'This Fight Is Inside the Gates Today': Pompeo Warns Lawmakers of the Chinese Communist Party

0 Share: Secretary of State Michael Pompeo warned lawmakers that the threat from the Chinese Communist Party is "inside the gates" during a meeting with House Republican lawmakers on Friday. Pompeo told members of the conservative Republican Study Committee that as a former lawmaker, he is aware of the threat posed by China but that he did not appreciate "the scope and the scale and the nature" of how close the threat is until he became Central Intelligence Agency director. "This fight is inside the gates today ... Containing where they are today leaves them in our institutions of higher…