A few months back, Garrett Graff wrote a profile of Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, published it and Wired.

At the time, the impeachment inquiry had just gotten started.

Looking back at what he wrote, what stands out to Garrett now is how for Pompeo, so little has changed.

If anything, he is even more tightly tied to Trump, and it's more clear that he sort of stands

alone in the constellation or panoply of Trump advisors, that there's sort of Mike Pompeo and then there's everybody else.

A friend of mine sort of put up on his desk a picture of everyone in the cabinet, you know, when Trump first took office.

And slowly he's been crossing people out and replacing them.

And one of the few people who's still on this diagram is Mike Pompeo.

Yeah.

And I think it's clear from the last two weeks that Mike Pompeo is the most powerful and significant presidential advisor since Henry Kissinger was to Nixon.

There are certainly powerful and important presidential advisors in past administrations.

You know, Colin Powell is Secretary of State.

Hillary Clinton is Secretary of State James Baker.

But none of them have been as unrivaled for the presidency as Mike Pompeo is. This loyalty, it's been on full display as Pompeo spent weeks ducking the Democrats on

impeachment and then showed up to fully defend Trump after the president used deadly force

to counter Iran.

What was the plan?

Who were the targets?

And how so?

Yes, President Trump was right. And what he said so was I?

The Secretary of State showed up on all five Sunday political shows to explain Qasem Soleimani's death. A feat so rare and is a special nickname.

He is someone who is very happy being the president's chief public defender. And you see that

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