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Interview John Kerry Secretary of State Department of State Washington, DC January 6, 2017 QUESTION: Mr. Secretary, thank you very much for joining us today. SECRETARY KERRY: A pleasure. Thank you. QUESTION: As you prepare to leave office at the end of the term, Russia and the role of Russia’s cyber hacking in the U.S. Russia has now, according to testimony and the intelligence at Armed Services hearings, Russia has hacked the State Department as we knew, the Joint Chiefs, obviously the DNC and ot...

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Interview John Kerry Secretary of State Department of State Washington, DC January 6, 2017 QUESTION: Thank you, Mr. Secretary. SECRETARY KERRY: My pleasure. QUESTION: Let’s start with alleged Russian hacking. Former CIA Director Leon Panetta said this morning that President Obama should have taken action last summer when it first became evident that the Russians were trying to hack the U.S. election. He said it was an attack on our country. Why didn’t you take action? SECRETARY KERRY: Well, ...

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Interview John Kerry Secretary of State Washington, DC January 6, 2017 QUESTION: Mr. Secretary, we’re in a moment of extraordinary transition. And as you know, many of America’s allies around the world are watching to see what’s going to happen next. What do you think U.S. foreign policy is going to look like for the next four years? SECRETARY KERRY: I can’t speculate. I – honestly, I can’t speculate. I know what I hope it will look like. I hope it will continue to be...

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Interview John Kerry Secretary of State Department of State Washington, DC January 6, 2017 QUESTION: I want to start with Russia, and I know you said you have talked to your counterparts about the hacking. Did you say to them that you knew it went to the highest levels in the Russian Government? SECRETARY KERRY: In every way possible, the Russians were informed about our knowledge and displeasure about what was happening. QUESTION: Again, did they realize you knew that it was at the highest levels of th...

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Interview John Kerry Secretary of State Department of State Washington, DC January 6, 2017 QUESTION: Mr. Secretary, thanks for much for joining us. SECRETARY KERRY: Thank you. QUESTION: Donald Trump – does his disparagement of the U.S. Intelligence Community hurt the U.S. with allies and undermine the U.S. with adversaries? SECRETARY KERRY: Wolf, I don’t – honestly, I don’t want to get into the president-elect’s current back-and-forth. He has a meeting today. I presume hope...

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Remarks John Kerry Secretary of State Cabinet Exit Memo Washington, DC January 5, 2017     Introduction When President Obama took office in 2009, the United States was engaged in two costly wars, faced the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression, and had a diminished standing with many of our allies and partners around the world. The starting point for this Presidency was one of the toughest I have ever seen in my decades of public service. Over the past eight years, President Ob...

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Remarks John Kerry Secretary of State Washington, DC January 5, 2017 SECRETARY KERRY: Hi, everybody. Matt, welcome back. QUESTION: Happy New Year. Thank you. SECRETARY KERRY: Congratulations, Matt. QUESTION: Thank you. Thank you very much. SECRETARY KERRY: A little Vaille. QUESTION: Yeah. SECRETARY KERRY: No sleep. QUESTION: Happy New Year, Mr. Secretary. QUESTION: What’s that? SECRETARY KERRY: What? QUESTION: Happy New Year, sir. SECRETARY KERRY: Happy New Year to everybody. Thank you all. Great ...

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Remarks John Kerry Secretary of State Washington, DC December 15, 2016 SECRETARY KERRY: Hello, everybody. I just wanted to bring you all up to date on what we’ve been trying to do with respect to the tragic situation in Syria, and obviously mostly focused or especially Aleppo. I don’t think I have to elaborate, but I’m going to certainly focus on the anger and the anguish that everybody feels – or most people feel – about the continued relentless and inexcusable attacks tha...

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Interview John Kerry Secretary of State Chicago, Illinois October 26, 2016 QUESTION: Secretary Kerry, welcome. I – we’re 80-some days from the – as we sit here today at the University of Chicago, we’re 80-some days from the end of this administration. It seems like a good time to kind of look back a little bit at your life and your career. And I wanted to ask you, I’m so intrigued by the fact that your dad was in the Foreign Service. And I was – what influence did tha...

