explain sir why you decided to fire the 00:02 inspector general at the state 00:03 department 00:04 yeah i don't know him at all i never 00:07 even heard of him 00:08 but i was asked to by the state 00:10 department by mike 00:12 i offered most of my people almost all 00:15 of them i said you know these are obama 00:16 appointees and 00:18 if you'd like to let him go i think you 00:19 should let him go but that's up to you 00:21 so i don't know him 00:23 never heard of him but they asked me to 00:25 terminate him i have the absolute right 00:27 as president to terminate uh 00:30 i said who appointed him and they said 00:32 president obama i said look i'll 00:34 terminate him 00:35 uh i don't know what's going on other 00:36 than that but you'd have to ask mike 00:38 pompeo 00:39 i would have suggested and i did suggest 00:41 in pretty much all cases you 00:43 get rid of the attorney generals because 00:44 it happens to be very political whether 00:46 you like it or not 00:48 and many of these people were obama 00:50 appointments 00:51 and so i just 00:54 got rid of them and you've got some 00:56 criticism from democrats in congress who 00:58 are saying this is a 00:59 pattern of you trying to avoid having 01:03 accountability 01:04 and if i didn't fire them they would 01:05 have criticized me too they'd criticize 01:07 no matter what you do 01:08 you know if you have too many 01:09 ventilators they'll say gee he has too 01:11 many ventilators 01:12 but i just don't know who he is i really 01:15 i don't know never heard his name 01:16 you believe he said you don't know him 01:18 sir what was he doing that was treating 01:20 you unfairly 01:21 i don't know i don't know anything about 01:22 him i don't know i don't know anything 01:24 about him other than 01:26 the state department and mike in 01:27 particular i guess they weren't happy 01:29 with the job he's doing or something so 01:31 because it's my right to do it i said 01:33 sure i'll do it i've 01:34 gotten rid of a lot of inspector 01:36 generals every president has i think 01:38 every president has gotten rid of 01:40 probably more than 01:41 i have secretary pompeo was reportedly 01:44 under investigation both for 01:46 having staffers do personal errands like 01:48 walking his dog and 01:49 picking up his dry cleaning and concerns 01:52 that he may have subverted the will 01:54 of congress with saudi uh 01:57 deals with saudi arms deals uh 02:00 are you concerned that that he may have 02:02 made this request to avoid 02:03 uh investigation i don't know anything 02:05 about it i 02:07 heard about at the same time maybe you 02:09 heard about it i don't know anything 02:10 about it i mean 02:11 you mean he's under investigation 02:13 because he had somebody walk his dog 02:14 from the government i don't know 02:16 it doesn't sound i don't think it sounds 02:19 like that important i mean 02:20 and you know what i'd rather have him on 02:22 the phone with some world leader than 02:24 have him wash dishes because maybe his 02:26 wife isn't there or his 02:27 kids are the you know what are you 02:29 telling me it's terrible 02:30 it's so stupid you know how stupid that 02:32 sounds to the world 02:34 unbelievable you're just telling me 02:37 about walking the dog and what'd you say 02:38 doing dishes 02:39 saudi arms deals sir what sort of arm 02:42 sales explain 02:43 past congress passed a law to restrict 02:45 uh 02:46 sales to saudi arabia over certain arms 02:49 concern over their use in the money 02:50 crisis 02:51 so the question is whether secretary 02:53 pompeo tried to subvert the 02:55 uh the deal with actions that he may 02:57 have taken i don't think so
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