we are dealing with a cross between george patton and oliver wendell holmes. [laughter] so that is a -- [laughter] so that is a pretty tough, tough combination to face as an opponent, but the good news for us is he is coming here to lead our team. it is the adversaries of the united states who will be facing that formidable opponent across the table. without further ado i will turn over the microphone to the 70th secretary of state, mike pompeo. [applause] >> thank you. thank you. thank you. thanks for those most gracious words, john. and thank you for your service standing in the gap. you have done a remarkable job. i've had the chance to work alongside you as a cia director and you have done this organization incredibly proud. america should be proud of you. and thank you for this amazing work. [applause] so, i think i have the record for the longest trip to the first day of work. [laughter] i am humbled to be here. i tried to prepare myself for this moment, but to stand here and look at the most important diplomatic corps in the world is enormously humbling

negotiations or if it were in a courtroom, i would say wow, we are dealing with a cross between george patton and oliver wendell holmes. [laughter] >> that's a pretty tough combination to face as an opponent but the good news for us is he is coming here to lead our team. it's the adversaries of the united states who will be facing that formidable opponent across the table. without further ado, i will turn over the microphone to the 70th secretary of state, mike pompeo. [applause] sec. pompeo: thank you. thank you. thank you. thanks for those most gracious words, john and thank you for your service in standing in the gap. you have done a remarkable job and the whole team has. i have had a chance to work alongside you as the cia director when you are the acting secretary and you have done this organization incredibly proud. america should be proud of you and thank you for this amazing work. [applause] sec. pompeo: so i think i have the record for the longest trip to the first day of work. [laughter] sec. pompeo: i am humbled to be here. i tried to prepare myself for this moment but to stand her

bush and george patton who knew .3. well and he also knew john the change that anything get out of that force field. that was his power when he announced he was running for office but you make that decision but you will never be the expert. there wasn't a great deal of humility. johnson had history but humble is not a word that would rather they come to my music and johnson. >> the title of your book is intriguing and i suspect what they said to you? >> in three of reince preibus and it was also clear regardless of who won the election but i he reportedly said to bunch of this is what you could call the book now because you just got o sanctioned from the 43rd president of the united states left back so again it was very clearr that donald trump won the presidency but it would be to session and become an activist. we'll see. >> do you think that will be true in ten's from now? and double trump. >> that define what it is that the establishment is wanting but first and foremost i first interviewed him for texas and at the

they entered into combat under american command under george patton command -- george s. patton's command. at this point they are french tanks. host: what went right for americans in the first major engagements they were involved in and what went wrong? guest: what is astonishing to me was quality of the troops. whether they were marines were soldiers, they were very aggressive. they were very determined. they fought very hard. the germans thought the americans should just give up. we did not give up. even draftees fought tooth and nail. what did not go well with the tactics were very primitive. we had not learned as much as we thought we had. our assault tactics, we would attack indents waves as the marines did on june 6 and take terrible casualties. host: we will talk about one of the situations in particular coming up in this hour. today we are focusing on the 100th anniversary of the first major american engagements of world war i, taking place this month in 1918. taking your calls as well. eastern and central time zones, (202) 748-8000. the mountain or pacific time zo

the title comes from a quote from general george patton, quote, the time to take counsel of your fears is before you make an important battle decision. that's the time to listen to every fear you can imagine. when you have collected all the facts and all the feerms and made your decision, turn off all your fears and go ahead. clapper uses that quote and takes it as his title for his book that is out today in part to explain why he has chosen to write a book. he said, quote, as i left government service, i had my own decision to make. i had not planned to write anything. but after experiencing the election, the unprecedented russian interference in our political process, and the behavior by and impact of the trump administration, i changed my mind. he says, quote, i think the catalyst was the stark visceral realization of seeing the fundamental pillars of our country being undermined both by the russians and by the president. this shook me. should tell you james clapper then goes on to say some absolutely remarkable things about the sitting president of the united states. i will quote y

they entered into combat under american command under george patton command -- george s. tton's command. at this point they are french tanks. host: what went right for americans in the first major engagements they were involved in and what went wrong? guest: what is astonishing to me was quality of the troops. whether they were marines were soldiers, they were very aggressive. they were very determined. they fought very hard. the germans thought the americans should just give up. we did not give up. even draftees fought tooth and nail. what did not go well with the tactics were very primitive. we had not learned as much as we thought we had. our assault tactics, we would attack indents waves as the marines did on june 6 and take terrible casualties. host: we will talk about one of the situations in particular coming up in this hour. today we are focusing on the 100th anniversary of the first major american engagements of world war i, taking place this month in 1918. taking your calls as well. eastern and central time zones, (202) 748-8000. the mountain or pacific time zons

they entered into combat under american command under george s. patton's command.t this point, the tanks on the battlefield are french tanks. john: what went right for americans in the first major engagements that they were involved in and what went wrong? edward: what is astonishing to me was quality of the troops. whether they were marines were soldiers, they were very aggressive. they were very determined. they fought very hard. whether offense of or defense it arid the germans thought the americans should just give up. they put us in difficult situations. we did not give up. even draftees fought tooth and nail. what did not go well was the tactics were very primitive. we had not learned as much as we thought we had. our assault tactics, we would attack in dense waves as the marines did on june 6 and take terrible casualties. john: we will talk about one of the situations in particular coming up in this hour. today we are focusing on the 100th anniversary of the first major american engagements of world war i, taking place this month in 1918. taking your calls a

it was like george patton saying issue need you do something. spend a year looking at the issue of central america it led know understand there is a larger global problem and that led to this conversation. he some things the obama administration, with the republican congress, put in place to bend the curve as port of the conversation. he need interest be inter -- enter look tours, and work with somebody on the ground, and to extend you have dysfunctional plate x-rated situations it makes things more rick, and i took away we need high growth and other parts of the world. so i absolutely think the report we did two years ago was a prelude to this report so we touch on it more implicitly and in the prior -- we get interest a lot of detail bows central america. >> i would just say one other thing, mark. i think we did talk a lot about how an individual or community, country, responds to this crisis says a lot about who any of us are, and i think i can speak for myself and my friend here that what informed the passion that you see in the governor's r

they entered in combat under american command and george s. patton'sfact, toward the later end of the summer and into the autumn of 1918. at this point the tanks that you see on the battlefield are french-manned, french tanks. >> what went right for americans in these first and major engagements that they were involved in and what went wrong? >> well, what's astonishing to me in terms of what went right is the quality of the troops whether they're marines or soldiers. they were very aggressive. they were very determined. they fought very hard whether on the offensive and defensive. the germans thought sometimes or the americans should just give up and they put us in difficult situations. we didn't give up, even draftees fought tooth and nail. what didn't go well is the tactics were primitive and our assault tactics in particular, we would attack in dense ways as marines did on june 6th and take terrible casualties. >> we'll talk about one of the difficult situations in particular, the battle of bellawood coming up this hour. on "the washington journal,