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no word on the young man. investigators say there were four smoke detectors in the building but known appeared to be working. war and poverty in afghanistan causing so much desperation. some families are reportedly selling their children in order to raise money in order to feed other family members. it s a desperate situation. mike pompeo on the apathy as he sees it from the biden administration. he explains next. and it s easy to customize your insurance at libertymutual.com so you only pay for what you need. isn t that right limu? limu? limu? sorry, one sec. doug blows several different whistles. doug blows several different whistles. [a vulture squawks.] there he is. only pay for what you need. liberty, liberty, liberty, liberty
united states. and pointing out, there s some cities that are working well at getting testing out. here in washington d.c., the mayor has gotten rapid testing by handing them out at local firehouses across the city. martha: okay. katie? president joe biden was a testing plan last year ahead of omicron variant because we know basic epidemiology tells us there s another variant. this is a president that campaigned on shutting down the virus. so to say that he wasn t prepared for this, he didn t know how rapidly it was going to spread is not accurate. to go back to the 2020 campaign, ron klain tweeted that testing is still not available, it s not working, testing is broken. it s january 5, 2022. there s still not testing available when this is a president that is being held to account for his own campaign
promises making the issue of covid political. a political argument during the 2020 presidential campaign. so joe biden saying just google where you can get a test, people are doing that. they can t find a test. you might as well google your symptoms at this point at web m.d. martha: are you disappointed by that performance? we see it in the polls. people that had confidence that covid would be managed better are surprised that it s being managed worse when you look at the numbers of dead. there s no question that joe biden was slow to the uptick on dealing with this. i think we have to look at we have to be realistic and say omicron spread faster than we thought it would spread. now we have to root for this president to get it right. if he doesn t get it right, america doesn t get it right. right now i m hoping the president sets up as many testing centers as possible as get as many home tests to as many americans as possible to beat the virus. martha: a house divided
former secretary of state mike pompeo joins me now. he s a fox news contributor. secretary pompeo, good to have you with us today. these stories are absolutely heart breaking. i want to remind everybody what president biden and the white house had to say about their commitment and promise to these people not that long ago, back in august. watch. we re going to do everything in our power to get all americans out and our allies out. if there s american citizens left, we re going to stay until we get them out. we want it clear, we re going to bring the americans home. martha: he included the allies there as well, secretary pompeo. what are your thoughts on what s going on here? martha, it is tragic to see the reporting that is coming from there, the devastation that is being wrought on afghanistan today. we shouldn t forget primary responsibility. this goes to the taliban there. they re responsible for taking care of the people in that