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There has not been a decision made, it’s just a matter of making sure that we’re ready for it.
Found on CNN 1 month ago
The People’s Republic of China should not use this transit as a pretext to step up any aggressive activity around the Taiwan Strait. The United States and China have differences when United States comes to Taiwan, but we have managed those differences for more than 40 years.
Found on CNN 2 months ago
We took an attack, which killed an American citizen and wounded a half a dozen others, and retaliated against that attack on the very same day, so there was an awful lot going on in time and space, and a very compressed timeline, we did communicate to Congress, and I think I’ll just leave it at that.
Found on CNN 2 months ago
We remain deeply concerned by recent developments, which further underscore need in our view for compromise.
Found on CNN 2 months ago
We’re going to talk about our two democracies stepping up to meet the challenges of our time. That includes taking concrete steps to increase defense spending, driving a global race to the top on clean energy, and building prosperous and inclusive economies.
Found on CNN 2 months ago
We’ll be talking about issues of migration, which affects us both. There are more people on the move in this hemisphere than there have been since World War Two and that affects both our countries.
Found on CNN 2 months ago
It’s obviously right out of the Russian playbook to target civilian infrastructure and to show no regard for avoiding the targeting of civilians.
Found on CNN 2 months ago
This is a marriage of convenience, not of affection, not of love … where they intersect is pushing back against the United States and our influence around the world, they’d like to change the rules of the game, and in each other, they see a useful foil.
Found on CNN 2 months ago
We’re working on that. There’s some changes that you can make to the process, to sort of speed that up, the Pentagon is working as fast as they can, and they’ll have more to say on adjustments they’re making.
Found on CNN 2 months ago
As they begin to plan out their agenda, we certainly want to express how concerned we would be by any proposals from (China) that would … be one sided and reflect only the Russian perspective.
Found on CNN 2 months ago
A ceasefire now is effectively the ratification of Russian conquest.
Found on CNN 2 months ago
Right now, our immediate concerns are the safe return of our citizens, the health and the well-being of those who survived this attack.
Found on CNN 2 months ago
Several our European partners – in fact, three of them in Germany, Sweden and Denmark – have already opened investigations into what happened with the Nord Stream 2 pipeline, and those investigations are not closed. They’re still hard at work on that.
Found on CNN 2 months ago
What the president wants is facts. He wants the whole government designed to go get those facts. And that’s what we’re doing and we’re just not there yet, and when we’re there yet, and if we have something that is ready to be briefed to the American people and the Congress – than we’re going to do that.
Found on CNN 3 months ago
You’ll hear him messaging Mr. Putin as well as the Russian people.
Found on CNN 3 months ago
I don’t think the American people need to worry about aliens with respect to these craft. Period. There’s nothing more to be said on that.
Found on CNN 3 months ago
We’re calling this an object because that’s the best description we have right now, we don’t know who owns it – whether it’s state-owned or corporate-owned or privately-owned, we just don’t know.
Found on CNN 3 months ago
He wants to talk about the importance of the international community’s resolve and unity in supporting Ukraine for now going on a year, wouldn’t it be great if the president didn’t have to make a trip around a one year anniversary of a war that never should have started?
Found on CNN 3 months ago
Sadly, that’s where we are. we know the next weeks and months are going to be difficult and critical, especially for their own forces, and the United States is going to continue to stand by them.
Found on CNN 3 months ago
We know the next weeks and months are going to be difficult and critical, especially for their own forces, and the United States is going to continue to stand by them.
Found on CNN 3 months ago
The general area would be just off the very, very northeastern part of Alaska near the Canadian border.
Found on CNN 3 months ago
We were able to get some fighter aircrafts up and around it before the order to shoot it down, and the pilots assessment was this was not manned.
Found on CNN 3 months ago
We’re calling this an object because that’s the best description we have right now. We don’t know who owns it – whether it’s state-owned or corporate-owned or privately owned, we just don’t know.
Found on CNN 3 months ago
The president believes it shouldn’t evolve into conflict, there’s no reason for the bilateral relationship – the most consequential bilateral relationship in the world – to erupt into some kind of conflict. We do believe, and the president has made clear, that we are in a competition with China, a competition that he believes the United States is well poised to win.
