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You're to be personally to be commended for the great successes and the president in that regard. it's unfortunate that our friends and allies feathers were ruffled a little bit because we said they weren't paying their bills. that's been going on for some time and we'll tolerate that, but they have to step up. i know you underscored that and the president has certainly underscored that with them. i want to talk about iran for just a moment. one of the big unreported stories as far as foreign relations is concerned is the issues and the difficulties that the iranian people are having internall...

Productive nato summit. from my conversations with the secretary general stolenberg, he said the pro productive that he's been a part of. you talked about the 30 naval combatants ready to go in 30 days. something that nato has not been ready to do in quite some time. we have to make sure that occurs. it would be a great thing to do to deter russia if we can get to that level. you talked about burden sharing. it's important that the europeans are as committed to deterring russia as the united states of america and need to demonstrate that through defense. not only dollars but readiness as well....

Senators today filled with serious doubts about this white house and its conduct of american foreign policy. there's reasons to be concerned. among them, the lack of information the administration has provided to members of this committee. it's our hope you'll reduce our level of concern by providing us with clear answers that might help convince us that those at the white house know what they're doing and that to be candid, you know what they're doing. i can't say it more forcefully, we need a clear understanding as to what is going on, what our president is agreeing to and what our strategy ...

Period of time to spend alone one-on-one is by understanding at least that if you were briefed by the president what he told you. i don't think that's unfair to know what policy is. let me ask you this. did the president say they were going to change our structure in syria? >> senator, presidents are permitted to have conversations with cabinet members that are not repeated in public. i owe the president the capacity for him to have conversations with him, provide him the best foreign policy advice that i can. it's what i was -- >> let me ask you this, mr. secretary. here's something that you ...

>> did the president ask to withdraw from crimea? >> i began with the -- >> i understand the declaration. i welcome in. seems like we had to do a lot of effort to get there. the question is, when he had a chance, did he confront putin and say we don't recognize your annexation of crimea? we don't exercise your continuing hostilities in the ukraine and there's consequences for that. >> the president was very clear with putin. the u.s. positions are the trump administrations positions and he spoke about them clearly. >> and he told you that? >> senator, i'm telling you what he had a conversation...