phone call with congressional staffers yesterday, talking about the attack on saudi oil fields when asked about the impact of the strikes on the kingdom, hook responde...

Back, tweeting: p having failed at max pressure, secretary pompeos turning to max desecret. and a revolutionary guard commander saying american bases and aircraft carriers in the region are within range of iranian missiles, stoking fears that tensions between washington and tehran have now reach their highest levels since the iranian hostage crisis of 1979 and comes just days ahead of a gathering of world leaders at the u.n. general ashe by in new york and a possible meeting between president tr...

Back, tweeting: p having failed at max pressure, secretary candidates. you hear in debate after debate pompeos turning to max people creeping towards desecret. and a revolutionary guard socialism. commander saying american bases folks, wake up already. people are fleeing socialist and aircraft carriers in the countries to come to our great region are within range of democracy of capitalism and freedom. iranian missiles, stoking fears our girls and women have rights that tensions between washingt...

President and his insane racism. the guy is unfit for the office. hes assaulting our liberties, and its time that everyone acknowledge that. and silence screams here. republicans in the senate and the house, the same thing is going to happen as happened with president nixon in 1974. they defended him all summer. it turned out he was a liar. they all went down in defeat. i have seen this movie. >> im curious as you see this building up, this field gets more crowded, do you think we are reaching a...

In loans to saudi arabia to enable it to sell oil and revive its economy a little bit. the sanctions have hurt quite a bit as it is. the iranian economy is suffering. but i think everybody understands, maybe not trump, that sanctions help a regime like the islamic revolutionary guard. they control what you can get if everything else is cut off. its not going to take down the regime, which is what bolton wanted. and it probably isnt even going to get us to the kind of negotiations that trump want...

Qualified people. arthel: president trump on potential nominees to replace john bolton. hes considering seven candidates. mark is ceo of foundation for defense of democracy. also a trump administration advisor on iran. good to have you here. three of the candidates are getting support from secretary of state mike pompeo. hes got top hostage negotiator robert obrien. brian hook, ricky wadell,en assistant to the joint chiefs of staff. though the president says he will make the final decision. how ...

State mike pompeo who has come out as the preeminent trump whisperer in this administration. look what the national security adviser job is. you had on your screen a couple of options there, major general ricky wadell who is right now acting in a lot of ways that a national security adviser would do, hes working as a coordinator for the border mission with various agencies charged with what president trump has declared as a national emergency at the border. we also have brian hook, someone we kn...

Along with very important people. we know one of those people is pompeo. >> potential lists of replacements, who are we looking at if its not pompeo. >> we have heard so many names right now. we have heard ten people being considered, but the president said that there are five who want the job. they are good, qualified people, and we know, according to some sources at the white house that there are two that are leading the list right now. its interesting because they are both from the state depa...

♪ time. last time that happened was henry kissinger in the nixon administration. cnn white house report jeremy diamond is joining me right now. talk about hazard pay, what are you hearing? >> we know that secretary of state mike pompeo and the former national security adviser john bolton bitterly clashed during their time serving in the administration. in the wake of boltons departure, it looks like mike pompeo could be benefitting in more ways than one. we are being told by two sources that t...