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Testimony of some of its most experienced leaders and then turn around and have the same hiring system hire somebody with these kinds of views. i'm not worried very much about his influence within the arms control world. state departments arms control office is not very busy right now because we've been withdrawing from more arms control deals than we have been negotiating re-entry to, but you know, this is a state department that doesn't feel compelled under secretary pompeo to explain why it relieved the ukraine ambassador job or why it would hire somebody like this? >> david sanger, los of ...

Into an inspection regime. hopefully we can land this diplomatically but to say the threat is over as the president has done repeatedly. . >> he told margaret brennan, pompeo could get this wrapped up in a year. he seems to be raising stakes on the secretary to do something the secretary himself told the senate could take a long time. >> the only way that could happen is if the north koreans could open up in ways that would be totally unprecedented. not just in them but in the arms control world generally. >> what do you think he's up to here? >> if you went back to his earlier statements, i t...

Make of the timing, why now? >> i think assad may have thought he could get away with it. he certainly had for several years under the previous administration. i have to say, there were also some statements by senior administration officials and we had to accept assad and power, that was kind of the inevitable. i don't know what the cause was, it may have been a test, but the president's response was exactly correct. he identified a threat to american national security, that is the breach by syria of this obligation under the chemical weapons convention. i think whenever an anti-proliferation ...

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