Found on CNN 3 months ago
In certain instances, Russian military officials are actually subordinate to Wagner’s command, it’s pretty apparent to us that Wagner is emerging as a rival power center to the Russian military and other Russian ministries.
Found on CNN 3 months ago
You know… you can't bring personal devices in, and you certainly can't leave with material unless that material is appropriately secured.
Found on FOX News 4 months ago
But you self-report and you make sure that you get the material back secured where it belongs and that you're transparent about it.
Found on FOX News 4 months ago
The President is very much looking forward to seeing for himself first-hand what the border security situation looks like, particularly in El Paso. He’s very much also interested in getting to talk to Customs and Border Patrol agents on the ground who are actually involved in this mission to get their first-hand perspectives of it.
Found on CNN 4 months ago
We are encouraged that diplomatic channels of communication not only will stay open, but potentially expand.
Found on FOX News 5 months ago
There are still tensions. There are still things we do not agree with the Chinese about.
Found on FOX News 5 months ago
There's 70,000 Americans living in Saudi Arabia right now, not to mention all the other troops we have throughout the region, so, it's not only in our interest that missile defense in the region become more integrated and cooperative. It's in the interest of our allies and partners in that part of the world as well.
Found on FOX News 7 months ago
We're going to take a look at this relationship seriously as well as taking seriously the concerns of members of Congress.
Found on FOX News 7 months ago
Vladimir Putin has terrible morale, unit cohesion on the battlefield, command and control has still not been solved. Vladimir Putin's got desertion problems and Vladimir Putin's forcing the wounded back into the fight. So clearly, manpower is a problem for Vladimir Putin.
Found on CNN 8 months ago
And so they've had to deplete certain units... in certain areas in the East in the Donbass, to respond to what they clearly believed was a looming threat of a counter offensive.
Found on CNN 9 months ago
They're claiming The White House's The White House, i got The White House. But The White House's also a pretext to try to up the ante in tensions and to actually try to set a new status quo to get to a new normal where they think they can keep things at.
Found on CNN 9 months ago
We also made clear that the United States is prepared for what Beijing chooses to do. We will not seek and do not want a crisis. At the same time, we will not be deterred from operating in the seas and skies of the Western Pacific, consistent with international law, as we have for decades -- supporting Taiwan and defending a free and open Indo-Pacific.
Found on CNN 9 months ago
We anticipated that China might take steps like this -- in fact, I described them for you in quite some detail just the other day, we also expect that these actions will continue and that the Chinese will continue to react in the coming days.
Found on CNN 9 months ago
China appears to be positioning itself to potentially take further steps in the coming days and perhaps over longer time horizons.
Found on CNN 10 months ago
Some of these actions would continue concerning trend lines that United States've seen in recent years, but some could be of a different scope and scale.
Found on CNN 10 months ago
I'll let the speaker talk about Even Pelosi travel plans. Our job is, of course, to make sure Even Pelosi has all the context and information before Even Pelosi travels anywhere. But that kind of rhetoric coming out of the Chinese side is clearly unhelpful and not necessary.
Found on CNN 10 months ago
Russia is beginning to roll out a version of what you could call an annexation playbook, very similar to the one we saw in 2014.
Found on CNN 10 months ago
The Kremlin has not disclosed the timeline for the referenda, but Russian proxies in these territories claim they will take place later this year, possibly in conjunction with Russia's September regional elections.
Found on CNN 10 months ago
I think leaders are going to be looking for ways to do two things : One, continue to hold Russian President Vladimir Putin accountable and to increase the costs and consequences of Russian President Vladimir Putin war on Russian President Vladimir Putin and Russian President Vladimir Putin economy, and two, minimizing as much as possible the effect of these rising oil prices and the way Russian President Vladimir Putin has weaponized energy on nations, particularly on the continent but also around the world.
Found on CNN 11 months ago
A large focus of the G7 and the leaders are going to be, you know, how to not only manage the challenges in the global economy as a result of Mr. Putin's war, but how to also continue to hold Russian President Vladimir Putin accountable and to make sure that Russian President Vladimir Putin is being subjected to costs and consequences for what Russian President Vladimir Putin's doing.
