00:00Sir, do you have anything new on the reporting from the Wall Street Journal that Ambassador Guilfoyle had sought finance?
00:05Yeah, guys, let me tell you something, okay?
00:06You guys are going to ask me this, you're going to ask me again in Portugal.
00:08I know the game, okay?
00:09The game is someone gives information to a newspaper or a media outlet.
00:13The media outlet reports it.
00:14You immediately turn to me and say, I need you to respond to our reporting.
00:18That's not the way this process works.
00:20Like, our job is not to respond every time someone decides to give the media something
00:24without any advance warning, without having any chance to look at it and see what's in there.
00:28That's not the way you run an organization, and that's not a serious way to conduct the policy of our
00:34country.
00:34So I'm not going to comment on a story that literally posted a few hours ago.
00:37I get the game, okay?
00:38I've been in this for a long time.
00:40Within hours, a member of Congress will write you a letter demanding you answer questions to something we've never seen
00:45before.
00:45I don't even know if it's true or not true.
00:48So it's just not going to work that way.
00:49And it most certainly is not going to work that way when I'm sitting in another country.
00:52All right?
00:53Secretary, does it have to demand an IG investigation?
00:57I am, guys, I'm not playing this game with you, okay?
00:59You guys write a story, and then your editors tell you, make sure you get a comment from him on
01:03something we haven't seen.
01:04Okay?
01:05You guys are not going to be our only source of information in the world.
01:07I'm sorry to tell you that.
01:09And so I want you to understand.
01:10No, that's not the way the process is going to work.
01:13How does the process work?
01:14Well, first of all, the process doesn't work like this.
01:16We don't conduct these things in a press conference, on a tarmac, in a foreign country, because you wrote a
01:21story or somebody else wrote a story because some source gave it to you.
01:24So get that out of your head, because that's never the way it's going to work with me.
01:27It's a game that's been played for a long time, but it's not a game we're going to play.
01:31We're conducting serious business here, and we'll handle things appropriately.
01:34I don't even know what you're reporting is true.
01:36You guys somehow walk around thinking that because some source told you something and you reported it, it's the gospel.
01:41It's not the gospel.
01:42It's not the gospel for me.
01:44That's not the way we do it.
