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Michael R. Pompeo, Secretary of State

Male, Maldives

QUESTION:  Welcome, sir.  Thank you for joining Raajje TV.

SECRETARY POMPEO:  It’s great to be with you.  Thanks for having me with you.

QUESTION:  How has your trip been?

SECRETARY POMPEO:  It’s been great.  Too short, but wonderful to come visit here in the Maldives.  It was very kind of the president to invite me, and I’ve very much enjoyed the vis

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Michael R. Pompeo, Secretary of State

Today, the United States continued to disrupt the financial and logistical networks that support Al Qa’ida (AQ) operations in the Middle East and around the world by designating a financial facilitator.  Ahmed Luqman Talib is being designated pursuant to Executive Order 13224 for having materially assisted, sponsored, or provided financial or material support for, or goods or services to or in support of, AQ.  Additionally, the company Talib and Sons,

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Michael R. Pompeo, Secretary of State

Washington, D.C.

Press Briefing Room

SECRETARY POMPEO:  Good morning, everyone.  Welcome.  Today I want to discuss a theme that deserves far more attention, and that is that America is a force for good in the world.

Last week the World Food Programme was awarded the 2020 Nobel Peace Prize for its efforts to fight hunger and improve conditions for peace around the world.

The WFP is run by Executive Director David Bea

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Michael R. Pompeo, Secretary of State

Chief of Mission Residence

Tokyo, Japan

QUESTION:  All right, so thank you very much for today.  So, Secretary of State, first of all I’d like to express my sincere wish for President Trump to recover.

SECRETARY POMPEO:  Thank you very much.  Thanks for having me on the show.  I spoke to the President yesterday for about an hour and a half.  He seemed to be doing great.

QUESTION:  B

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Michael R. Pompeo, Secretary of State

Washington, D.C.

QUESTION:  Joining us tonight to talk about all of this and much more, the United States Secretary of State Mike Pompeo.  Mr. Secretary, good to have you with us.  Let’s begin with the rhetoric of the Chinese Government, and it is moving up quite a – to quite heated extremes now.  Your interpretation of what’s going on in Beijing.

SECRETARY POMPEO:  So, Lou, thanks for having me on.  That was qui

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Michael R. Pompeo, Secretary of State

New York

QUESTION:  Secretary of State Mike Pompeo is in New York City today to formally inform the United Nations Security Council of the restart of some sanctions, snapback sanctions, against Iran.  These are related to the 2015 nuclear deal with that country.  America says Iran is in violation of the deal.  As you know, the U.S. itself abandoned it about two years ago.

Secretary Pompeo joins us now.  He’s a trooper.  We persev

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Michael R. Pompeo, Secretary of State

Washington, DC

Dean Acheson Auditorium, Department of State

SECRETARY POMPEO:  Good afternoon, everyone.

We have had a lively and productive set of conversations this morning and last night as well.  I’ll get to that in just a bit.

First, though, I want to personally thank Ministers Payne and Reynolds for traveling all this way, halfway around the world, to be with us today.  That is a tough trip in ordinary times.<

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Michael R. Pompeo, Secretary of State

Washington, D.C.

QUESTION: So good afternoon and welcome to the 548th meeting of the Economic Club of New York, and I’m Marie-Josee Kravis, the chair emerita of the Economic Club of New York and a senior fellow at the Hudson Institute. Just reminding you that the Economic Club is one of the nation’s leading nonpartisan forums for discussions of economic, social, and political issues, and I think our mission is as important today as ever

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Michael R. Pompeo, Secretary of State

Washington, D.C.

MR CLEMONS:  Hello, and welcome.  I’m Steve Clemons, editor-at-large of The Hill.  Thank you for joining us for New Threats, New Defense: The Future of National Security.  Before we get underway, a message from the chairman of The Hill, Jimmy Finkelstein.

MR FINKELSTEIN:  Good morning.  I’m Jimmy Finkelstein, chairman of The Hill.  I want to welcome you all here today.  We have a tremendous progr

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Michael R. Pompeo, Secretary of State

Washington, DC

Press Briefing Room

SECRETARY POMPEO:  Good morning, everyone.  I want to start by marking – yeah, good morning.  Good to see some new – James, great to see you back.

QUESTION:  Likewise.

SECRETARY POMPEO:  Welcome.  I want to start by marking two anniversaries.  First, on July 11th, the United States and Vietnam celebrated the 25th anniversary of the establishment of

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Michael R. Pompeo, Secretary of State

Washington, D.C.