Found on CNN 11 months ago
There's real national security issues here that have to be discussed and the President is not at all concerned that the Supreme Court's decision is going to take away from that at all.
Found on CNN 11 months ago
I mean, every country speaks for themselves. Every country has concerns for what they're willing to do or not do. But as far as the alliance goes, it truly has never been stronger and more viable than it than it is today.
Found on CNN 11 months ago
We still are trying to learn more about these two individuals, it's appalling that a public official in Russia would even suggest the death penalty for two American citizens that were in Ukraine. And we're going to continue to try and learn what we can about this.
Found on CNN 11 months ago
It's counterterrorism, it's climate change, certainly it's oil production, obviously, it's going to be on the agenda. And, a big item on the agenda is the war in Yemen.
Found on CNN 11 months ago
So, in addition to the GCC meeting, there'll be a series of bilateral discussions as there are on the sidelines of all cooperation councils and summits. He will have a bilateral meeting with King Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman and King Salman's leadership team, and the Crown Prince is on that leadership team. So you can expect that he'll see the Crown Prince while he's there.
Found on CNN 11 months ago
This is just one example, we’re watching this across the board. We’ve seen these kinds of activity by the Russians in the past.
Found on FOX News 1 year ago
We do have information that the Russians are likely to want to fabricate a pretext for an invasion, which, again, is right out of their playbook.
Found on FOX News 1 year ago
We believe that Russia would produce a very graphic propaganda video, which would include corpses and actors that would be depicting mourners, and images of destroyed locations, as well as military equipment, at the hands of Ukraine, or the West.
Found on FOX News 1 year ago
This is not a sum total of the deterrence actions we will take or those to reassure our allies, we stand united. We have said that repeatedly. We say it again today. These movements are unmistakable signals to the world that we stand ready to reassure our NATO allies and deter and defend against any aggression.
Found on FOX News 1 year ago
We do not believe conflict is inevitable, the United States in lockstep with our allies and partners, has offered Russia a path to de-escalate.
Found on FOX News 1 year ago
The current situation demands that we reinforce the deterrent and defensive posture on NATO's eastern flank.
Found on FOX News 1 year ago
This force is designed to deter aggression and enhance our defensive capabilities, and we expect them, as I said, to move in the coming days.
Found on FOX News 1 year ago
He clearly is providing himself many options, lots more capabilities for exactly what purpose? We don't know right now. And because we don't know exactly what his purpose is, we want to make sure we're ready on the NATO front to defend our allies.
Found on FOX News 1 year ago
The secretary heard from personnel across the force about the need to update and clarify this policy during the standdowns that he directed earlier this year, that was one of the common bits of feedback that we got, was that they wanted more clarity. And so we tried to do that with this new instruction.
Found on CNN 1 year ago
Our civilian workers here, they take their jobs very seriously, they take their obligations to their families and their coworkers very seriously and I think we have every expectation that they too will continue to seek and pursue getting vaccinated, there are a range of administrative tools that leaders here at Defense Department would have to make sure that our civilian workers are likewise getting the vaccine.
Found on CNN 1 year ago
Thus far, and going forward, it does require constant coordination and deconfliction with the Taliban, what we’ve seen is, this deconfliction has worked well in terms of allowing access and flow as well as reducing the overall size of the crowds just outside the airport.
Found on FOX News 1 year ago
The fact that we are flying overwatch missions now, and have been since the 14th – we were actually doing it before the 14th, force protection is a high priority, and we’re going to have at our disposal all the assets and resources necessary to make sure we can accomplish this mission safely and efficiently, just like we were accomplishing the previous mission of drawdown safely and efficiently.
Found on FOX News 1 year ago
Obviously, force protection is a high priority, we're always evaluating the threat. It's not only a day-by-day thing, it's an hour-by-hour thing.
Found on FOX News 1 year ago
I would just let the results speak for themselves so far and we're not taking anything for granted.
Found on CNN 1 year ago
Our expectation is that if an individual doesn't want to take the vaccine that we're going to provide them some counseling.
Found on CNN 1 year ago
We're still examining possibilities for overseas locations to include some departmental installations that would be capable of supporting planned relocation efforts with appropriate temporary residences and supporting infrastructure.