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Remarks John Kerry Secretary of State Chicago, Illinois October 26, 2016 MODERATOR: It is an honor to welcome a Secretary of State to the University of Chicago. It is part of the mission of the Institute of Politics to facilitate these kinds of opportunities for you to interact with practitioners and leaders, and so we’re really pleased on that account. But I – our other mission is somewhat larger than that, which is: We live in a somewhat dispirited time in our politics. I don’t know ...

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Remarks John Kerry Secretary of State United Nations Headquarters New York City September 21, 2016 SECRETARY KERRY: Mr. President, good morning, and good morning to all of our colleagues here on the United Nations Security Council. I want to thank my colleague from New Zealand particularly for hosting this very important session on the crisis in Syria. And I think it’s appropriate that we are gathering here a couple of rooms over from where yesterday so many heads of state came together in what I ...

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Remarks John Kerry Secretary of State Rice University Houston, Texas April 26, 2016 MR LEEBRON: Good evening, and welcome to this wonderful venue at Rice University’s Shepherd School of Music. We are thrilled to be hosting such a remarkable event tonight and thankful to Rice University’s Baker Institute for Public Policy for making it possible. We are very grateful to Secretary Kerry for choosing the Baker Institute for his address this evening, and we welcome him warmly to Rice University. ...

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Interview John Kerry Secretary of State Brussels, Belgium March 25, 2016 QUESTION: Mr. Secretary, thanks for doing this. I want to ask you, the State Department issued a warning for Europe saying, “Terrorist groups continue to plan near-term attacks in the region.” Is this the new normal in Europe? SECRETARY KERRY: No. It’s the aberration for the period of time that Daesh continues to menace the world. But I am confident we are going to destroy Daesh and we will eliminate this threat o...

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Interview John Kerry Secretary of State Brussels, Belgium March 25, 2016 QUESTION: Secretary Kerry, thank you so much. SECRETARY KERRY: A pleasure. Thank you. QUESTION: Americans, of course we now know, are dead in these horrible terror attacks here in Brussels. Do you consider this an attack against America? SECRETARY KERRY: Whenever Americans are killed, of course. QUESTION: So you do consider it an attack on America? Do you think Americans were targeted? SECRETARY KERRY: I think it’s an attack ...

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Remarks John Kerry Secretary of State Press Briefing Room Washington, DC Learn more: Atrocities Prevention Report March 17, 2016 SECRETARY KERRY: Good morning, everybody. In 2014, the terrorist group Daesh began to seize territory in Syria and Iraq, overrunning major cities and committing atrocities. The United States responded quickly by denouncing these horrific acts and – more importantly – taking coordinated actions to counter them. In September of that year, President Obama mobilized an...

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Remarks John Kerry Secretary of State Quebec, Canada January 29, 2016 MODERATOR: (In French.) Thank you very much. Minister of Foreign Affairs Stephane Dion will now make a statement. FOREIGN MINISTER DION: Merci , Madam . Bonjour, mesdames et messieurs. Good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen. Buenas tardes, senoras y senores. (In French.) (In English) My hometown, my – (in Spanish). We have had important productive discussions today, and I will insist on – I think I have -- six points. But we...

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Press Availability John Kerry Secretary of State Royal Air Base Riyadh, Saudi Arabia January 23, 2016 FOREIGN MINISTER AL-JUBEIR: (Via interpreter) (In progress) the Saudi Arabia, which has two purposes. He is going to meet with His Majesty King Salman bin Abdulaziz and His Royal Highness Prince Mohammad bin Salman, the deputy crown prince and the minister of defense of Saudi Arabia, after this meeting. We have met with his excellency, the foreign ministers of the GCC in the framework of the deliberatio...

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Interview John Kerry Secretary of State World Economic Forum Davos, Switzerland January 21, 2016 QUESTION: We are joined right now by the U.S. Secretary of State. He’s had his finger on the pulse of a number of hot-button issues – from the easing of Iranian sanctions and the release of U.S. prisoners to ISIS’s growing terror network and now the potential fallout throughout the Middle East as oil prices keep plummeting. Secretary John Kerry joins us right now. SECRETARY KERRY: Thank you...

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Interview John Kerry Secretary of State Washington, DC January 18, 2016 QUESTION: And joining us now, the Secretary of State John Kerry. Mr. Secretary, thanks very much for joining us here in our Situation Room. I know you’ve spent a lot of time in another Situation Room in town as well. SECRETARY KERRY: Happy to be here. QUESTION: You have said the prisoner release, in your word, was accelerated by the nuclear talks, the nuclear deal. Were these prisoners pawns, part of that deal? SECRETARY KERRY...

