Pompeo: U.S. evaluating response to Turkey’s purchase of Russian system

On Thursday, U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said that the United States was continuing to evaluate how it would respond to Turkey’s purchase of Russian S-400 missile defense systems.

“We continue to evaluate how to apply sanctions in order to achieve our end objective,” Pompeo said under questioning from Democratic Senator Bob Menendez at a Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing.