What did we learn from all of this? We learned that when America retreats, chaos often follows. When we neglect our friends, resentment builds. And when we partner with our enemies, they advance.

Mike Pompeo

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We have the force posture right today. We're going to keep it right. We'll get our troops home when we can, and we'll do the things we need to do. If Qasem Soleimani is a problem, we'll go crush United States. If Hamza bin Ladin presents a risk, we'll take him out. President Trump has been very clear we're going to protect and secure the homeland, but we're not going to have our young men and women in harm's way when it doesn't deliver real security benefits for the United States and for our allies.

Those things that are required that the President has directed us to do in compliance with the decision that the GSA made yesterday, we'll do all of those things, it's a legal requirement, and we'll always honor that promise.

Well, the President will obviously make the decision on that, the President to date has said that we're going to go from where we are today, something just over 4,000, to around 2,500.

The threat from terrorism around the world -- from Islamic extremism, Islamic terrorism -- is real. It doesn't just emanate from Afghanistan.

I have a lot of respect forJim, but hes just dead wrong onthat.

While the United States, along with our Allies and partners that are States Parties to the treaty, have lived up to our commitments and obligations under the treaty, Russia has flagrantly and continuously violated the treaty in various ways for years, this is not a story exclusive to just the treaty on Open Skies, unfortunately, for Russia has been a serial violator of many of its arms control obligations and commitments.

These six Americans and their families have suffered long enough ; it is time for Nicolas Maduro to put politics aside and let these families be reunited, no one should doubt the President's commitment to bringing home all U.S. citizens held hostage or wrongfully detained overseas.

Special Presidential Envoy for Hostage Affairs Roger Carstens, Special Representative for Venezuela Elliott Abrams, and I will continue to pursue our mission to secure the release of the CITGO-6, and we will do our utmost to achieve that goal.

We often encounter situations where it's not clear about a particular election. We work to uncover facts, we work to do discovery, to learn whether in fact the outcome -- the decision that was made -- reflected the will of the people, we want every one of those votes to be counted in the same way that we have every expectation that every vote here in The United States will be counted too. It is totally appropriate. The United States has an election system that is laid out deeply in our Constitution and we're going to make sure that we get that right.

Thanks to the extraordinary courage and capabilities of our military, the support of our intelligence professionals, and our diplomatic efforts, the hostage will be reunited with his family, we will never abandon any American taken hostage.

We delivered on that commitment late last night in Nigeria, where some of our bravest and most skilled warriors rescued a U.S. citizen after a group of armed men took him hostage across the border in Niger.

This is an opportunity that doesn't come along often. We all know the history of Sudan and the tragedy there, there's a chance not only for a democracy to begun to be built out, but perhaps regional opportunities that could flow from that as well. I think lifting the state sponsor of terrorism designation there, if we can take care of the victims of those tragedies, would be a good thing for American foreign policy.

We're going to get all this information out so the American people can see it. You'll remember there was classified information on a private server, should have never been there, Hillary Clinton should never have done that, that was unacceptable behavior, state Mike Pompeo on Friday can see, whether it's Russia or China or Iran or the North Koreans who want to get their hands on this kind of information, classified information needs to stay in the right places. Hillary Clinton, when Hillary Clinton was here at the State Department, did not do State Department.

I find that question bizarre, i have seen literally no evidence of what you are scurrilously suggesting. ... It is an outrageous suggestion.

But when there is a premium placed on personal access to the secretary, I think that does cross a line in terms of ethics restrictions, because now United States're buying personal access to a cabinet member, and that goes for the benefit of this non for profit organization and doesn't matter what the non for profit is, the line that's crossed is this is actually buying personal access to him.

I don't know what they're talking about in terms of politics, this has always been about delivering counterterrorism, protecting America, and reducing the cost both in blood and treasure to the American public.

Cultural events with groups larger than 50 people hosted by the Chinese embassy and consular posts outside The Washington Post.The US mission properties will also require The Washington Post.The US approval, additionally, The Washington Post.The US're taking further steps to ensure that all official PRC embassy and consular social media accounts are properly identified as government accounts, Chinese government accounts.

We're simply demanding reciprocity. Access for our diplomats in China should be reflective of the access that Chinese diplomats in The Washington Post.The US have, and today's steps will move us substantially in that direction.

The President lowered the temperature and, against all odds, got North Korean leadership to the table.

We have every capacity under 2231 to do this.