Another former White House official has joined Fox News.

Former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo will be a contributor across all Fox News platforms, according to Fox News Media CEO Suzanne Scott.

His first appearance will be Friday (April 9) on Fox and Friends, one of former President Trump's favorite shows while in office.

“Mike Pompeo is one of America's most recognized and respected voices on foreign policy and national security issues," said Scott. "I look forward to his contributions across our range of platforms to share his distinct perspective with our millions of viewers.”

Pompeo has plenty of D.C. experience to draw on. He is also the former director of the CIA and before that a four-term congressman from Kansas where he was a member of the intelligence committee.

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said that protecting data online is critical to national sovereignty, protection that is not compatible with Huawei technology. 

The United Kingdom is said to be considering allowing Huawei technology into its 5G network, something the Trump Administration has apparently concluded should not happen either here or abroad given how connected world data flows have become. 

Related: Tom Ridge Says Huawei Should Be Nowhere Near 5G 

In a tweet Sunday (Jan. 26), Pompeo associated himself with that sentiment as expressed by a conservative member of Parliament: 

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According to the BBC, the UK government plans to decide Tuesday (Jan. 28) on whether or not to exclude Huawei from its 5G buildout on the grounds that it is a national security threat, or instead whether to exclude it only from the ":core" of the network.. 

Those national security grounds are the same ones that the FCC cited in excluding it from broadband subsidy money and the Congress cited for excluding it from government contracts. 

Huawei has said it is not tied to the Chinese government and has challenged the FCC's designation of its tech as a security threat. 

Pompeo back in May said Huawei was a security threat and suggested that the U.S. might not be able to share data with the UK if Huawei was not barred from its 5G buildout. 

The Trump Administration's relationship with the company has been complicated. While it has taken steps to block suspect tech, there has been bipartisan concern that the Administration was using Huawei's status as a bargaining chip in trade negotiations with the country, particularly after the Department of Commerce extended for another 90 days (through mid-February, the license that allows U.S. companies to continue to supply tech--like chips--to Huawei--and after Vice President Mike Pence told Fox News that while he agreed Huawei is a national security threat, he would not say that Huawei's status was off the table in trade talks. 

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said that if Britain makes a deal to use Huawei tech in their telecom systems, the U.S. may not be able to share intelligence information with its historic partner.

That came in an interview with Sky News and in comments elsewhere on the Secretary's trip to London, where he said China was trying to divide the Western Alliance through bits and bytes rather than bullets and bombs.

The FCC is currently proposing to deny broadband subsidy funding to Chinese telecoms, and is voting Thursday (May 8) on a proposal to deny China Mobile's long-standing petition to interconnect with U.S. networks. FCC chair Ajit Pai said this week that Huawei is definitely a national security threat.

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Pompeo told Sky that, when it comes to Huawei and ZTE, another suspect Chinese telecom, "We don’t believe you can have those technology in your systems and still have a trusted network."

Related: ZTE, Huawei Excluded from Government Contracts

He said the U.S. has been crystal clear on that point, although the President did signal a less than get-tough policy on ZTE, at least when it came to U.S. tech.

The Commerce Department struck a deal with ZTE lifting the ban on U.S. tech imports to the company. The ban was issued after ZTE was found not to have complied with a U.S. sanction agreement after it was discovered that the company was supplying technology to Iran and North Korea. The President had signaled the likelihood that Commerce would help ZTE after the Chinese government approached him about the impact on Chinese jobs of Commerce's ban.

But while the U.S. might be providing tech to the company, Pompeo told Sky: "We don’t believe you can have those technologies in your systems and still have a trusted network. We’re happy to continue to look at technology and see ways we might achieve that, but the United States for its part will only participate in trusted networks. We will only share America’s information with those networks that we are confident aren’t under the control of China or China’s government. And so there’s real risk, if countries choose that path, that we won’t be able to participate in those networks."

Asked if that could threaten the U.S.'s security relationship with Britain, he said both that he was confident they would find a way to remain partners, but also said "we certainly will never put America’s national security sequence in a network that we don’t have confidence in," suggesting "the way" would be for Britain not to use Huawei technology.

Pompeo, in a press availability earlier in the day, said that he was confident the U.K., "more broadly," would "never take an action that will break the special relationship." But he clearly spelled out what such an action might be.

"As a matter of Chinese law, the Chinese Government can rightfully demand access to data flowing through Huawei and ZTE systems," he said. "Why would anyone grant such power to a regime that has already grossly violated cyberspace? What can her majesty’s government do to make sure sensitive technologies don’t become open doors for Beijing’s spymasters?

"Insufficient security will impede the United States ability to share certain information with trusted networks," he said.

"This is exactly what China wants; they want to divide Western alliances through bits and bytes, not bullets and bombs," Pompeo warned. "We know that 5G is a sovereign decision – we respect every nation’s right to make its own choices – but it must be made in the broader context, the broader strategic context of China’s efforts throughout the world."

C-SPAN, the public service platforms funded and supported by the cable industry, will provide live gavel-to-gavel coverage of a lot of gavels this week as Congress holds confirmation hearing sessions (a couple are two-day affairs) on a host of Donald Trump's nominees for top administration posts.

A spokesperson for the Senate Small Business Committee said that at press time there was no date yet for the confirmation hearing of Small Business Administration nominee Linda McMahon (http://www.broadcastingcable.com/news/washington/trump-taps-wwes-linda-m...), co-founder and former CEO of WWE, the TV wrestling empire.

The President-elect has yet to announce nominees for the chairmanship of the FCC. If past is prologue that may not come until after the election, with an interim chair, likely senior commission Republican Ajit Pai, tapped from sitting commissioners in the interim, particularly since that agency will be 2-1 Republican as of Jan. 20.

For political junkies and others, here is the lineup for C-SPAN coverage of the nominees getting vetted on the Hill this week:

Tuesday (Jan. 10)

9:30 a.m. Senate Judiciary: Sen. Jeff Sessions, Attorney General (Day 1). Live on C-SPAN3, C-SPAN Radio and C-SPAN.org.

3:30p-7:30 p.m. Senate Homeland Security: John Kelly, Homeland Security Secretary. Live on C-SPAN.org.

Wednesday (Jan. 11)

9:15 a.m.-4 p.m. Senate Foreign Relations: Rex Tillerson, Secretary of State (Day 1). Live on C-SPAN3, C-SPAN Radio and C-SPAN.org.

9:30 a.m.-6:30 p.m. Senate Judiciary: Sen. Jeff Sessions, Attorney General (Day 2). Live on C-SPAN.org.

10 a.m.-1 p.m. Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions: Betsy DeVos, Education Secretary. Live on C-SPAN.org.

10 a.m.-1 p.m. Senate Intelligence: Rep. Mike Pompeo, CIA Director. Live on C-SPAN.org.

10:15 a.m.-1 p.m. Senate Commerce: Elaine Chao, Transportation Secretary. Live on C-SPAN.org.

Thursday
9:30a.m.-1:30 p.m. Senate Armed Services: James Mattis, Defense Secretary. Live on C-SPAN3, C-SPAN Radio and C-SPAN.org.

10 a.m.-1 p.m. Senate Commerce: Wilbur Ross, Commerce Secretary. Live on C-SPAN.org.

10 a.m.-1 p.m. Senate Banking: Ben Carson, Housing & Urban Development Secretary. Live on C-SPAN.org.