QUESTION:  Now, one of the targets of that smear, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, joins me exclusively now.  Mr. Secretary, great to see you.  Now, I know you feel that Rice’s remarks show a lack of restraint that our country can’t afford to have back in the White House.  Explain all that.

SECRETARY POMPEO:  Laura, thanks for having me on.  To hear Ambassador Rice talk that way is just crazy.  Sh

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Michael R. Pompeo, Secretary of State

Washington, DC

SECRETARY POMPEO:  Thank you, Nicolas.  Thanks for the couple words in English there.  I appreciate that.

Good morning, everyone.  Good to see you, Secretary General.  Rosemary, thank you for your comments this morning.  I would like to say you made some comments about humanitarian assistance inside of Iran.  The United States has tried to facilitate that, in light of the COVID issues inside of Iran.  Indeed, we of

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Michael R. Pompeo, Secretary of State

The tide is turning against Huawei as citizens around the world are waking up to the danger of the Chinese Communist Party’s surveillance state. Huawei’s deals with telecommunications operators around the world are evaporating, because countries are only allowing trusted vendors in their 5G networks. Examples include the Czech Republic, Poland, Sweden, Estonia, Romania, Denmark, and Latvia. Recently, Greece agreed to use Ericsson rather than Huawei to develop

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Michael R. Pompeo, Secretary of State

The United States stands with our allies and partners against the Chinese Communist Party’s coercive bullying tactics. In the latest example, Beijing has reportedly threatened to punish British bank HSBC and to break commitments to build nuclear power plants in the United Kingdom unless London allows Huawei to build its 5G network. Shenzhen-based Huawei is an extension of the Chinese Communist Party’s surveillance state.

The CCP’s browbeating of HSBC, i

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Michael R. Pompeo, Secretary of State

Washington, D.C.

QUESTION:  Mr. Secretary, thanks very much for joining me this morning.

SECRETARY POMPEO:  Good morning, Maria.  Thanks for having me on.

QUESTION:  What can the administration do to create calm, to calm things down this morning?

SECRETARY POMPEO:  Let me begin, first of all, by expressing my personal condolences to Mr. Floyd’s family and all the pe

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Michael R. Pompeo, Secretary of State

Washington, D.C.

QUESTION:  Secretary Pompeo, welcome to Outsiders.  You said the other day that the whole world is now waking up to the degree to which Beijing is ideologically and politically hostile to free nations such as ours.  Has the coronavirus unwittingly exposed the real face of Chinese communism?

SECRETARY POMPEO:  Well, thanks for having me on, and that’s a – I think that’s a central question.  My com

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Michael R. Pompeo, Secretary of State

We are deeply saddened by the passing on May 20 of Ambassador Matthew J. Matthews and, on behalf of the Department of State, I offer our deepest condolences to his family. Ambassador Matthews had a long and distinguished career in the State Department and was admired by all with whom he worked. Ambassador Matthews most recently served as the U.S. Ambassador to Brunei Darussalam. Previous to that, Ambassador Matthews was the U.S. Ambassador for Asia-Pacific Eco

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Michael R. Pompeo, Secretary of State

Washington, DC

Press Briefing Room

SECRETARY POMPEO:  Good morning, everyone.  This morning, early, I had the chance to drive through Arlington Cemetery, and as we approach Memorial Day Weekend, I want to reflect on the sacrifices of our uniformed military who have given their lives in the cause of freedom.

As Secretary of State and an Army veteran, I spend all my days working to use American diplomatic power to secure fre

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Michael R. Pompeo, Secretary of State

Via Teleconference

QUESTION: Welcome back. This is the Ben Shapiro Show. Joining us on the line is Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, sworn in as Secretary of State April 26th, 2018. Secretary Pompeo, thanks so much for joining the show again.

SECRETARY POMPEO: Ben, it’s great to be back with you again. Hope you’re doing well.

QUESTION: Hanging in there. So Secretary Pompeo, obviously you’ve been in the center of the news

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Michael R. Pompeo, Secretary of State

Washington, DC

Press Briefing Room

SECRETARY POMPEO:  Good morning, everyone.  It’s been 128 days since Chinese doctor Ai Fen – the director of the Wuhan Central Hospital’s emergency unit – shared information on the internet about a patient with a SARS-like virus.  Her colleague, Dr. Li Wenliang, shared Dr. Ai’s report online with medical colleagues.

The next day, December 31st, regional health officials in Wuhan indicated

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