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Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has blocked the inclusion of Saudi Arabia on a U.S. list of countries that recruit child soldiers, dismissing his experts’ findings that a Saudi-led coalition has been using under-age fighters in Yemen’s civil war https://t.co/F5JVpXJ5QE

— Matt Duss (@mattduss) June 18, 2019

New from me: Pompeo visits CENTCOM amid mixed messages from US on Iran.
w/ @JackDetsch_ALM https://t.co/ZBSlIvKwQL

— Laura Rozen (@lrozen) June 18, 2019

Update: DoD can't say whether Secretary of State Pompeo is traveling to CENTCOM with any members of the military chain of command, refers the question back to State. Meanwhile, a State spox can't find records of previous secretaries' visits to CENTCOM. This is all… very unusual pic.twitter.com/SKpXz5ixVR

— Adam Weinstein (@AdamWeinstein) June 17, 2019

"A Washington piece of silliness"
"Don’t play ticky-tack"
"Don't make this a political football"
"Senator, I find that question bizarre"
"Don’t say silly things"
"Insulting and ridiculous and frankly ludicrous"

How Pompeo avoids accounting for Trumphttps://t.co/fUwyIXnMv4

— Aaron Blake (@AaronBlake) June 17, 2019

Some word salad to go with that Chardonnay:

I asked @realDonaldTrump why Americans should trust his administration’s pronouncements on Iran. He had absolutely nothing to say and it was unclear if he understood what I was asking. pic.twitter.com/vzlh1lJnev

— Andrew Feinberg (@AndrewFeinberg) June 18, 2019

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