“Had a great meeting with Kim Jong-un and got along with him really well, really great, and he’s that kind of a guy.”He added: “I think Mike Pompeo is extraordinary. I think Mike Pompeo will go down as one of the great secretaries of state.”Mike Pompeo: what will the US state department look like under his control? Pompeo can afford to lose only one vote on the Senate committee. All but one of the committee’s Democrats, Senator Chris Coons of Delaware, have said they will vote against him. Senator Tim Kaine, a Democrat on the foreign relations panel who supported Pompeo’s nomination for CIA director, denounced Pompeo’s “anti-diplomacy disposition”.

Source: The Guardian April 18, 2018 16:56 UTC