living. number two, poor leadership. i think the american public has looked at president biden beginning with the breakdown of the southern border last year, continuing through the afghanistan debacle last summer, just going on to mixed messaging on covid throughout this year. they have decided they ve judged biden and judged him negatively. bill: okay. the right, the 100 year war for american conservative sis many. you just wrote the book. you draw an interesting line from calvin coolidge, right? and warren harding, 100 years ago. and how much they have in common with the republican party and donald trump of today. make that interesting. that s right. it s when i conducted my research i was a little surprised to find that even though calvin coolidge have different personalities. the parties they lead are very similar when you look at their
house, the senate and the white house, 33 democrats signed a letter saying don t change the filibuster. chuck schumer said it would be doomsday for democracy. that s what they want to do right now. take away the voice, muzzle the voice and the votes of the minority party in the senate. we re fighting it all the way. bill: i was looking at this earlier. 32 democrats signed the letter. 27 are still in the office in the senate today. i guess the answer to my question could be simply stated we re talking about this and we re not talking about inflation. we re not talking about the economy and the polling that came out just a few days ago you look at the top four or five issues in america today center around people s money, senator. you re right. the most important issue in a gallup poll, you ve got it, economy, poor leadership, covid, immigration. down at 23 at the bottom of the
u.s. embassy personnel. mike pompeo joins me by phone. good to have you here. so you listened to that. your reaction. what do you think about this move? well, looks like this was poor planning, poor leadership. the model of deterrence that the trump administration had in place as we prepared to bring soldiers, sailors, marines on the ground now, looks like they have not been able to execute this. big strategy depends on planning and execution. looks like there s panic. i hope that they have the right number of folks and get them there quickly. i hope we can protect americans as the way the trump administration had every intention of doing. martha: how would you have done it differently? i don t know exactly what they re doing. we had conditions attached to how we were thinking about this withdrawal. i was part of those negotiations. i was also in the room when president trump made very clear to the senior taliban negotiators that if you threaten
taliban hands despite the security focus on the areas? no one is pleased to see that the security situation in afghanistan continues to deteriorate and the taliban continues to act as if they believe the only path to governance is through violence and brutality and oppression and force. contrary to what they have said previously at the negotiating table. so of course, nobody is happy to see that. as we have said before, jeff, with these air strikes, we would provide support to the afghan national security defense forces where and when feasible with the expectation and knowledge that it s not always feasible. as your first question about the airport, there is no planning and no discussion of using karzai international airport as a base for conducting air strikes in an around afghanistan. there s a small aviation element