--- title: Watch Live: Mike Pompeo's Confirmation Hearing CIA Director description: Rep. Mike Pompeo will appear before the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence on Thursday morning. canonical: https://time.com/4632816/watch-live-mike-pompeo-senate-confirmation-cia-director/ author: Julia Zorthian article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2017-01-12T15:05:33.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-23T02:41:50.512Z article:section: Politics og:title: Watch Live: Mike Pompeo's Senate Confirmation Hearing to Be CIA Director og:description: President-elect Donald Trump nominated Pompeo to be CIA Director. og:url: https://time.com/4632816/watch-live-mike-pompeo-senate-confirmation-cia-director/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Watch Live: Mike Pompeo's Senate Confirmation Hearing to Be CIA Director twitter:description: President-elect Donald Trump nominated Pompeo to be CIA Director. twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Watch Live: Mike Pompeo's Senate Confirmation Hearing to Be Donald Trump's CIA Director  by [Julia Zorthian](https://time.com/author/julia-zorthian/)  ## Julia Zorthian Jan 12, 2017 3:05 PM UTC  by [Julia Zorthian](https://time.com/author/julia-zorthian/)  ## Julia Zorthian Jan 12, 2017 3:05 PM UTC Rep. Mike Pompeo [will appear](http://www.pbs.org/newshour/rundown/watch-live-mike-pompeo-confirmation-hearing/) before the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence on Thursday morning, at a time when tensions are high between the U.S. intelligence community and President-elect Donald Trump. Pompeo is a [four-term member of Congress](http://time.com/4576939/mike-pompeo-cia-donald-trump-what-to-know/) from Kansas and was on the House Select Benghazi Committee that investigated the 2012 attack in Libya. As President-elect Donald Trump’s pick to run the CIA, Pompeo will likely face questions about Russia’s involvement with the U.S. election, [_CNN_ ](http://www.cnn.com/2017/01/12/politics/mike-pompeo-cia-director-hearing-donald-trump/)[reports](http://www.cnn.com/2017/01/12/politics/mike-pompeo-cia-director-hearing-donald-trump/). “This is the most complicated threat environment the United States has faced in recent memory,” Pompeo plans to say, [according to excerpts of his speech](http://www.cnn.com/2017/01/12/politics/mike-pompeo-cia-director-hearing-donald-trump/) released ahead of time. “It will be the CIA’s mission, and my own, if confirmed, to ensure the Agency remains the best in the world at its core mission: collecting what our enemies do not want us to know. Watch the confirmation hearing live here, starting at 10:00 a.m. EST. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4632816/watch-live-mike-pompeo-senate-confirmation-cia-director/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4632816/watch-live-mike-pompeo-senate-confirmation-cia-director/"},"headline":"Watch Live: Mike Pompeo's Senate Confirmation Hearing to Be Donald Trump's CIA Director","datePublished":"2017-01-12T15:05:33.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-23T02:41:50.512Z","description":"President-elect Donald Trump nominated Pompeo to be CIA Director","url":"https://time.com/4632816/watch-live-mike-pompeo-senate-confirmation-cia-director/","keywords":["Senate","White House","Donald Trump","onetime"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Julia Zorthian","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/julia-zorthian/"}],"articleSection":"Politics","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/politics/","name":"Politics"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/senate/","name":"Senate"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4632816/watch-live-mike-pompeo-senate-confirmation-cia-director/","name":"Watch Live: Mike Pompeo's Senate Confirmation Hearing to Be Donald Trump's CIA Director"}}]}] ```