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Remarks John Kerry Secretary of State Willard Hotel Washington, DC December 5, 2015 SECRETARY KERRY: Thank you all very, very much. Thank you, Bruce, for a very generous introduction. And thank you, ladies and gentlemen; I apologize that we are starting a few moments late. I’m delighted to be here, distinguished members of Congress. Steny and Nita I know are here, and Jolie Ruben, my former colleague and longtime friend, and I think Bogie Ya’alon is out there somewhere. And Bogie, good to se...

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Remarks John Kerry Secretary of State Washington, DC October 28, 2015 SECRETARY KERRY: (Applause.) Thank you very much. Thank you all very, very much. Bill, thanks so much for welcoming me to your new home, but thank you for remarkably generous comments. I’m very, really touched to hear them from somebody of Bill’s caliber, because as all of you know, he really was the State Department’s premier career diplomat par excellence to everybody’s standard. And now that you’ve bee...

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Remarks John Kerry Secretary of State Bloomington, Indiana October 15, 2015 SECRETARY KERRY:   Thank you very much.  I accept the nomination.  (Laughter.)  You have twice welcomed me by standing up, and I am deeply appreciative.  I will caution you all to remind you that Winston Churchill once said that the only reason people give a standing ovation is they desperately need an excuse to shift their underwear.  (Laughter.)  I know you had a much more noble concept in mi...

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Press Availability John Kerry Secretary of State Revere Hotel Boston, Massachusetts October 13, 2015 SECRETARY KERRY: Well, good afternoon. I’m delighted to welcome Secretary Carter and our friends from Australia, Foreign Minister Bishop and Defense Minister Payne. Julie and Marise, I’m really happy to have you here in Boston. We’ve been delighted to be able to give you a slight taste of this great city, which I have the privilege of calling home. And I think it’s been a very con...

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Interview John Kerry Secretary of State Jeddah, Saudi Arabia September 11, 2014 QUESTION: Secretary Kerry, thank you so much for joining us. SECRETARY KERRY: Pleased to be with you. QUESTION: Is the United States at war with ISIS? It sure sounds from the President’s speech that we are. SECRETARY KERRY: I think that’s the wrong terminology. What we are doing is engaging in a very significant counterterrorism operation, and it’s going to go on for some period of time. If somebody wants t...

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Interview John Kerry Secretary of State New York City September 26, 2013 As aired: http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=50156089n NARRATOR: We've just seen breakthroughs in two crises that threaten to drag America into combat. There's a deal to avert a U.S. airstrike on Syria, and there are talks now between the United States and Iran over the Iranian nuclear program. Both happened at the annual United Nations General Assembly and the leader of the American team was Secretary of State John Ker...

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Interview John Kerry Secretary of State Google+ Hangout Washington, DC September 10, 2013 The video is also available with closed captioning on YouTube. MS. SETRAKIAN: Hi, guys. Welcome to a very special Google hangout on the Syria crisis with U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry. Co-hosting with me is Nicholas Kristof, op-ed columnist with The New York Times , and joining us is Andrew Beiter, a social studies teacher at Springville Middle School in Buffalo, New York. Andrew is also a regional educational...

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Remarks John Kerry Secretary of State United Kingdom Foreign and Commonwealth Office London, United Kingdom September 9, 2013 The video is also available with closed captioning on YouTube. FOREIGN SECRETARY HAGUE: Good morning, ladies and gentlemen. It’s a great pleasure to host my great friend and colleague, John Kerry, here in the Foreign and Commonwealth Office once again. Of course, we have spent most of our time discussing the crisis in Syria. But I want to begin by paying tribute to Secretar...

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Press Availability John Kerry Secretary of State Quai d'Orsay, Ministry of Foreign Affairs Paris, France September 7, 2013 FOREIGN MINISTER FABIUS: (Via interpreter) -- Kerry. I would like to commend both your energy and your ability to convince as well as your very reliable judgment or point of view. Together with the Secretary of State we discussed a number of topics, including, of course, Israel and Palestine and as well Syria, of course. Let me start with a few comments. What we’ve been seeing...

