what he s saying today. it s a bit ironic because a few years ago when dick was in office, he was characterized as darth vader. he s gone now from darth vader to yoda and yoda has been the one who would say that fear lead to a number of things. the path of fear leads to anger. anger leads to hatred. hatred to suffering and we saw that all play out on january 6th. so i think dick cheney has called it right, that donald trump is a danger to this country and a coward for not facing up to the facts. for not accepting the truth of what is happening and being unwilling to admit he lost fair and square. so now it s just kind of rolling in the self-pity, grievance, and hatred. that s what s being promoted at cpac today and in the past. so i think dick cheney is right.
white men were essentially the answer to america s problems. and marjorie taylor greene made the decision to attend that event, just in the last five minutes, just gave marjorie taylor greene the shout out. we try to track her down in the halls and cpac today. she avoid to answer any questions, but suggested that those individuals who were at that event last night were patriots, so suggesting that she didn t necessarily align with some of the more controversial, and her words, statements on that stage. vaughn, as you re laying that all for us, we are playing the video of you attempting to ask her questions. we also asked former secretary of state, mike pompeo, about his comments about putin. why did he tell you? yeah, we had a chance to catch up, or attempt to catch up with the former secretary of state. just earlier this week, he suggested that vladimir putin was savvy, and that he said that he was enormous respect for him. i am just secretary pompeo about those remarks.
that putin had about 150,000 assembled, there were up to 200,000 in and around the large sort of 10-mile radius around the border, but it was probably 150,000, not all combat forces. if some of these numbers are true, about half of them have penetrated into the country and are in the country. what that could mean in the next step, anyone s guess. let s go to senator bill hagerty that sits on the senate foreign relations committee. very good to have you. thank you for joining us. thank you. good to be with you, neil. here from cpac today. neil: got it, senator. we were speaking to a woman and she represents so many ukrainians and sheltered with her children and her husband is fighting on the front, so to speak and she wants immediate aid, but she wants military, she wants soldiers, n.a.t.o. to
document or this piece of information. we have a wide variety from all different platforms, backgrounds, perspectives. that s how you that s what any good history teacher does. you know? a good teacher has an open door policy to do it. observations have been a part of teacher evaluations for years. principals and administrators can walk in. there is nothing to hide in our classrooms. so it s i don t know what else to call it except bizarre. republicans are think this is a tactic after everything that teachers have gone through to make sure that our kids have a solid education in the last year and a half. and i have to tell you the rest of us not to be snowflakes they re so thin skinned now. the political action conference is taking place this weekend in a three day schedule. there are two separate panels on the war against critical race theory. donald trump s also joined in the fight. he spoke at cpac today. have a listen.
this implausible notion that he could be reinstated over the summer. folks we have been speaking to seem to be cooling on that idea and are looking more towards 2024. and fred, finally, one name that we keep hearing over and over and over again this weekend is a potential 2024 candidate, people who would like to see run, is florida governor ron desantis. we re hearing that name from a lot of people gathering outside cpac here today, people who didn t get tickets to get into the event, but many are gathering out here, hoping to get a glimpse of trump as his motorcade enters this complex. donie o sullivan and sara murray, thank you so much for dallas. let s talk more about all this now with david swurlic, cnn political commentator and assistant editor for the washington post. so good to see you. good to see you, too. is this the possible comeback moment for the former president at cpac today? i think president trump likes