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Nobody has the right to countermand that decision,» William J. Perry, the 19th Secretary of State who served under former President Bill Clinton, from 1994 to 1997, told Radiolab.

But Trump said «no» when asked if he would rule out investigating Clinton over her family's charitable foundation or her use of a private email server while she was U.S. secretary of state during President Barack Obama's first term.

And newly appointed Secretary of State John Kerry, the man charged with accepting or rejecting TransCanada's permit application, sounded sour on Keystone during his first tête - à - tête with Foreign Affairs Minister John Baird.

In response to the incident, US Secretary of State John Kerry said that the US would have been in the right to shoot down one of the buzzing Russian aircraft — signaling the incredible tensions facing this part of the world.

Yaakov Katz, the editor - in - chief of the Jerusalem Post, compared the work of former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice in working with Israel during the 2006 Lebanon War with the current situation between Israel and Syria.

Let's fast - forward 20 minutes from now to a meeting with» secretary of State nominee Mike Pompeo and national security advisor John Bolton, he said, referring to two of the administration's foreign policy hawks.

«I still believe that the Cuban government, someone within the Cuban government, can bring this to an end,» Secretary of State Rex Tillerson said last month.

Secretary of State Rex Tillerson started a multi-country tour of the Middle East on Sunday, but a key US ally is conspicuously absent from his itinerary.

«I told Rex Tillerson, our wonderful Secretary of State, that he is wasting his time trying to negotiate with Little Rocket Man...,» Trump said, referring to a nickname for Kim, on Twitter in October.

Earlier this week, Clinton spoke out against the Trans - Pacific Partnership, the 12 - nation trade pact that she boosted as secretary of state and that liberals in the Democratic Party have vehemently opposed.

As secretary of state, Pompeo may move towards advising the president, as Tillerson was seen as pushing back on the idea of a strike.

Clinton continued to face scrutiny over her use of a private email server as Secretary of State, burdened anew after an announcement in late October by FBI Director James Comey that agents would examine newly discovered emails to determine if they were relevant to an investigation he had previously announced as closed without charges.

«The consistent absence of the Secretary of State [from] Israel is probably unprecedented,» former US ambassador to Israel Dan Shapiro tweeted.

Nor, officials said, was Secretary of State Tillerson informed of the situation until days after the department's acting assistant secretary for Western Hemisphere affairs, Francisco Palmieri, finally called in the Cuban ambassador in Washington, José Ramón Cabañas, to present a diplomatic note of protest on Feb. 17.

The oft - repeated charge stems from an interview Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton gave in March 2011 noting that «many of the members of Congress of both parties who have gone to Syria in recent months have said they believe he's a reformer.»

Planned Parenthood president Cecile Richards tweeted that Trump «genuinely does not care about the health & safety of women,» while Democratic frontrunner and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton called the declaration «horrific and telling.»

That's doubly true in the absence of a sitting secretary of state to spearhead US foreign policy.

Some may still harbor hopes that pragmatists in his administration could counterbalance the anti-trade China hawks, but former Exxon CEO Rex Tillerson, Trump's pick for the Secretary of State, should dispel such illusions.

U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson will visit Asia this week as North and South Korea grappled wi

Clinton, who pushed boundaries as First Lady of Arkansas and then of the U.S., launched her own political career in 2000, becoming a twice - elected Senator of New York and then Secretary of State under President Obama, whose legacy she had promised to build on as president.

«He might choose to call the Secretary of Defense or the Secretary of State, or the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, to get his advisors» counsel,» Perry added.

The brouhaha overshadowed a release of new emails showing the tight relations between the Clinton Foundation and the State Department during Clinton's tenure as Secretary of State.

Former Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice joined Alpha Chi Omega, a sorority with an emphasis on music, while attending the University of Denver.

The two sides hope to conclude the deal by the first week of next month, clearing the way for Secretary of State John Kerry to visit Havana soon afterwards for a flag - raising ceremony to upgrade the U.S. Interests Section to a full - scale embassy, the sources said.

In July 2016, during the presidential campaign, when Comey publicly announced that Hillary Clinton should not be prosecuted for her email peccadilloes — but strongly criticized her behavior in setting up a private email server while in her role as US secretary of state — Trump did not complain that Department of Justice (DOJ) norms were being violated.

