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Mike Pompeo

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Mike Pompeo is a Republican politician from Kansas who served as the 70th United States Secretary of State from April 2018 to January 2021 under President Donald Trump. Prior to his role as Secretary of State, he was the Director of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) from January 2017 to April 2018. Pompeo has also served as a U.S. Representative for Kansas's 4th congressional district from 2011 to 2017, where he was known for his strong stance on national security and foreign policy issues. Throughout his career, he has emphasized a robust approach to counterterrorism and has been an advocate for American energy independence.

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Aug 9, 2022

Did you done it? Or had I done it? I`d be off the Intelligence Committee, my classification would have been removed.

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Jul 28, 2022

I want to make sure the American people get the full story of the things that happened in the Trump administration.

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Jul 28, 2022

We`ve had discussions with them about potentially appearing before them, we`re trying to figure our way out.

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May 12, 2022

It's also not just Pence, former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo broke with the former President in the Pennsylvania Senate race endorsing someone else instead of the Trump endorsed candidate, Mehmet Oz.

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Feb 24, 2022

I have enormous respect for him. I consider him an elegantly sophisticated counterpart.

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Feb 23, 2022

The took a fifth of the country under President Obama when Biden was Vice President. I am -- and President Biden has now told him you can make a minor incursion into the country and that`ll all be square and just spiffy by me. Those are…

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Feb 23, 2022

Very shrewd, very capable. I have enormous respect for him. I've been criticized for saying that. I have enormous respect for him. I consider him an elegantly sophisticated counterpart.

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Feb 22, 2022

Very shrewd, very capable. I have enormous respect for him. I`ve been criticized for saying that. Now I have enormous respect for him. He is very savvy, very true.

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Aug 17, 2021

this is the worst day in the presidency of Joe Biden

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Aug 16, 2021

I wouldn`t let my 10 year old son get away from this kind of pathetic blame shifting.

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Aug 16, 2021

It looks like the Biden administration has just failed in its execution of its own plan.

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Aug 15, 2021

His secretary of state, Mike Pompeo sat down with the Taliban in Qatar after cooler heads prevented Trump from inviting the Taliban to Camp David for talks.

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Apr 30, 2021

Mr. Pompeo, would you like to talk about your rule in effectuated that deliverable as part of the scheme?

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Jan 13, 2021

You now have the world's largest state sponsor of terrorism, Islamic Republic of Iran as the home base for Al Qaeda.

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Dec 15, 2020

the U.S. has already called out Russia on its activities, and that this investigation needs to happen. And Russia needs to give a full accounting of what happened.

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Nov 10, 2020

There will be a smooth transition to a second Trump administration.

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Nov 9, 2020

they're going to make a smooth transition to a second Trump administration.

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Nov 9, 2020

There will be a smooth transition to a second Trump administration. All right, we're ready. The world is watching what is taking place here.

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Oct 8, 2020

It was unacceptable behavior. It's not the kind of thing that leaders do.

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Oct 8, 2020

We've got the e-mails, we're getting them out. We're going to get all this information out so the American people can see it.

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Sep 25, 2020

President Trump and I will accept the results of a free and fair election.

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Sep 15, 2020

the signing of the transformative Abraham Accords, not 24 hours ago and barely a mile from where we sit today.

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Sep 15, 2020

Events since that time serve only to magnify the challenge Iran poses to the region and demonstrate the Administration is on the right side of history.

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Sep 15, 2020

It is not possible. My recommendation to the president was based on any effort to retaliate for any investigation.

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Sep 15, 2020

I am glad to finally have the opportunity to apprise you of the status of our efforts to support our security cooperation partners in the Middle East.

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