How has Chief of Staff John Kelly managed to keep his job in spite of convincing and persistent rumors and reports that the president is unhappy with him, and he is unhappy in his job?
A spokesman for Kerry ridiculed Pompeo's assertion that Kerry was acting in unprecedented ways, adding that Kerry had briefed Pompeo on his conversations with Iranian officials
While the hawkish Bolton ... is expected to be in Singapore for the talks on Tuesday, Pompeo has taken the lead as the administration assumes a softer tone toward Pyongyang ahead of the summit
It would be “nothing short of tragic to let this opportunity go to waste,” Mr. Pompeo said after two and a half hours of discussions with Kim Yong-chol
The moves have been met with relief by diplomats and State Department observers, who were outraged by former Secretary of State Rex W. Tillerson’s attempts to severely cut the department’s budget and staffing.
Pompeo said he insisted to Kim that a "robust verification" by inspectors would have to be part of any deal to ensure that Kim had "fully denuclearized".
The Senate Foreign Relations Committee, in a late pivot on Monday evening, approved the confirmation of Mike Pompeo to be the next secretary of state, after Senator Rand Paul, Republican of Kentucky, bowed to pressure from President Trump and dropped his opposition.
Trump declared on Wednesday that he would scrap a planned summit meeting with North Korea’s leader, Kim Jong-un, or even walk out of the session while it was underway, if his diplomatic overture was not heading toward success.
The CIA director is facing a narrow Senate confirmation vote to be Trump's next top diplomat, and supporters say the high-stakes trip proves he can handle the job.
Democrats clashed with Mike Pompeo during his confirmation hearing for secretary of state Thursday, trying to get clear answers from an often-evasive CIA director who contradicted himself on issues
“We expect Director Pompeo to be able to explain exactly what financial entanglement he had with the Chinese government and why he failed to disclose it”
The White House’s decision to use intelligence, rather than diplomatic, channels in communicating with the North Koreans speaks to the influence of Mike Pompeo
The White House has developed a plan to force out Secretary of State Rex W. Tillerson, whose relationship with President Trump has been strained, and replace him with Mike Pompeo, the C.I.A. director, perhaps within the next several weeks
The implications here are pretty big: a U.S. president telling his CIA director to meet with someone pitching what the intelligence community basically regards as a conspiracy theory.
CIA chief Mike Pompeo spends three hours almost every day driving downtown from Langley to brief the president, and he’s not alone.
Trump demands facetime with his appointees in part because he doesn’t trust bureaucrats who do the day-to-day work of the federal government. The president shuns them as tools of what he often refers to as the “deep state,” and blames them for the frequent, unflattering news stories coming from his White House