(Confirm. Saw KANSAS live at short presser after he and Gen Mattis updated Senate behind closed doors.)
The portion of YT transcript from https://youtu.be/hwLUQTNlFBs?t=1874 where Sec Pompeo speaks.
Paragraph breaks are approximate. Sorry.
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>>> SECRETARY AND MATTIS BRIEFED
ABOUT THE KINGDOM OF SAUDI
ARABIA AND WE OBVIOUSLY SPOKE
ABOUT THE HEINOUS MURDER OF
JAMAL KHASHOGGI AND WE MADE
CLEAR THAT THEY ARE CONSIDERING
GETTING A RESOLUTION ON THE
SENATE FLOOR WHICH WE THINK IS
POORLY TIMED.
WE ARE ON THE CUSP OF ALLOWING
U.S. ENVOY MARTIN GRIFFITH, IN
DECEMBER, TO GATHER THE PARTIES
TOGETHER AND HOPEFULLY GET A
CEASE-FIRE IN YEMEN, SOMETHING
WE’VE DIPLOMATICALLY BEEN
STRIVING FOR FOUR MONTHS AND WE
THINK WE ARE RIGHT ON THE CUSP
OF THAT.
THE VIEW OF THE ADMINISTRATION,
SECRETARY MATTIS AND MYSELF,
THAT PASSING THE RESOLUTION
WOULD UNDERMINE THAT AND WOULD
ENCOURAGE THE HOUTHIS AND WOULD
UNDERMINE THE FRAGILE AGREEMENT
FOR EVERYONE TO GO TO SWEDEN
AND HAVE THIS DISCUSSION.
WE HOPE THEY WILL CONSIDER THAT
AND WE ARE HAPPY TO GIVE
FURTHER INFORMATION IF THEY
SHOULD SO CHOOSE.
>> WHY WASN’T THE CURRENT CIA
DIRECTOR BRIEFING THE SENATORS,
AS WELL?
>> I WAS ASKED TO BE HERE.
>> SENATORS WERE VERY FRUSTRATED.
NORMALLY, YOU WOULD BE BRIEFING
THE SENATORS IF YOU WERE THE
CIA DIRECTOR.
WHY ISN’T THE CIA DIRECTOR
HERE?
>> I WAS ASKED TO BE HERE AND
I’M HERE.
>> YOU’VE SEEN ALL THE
INTELLIGENCE.
DO BELIEVE THE CROWN PRINCE OF
ARABIA ORDERED THE MURDER OF
JAMAL KHASHOGGI?
>> THERE IS NO DIRECT REPORTING
CONNECTED WITH THE PRINCE TO
ORDER THE MURDERS OF JAMAL
KHASHOGGI AND THAT’S ALL I CAN
SAY.
>> IS HE RESPONSIBLE?
>> I DON’T HAVE ANYTHING TO
ADD.
THE SEQUENCE OF EVENTS IN NORTH
KOREA — HOPEFULLY WE WILL HAVE
SENIOR MALE — SENIOR LEVEL
MEETINGS BEFORE TOO LONG.
>> FROM THE GOVERNMENT, FROM
THE HOUTHIS AND THE INTERESTED
PARTIES — WE HOPE THE IRANIANS
WANT TO UPSET THE APPLE CART.
THEY HAVE BEEN PROVIDING
ASSISTANCE TO THE HOUTHIS WHICH
ALLOWED THEM TO CONTINUE TO
FIGHT WELL BEYOND WHAT WOULD
HAVE MADE ANY SENSE AT ALL AND
WE HOPE THE IRANIANS WON’T
UPSET THIS OPPORTUNITY TO
RESOLVE THE CIVIL WAR AND GIVE
EVERYONE THE OPPORTUNITY TO
RESOLVE THE MASSIVE
HUMANITARIAN CRISIS IN YEMEN
TODAY.
>> ALL RIGHT.
THE SECRETARY OF STATE, MIKE
POMPEO, SPEAKING TO REPORTERS
AFTER HE AND SECRETARY JAMES
MATTIS BRIEFED ALL 100 UNITED
STATES SENATORS ON WHAT IS
HAPPENING IN THE KINGDOM OF
SAUDI ARABIA.
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(Article plus embed video Bolton speaks)(It’s CBS folks)
Durbin: Pompeo and Mattis told senators White House blocked Gina Haspel from briefing — live updates
CBS News November 28, 2018, 12:45 PM
Thank you for the time impaired~