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Pompeo reacts to Israel-Gaza conflict, Colonial Pipeline cyberattack

2021-05-15 | 🔗
Fox News contributor and former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo weighs in on the Israel-Gaza conflict and the fuel crisis caused by the Colonial Pipeline cyberattack
This is an unofficial transcript meant for reference. Accuracy is not guaranteed.
Cost support options Carley we begin with a Fox news: ALERT Tel Aviv suspending routine visas due to violence in the Middle EAST. Troops are patrolling the West Bank as protesters are setting fires overnight. Eleven people were shot and killed by israeli troops after clashes turned violent will. Meanwhile, Israel strikes back after Hamas launches more than two hundred rockets. At least nine people have died in Israel and more than one hundred and thirty in Gaza, PETE israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, vows to crush Hamas with unrelenting bombardment reports, cease fire could be come as diplomatic efforts continue. Welcome to Fox AMP friends in this 800 eastern time hour and were going to start this hour off big with our next guest, MIKE Pompeo Fox NEWS, contributor and former secretary of state. Sir. Thank you there you go. I will look at the right camera now. Thank you very much for being with us this morning,
its a new set. We are getting used to it come on and you are fitting in nicely with the Fox family great to have you PETE great to be with you PETE, Mr Secretary, you spent a lot of time there. You know that situation, intimately b, DOT, B Netanyahu, all the factors. Where are we now, as it pertains to the security of Israel PETE? I did spend a lot of time there. They were an important friend and ally in the Trump administration. We always had Israels back. They knew that and our adversaries into that too. The Iranians Hamas terrorists, the palestinian Slack Jihad, terrorists, those folks who are firing these missiles killing innocent civilians in Israel. They knew that the United States understood that Israel had not only the right but the obligation to defend itself and protect its people. Whats happening is tragic. Every life thats lost whether its Gaza West Bank or inside of Israel, is of value. The terrorists have to stop what they are doing. Israel has every right to defend itself. Dont forget PETE the weapon systems that are being faired. The capabilities that these
terrorists have in Gaza Strip were coming directly from support from the slack republic of Iranian and the United States is sitting at the table in Vienna today plotting to hand over billions of dollars to them very iranian regime, thats now killing innocent israeli civilians, Carley yeah, Mr Secretary, before the segment, I checked, the: U Dot S State Department website. It still says that Israel has no greater ally than the United States, but President Biden gave one hundred dollars million to the Palestinians. So why would the? U dot S government give money to Palestine if they are launching rockets at our allies, Carley Unexplainable a total head scratcher. I have seen that too. I have seen that statement. Frankly, Secretary Oberlin Kens statements with respect to this have been pretty good too. He has said that the Israelis have the right to defend themselves. Can you see in the Democrat Party, there are many attacking Israel. They are call Israel tears. They are coming after those who say that the Israelis have the right to defend themselves. I hope that President Biden will
give an even stronger signal. Remember, none of this happened in the Trump administration. These hundreds of rockets that are coming out of Gaza would not have happened, but for the absence of deterrence, but for the understanding of the Iranians that were going to continue to underwrite your point about the Palestinians giving one hundred dollars million to connect pay for display, killing its all fungible. It can go school for West Bank or go for a rocket to land in TEL Aviv. This is tragic. The United States policy cant be pro Iranian, it cant be pro terrorist and we need to make sure that everyone is clear that were not going to provide resources to those who want to undermine this historic jewish homeland in Israel. Will Mr Secretary, I was having a conversation with someone of the day they said. Will where do these rockets come from how too the Palestinians get all the Rockets aim? Glad you clarified, where the support for these kind of attacks originate. Let me ask you about this sort of power behind the throne when it comes to something else as well.