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Testimony John Kerry Secretary of State Opening Remarks Before the House Foreign Affairs Committee Washington, DC September 4, 2013 The video is also available with closed captioning on YouTube . Mr. Chairman, thank you very much, Ranking Member Engel – as the Chairman said, an early congressional leader on Syria – and to all the members of the committee. Let me just say, first of all, that I have enormous respect for the fact that everybody has returned unexpectedly and hurriedly to come ba...

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Testimony John Kerry Secretary of State Washington, DC September 3, 2013 The video is also available with closed captioning on YouTube. SECRETARY KERRY: Well, Mr. Chairman, members of the committee, Ranking Member Corker, thank you very, very much for having us here today. We look forward to this opportunity to be able to share with you President Obama’s vision with respect to not just this action, but as Senator Corker has inquired appropriately, about Syria itself and the course of action in the...

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Interview John Kerry Secretary of State Treaty Room Washington, DC September 1, 2013 QUESTION: And good Sunday morning. I’m joined by the Secretary of State John Kerry. Mr. Secretary, welcome back to Meet the Press. SECRETARY KERRY: Glad to be with you, David. Thank you. QUESTION: Let me get right to it. It’s been a jarring 48 hours in the run-up to a potential conflict with Syria. On Friday, the President dispatched you, the Secretary of State, to make the case to the country and the world ...

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Remarks John Kerry Secretary of State Treaty Room Washington, DC August 30, 2013 The video is also available with closed captioning on YouTube. President Obama has spent many days now consulting with Congress and talking with leaders around the world about the situation in Syria. And last night, the President asked all of us on his national security team to consult with the leaders of Congress as well, including the leadership of the Congressional national security committees. And he asked us to consult...

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Interview John Kerry Secretary of State New Delhi, India June 24, 2013 QUESTION: Secretary Kerry, thank you for joining CNN. SECRETARY KERRY: My pleasure. Thank you. QUESTION: Let’s talk about Mr. Snowden right now. Tell me what the U.S. is doing to try and get him back. SECRETARY KERRY: Well, the United States, through various agencies, is reaching out to lots of countries in an effort to try to secure Mr. Snowden. He needs to come back to America and face the justice system based on the choices ...

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Remarks John Kerry Secretary of State University of Addis Ababa Addis Ababa, Ethiopia May 26, 2013 MS. BADWI: Hello. I am Zenab Badwi. Welcome to this Hardtalk Special, coming to you from the University of Addis Ababa with the U.S. Secretary of State, John Kerry. As the African Union celebrates 50 years, many are hoping that this golden jubilee will mark a new golden era for Africa. We have invited an audience of young Africans to put their questions on U.S. foreign policy to John Kerry, and we also hav...

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Remarks Hillary Rodham Clinton Secretary of State Dean Acheson Auditorium Washington, DC January 30, 2013 UNDER SECRETARY KENNEDY: I have received my orders. Please sit. (Laughter.) Good morning ladies and gentlemen, Madam Secretary. Just one reminder, we are broadcasting this event on BNET, so when we get to the question period, please keep your questions diplomatic. (Laughter.) Four years ago, I stood at this microphone and said that I was about to introduce someone who needs no introduction. Since I ...

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Interview Hillary Rodham Clinton Secretary of State Washington, DC January 29, 2013 QUESTION: Madam Secretary, thank you very much for talking with CNN. I was thinking I’ve been following you around for 20 years reporting on you. SECRETARY CLINTON: Goodness, Jill. QUESTION: And Elise and I have been on the plane flying around with you for four years, so it’s very nice to be here to talk with you at this turning point in your life. SECRETARY CLINTON: Thank you. And thanks to both of you. I&rs...

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Interview Hillary Rodham Clinton Secretary of State Washington, DC January 29, 2013 QUESTION: Very good. Well, I do want to talk. We have so much to talk about and not much time, I know. But I want to begin with Benghazi. You’ve talked about Benghazi as one of your lasting regrets. Your review board outlined systemic failures of the State Department, but I wonder whether you also see it as an intelligence failure. I mean, the U.S. was really taken by surprise by this attack, even though, as we now...

