Because somehow the rule of law doesnt uphold to him we believe this News Conference to go live to the Us State Department for a joint News Conference mike pompeo and the Russian Foreign minister, surrogate laptop. Live coverage on cspan2. Good afternoon, welcome. Welcome surrogate. Before i recap the meeting that i had with foreign minister laptop and his team, i want to note that recently the trumpet ministration has taken action for human rights violators, i mentioned in my International Human rights speech which we celebrate today and these actions extend from the ministration commitment old individuals accountable for gross human rights is abuses. Ill speak more about that tomorrow area now turning to our meeting. Last may at President Trumps request i made a trip to russia to meet with president putin. The reason was pretty straightforward. We should have a better relationship. The United States andrussia than we had the last few years and weve been working on that. Our bilateral