The Atlantic Daily: The Bottom Line
What We’re Following Pompeo’s Plans: President Trump confirmed on Twitter that CIA Director Mike Pompeo met with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un recently in preparation for Trump’s planned summit with Kim—a sign that the president is eager to make a big diplomatic statement. As his nominee for secretary of state, Pompeo is opposed by several prominent members of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, and could become the first State Department head not to be endorsed by the agency’s overseers in the legislative branch.
