Pompeo Smirks When Asked If N. Korea Executed Negotiators: Next Time My Counterpart Might Be Someone Else …

RUSH TRANSCRIPT:

KARL: “There were reports out of — out of the region that after the Hanoi summit several of the people that you were negotiating with, that were part of that negotiating team at Hanoi were executed. Do — do we believe those reports are accurate?”

POMPEO: “Jonathan, I don’t anything to add to that for you this morning.”

KARL: “But there — there seems to have been some kind of a — of a shakeup of — of — of his team over there?”

POMPEO: “It does appear that the next time we have serious conversations that my counterpart will be someone else, but we don’t know that for sure, just as — just as President Trump gets to decide who his negotiators will be, Chairman Kim will get to make his own decisions who he asks to have these discussion.”