The attack on american security this past week, as we saw russian hackers darkside the name of the hacking group who hacked into the colonial pipeline true infrastructure here in the United States of America. Now Joe Biden has said that Vladimir Putin and the russian government are not behind this kind of attack, but where is the power behind the throne? There? There have been suggest nothing happen in Russia, without oversight or knowledge from the russian government. Can we dismiss the involvement of the russian government in this kind of hack? Well, I havent seen the intelligence. Maybe they have that kind of intelligence that leadership in Russia didnt know. Your point is well taken. Very little happens there. That is not at least tacitly supported, whether they approve this particular operation. At night, the Russian could say easily know where these operators hacked the United States. This is threaten the United States of America. We have people stopping in gas lines. We have risks that our infrastructure, more broadly, even than these pipelines, could
come under attack. This is hit on the american economy and its coming from foreign soil. There should be every expectation that the leadership in the home country appears that its Russia, that the leadership in Russia will hold accountable these actors and if they dont do it, the United States has a responsibility to take them on directly and make sure that something like this never happens again. The fact that we paid ransom was noted. It was noted by terrorists all around the world. I assure you and whether it was five million this time it will be fifty million next time. The price for paying ransom increases, always increases threats, im afraid thats whats happening in this situation as well PETE, Mr Secretary, what is the proportional response or the deterrence you have got a virus that, as we learn more and more you know, appears to have escaped from a chinese lab. You have things like this that may be tied to the russian government. Lets say that theyre lets say it was the russian government tied in how do we respond in a world of cyberattacks which can kill Americans cripple our economy?
We have a very vulnerable grid and infrastructure. What does a response? Look like that? Deters bad actors that can do bad things with the click of a mouse PETE, you nailed it. This is life threatening. This may not be connected in the traditional sense that you and I know as veterans. This is not that, but the risk to life the risk to life of Americans is very real adversaries to use these as cyber tools lots of ways to respond respond in kind in cyberspace. We know how to do it. Our forces are capable of executing counter attack in imposing real cost bigger picture. You mentioned the Wuhan virus. Think about this. The Chinese Communist Party covered up a virus. They knew they had human to human transition. Is, it may well have leaked from one of their laboratories. We still dont know the answer to that. The world must unite kicking them out of important substitution institutions that matter putting tariffs, sanction senior leaders, not letting them travel. Can you imagine dozens of
actions? The world could take to impose real costs on the Chinese Communist Party until they help us understand how millions of people around the world died as a result of a virus that escaped from their country Carley from one crisis to another and talking about the border crisis. Now there are really disturbing pictures that have come out and it shows two small children among a group of about twenty migrants and they were being smuggled in a field truck bed. Cargo trailer- and there is also this New York Times report that President Biden has lashed out at Hhs Secretary Basara during an oval office meeting. What does that New York Times? Report say to you because of the messaging are the public messaging? Is that this is not a crisis. We have everything under control, but when you look at those images and hear about this report that there could be some friction within the Biden administration on this, what does that say to you Carley? President Biden is in charge, so he can holler at whoever he wants.
He can get frustrated, whoever he would like to get frustrated with. In the end. These are the Biden administration policies that have caused this human tragedy. This crisis on our southern border, the darndest thing about this one, unlike some of the others, this one was man made. We had this problem, we worked on it for two and a half years. We had figured out a solution. We had diplomatic arrangements with the mexican government with the governments in Central America that had created a stable situation on our southern border. They walked in and they said Trump Pompeo. Their team did this. We will flip the situation and undo it. Can you see these pictures are so hard to watch the risk to our southern border from fentanyl coming across from cartels moving their way into our nation. These are real risks. Southern border is important to secure american sovereignty, its central to secure and so frustrating to hear the Biden administration fighting with each other, when, in fact, we ought to be addressing this crisis on our southern border. Will you point out correctly that Joe Biden ultimately is in charge? He has attempted to delegate these responsibilities to his vice president. Kamala Harris
lets. Take a look at this l dot a times headline by the way it says Republicans, arent alone in saying Kamala Harris should visit the southern border. Mr secretary whats, going on here is this its hard not to look at this and say theres an attempt inside the Biden administration to offload this bad press on to someone, maybe Biden shifting it to haste? Maybe Harris saying I dont want it whatever it is. Everyone in the administration is running away from this issue, thats sure what it looks like it looks like people trying to point to the other guy and throw him under the bus, thats, really bad leadership. In the end, this comes from the top. In the end, if you give a directive to your vice president, your vice president has the obligation to execute that was true in the Trump administration. As the president said MIKE, this is your mission set. I had every single focus to make sure we delivered on behalf of America and the United States to watch a bit of a keystone cop exercise, people pointing in one
way or the other, trying to offload blame, fundamentally mistakes. The problems at our southern border, whoever is in charge of it, needs to get their act together. We need to clean this this up its possible to too Vice President Harris said it would take time. No, it was right when you took over go back to those policy and our border will get back to where we need it to be again: PETE yeah from energy to Israel, to the border man that has been a heck of a one hundred and fifteen days. Cant wait for the next one hundred and fifteen Mr Secretary. Thank you so much for being with us. Thank you all.
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