{"id":159680,"date":"2018-04-12T02:58:10","date_gmt":"2018-04-12T06:58:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=159680"},"modified":"2018-04-12T02:58:10","modified_gmt":"2018-04-12T06:58:10","slug":"pompeo-cites-russian-aggression-says-diplomacy-must-go-on","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2018\/04\/12\/pompeo-cites-russian-aggression-says-diplomacy-must-go-on\/","title":{"rendered":"Pompeo cites Russian aggression, says diplomacy must go on"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_156404\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-156404\" style=\"width: 800px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Mike_Pompeo_official_CIA_portrait.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-156404\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Mike_Pompeo_official_CIA_portrait.jpg\" alt=\"In prepared remarks for his Senate confirmation, Pompeo chastises Russia for acting \u201caggressively\u201d and emphasizes that the Trump administration considers Russia \u201ca danger to our country.\u201d But he also says that diplomatic efforts with Moscow, while challenging, \u201cmust continue.\u201d(Photo By Central Intelligence Agency,Public Domain)\" width=\"800\" height=\"1000\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Mike_Pompeo_official_CIA_portrait.jpg 800w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Mike_Pompeo_official_CIA_portrait-240x300.jpg 240w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Mike_Pompeo_official_CIA_portrait-768x960.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-156404\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">In prepared remarks for his Senate confirmation, Pompeo chastises Russia for acting \u201caggressively\u201d and emphasizes that the Trump administration considers Russia \u201ca danger to our country.\u201d But he also says that diplomatic efforts with Moscow, while challenging, \u201cmust continue.\u201d<a href=\"https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/w\/index.php?curid=59572543\">(Photo By Central Intelligence Agency, Public Domain)<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>WASHINGTON &#8211; President Donald Trump&#8217;s pick to be secretary of state is declaring that years of soft U.S. policy toward Russia are over and vowing to promote democracy and human rights while ending \u201cdemoralizing\u201d vacancies at the State Department.<\/p>\n<p>Mike Pompeo is set to appear Thursday before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. Now serving as Trump&#8217;s CIA director, the former Kansas congressman has been nominated to replace Rex Tillerson as America&#8217;s top diplomat.<\/p>\n<p>In prepared remarks for his Senate confirmation, Pompeo chastises Russia for acting \u201caggressively\u201d and emphasizes that the Trump administration considers Russia \u201ca danger to our country.\u201d But he also says that diplomatic efforts with Moscow, while challenging, \u201cmust continue.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Pompeo also stresses America&#8217;s \u201cduty to lead,\u201d despite Trump&#8217;s own vows to put \u201cAmerica first.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON &#8211; President Donald Trump&#8217;s pick to be secretary of state is declaring that years of soft U.S. policy toward &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":156404,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24157,16],"tags":[24254,33301,14087,30549],"class_list":["post-159680","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-american-news","category-news","tag-america-first","tag-mike-pompeo","tag-president-donald-trump","tag-senate-foreign-relations-committee","mauthors-josh-lederman-and-matthew-lee","mauthors-the-associated-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159680","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=159680"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159680\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/156404"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=159680"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=159680"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=159680"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}