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From the white house for us, thank you. any moment now the president s pick for secretary of state mike pompeo, the cia director, faces lawmakers up on capitol hill. cnn s manu raju is setting the scene for us up there. manu this will be very, very important whether or not he gets confirmed or not confirmed. reporter: no question about it, wolf. already we re seeing significant democratic opposition to his nomination. there were 15 democrats who did vote for him for cia director when he was confirmed last year. but a number of them have raised concerns about his candidacy for secretary of state. the question today is two key democrats on this committee, jeanne shaheen, tim kaine, who did vote for him for cia director. they have questions about what he will say today. this is a significant hearing. expect questions about the iran deal, what he ll do about that, something he s been telling senators privately he s not prepared to scrap just yet. he wants to see it fixed first. in additi ....

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