because remember, manafort was peddling conspiracy theories about ukraine during the 2016 election. some of them aimed at me. so giuliani goes to the source. okay, you re the guy who knows how to manipulate the press and everybody about ukraine. what do we do to get everybody out of the way? and she is clearly the target of this smear campaign in these materials that were delivered to pompeo. you know, there are 70,000 people who work for the state department around the world. foreign service officers, civil servants, foreign nationals who work in our consulates and our embassies. and very few couple hundred political appointees. so the people who are carrying out our foreign policy, our diplomacy day in and day out, are people who serve from administration to administration. they are not partisan. they are not even political. they are trying to represent the united states. so the idea that giuliani and his henchmen would go after an experienced foreign service
election. some of them aimed at me. so giuliani goes to the source. okay, you re the guy who knows how to manipulate the press and everybody about ukraine. what do we do to get everybody out of the way? and she is clearly the target of this smear campaign in these materials that were delivered to pompeo. you know, there are 70,000 people who work for the state department around the world. foreign service officers, civil servants, foreign nationals who work in our consulates and our embassies. and very few couple hundred political appoint ease. so the people who are carrying out our foreign policy, our diplomacy day in and day out are people who serve from administration to administration. they are not partisan. they are not even political. they are trying to represent the united states. so the idea that giuliani and his hin muenchmen would go afte experienced foreign service officer who had been an ambassador to ukraine, a country right in the bull s-eye of
essentially. that is their job. merrill s voice mail. tracking hotspots around the globe and how to get american citizens out of them. director bitters says she s never seen it so busy. we had a task force on egypt, then that went down and we had a week and task force on libya. then we had japan. then before japan went down we had libya again. had two going at the same time. reporter: 60 staff coordinate all communications for the state department around the world. giving secretary of state hillary clinton sometimes minute by minute updates. putting her in touch with anyone anywhere. one evening i wanted to speak with an ambassador who was visiting washington. so of course i asked ops to find him for me. reporter: quickly patched her through. only later i learned that the ambassador did not have his cell phone with him. reporter: his staff told ops
this hour, concerns that there are potential targets at risk by cutting homeland security funds. i m wolf blitzer and you re in the situation room. we begin with deadly new clashes today in syria as security forces try to break up anti-government protests in a number of cities. human rights activists say that at least 34 people were killed. they say to end the crackdown or get out of the way. here is arwa damon. reporter: wolf, when we see the images coming out of syria, the path that the regime continues to take seems pretty clear. they are aiming to clear. a voice yells off camera. this is video said to be from the city of hopes, which has seen many protests in recent weeks. it was posted to youtube. cnn cannot verify its authenticity or when it was shot. but one opposition activist told cnn on friday that the security forces fired straight in crowds of demonstrators and the syrian human rights information link reported a mounting death poll throughout the day. a simila