Found on CNN 1 year ago
They love the base there, it's a great relationship between the people of Pensacola and the Navy and the base there. It's a terrific Navy town.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
What worries me is that the President's decision space gets further limited and smaller, some of it is of his own doing and the fact that his own team is not on the same page but also now the Iranians are closing that decision space and they are pushing him into a corner and I don't think that is good for anybody.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
Some of it is of his own doing and the fact that his own team is not on the same page but also now the Iranians are closing that decision space and they are pushing him into a corner and I don't think that is good for anybody.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
I would think the Trump administration could -- if they choose -- cite the principle of self-defense under the UN Charter and conduct operations accordingly, but those operations would have to be proportional to the threat -- a threat that has now been made more challenging by the sophistication of Iranian air defenses.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
I do not expect this latest incident to, by itself, lead to outright conflict. But it is certainly escalatory and, regrettably, may be further limiting the already small decision space Trump had given himself.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
What worries me is that the President's decision space gets further limited and smaller, some of it is of his own doing and the fact that his own team is not on the same page, but also now the Iranians are closing that decision space and they are pushing him into a corner, and I don't think that is good for anybody.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
These officials are public servants. What they say — in State Department entirety — is inherently of public interest. It's inappropriate and irresponsible not to observe that obligation.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
It's perfectly fine to ensure faith-based media have a seat at such a table. But it's PR malpractice to cut off access to the broader press corps. I wish I could say I expected more from this crowd.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
Secretary( John Kirby) Kerry used to say that there should be nothing foreign to the American people about foreign policy.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
If I had posted something about John Kirby like this on social media, Secretary Kerry would have -- rightly -- been incensed. I might even have been fired, my account -- which is a personal account, where I say my personal take on anything from government-related to news-related topics -- is my specific point of view. But it is also consistent with our policy of pointing out the Iranian regime's excesses and misrepresentations and malign activities.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
It is not unusual -- and frankly it can be quite beneficial -- to advancing American interests for the spouse of a cabinet secretary to occasionally travel with him or her. The spouse often engages in separate encounters during such trips meeting with local officials and participating in cultural or educational engagements that flesh out and help inform America's foreign policy.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
Care must be taken at all times to ensure meaningful context is gleaned by the cabinet official from the spouse's interactions and that the taxpayer is properly served for the expenditure of such travel.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
I hope that in the wake of the images that came out, military leaders there and here in DC are taking a look at the protocols and procedures... of briefing service members before these types of visits... particularly by The President, it's bad enough that Donald Trump doesn't see a problem with signing campaign paraphernalia at a military base, maybe even more so that some of our troops are OK with it.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
One big danger is imbuing in the American people's mind that the military's loyalty is not to them, but to Donald Trump, when Donald Trump behaves this way, it conveys a message to the American people that the military is not there for them, it's there for Donald Trump.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
The President conflates the obedience of the troops with political alignment and does not realize they are not political supporters of The President, they are subordinates.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
It is in fact a campaign slogan, that is a campaign item, and it is completely inappropriate for the troops to do this.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
Writing a formal letter and presenting it to the boss personally was exactly the right thing to do. It is very much in keeping with military custom..
Found on CNN 4 years ago
I don't think we're at the stage right now that if we pull out of the INF Treaty, you've got to go sort of build a bunker in your backyard, i don't think we're at that stage at all.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
I suspect our European allies right now are none too happy about hearing that President Trump intends to pull out of it.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
This gives Putin an excuse to just continue doing what he's doing, only doing it more blatantly.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
These aides are often very young, not even at the mid-career point in most cases. Their inclination is to want to accommodate, to succeed, and to help the boss succeed. The boss has to be the one to make clear where the lines are, and to do so vigorously.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
They can see a propaganda value here and this is basically them showing the level of deference and respect that Trump has paid to them and to their military leaders.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
This is what we would call at the State Department a CBM -- a confidence building measure -- obviously baked into the plan to agree to have Trump sit down with Kim Jong Un, good news and certainly indicative of the fact that KJU is taking this summit seriously and that the North Koreans really are serious about wanting to sit down.
Found on CNN 5 years ago
Good news and certainly indicative of the fact that KJU is taking this summit seriously and that the North Koreans really are serious about wanting to sit down.
