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Veteran of the agency, not coming in from the cold, its going to be an important signal to the people in the cia, most of whom persist through various administrations, republican and democratic, that that agency is not going to suddenly take a turn for the politicized. thats a fine line that pompeo has walked since hes been there. it will be the job of the next director, with all this turnover, to maintain the confidence of the men and women who work in that spy agency day in and day out. >> to ...

Investigation was comprehensive and not a facade. >> steve, i know you have a lot to say about this. >> i think the democrats should issue their own report. i welcome that, by the way. i guess i would say -- >> the other steve, steve hall. >> sorry. >> that was my bad. go ahead. >> thats all right. don, i didnt hold out a whole lot of hope for either of the oversight committees because were in such a hyperpartisan time and this is -- they are a political entity, both sides are. i worked in congr...

Secretary who got fired for telling the truth about the fact that tillerson heard that he was fired on twitter. the white house put out a statement, oh he was told last friday. he knew. and the under secretary said no actually thats not true. he learned on twitter. gone. you know, other administrations you get fired for lying. this one you get fired for telling the truth. >> for a guy who loves to say you are fired hes terrified of doing the way you should do it. >> got it done. >> thank you all...

>> thats all right. don, i didnt hold out a whole lot of hope for either of the oversight committees because were in such a hyperpartisan time and this is -- they are a political entity, both sides are. i worked in congressional liaison and cia and neither side has a monopoly. i was there when dianne feinstein was pushing through on very partisan lines the so-called torture report. both sides in these circumstance s work in a partisan fashion. the difference, when youve got the director of natio...

Policy different from the president. when you get pushed out, when youre not supporting the presidents agenda, which is what happened here. >> harris: do you agree theres a certain way to do this? in my book, you move on. they had a conversation with him on friday. im confused. do you agree? >> we dont know all the dynamics. we dont know what happened. >> harris: what do we need to go? >> is the second state going to push the presidents policies. with mike pompeo youll get that. >> harris: micha...

They had talked. you know, the relationship just didnt gel over time. sometimes administrations and presidents like having that, an adviser that thinks differently. this president values i think more than most loyalty and kind of being in sync as he mentioned today on the south lawn. the reason that i say that pompeo might have a challenge is more the democrats to make a stand and to make a different point on various issues rather than pompeo not being up to the job or field questions. >> dana: ...

Leadership in the white house recognized his talent and gar e garage -- graduated number one at west point and somebody beloved by he people he worked with and the relationship he has with the president is probably second to none. i have to tell you theres a lot of people on capitol hill thrilled with this pick. whatever role he goes into i think youll see a broad consensus, broad support for him both in the senate and house. >> bill: what do you think of the churn were seeing in the administrat...

Squadron so im just returned from deployment. the death rattlers and the gray hawks. are you? -- where are you? its a good-looking group. thats great. thank you. great job. your service has been extraordinary. we wont let up until isis is completely destroyed. isis never thought this would happen. they never got hit like this. we took off the gloves. in one year, we did more damage to isis than other administrations, a certain other administration did in many year years. we took off the gloves. ...

Matters, rex tillerson was a voice of reason. >> thomas, what do you think about the -- you made the same comment that john did about the management of the department of state. i mean, ive got to imagine that rex tillerson is a better manager than he turned out to be at the department of state and that this has to do with the fact that this administration just does not hold the state department and its role in the same esteem that prior administrations have. >> thats correct. i think he could ha...

Will keep things moving forward in the intervening time. but for exactly the reasons i said earlier, this opening with north korea, i can understand the reason why chairman corker and others may push for a quick hearing with mike pompeo. he wont need to come up to speed on the security aspects of north korea and iran and syria and russia, but what i hope he will come up to speed on is the centrality of trusting and supporting our career foreign service officers and the diplomats who are so essen...