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Denuclearize north korea. it is shameful. its amazing. this is the height of playing politics with national security. brian: a lot of the people say if you want to get it passed when it goes to the body. senate body. get a democrat to come over and one has. heidi heitcamp in trouble as she tries to get six more years out of the people of north dakota dakota as a democrat. pompeo during nomination process and during meeting in march that he is committed to empowering the diplomats in state so the...

The required accountability. perhaps the highest complements of our work come from our adversaries, who fear and are in awe of the institution, and from our partner services around the world, we asked for more training, more intelligence, more joint operations than ever. to you, if im confirmed this wont be good-bye. no matter how this nomination process ends, i will be with you, ill support you and admire you. i want to thank the president for his confidence and trust in me. my job at cia has b...

Have delivered for america, for president trump and for me. perhaps the highest compliments of our work come from our adversaries who fear and are in awe of the institution. from our partner services around the world asking for more training, more intelligence, more joint operations than ever. if im confirmed it wont be goodbye. no matter how this nomination process ends ill be with you and support you and admire you. finally i want to thank the president for his confidence and trust in me. my j...

Negative recommendation, but no one has done that for secretary of state since 1925. its possible but unusual. >> chris: what about steves point which i think is a good one. if pompeo gets defeated, who is the next nominee for secretary of state? if you are a democrat, would you worry about that? to go he has done something that is untrumpian that has served him well. he told every, called every past secretary of state. madeleine albright expressed concerns about whats happened with personnel at...

Supported contacts by between the u.s. and north korea. still talk about vladimir putin wants to get in a meeting with kim jong-un before kim jong-un sees president trump. still to be decided yes, the time now seems to be sliding towards june. the place there are a couple of locations being talked about for the trump/kim meeting. there is talk that perhaps following the nomination process for the secretary of state to be mike pompeo that he could meet one of his adversaries in north korea to do ...

Moves through the nomination process. the probable here theres no confirmation hearings scheduled for pompeo. i mean, this instability, not knowing whos going to be running the state department, could that cause trouble for this administration, specifically when there are so many big foreign policy issues at stake right now? >> this is part of a larger story weve seen in the trump presidency. the state department has been secondary even with tillerson at the helm. he wasnt very aggressive in fil...

Enormous power who is intimately involved with torture and from everything were reading was supportive of the policy so no, i cant support that. >> i thinks and outlier, senator paul, within the republican party and i will be looking for her to understand that the law has changed, and she cannot engage in these interrogation techniques. i think it undercuts our national security but in terms of our qualifications to me theyre second to none. >> back with me analyst david drucker and ana navarro....

So my hope would be that in the nomination process that the senators look at her entire record, ask her the questions they want to ask but in the end i do believe that she really would be a great cia director. >> >> strong words from leon panetta. lets turn to the issue of russia right now. the "new york times" reports russia has hacked into nuclear power plants here in the united states in critical water and electric systems and how the power to effectively potentially shut those systems down o...

Secretary of state, hes concerned about his stance, as he says, in the past about iraq, iran, and also mike pompeos defense of enhanced interrogation techniques so rand paul making it clear he is creating big roadblocks for the administration in getting both of their nominees through. >> its clear to this nomination process certainly for the cia director is -- it was going to be tricky. there are going to be some moments, some testy moments but whether the possibilities that she -- what are the ...

Involved with waterboarding someone and was gleefully sort of, you know, just expressing their joy at his suffering, i think, is the wrong kind of message to send the world. >> republican senator john mccain is voicing concern. in a statement he writes in part, ms. haspel needs to explain the nature and extent of her involvement in the cias interrogation program during the nomination process. in the senate, the gop has a very slim margin, we should say. joining us from washington is daniel lippm...