i know the state department is the same way. i know the local employees, civil servants, foreign service officers have the same desire for mission to be relevant. if you sign toup to be a foreig service officer, you have a smes special commitment. my task, if i m confirmed, will free them up to go to do the great work they were doing. i m sure we ll continue at the state department. thank you opinion. thank you. thank you, mr. pompeo. i appreciate you coming by to give me some time so we can talk this private. you re most welcome. i want to pick up on one of the themes we talked about. that involved many of your past statements involving muslim americans. i want to start with some of
do they need the iortion to say, hey, it s meic, foreig you feel people at the top with pressure. the men and women who do this day in and day out, they block that out. they want to solve the case. domestic terrorism, islamic jihadist, aumr of tos recent terrorists. the time square bomber in new york. these were all domesticop, renfiatn.bviously had a al qaeda reazes it s vy ey have been using people already here. we also have people self-motivated over the internet. they become se-radicalized or coul b someone from white supremacist group. ey, again, eiry domestic or it coulde a combination of the two, as said, with islamic jihadist, both domestic and having a foreign connection. all of this is being looked at,
brian: when president obama said got off his prepared remarks and said if you cross the red line using chemical or biological weapons, that s a red line for us. didn t act. had a plan, took a walk around the white house. changed his mind. went golfing. the devastation on our foreign policy and still recovering from. this president at this moment has credibility. if he takes a backwards step now and doesn t follow through, i don t care how long it takes, we will almost never recover as long as he is in office. if you talk to the chairman of foreig foreign relations bob corker, general jack keane and lindsey graham. they have the evidence. they know it s there. there is a sense that the russians want this fight and that we are backing off because we wonder if this is a somewhat of a plot to hook us in. i say we re a super power. we have a responsibility to act like that and when we say we re going to do something, everything is on