admiral john kirby served at the state department and in the navy. you hold the state department very dear. you spent a lot of good years there of your life working there. where do you see the secretary of state s credibility now on this issue? i think he s hurt himself additionally now. you know, more than he already had inside the state department. some colleagues that i m staying in touch with, and this is anecdotal, they tell me morale has been diminished there over this ukraine business, the phone call and impeachment inquiry. mostly because they feel like mr. pompeo isn t standing up for them. isn t speaking for them. isn t trying to represent them as a body. and, frankly, they are a little surprised by that because when he came in on the heels of rex tillerson, there was great hope and he came in and did really improve morale with some things he did, policies he put in place to improve the lives and the careers of career foreign service officers and their families. so i thin
protests in which more than 40 people have died including a journalist shot by israeli soldiers, pompeo did not issue a peep of criticism of the israelis. whereas i think just about every previous secretary of state in previous administrations would have tried to be bralanced withn them. pompeo isn t that way. and the result was a meeting with netanyahu that was almost giddy on both sides. and let s quickly button this down. last night i was on the air with chris matthews when this statement came out and they said incorrectly in this white house official statement that iran has a robust clandestine nuclear weapons program. and it was clearly wrong. i called it out. tweeted about it. wrote about it. tried to reach the white house for a correction. or to find out what was going on. and they then said an hour and a half later, it was shortly after pompeo landed and gardner and i
comfort bonnie. how do you know pompeo deserves the good? please remove. greg: she totally nailed it it. pompeo isn t a diplomat. that should be on his business card. when you reduce people to gibbering fools, you know you have a winner. see this tweet from al gore. senators should reject mike pompeo. he denies the climate crisis and has been doing the bidding for fossil fuel interests his whole career. well, gore does no fossils. he s about as up-to-date on world events as fred flintstone. again, if al is a no, pompeo is a yes. here s another. over 180 national orgs covering issues for national security and women s health to climate change and human rights have publicly opposed pompeo.
but if you have some kind of international coalition or support where countries are supporting you, it matters and helps in terms of how it s going to be perceived globally. brian: if the president does not do something, he will never recover credibility. this makes president obama s move to not enforce his redline look trivial. greg: last word, geraldo. geraldo: pompeo will not negate the iran nuclear deal. he will make it tougher perhaps. he will suggest that it be tougher but he will not advocate abolishing the deal. that s good news for all of us. greg: all right, up next, president trump addresses reports he planned to fire robert mueller. that s next.
1-800- washington post. what pompeo has done is established, the rapport, national security. the meetings she has with my pompeo, and when pompeo is not there, he goes to gina haspel who s hopefully going to be heading up the cia shortly. give him it comes to mind us cory booker wants to make sure he has for same-sex marriage which is a pretty interesting question for the secretary of state. empty the arsenal. cory booker is running for president every minute of the day, even at 2:00 in the afternoon on thursday. my hope was rand paul who makes so much sense sometimes would make a little more sense this time. what i would rather is he come out and say why haven t we left afghanistan or why do we have the war in iraq? he was an eye doctor making sure everyone s pupils were dilated and we were in the middle of dealing with saddam hussein. to come back in 2018 and make him disavow his support of the iraq war was farcical.