candidate biden about the laptop. and so the point that i made in the op-ed is look, if you are serving actively at the cia, we vote but look, we serve under presidents for whom we voted and those for whom we didn t. when i served in iraq, look, half of us probably voted for president bush and the other half didn t. it doesn t matter. we are focused on our sacred mission of recruiting spies and stealing secrets and the best analytical to the president. that s what we do. but retired intelligence officers can engage politically as long as they don t reveal classified intelligence they are free to speak their mind and that s their choice and carries with it all the implications for them because they are going to have to defend their public statements, and that s what we are seeing right now. john: your op-ed is eye opening, no question about that. everybody who is interested in this should read it. quickly before we go about evan
it. and i also felt like i was a russia hand, i spent many, many years focused on russia and i was a little surprised that i and others who had the same experience were not involved in even discussing whether such a letter was worth writing. during the debate, the one debate of the 2020 election campaign, now president biden, then candidate biden said as we showed at the top of this, 50 intelligence officers signed on to the letter saying it was classic russian disinformation campaign. you write the american public should be careful to distinguish between retired and actively serving u.s. intelligence officers. the part i didn t know and assuming that my former colleagues who signed the letter probably didn t know either, michael morell had discussed the laptop issue with then campaign adviser tony blinken. a straight line from that to the letter to the debate. and the comment from then
critics say the selling will not come from press interviews or press conferences, he s held viewer of those of any president since reagan, and approval ratings, another poll, gallup has him below 40%, 59% of adults disapprove. with republicans, hitting the white house on the economy, especially inflation. well, i don t ever want everyday americans like my family to suffer as a result of poor policy. that s exactly what we have seen out of this biden administration. they are not designed to help people. though democrats are also touting the economy, it s still growing, rate of 1.1% and creating jobs despite the federal reserve interest rate hikes and inflation. elections are always a choice. president biden is for protecting unions and increasing working wages. the republican plans are for
it s another thing when you have a prolonged period of time where people are examining every word you make and every statement you take and then comparing it and they are left lacking. so this is someone who is highly confident in her own skills but utterly unqualified for the job that she has. and so she s left out to dry with really difficult topic, she fails on it. you are doing a makeover of the vice president, a political makeover of a sitting vice president of the united states. it s not the issue she s been given, it s her. she s not up to the job, and that s a problem for the biden team. sandra: if biden is re-elected, he s 86 at the end of the second term. to nikki haley s point, is a vote for joe biden a vote for kamala harris. it s not nikki haley saying that that is making the who us and the biden team quake in their boots, it s the fact that van jones said that. van jones said she is
for all of that as we head into a new week. thank you. you are welcome. john: now that story we promised at the top of the hour, and that infamous letter signed by 51 former intelligence officials days before the 2020 election casting doubt on the new york post report on hunter biden s laptop. former ci occasion chief of station dan hoffman was asked to add his signature, explaining for the first time in an op-ed in the washington times why he said no. dan hoffman is a fox news contributor and joins us now. dan, my most interesting story of the day. i thought why didn t you tell us a long time ago here. so, this letter went out, famously know, and what the basic finding was that the hunter biden laptop story has all the classic earmarks of a russian information operation. you had this letter circulated to you, they asked for your signature, you said no. why? right, i remember.