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?
00:39I'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, and it most certainly is not going to work that way
00:51when I'm sitting in another country, all right?
