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>> wolf, its mystifying why the president did what he did in helsinki, why he didnt dismiss out of hand the interrogation by russia of american citizens, why he was not public in bringing up to mr. putin interference in our elections. the list goes on and on and on. but today is the first opportunity that congress will have to question a high-level trump official on what happened in helsinki. and its also our first opportunity to question in regards to what happened in singapore with north korea...

His actions. as far as the trump administerss goals on north korea are concerned, nothings changed. our objective remains the final fully verified denuclearization of north korea has agreed to by chairman kim jong-un. to follow-up to the presidents successful summit with chairman kim, on july 5th i traveled to north korea to make progress on the commitments that were made in singapore. were engaged in patient diplomacy but we wont let this drag out to no end. i emphasize this position in the pro...

Heres what we know and heres what we dont know. we really dont know what president trump said. and what we do know is that president trump has been dishonest with the american people repeatedly, and we also know that putin is a very calculating person, and putin will exploit all the uncertainties that came out of that meeting. which is why its important that we have people who are there recording these conversations. i mean, the presidents people. and so we really know what commitments were made...

You brought it up. you mentioned that you traveled to north korea to continue on as you put it i guess to follow up on commitments made in singapore. lets talk about those commitments for a minute. you mentioned that they have committed to denuclearization. they may have a different readout than we do on what that entails but so far they seem to be walking back any commitment, real commitment, that was made there. what commitment, firm commitment, other than discussion of returning remains, im n...

The president also raised another issue about energy and energy security. at the nato summit, he talked art -- about the nordstrom pipeline and if need to use energy as a we to coerce formally or informally germany or other european countries. he raised it to the forefront and frankly there are european countries that understand the risk and support america and our position on that as well. and finally, you talked a little bit about the nato mission, its new role in fighting terrorism. i want to...

Section. members of the presidents own cabinet have heard more about the meeting in helsinki from putin and his associates than from our president. we know that the kremlin state-run media operations have a dubious commitment to the truth, but we dont know what the truth is because nobody else was in the room where it happened. the american people expect and i believe they deserve to know what happened. i also have serious questions about the summit in singapore that took place nearly two months...

Seeing, we dont have any commitments in the short-term if iran walks away from the agreement, because they are sanctioned under the united states. we have been isolated, not iran. and, of course, iran today was not pursuing the nuclear program. i agree with you, there may be long-term issues. so im having a hard time understanding our strategy in regards to preventing nuclear proliferation. last point i would make, we had a hearing in this committee as to what is necessary to move forward with n...

>> i disagree with most of what you just said. you somehow disconnect the administrations activities from the presidents actions. they are one in the same. every sanction put in place was signed out by the president of the united states. >> neil: you are watching the secretary of state getting a grilling from both sides. this is getting predictable heat from republicans who think the president went too far, being too cozy with vladimir putin. the secretary of state defending the president. the b...

Regards to nuclear proliferation in iran and in north korea. im having a hard time understanding the comparison between these two countries. in north korea we have a country that has a nuclear weapon. the president has met with the leader of that country and has at least given a signal to some countries that in fact there may be relaxation of those. were having problems with china today as i understand. in iran, we had a commitment for a short term ending their nuke program. we isolated iran get...

Recent high-profile summit in helsinki with russian president vladimir putin and spoken with sergey lavrov about next steps. pompeo says beyond the high-profile meeting the trump administration has been pushing back hard on russias bad behavior around the world. you can expect u.s./russia relations to be the focus of a number of senators today. >> the biggest thing on everybodys mind is what did we commit to in that private meeting with putin? what were the commitments made by the u.s. thats the...