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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. 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