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Let's be very clear. donald trump handed joe biden a stable afghanistan and a functioning state department. that completely collapsed. what the taliban heard when joe biden took over was that they could take city by city and eventually the whole country and not have pushback. >> bill: and so it went. ric grenell, thank you for your time. come back soon. thank you. the number of 2500 you have to ask at what point did the white house say get it to 1500 or 1,000. >> dana: he said something interesting trying to plan the strategy from d.c. rather than from on the ground. you could possibly pay a p...

What's going on between south korea, north korea and the united states. >> this is what happens when you don't have a functioning state department. we don't have an ambassador to south korea. there isn't that communication. i think has been the whole problem. diplomacy has been put in tenth place. not even second place. people aren't paying attention to what needs to be done. >> kwhawhat's your advice to mes of the foreign relations committee. >> this is not easy because i think that senators have a right to make up their own decision. i do think that some of the things that mike pompeo has be...

Asked him about why the president hasn't been more forceful himself or if he was concerned repeatedly pivoted to other people in the administration. so the administration in whole or talked about mike pompeo. what does it say that a republican cannot point to the president as the le-- the leade on thirks s. >> we don't know. but they simultaneously expelled hundreds of diplomats. it is not that we did it, we did it in concert with 14 countries in europe. that is -- for a unilateral relations and no functioning state department, that is an impressive piece of state craft. poo-pooing it is stupi...

Under the cover of russian government officials. so what does that mean? typically these 60 would have been sent here under the cover of the ministry of foreign affairs. russia's aequivalent of the state department posing as military aides but doing the work of russian intelligence. what does that mean? that is meeting with american government officials, meeting with american business people, meeting with academics and with reporters, with civil sewite elemen -- society to glean information to send back to moscow. and they look for unique information. information that a true russian diplomat c...

So it's entirely possible that that's the thing that finally set trump off. on the other hand, trump being trump it could be that he didn't like the why tillerson combed his hair. >> or that he called him an f'ing moron. >> that seems to be something for everybody. he's going to have to fire a lot more people. >> rosa was charitable in saying he wasn't a good secretary of state. the general read is that he was a terrible secretary of state, maybe one of the worst we've ever had. do you comport with the idea that he came in thinking he was a real job? i heard that he came in to dismantle the st...