«This president is so sensitive to when he feels like other parts of his administration are getting out in front of where he is on policy issues, and extraordinarily so with Russia,» said Richard Kauzlarich, a former deputy assistant secretary of state who is an expert on Russia policy.

With a strong pro-business message, Johnson could eventually could emerge as the third — party candidate who grabs votes from either former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton or real — estate magnate Donald Trump, the respective presumptive Democratic and Republican candidates, political analysts say.

Exxon also has struggled in the past 16 months to unwind some of the biggest bets taken by former CEO Rex Tillerson, who left to become U.S. secretary of state in early 2017 before being fired by President Donald Trump last month.

President Donald Trump has asked Secretary of State Rex Tillerson to leave his post, The Washington Post reported Tuesday.

On the Democratic side, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Vermont senator Bernie Sanders were neck and neck, with 49.9 percent and 49.6 percent of the vote, respectively.

Sixty - two percent of shareholders voted in favor of the proposal — a stunning defeat for the company formerly helmed by Trump's Secretary of State Rex Tillerson.

According to The Times, Broidy and Nader pushed the White House to oust Secretary of State Rex Tillerson and adopt an aggressive approach toward Iran and Qatar, as well as asked Trump to meet with the Emirati leader outside the White House.

This rule had an enemy no less powerful than the current US secretary of state and recent CEO of Exxon Mobil, Rex Tillerson.

After the meeting ended, Secretary of State Rex Tillerson was heard calling Trump a «moron.»

A source told the AP that the agent also worked on the investigation into former secretary of state Hillary Clinton's use of a private email server.

Priebus reportedly told Trump that Pence and former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, whom Republican leaders were considering drafting to the ticket, were «ready to step in» to take over the campaign.

One of those officials, Tom Malinowski, who stepped down as President Barack Obama's assistant secretary of state for human rights on January 19, corroborated those reports in an interview on Friday.

The Guardian report says Wolff quotes Henry Kissinger, the former secretary of state, as saying, «It is a war between the Jews and the non-Jews.»

Republican Sen. Bob Corker, the chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, has said he would allow the bill to come to a vote if Secretary of State Rex Tillerson did not make progress soon on improving relations with Russia on the Syrian civil war.

When Secretary of State John Kerry raises the American flag at the U.S. embassy in Havana on Friday, he'll be underscoring what the rest of the world already knows: Cuba is hot.

As emails disclosed by WikiLeaks laid bare internal concerns about how the Clinton Foundation's funding might impact the former Secretary of State's run for the Oval Office, former President Bill Clinton announced in August that the nonprofit would reject corporate and foreign donations if Hillary Clinton prevailed in her campaign.

Trump has picked Pompeo to take over the State Department, after former Secretary of State Rex Tillerson was abruptly fired.

When I mention that Exxon Mobil (xom), the world's biggest publicly traded oil company, is known to have an impressive intelligence division (no doubt a decent training ground for U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, ex-CEO of Exxon), Gourley's eyes light up.

BRUSSELS, April 27 (Reuters)- Barely 12 hours after being sworn in as U.S. secretary of state, Mike Pompeo went straight to NATO headquarters on Friday in what European allies saw as strong support for an institution that U.S. President Donald Trump once called obsolete.

Donald Trump called for a special prosecutor to investigate Hillary Clinton's tenure as secretary of state, NBC News reports.

When news broke earlier this week that Secretary of State Rex Tillerson planned to skip a NATO meeting, Shapiro pointed on Twitter to a failure to fill staff vacancies.

State department staffing is reportedly a tense topic of debate issue between the Trump administration and Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, as many key positions within the department have yet to be filled.

Looking back on the failures of the Obama administration's Israeli - Palestinian peace efforts, he suggested that former Secretary of State John Kerry may have been too idealistic in pursuing talks that collapsed in 2014.

From First Lady to U.S. Senator to presidential candidate to Secretary of State — regardless of what you think of her politically, Clinton has done a masterful job of filling in the gaps in her experience.

-- TREY GOWDY: The South Carolina Republican led the House committee investigation of former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's actions surrounding the deaths of four Americans in Benghazi, Libya.