Do you have any views of the muslim faith or people who believe in worshiping other gods. Is that something negative in our country . Greg lets not forget the t word. Can you clarify for me how you would come as secretary of state, be clear as to americas commitment against torture. Greg so predictable, so fake so irrelevant. Mike did fine until this. With respect to building a team out of the state department, this is something ive done multiple times in my life. I did it as a tank platoon leader. I did it as a cavalry troop. I do it for two Small Businesses in kansas. And i worked hard at it. I will leave others to judge the success. Greg oh, dear. Platoon leader . The language of war . Does Chuck Schumer have trauma counselors standing by. I hope cory booker brought his comfort bonnie. How do you know pompeo deserves the good . Please remove. Greg she totally nailed it it. Pompeo isnt a diplomat. That should be on his business card. When you reduce people to gibbering fools, you know you have a winner. See this tweet from al gore. Senators should reject mike pompeo. He denies the Climate Crisis and has been doing the bidding for fossil fuel interests his whole career. Well, gore does no fossils. Hes about as uptodate on world events as fred flintstone. Again, if al is a no, pompeo is a yes. Heres another. Over 180 National Orgs covering issues for National Security and Womens Health to Climate Change and human rights have publicly opposed pompeo. Stoppompeo. Unlike those groups, pompeo is no pacifist. Ask isis if you can still find them. Without nonpacifist, pacifists would be bones under a dictators boot. Its easy to be a holy man on a mountain or on capitol hill but in the real world, things are more dangerous. Diplomat is nice but a realist is better. We need pompeo, not deepak chopra. We need to flow from a grownup. That is pompeo. No wonder the left cant stand him. All right, lets go around the table and ask what caught your eye. We will probably skip Brian Kilmeade because he was sleeping all day. Dana, he touched on the morale problem. Dana hes not a diplomat. When he was first in the military, he talked about being at the berlin wall when it came down and that his Great Respect was from the diplomats from the state Department Working with everyone dissolvable was a difficult political situation. Then he said he recognizes, he spent time at the state department, that morale there is abysmal and that would be his First Priority to try to fix. If you cared about that or that was one of the complaints that left out about Rex Tillerson, the left is going to end up with the secretary of state. Its going to be secretary pompeo. When he gets confirmed. If you want to hold him to something, make sure that morale at the state department is something you keep knocking on his door about. Greg geraldo, you are a republican but youre kind of a hawk. You are promilitary. Do you get the sense of when you watch these committees that democrats kind of live in a world where the only they only see our actions as bellicose and they see the opposition of some kind of amorphous i dont know thing out there. Geraldo its a highly philosophical question. I would rather direct my attention to my pompeo. I greg you should have set i will have my team get back to you. Geraldo i love that he graduated first at west point. I love the Harvard Law School business. In terms of personal style, charisma, he is a much more natural fit with donald trump than Rex Tillerson was. I think he will be fine. As hawkish as i may be, i think pompeo is to the right of me. I think he is more like john bolton. I think you can consider he and bolton together as a war cabinet. But i also think that warriors, and hes an army vet, warriors are less likely to slip into war then pacifists. Greg so true. Kimberly, give me your thoughts and try to make it about 7 minutes long so that we dont have to talk to kilmeade. Kimberly its going to be difficult to do anything against him. If you can be the head of the cia, how are you unfit to serve in this position. Hes got a great record. I agree with you, geraldo, hes a good personal fit with the president. He trusts him, he likes him. They are able to work well together. I think he already has now the benefit of the experience of running cia. If you can be trusted with secret Intelligence Organization and youve done very well there to the point where he trusts you for this next position thats also integral to the success of the administration, it says a lot. On what grounds other than political, stalling, or trying to be obstructionist, are they going to say hes unfit or unsuitable for this position . How many minutes did i kill . Greg we almost made it. Kilmeade, what are your thoughts, if you have thoughts. Heres what i think. He is finally getting his band together. They respect him enough to disagree with him privately and not call 1800washington post. What pompeo has done is established, the rapport, National Security. The meetings she has with my pompeo, and when pompeo is not there, he goes to gina haspel whos hopefully going to be heading up the cia shortly. Give him it comes to mind us cory booker wants to make sure he has for samesex marriage which is a pretty interesting question for the secretary of state. Empty the arsenal. Cory booker is running for president every minute of the day, even at 2 00 in the afternoon on thursday. My hope was rand paul who makes so much sense sometimes would make a little more sense this time. What i