CNN CNN Newsroom with Poppy Harlow and Jim Sciutto December 3, 2019 15:12:00
Directly. not clear when or where. i'm not aware and we checked of a white house readout of a call on this issue specifically but as you well know the u.s. pulled out of the medium range missile treaty just a number of weeks ago because russia had been violating it according to the u.s. view for some years now. do you -- does the pentagon, is the pentagon aware of serious discussions with both russia and china the president is having right now on a new nuclear forces agreement? >> well, i think it's what the u.s. had hoped to do. whether it's happening and to what extent it's happening i think...