On the recordOctober 20, 2019
It's not a good thing. And you're on to something here that we should not be beating on a foreign country for political gain but should be for advancing United States strategic interests.
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transcripts.cnn.comFrancis Rooney: “It's not a good thing. And you're on to something here that we should not be beating on a foreign country for political…”
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Rooney emphasizes that U.S. foreign policy should focus on strategic interests rather than political gain.
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Oct 20, 2019
No, that's where the rub comes in. The rub comes in that we have professional diplomats trying to do their job to root out corruption, and then we have Giuliani parachuting in, talking about corruption but maybe representing his customers.
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Great challenges don't wait for or depend on the results of the next election.
Oct 17, 2019
This isn't of an etch-a-sketch. You can't go and revise what you want in the cameras and say, oh, actually, I meant the opposite.
Oct 20, 2019
It's also confusing to me to have rough amateur diplomats out there conducting parallel diplomacy when we have professional diplomats doing their job in the Ukraine.
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