would rather is he come out and say why havent we left afghanistan or why do we have the war in iraq . He was an eye doctor making sure everyones pupils were dilated and we were in the middle of dealing with saddam hussein. To come back in 2018 and make him disavow his support of the iraq war was farcical. I think, i hope democrats can understand how qualified he is and start to understand, start to vote yes. Greg that was a cheap shot against eye doctors. Brian youre right. Its true. I am against lenscrafters because i had a bad experience. Geraldo in regard to what i said about hawks being less likely to declare war, it could be ambassador bolton and cia director pompeo who are holding the president back on what would be a gratuitous strike at this point in cold blood against syria. Its fraught with peril. The upside is so narrow. I dont know how you define what you hit. 30 bombs, 60 bombs, 300 bombs . Kimberly thinking about it more carefully. Brian i could not disagree with you anymore. Geraldo, we know where the military sites are. We know where they make the chemical weapons. Getting our guys in place, getting our people in place to take out the sites. Its not kill everybody. Its wipe out their ability to make this. Geraldo is a possible by a Cruise Missile strike you need a bathtub in three drugs of various chemicals. Brian i like Ari Fleischers idea of taking out his palace. Geraldo the president s instinct to get out of syria is the correct instinct. We backed the wrong side and then conflict. The danger to the United States and the free world, the sunni muslim extremism. We are on the wrong side in syria. The sooner we get out, the better. Brian who is cheering the loudest, russia or iran . Geraldo they are in orbit, an axis of evil, but i dont care. Let them be as evil as they want to be. Let them share blintzes and hummus. I dont care. Greg lets hear from pompeo. Dana who are these people . Greg who took away juan and the guy with the funny hair . We have the primary mission weve been engaged into defeat isis. We did so using a group of men who did great work, and we took the caliphate down. We ought to be proud of it. There is still work to do. The other objective is to achieve a div medic outcome such that there is more stability. We can take down the violence and this is a diplomatic task. So that we get to a place where the Syrian People can ultimately govern themselves. Our goal is to make that a postassad syria. Greg you heard cross fire right here. After hearing that can already see it . Where do you fall . Between those guys. Dana eileen a little bit kilmeade. President trump was right to criticize president obama. Even Madeleine Albright criticized president obama for the redline he put in place which led to the situation President Trump is trying to fix. But President Trump also drew a redline. It was a year ago that he threw a little missile assads way. Didnt do enough to decapitate. We dont have a political solution. Theres not a great strategy but hes already been, now hes at risk of not enforcing his own new redline. Geraldo how about a blockade, economic sanctions, seizing every dollar syria has deposited in every u. K. And usa bank . Dana great. Geraldo when you take a look unilateral military action brian you have france and england, saudi arabia. Geraldo singh france step up to the plate, okay. Kimberly might not be about, in terms of supplying the military might, the United States is capable and often carries the load with that but if you have some kind of International Coalition or support where countries are supporting you, it matters and helps in terms of how its going to be perceived globally. Brian if the president does not do something, he will never recover credibility. This makes president obamas move to not enforce his redline look trivial. Greg last word, geraldo. Geraldo pompeo will not negate the iran nuclear deal. He will make it tougher perhaps. He will suggest that it be tougher but he will not advocate abolishing the deal. Thats good news for all of us. 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Com kimberly President Trump declared the Russian Investigation fake and corrupt and the single greatest witch hunt in american history. Would he ever fire the special counsel . This morning he addressed the frenzy over reports hes been wanting to. If i wanted to fire mueller in december as reported by the failing new york times, i would have fired him. Just more fake news from revised a newspaper. Lawmakers moving on legislation to protect mueller from losing his job. The bill could come up in the Senate Judiciary committee as soon as next week. Brian, what do you make of this . Brian a couple things. They keep on reporting they have six unnamed sources, all verified, higher than President Trump and more important. They all say this took place, but it didnt happen. I am astounded, when i flip around channels, that everybody is wanting him to fire robert mueller. Thinking of all the different ways this could happen and how bad and cataclysmic it would be. Then when we get today that rod draws in Rod Rosenstein has been invited to a meeting. He went over there, no problem. Spent an hour and 15 minutes together and they left. It would be a huge mistake to do it but i would love to see a different attorney in there thats going to be a little bit stronger. I think the cooperation with this council has got to stop. Defense attorney for the president. Whats going on here . Kimberly dana, that is one