Found on CNN 5 years ago
The only time I've seen something declassified in this fashion is an impromptu and ill-considered comment publicly, as in a speech or interview, certainly not as the result of a private, official meeting.
Found on CNN 6 years ago
It's rare that a president inadvertently makes public classified information, but if he did, it could then be considered declassified, even then, however, there is typically an inter-agency discussion about that. It's not like a magic wand is waved and it becomes thus.
Found on CNN 6 years ago
I think the credibility is gone, and I'm really sorry to say that, i don't think there is a crisis of credibility, I think it is shot, and I don't know how they ever get it back.
Found on CNN 6 years ago
I don't think there is a crisis of credibility, I think it is shot, and I don't know how they ever get it back.
Found on CNN 6 years ago
The deal was limited by design, there would have been no way to get a deal if we lumped in everything else we don't like about Iran.
Found on CNN 6 years ago
In so doing, they learned that a specific request was made to excise that portion of the briefing. We do not know who made the request to edit the video or why it was made.
Found on Reuters 6 years ago
There is an avenue of direct communication between the police department and the Russian government.
Found on Reuters 7 years ago
While we certainly want to foster that engagement, I think you can all understand that real, long-term sustainable answers are not going to be legislated from Washington.
Found on CNN 7 years ago
We have been aware of reports, not just in the press, that they may have obtained this capability, obviously, it's something that we take seriously. It's obviously something, clearly that we're mindful of.
Found on CNN 7 years ago
They focused on their shared pursuit of options to achieve ?a political transition and discussed the potential for future multilateral meetings on the topic.
Found on Reuters 7 years ago
We've seen the reports (of clashes), obviously concerned by them, we're looking into it and monitoring it closely. Obviously, our position ... of the right of peaceful protest remains the same.
Found on CNN 7 years ago
A Russian official in Baghdad this morning informed U.S. Embassy personnel that Russian military aircraft would begin flying anti-ISIL missions today over Syria, he further requested that U.S. aircraft avoid Syrian airspace during these missions. We've seen media reporting that has suggested Russian missions have begun.
Found on CNN 7 years ago
He further requested that U.S. aircraft avoid Syrian airspace during these missions. We've seen media reporting that has suggested Russian missions have begun.
Found on CNN 7 years ago
The United States had consistently urged China to release Tenzin Delek Rinpoche, most recently out of concern for his health. We hope Chinese authorities will investigate and make public the circumstances surrounding his death.
Found on CNN 7 years ago
We only know about these 15 emails because Sidney Blumenthal had them and provided them to the committee, so there was something to check them against.
Found on Reuters 7 years ago
I’m not going to get ahead of decisions that the secretary will or won’t make about the recommendations.
Found on FOX News 7 years ago
The goal for this program is to get them to ... defend their communities, protect their own neighbors and then go on the offense against ISIL, nothing has changed about the policy that there is not going to be a U.S. military solution to Assad.
Found on Reuters 8 years ago
Our assessment is we could be ready sometime within the next four to six weeks to begin actual training.
Found on Reuters 8 years ago
I think he's generally concerned that there could be at least at some level a breakdown in ethical behavior and in the demonstration of moral courage.
Found on CNN 8 years ago
They are a very dangerous group, they do want to threaten Western interests, including U.S. interests, and we do consider them a threat to the United States of America. We're watching them very closely.
Found on CNN 8 years ago
I'd be less than honest if I said that there hadn't been some adjustments already made because of the political uncertainty, we're just going to have to watch this closely going forward.
Found on CNN 8 years ago
They are a very dangerous group, they do want to threaten Western interests, including U.S. interests and we do consider them a threat to the United States of America. We're watching them very closely.
Found on CNN 8 years ago
We recognize we need to get a much better understanding of where things are going politically in Yemen before we can make any new decisions or move forward in any significant way on counter-terrorism in Yemen.
Found on Reuters 8 years ago
I think if we continue to make the progress that we're making now, that we believe that we could start conducting some training of moderate opposition by early spring.
Found on Reuters 8 years ago
Whatever momentum they had been enjoying has been halted, has been blunted. That has stayed steady over the last couple of weeks, it's very much a contested environment, but what we don't see, what we haven't seen in the last several weeks has been any renewed offensive moves.
Found on FOX News 8 years ago
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