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Remarks Hillary Rodham Clinton Secretary of State Government Buildings Dublin, Ireland December 6, 2012 The video below is available with closed captioning on YouTube TAOISEACH KENNY: Good evening and welcome. Our Secretary of State has got a meeting at 5:30 so we’ll keep this fairly brief. Firstly I’d like to welcome the Secretary of State Hillary Clinton here to Government Buildings and thank her for attending at the OSCE meeting for the engagement that she’s had during the course of...

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Interview Hillary Rodham Clinton Secretary of State Lima, Peru October 15, 2012 QUESTION: Forgive me – this is the first time we’ve had to talk since the Benghazi tragedy, and with respect to your hosts, I’d like to focus my questions on that. There’s a lot of discussion of the decision not to extend the mission of the additional security team in Tripoli. Would that have made a difference in the Benghazi situation? SECRETARY CLINTON: Well, Wendell, we’re going to find out t...

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Remarks Hillary Rodham Clinton Secretary of State Treaty Room Washington, DC October 12, 2012 The video below is available with closed captioning on YouTube SECRETARY CLINTON: Good morning, everyone. I am delighted to welcome back to Washington someone who is very well known here, a friend and a colleague, and his colleagues as well. We last hosted Minister Terzi in February, and he's back to attend the annual dinner for the National Italian American Foundation, an organization that does so much to ...

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Interview Hillary Rodham Clinton Secretary of State Washington, DC October 11, 2011 SECRETARY CLINTON: Well, originally when I set this up, I had wanted to do this for a while and I thought the – let me make sure everybody’s got their mikes here – I thought that the fact that I’m giving two speeches this week, one tomorrow at the Center for American Progress on American leadership and to talk about a lot of the sort of durable values and interests that shape our policies today an...

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Interview With The Washington Post Editorial Board Secretary Condoleezza Rice Washington, DC January 12, 2009 QUESTION: We’re on the record? MR. MCCORMACK: Yep. QUESTION: Well, I’ll take the privilege of starting with our favorite subject. What do you think – what have we learned from the latest pipelines discussion between Russia and Ukraine and Europe? And is this one different from the last one, and do you see the Russians learning anything different? SECRETARY RICE: Well, I think w...

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Interview on Fox News Sunday With Chris Wallace Secretary Condoleezza Rice Washington, DC December 7, 2008 QUESTION: Secretary Rice, welcome back to Fox News Sunday. SECRETARY RICE: Pleasure to be with you, Chris. QUESTION: Are you persuaded by the evidence you’ve seen that the Mumbai attack was launched from Pakistan, and are there signs the attackers were trained either by current or former Pakistani military or intelligence? SECRETARY RICE: Well, we have passed information to both India and Pak...

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Press Conference by Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice Secretary Condoleezza Rice Washington, DC December 21, 2007 View Video (10:17 a.m. EST) SECRETARY RICE: Good morning. I'm here principally to take your questions, but I'd like to make a few remarks before doing that. 2007 has been a busy and challenging year, but also a positive one. I want to highlight just a few issues on which we've focused. I was just in Iraq and I can tell you that Iraq today is a different country than it was two -- a year ag...

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Remarks at the Women's Foreign Policy Group Annual Luncheon Secretary Condoleezza Rice Washington, DC December 10, 2007 View Video SECRETARY RICE: Well, thank you very much. And thank you, Ann, for that kind introduction. And I just want to say that it is true that we had an ambassador named Tom Korologos in Belgium who was very, very successful, but we also had Ann McLaughlin, and that made it terrific for the United States of America. So thank you for your service on behalf of the country. (Applause.)...

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Interview on ABC Nightline With Cynthia McFadden Secretary Condoleezza Rice Washington, DC November 28, 2007 QUESTION: Madame Secretary, since we saw you last night, I know that more negotiations have been going on, more meetings. What can you tell us? SECRETARY RICE: Well, this morning the President hosted, first, the Israeli delegation and Prime Minister Olmert and also, President Abbas and his delegation and then they had a brief meeting together. It was principally to say to them, let's not now have...

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Interview on Fox Morning News with Tony Snow Secretary Colin L. Powell Washington, DC September 12, 2001 QUESTION: Mr. Powell, welcome and thank you for joining us. SECRETARY POWELL: Thank you, good morning, Tony. QUESTION: We have an international terrorist network. There is no way we can negotiate with these people, is there? SECRETARY POWELL: No. They have to be rooted. They have to be destroyed. And we are hard at work on that this morning. We are trying to make sure that the world understands that ...

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