i also listen to senator corker on your show explain all the chaos in the white house and why do you want someone who kind of is a donald trump yes man than in the state department? we haven t really seen any evidence that mike pompeo is other than that. so, i mean, we re in this terrible situation where the so-called adults in the administration get pushed out, don t get listened to by the president, and then the president s alternatives, well, give me more yes people, more yes men, more yes women that doesn t seem like it s a fix either. in the end, mike pompeo gets confirmed in republican s line p and vote for mike pompeo. republicans have the votes to confirm if they want to put those votes up so let s see what happens. maybe with a negative recommendation or no recommendation from the foreign relations committee. hanging in the balance is gina haspel to be cia director. her confirmation hearing delayed. maybe because they think if pompeo doesn t get confirmed, you don t need to
appointments. there are a ton of vacancies out there. stoo some of the reasons is because the cabinet secretary no, no, no. the point is it s just not done. there s an urgency about this we haven t discussed. if the north koreans really are going to be testing us there s an you aurgency to get the cia is what happened either in the transition or on literal day one. but the senate needs to get cracking on his national security. that ought to be the first thing. get tillerson in there. tillerson doesn t have security clearance right now. i don t know that mattis does. pompeo doesn t. they can t come together and do anything. to your point, there s an equal urgency on the part of the trump team. they are behind. they re not and you ll remember when ronald reagan came in, the day after, put the name forward, penn james, hi headhunter, wound up on your doorstep with a notebook saying three choices every major position, make them now and they
going in there. could you explain? one of the points i ve been making is, one of the things i like about president trump he said the iraq war is one of our single biggest mistakes. and i think president trump deserves to have people around him that understand that and believe that. i frankly think that pompeo doesn t believe the iraq war was a mistake. i asked him whether we should stay in afghanistan. he said we should stay in afghanistan. the president really since 2012 has been adamant that we ve stayed too long. we ve been building roads for people that hate us over there and it s time to come home and think about america first. so i m not so sure that pompeo is the best representative of what the president actually believes. neil: so you would not respond to syria s chemical attack on its people? i think the first thing we need to determine is who did this. there s question if it was the syrians or an accidentsal bombing of a depot of chemical