I mean, I credit--my colleagues are saying let Israel defeat Hamas.

I would love your commitment to work with me to make clear to the Mexican government that appropriating the private property of American companies would be very bad for this important relationship that we have with Mexico.

It was hard work for you guys to get Kenya to agree to lead this.

We need to make sure Israel is successful. Hamas started this war.

The real purpose of the executive order was to provide the former President with the ability to dismiss, at start, at least 50,000 dedicated civil servants.

I do not think it is in the time zone of sufficient.

it is not a deep state bureaucracy that thwarted, for example, the ill-advised plan to abolish your Agency and to fold it into GSA.

This is a country that 4 years ago chopped to pieces an American resident journalist.

Returning to the spoils system is a bad idea for America.

Unfortunately, and regrettably, right now there does not seem to be the willingness or the room inside the Israeli politic to make those commitments.

How many Presidential management appointments are there in the Federal Government in a normal Presidential term?

Look, our Constitution put in place a series of checks and balances, and we elect a President to faithfully execute the laws.

I mean, I credit--my colleagues are saying let Israel defeat Hamas.

So stipulated, but I am sort of making a different point.

if we did that it's your testimony--I don't want to put words in your mouth--that it would actually make Americans less safe

The solution isn't to abolish the agency.

I just think that demeans the credibility of the Administration.

This is a country that 4 years ago chopped to pieces an American resident journalist.