Power and Politics with Mike Pompeo

Honestly with Bari Weiss

The Free Press

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🗓️ 1 July 2022

⏱️ 64 minutes

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With everything going on here at home you can be forgiven for not focusing on what’s going on in Mariupol or Hong Kong. But what’s going on in those faraway places has a profound impact on us. For evidence of that truth, look no further than Wuhan. Or at the current price of gas. The point is that there is little distinction between domestic and foreign politics. If you are the world’s superpower—and at least for now we still appear to be—they are profoundly connected. That’s the case former CIA head and former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo makes in my conversation with him today. In this wide-ranging and frank conversation, Pompeo answers my questions about China, Ukraine, Saudi Arabia and Iran. But also: the stop the steal movement, the future of the GOP and whether or not he’s running for president. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	This is, is honestly.
0:05.0	Summer typically means that the news takes a bit of a backseat.
0:09.0	Things usually feel slower as the temperature rises.
0:16.0	Maybe if you're lucky you get summer Fridays
0:18.0	or find a neighbor's pool to mooching off the pools is happening, but the conversation there, even on weekends, is all politics all the time.
0:40.0	Well, it was another rough day for Americans' wallets with a lot of red on Wall Street today.
0:46.0	That sell-off coming in part because of the
0:48.0	of cryptocurrency.
0:50.0	The January 6th committee's surprise hearing on the
0:56.8	attack on the Capitol had no lack of explosive testimony.
1:00.3	This summer the news just will not stop. To me it feels impossible to escape.
1:06.2	Rising costs a major issue for so many Americans.
1:10.4	You feel it when you make your family's monthly budget.
1:12.6	Meanwhile gas prices keep going up.
1:14.8	They've now hit an all-time high and analysts say...
1:17.8	You feel it when you buy milk or chicken, or when you think about whether or not you can
1:21.8	afford a family vacation.
1:24.0	You definitely feel it when you fill up your tank of gas.
1:27.0	Inflation is crushing millions of Americans right now, maybe you're included.
1:34.4	I was in Chicago last week and a driver told me that he's debating cutting back his
1:39.2	hours because the price of gas is so high that he actually saves money by working less. With all
1:46.1	that's going on here at home you can be forgiven for not focusing on what's
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