Mike Pompeo

And last year, he had President Bush and President Clinton come and speak at an event like this.

Mike Pompeo will be there from the state of Kansas, a Republican, but maybe not necessarily your typical conservative, and certainly not the kind of speaker or garnering the same kind of wage as Barack Obama.

They call this Connect.

It's Connect 26 because it's 2026, and Creative Planning puts it on and sends an email out to all their clients that says, "Would you like to attend?" And they will.

That's not Schulte.

Schulte was, with respect to the CIA, you had this division where you have the science and, like, technology directorate, and within there you've got different bureaus, and he was part of what was referred to as the OSB, which is the Operation Support Branch.

So while the NSA is intercepting signals electronically, these are the guys that create the hacks, what they refer to as exploits, for human-based operations.

So for instance, if you wanted to get into a general's computer, like not hooked up to the internet, what's referred to as air-gapped, well, you're going to have to have an asset, maybe the guy's chef, maybe the guy's driver, maybe the guy's lover-

Look at bill Barr.

Look at Mike Pompeo.

I mean, I can go down the line with the people that have just done horrible, horrible things.

Right.

it seems like you probably, I mean, I don't know.

Mike Pompeo lost literally 90 pounds in six months, and he was like, I just started eating healthy, and I do push-ups.

I was like, that

seems like not how you lose 100 pounds in

And looking at 2012, which was a culmination of this when Xi Jinping came into power, he started to believe or yet the confidence to believe that China was, you know, had enough resource and power to start to compete against the United States to even eventually take over from the United States.

So I think the biggest strategic failure on part of whether that's the U.S. or the Western world is probably just not or believing too much in in a communist system, which I think now we're learning slowly as we go to, as Secretary Mike Pompeo would put it, distrust but verify.

So just briefly talking about today's summit, I think it's very interesting because there seems to be this grand, welcoming sort of reception for the communist leader.

But I think in reality, these are quite superficial.

So don't eat food.

That's something she said when Mike Pompeo went to the Colombian Venezuela border with truckloads of food for people.

So she needs to rehabilitate her image.

I think she needs to make the case that she matters, that you can't just remove her.

This statement was never released, as it did not receive support from the White House and senior State Department leadership.

In related comments, former US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo called French President Emmanuel Macron's assertion that Hamas has never been particularly active in the West Bank, outrageous, deeming it ignorance and deliberate whitewashing of terrorism.

In Israeli domestic politics, the Central Elections Committee approved requests to prevent the Joint List and Ra'am parties from competing in elections for the 26th Knesset.

also disqualifying individual candidates Ofer Kasif and Sami Abu Shehadeh.

Now, think about that.

Bill Barr, Mike Pompeo, Chuck Grassley, Ron Johnson, Lindsey Graham, Jim Jordan, Devin Nunes and certain journalists and conservative lab votes were listed as conduits.

Of course, the people investigating the allegations were framed as the problem.

And it continues to go on today.