might say this. remember who you are and whom you serve. if we don t reverse course now, will anyone take anything we say about justice and righteousness with any seriousness for decades to come? joining me to discuss, senior fellow at ethics public policy center. he worked in the reagan and bush administrations and author of the book death of politics . peter, your reaction? i was thrilled with the editorial. i think it s a powerful one and timely one. i m glad they did it. i m not sure how many votes it will change, but christianity today is a flagship publication for evangelical christianity and carries a lot of weight, moral authority. billy graham was the founder. and it s important to speak truth, truth to power to live within the truth rather than live within a lie. and so i m very glad that mark gallo wrote it.
in. well, i don t know. it would ve been jim mattis and before him h.r. mcmaster. those are two points that trump made that i had a lot of confidence in. there s a lot of chaos at the department of defense, obviously. we don t have an acting secretary right now. joan bottlon s views on iran are clear. he s a hawk on it. i think he s committed to wanting that regime overthrown. if we could get it overthrown, that would be fine. but the question is how and at what cost. mike pompeo, we ll see. this is a testing period. sometimes people rise to the moment. sometimes they don t. but if you ask me right now who i have confidence in the administration, i d say there are not a lot of them. but my chief worry is the president. he is the commander in chief. that s where the decisions ultimately are made. peter, good to see you again. thank you for joining me. he served in three republican administrations, ronald reagan and both bush white houses and the author of the death of politics.
defines defiance disorder. honor, decency, pride, that s all gone now. all gone now. pete, you re going to be releasing a book soon called the death of politics. i would think constant attacks against a dead war hero would fit very neatly inside your thesis. it sure does. politics is an important profession, can be a noble profession and we have to take care of it and donald trump is ruining it. it s a compulsion of his, his manifestation of many others. i also think in a deeper sense, it s probably a loss or lack of courage, something that john