approach. Theres a couple schools of thought. You were in the white house with the president advising on matters like this in the past, where would you take it . Dana i dont think there was ever consideration to fire special counsel fitzgerald. I think there is no question of what the law actually says. I dont know why Congress Needs to pass a law to protect bob mueller. I think the president might not have the Legal Authority to do it. Heres the thing. Its moot anyway. This investigation will continue. It will get out somehow and it will be over. It will be over at some point. Going to have to give it some time. In the meantime, the president has a great economy. The event today in the rose garden was what every american wants to hear about. If they can focus on that and not on this investigation, they would probably do themselves a favor. The problem is, they score so many of their own goals. Its not good. Kimberly greg. If you were to advise, what would you say . Brian they score their own goal . Greg this is why soccer is not americas support, because of scoundrels like you. If i was trumps advisor, i would say fire mueller and replace them with his personal lawyer. Joe. Michael . Joe, michael, same thing. Brian joe is the doorman. Greg there is someone who competes with you in the morning, i wont say the show. They say that trump is using Foreign Policy to distract from the Mueller Investigation and all of that stuff which i believe is incorrect. I dont notice that. But you could posit the opposite, that these witch hunts, to use his words, are designed to hobble a president from doing his job. I think if you go into the american world, thats how they see it. Let the guy do his job. The guy is doing his job. Low unemployment, isis is gone. North korea could be a major, phenomenal transformation. Nafta. All of this stuff happening. Let him do his job. I think thats how people look at it. I dont think they look out of the way they see it where trump is going to try to bomb something. Dana trump didnt use chemical weapons against the syrians. The syrians did that. With help from you know who, the russians. Kimberly geraldo, theres multiple schools of thought. The president has to weigh his choices very carefully. Not act impetuously. Because of genuine concerns here as to whether or not this has gotten away from him, right . There are political ramifications. Ramifications for the country, the perception of whats going on in the white house, et cetera. Geraldo i think firing mueller would be like scratching a rash. It wouldnt make anything come of the underlying disease go away. Kimberly its going to make it worse. Geraldo people describe the president being extraordinarily angry. The dude has got a right. You cannot understate how absolutely beyond the pale this raid on Michael Cohens office was. By the Southern District of new york. When they absolutely frequentlyy trampled on the lawyer client privilege to bust into that office and take everything, savage, take everything. It was so unprecedented. Did they try, for example, what 99 of the prosecutors do in this circumstance, a subpoena . Was that considered too be nine, not punitive enough. You cannot say the seizure of all of this evidence from the president s personal lawyer is not punitive. This was designed to create, whether it was designed or not, perhaps the unintended consequence of what they did to Michael Cohens office was that the whole nation now is looking at this as a declaration that the feds believe crimes were committed. They believe the president is implicated in those crimes, and that the inevitable destination here is impeachment of this president. I think it was absolutely unjustified and so unprofessional. The president has the right to be steamed. Kimberly dana, the fallout when comey and perhaps, i dont know. People are upset. We have a special on that at 9 00 p. M. On sunday about james comey with his book coming out and whatnot. The thing is i think they have to think about the ramifications. Dana thats the thing. None of us actually know what evidence they were looking for the reasons they had or the judge who approved it. We dont know any of this information. Maybe it was a total overreach and absolutely inappropriate but its just as possible it wasnt. I dont know. Geraldo give me one example in your mind that you think it would make it appropriate. Dana i would never speculate on Something Like that because i dont know. Geraldo i will give you one. Michael cohen with a zippo lighter about to burn a case. Brian it would be a taking timebomb. Michael is a member of isis. That would be it. Kimberly another storm coming is sure to add fuel to the fire. Jim comey about if kick off his tellall tour and it sounds like hes not going to hold back. Next. With new car replacement, if your brand new car gets totaled, Liberty Mutual will pay the entire value plus depreciation. Liberty stands with you. Liberty mutual insurance. This is what getting your car serviced at lincoln looks like. Complementary pickup and delivery servicing now comes with every new lincoln. I won. Giving you, the luxury of time. Thats the lincoln way. Diamond silk minus three days until former fbi director jim comey kicks off his big tour. Hes already making headlines without saying anything at all. How strange is it for you to sit here and compare the president to a mob boss . Are there things you know but havent said who that could dae President Trump . Those who say you should have brought H