Sec. Pompeo Rips Kerry: ‘Actively Undermining US Policy as a Former Secretary of State Is Literally Unheard Of’

EXCERPT:

POMPEO: “Solely the legal determinations to others, but what secretary Kerry has done is unseemly and unprecedented. This is a former secretary of state engaged with the world’s largest state sponsor of terror. And according to him, right? You don’t have to take my word for it, these are his answers, he was talking to them. He was telling them to wait out this Administration. You can’t find precedent for this in U.S. history. And Secretary Kerry ought not to engage in that kind of behavior. It’s inconsistent with what foreign policy of the United States is as directed by this President, and it is beyond inappropriate for him to be engaged — now, remember, I saw him, I saw him in Munich at the security conference. He was there, if I have my facts right, because I still saw them all with my own eyes — Secretary Moniz and Wendy Sherman, the troika. And I am confident they met with their troika counterparts, although one can perhaps ask secretary Kerry if my recollection with respect to that is accurate. I wasn’t in the meeting, but I am reasonably confident that he was not there in support of U.S. policy with respect to the the Islamic republic of Iran who this week fired Katyusha rockets towards the United States embassy in Baghdad and took action against our consulate in Basra."

REPORTER: “Has it had an impact, has it hurt your efforts?”

POMPEO: "I’ve —"

REPORTER: "Okay."

POMPEO: “I think you understand what I wish it is that former secretaries of state, all of them from either political party, ought not to be engaged in. Actively undermining U.S. policy as a former secretary of state is literally unheard of.”