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As a result other countries are filling this vacuum. will you work to help improve ties with cuba relationship that benefits many states hoping to increase trade with the island. as you know when i visited with you in my office, i talked about how many governors have gone do cuba and said with their agricultural folks and said we -- cuba has 11 million people. we want to sell food products to them. will you work to improve ties with cuba? >> i recall joking with you about kansas wheat. the answer to your question is yes. senator flake asked about the diplomatic presence there. i think every on...

Folks safe. we'll build out a team that will deliver american dip lodiplomac cuba in way that represents the finest of america. >> as you know, u.s. internet companies, cuba has very, very little internet capacity. this is one of the things that could open cuba up to the world. do you believe the united states company should help bring the internet to cuba? >> that question sounds like there hay m-- may be something buried there. >> there is. >> at the risk of demonstrating ignorance, i would prefer the chance to talk to my experts at the state department and work my way through it. >> there's...

Others outside the committee to try to push the effort to have the internet be the big part of our first push in cuba. as you know very well and we talked about this in my office, the state department and defense department work hand in glove on these crucial issues. the job of the state department is to try to make sure we don't get into unnecessary wars. your work is to work hard at diplomacy and work hard at peace. are you committed to robust di l -- diplomacy and do everything you can to prevent future wars? >> yes. >> thank you. i'm going to follow up on several members on the iran deal.

>> i'll take offline and submit additional questions on cuba. we've had private discussions on this. i'm concerned that we have just a skeletal staff there in the embassy given the issues that occurred there. i think it's an important time there. we'll have a non-castro head of state for the first time later this month. if we could beef that staff up and be great as well. thank you. >>. >> thank you very much mr. chairman and thank you for your service director pompeo and we really appreciate having your family here and look forward to you answering our questions. i want to follow up. i've wor...