Others . Our next guest graduated West Point at the top of his class served our country in uniform, Cia Director and secretary and Mike Pompeo joins us now. Increasing calls to slow down back off and iran continues to provoke, how do you see the Middle East and our role in it . Its good to be back with y you, you asked the right question at the beginning, what is Americas Interest . Until we begin to think about how we ought to respond and how we are to encourage friends and partners and allies to behave. In this instance we saw what happened october 7, this barbaric attack in Americas Interest is deeply tied to israels successfully, eliminating Hamas Capacity to ever do something like that again is not only the duty to do it for its own people but americas best interest so as i