John Kirby: ‘Extremely Unusual’ for the Secretary of State to Visit Central Command

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WILSON: "So, John, you see that Pompeo meeting at CENTCOM as rather unusual?"
KIRBY: "Extremely unusual. This not the job of the Secretary of State to sit down and confer with military officers and leaders, particularly of Central Command and Special Operations Command where he’s also going to go there. I was with John Kerry for two years. The only military facility that we went to was the naval base at Norfolk to look at the effects of climate change. He gave a speech on climate change down there. It’s not his job and it’s a particularly sensitive time right now for him to be going down there. And oh, by the way, he’s going down there without the acting defense secretary, which says a lot about the dysfunction in this administration and frankly, I think it sends a little bit of a message about Mr. Shanahan's leadership at the Pentagon."