“I'm not in it for the fancy dinners in Paris or Switzerland or Vienna," Pompeo said in February, alluding to former Secretary of State John Kerry. The night before those remarks, Pompeo hosted another Madison dinner preceded by cocktails.
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National security and global affairs reporter for the NBC News investigative unit; formerly Foreign Policy magazine, Agence France-Presse, The Guardian, Reuters
- Arizona GOP lawmaker introduces bill to give Legislature power to toss out election results
- Dramatic shift in Berlin: German Chancellor Scholz announces decision for Berlin to supply Stinger anti-aircraft missiles and anti-tank weapons to Ukraine. The Russian invasion marks a “major turning point” and threatens the post-war order, he says.
- U.S. District Judge Royce Lamberth, a Reagan appointee, said at resentencing hearing today that it's "preposterous" to call Jan. 6 criminals "hostages" and that such rhetoric “could presage further danger to our country.” per @ryanjreilly
- Most Afghans who worked for US did not get evacuated, senior State Dept official says.
- DG of Estonian Foreign Intelligence Service tells @ckubeNBC Russian intel has recruited some Western politicians successfully, offering resources to figures trying to raise profile, enter mainstream.
- an eerie phrase. Usually those words are used to refer to military options against an adversary abroad."All options are on the table" for use of the military to deal with nationwide unrest, @hogangidley45 tells reporters.
- The Biden admin is under mounting pressure from lawmakers, veterans groups and refugee organizations to organize a large-scale evacuation of endangered Afghan interpreters and others who worked for the U.S. government before U.S. troops withdraw
- The testing supply problems, experts said, are mainly the result of a vacuum at the national level, with no guiding hand in Washington laying out a strategy for testing, setting production targets for industry or deciding how data should be shared. nbcnews.com/news/us-news/c…
- Scoop: Biden admin weighs providing Ukraine killer drones called Switchblades nbcnews.com/politics/natio…
- Taking a knee at German soccer match.Before kick off, both teams take a knee together in the German Bundesliga’s Dortmund-Hertha Berlin game. A remarkable sight. European clubs showing their empathy with American social change that transcends borders and sports 🇩🇪🇺🇸🙌 #BlackLivesMatter
- “The director of national intelligence and the White House are lying, again,” Miller said. “We definitely had the intel to show with high probability that the specific goal of the Russians was to get Trump elected.”
- “There is no purgatory for war criminals. They go straight to hell, Ambassador,” Ukraine’s UN ambassador tells Russia’s UN ambassador, looking straight at him.
