senator tom cotton who the president consults closely with as with general kelly on his national security apparatus. he s a huge fan of mike pompeo at the cia and you ll remember cotton was rumored to take the job himself and told he removed himself after the alabama election and figured the president doesn t need another red seat so it s all come together for the president. this is the kind of team you need going forward. bill: richard, do you approve of mike pompeo, let s start there. i think his confirmation hearing will be more interesting than most secretary of state confirmation hearings. one, he met recently with russian spies on the sanction list who weren t allowed on the u.s. and met with them in the u.s. secondly, he said that there was no evidence with russian