Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, in an interview on CBS' on 'Face the Nation,' didn't reveal any details of a potential historic meeting between President Trump and leaders of the Taliban.
Trump said during a news conference a day earlier that he would meet with leaders from the militant group"in the not too distant future" following the signing earlier Saturday of a historic agreement between the US and the Taliban which sets into motion the potential of a full withdrawal of US troops from Afghanistan and could pave the way to ending America's longest-fought war.
Asked during his CBS interview about his prior comments calling the Taliban terrorists and whether he still considered them that, Pompeo responded:"They have an enormous amount of American blood on their hands."He said he didn't automatically trust the Taliban to live up to its commitments in the agreement to break its relationship with al Qaeda, so the US will need to have verification of that. "Don't trust anything. We're going to deliver. It's about actions.
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