mr. pompeo: we all should work on tuesdays. [laughter] mr. : what a lovely young, gracious man filled with love. that was glorious, betsy. we know so often that there are families who look at where they are sent to school and they are not satisfactory. they want something that is unique and special for their kids. whether it is special ed students or someone who just has a special love, they are trapped in a place where they cannot get out and they cannot get the education they need. there are very few places in the american economy where monopolies dominate and where people are restricted in the products they can choose. parents should have the ability to choose the products they want to choose for their child. that can change over time. our son attended private school in early years and went to a big public high school. he worked for our son. every parent will make a different set of choices but it is so important on the individual level for kids to come out of school with confidence and the power of the knowledge they have gained and you sh

mr. pompeo: it became politics, not science. parents are angry about what school systems did to their children. whether it was the unions were school boards, they denied their students the opportunity to learn for in a year in an environment where they could move. you only get 12 years. they took 8% or 12% away. it gave parents a lot of insight. you saw testimony in the film by parents who were teaching their kids at home and then they had to go back to work and they got to see that the curriculum was not meeting their child's needs. they got to see the substance of what was being presented to their children and there's nothing like a mama bear who is in happy. there were a lot of unhappy mama bears. some of the state legislatures a new hampshire that made it happen, god bless you for doing it, you will make new hampshire better and it will give parents freedom to make good choices for their kids. ms. devos: parents had a window like never before on their kids education on many are displeased. over one million children never par

mr. pompeo: it became politics, not science.arents are angry about what school systems did to their children. whether it was the unions were school boards, they denied their students the opportunity to learn for in a year in an environment where they could move. you only get 12 years. they took 8% or 12% away. it gave parents a lot of insight. you saw testimony in the film by parents who were teaching their kids at home and then they had to go back to work and they got to see that the curriculum was not meeting their child's needs. they got to see the substance of what was being presented to their children and there's nothing like a mama bear who is in happy. there were a lot of unhappy mama bears. some of the state legislatures a new hampshire that made it happen, god bless you for doing it, you will make new hampshire better and it will give parents freedom to make good choices for their kids. ms. devos: parents had a window like never before on their kids education on many are displeased. over one million children never parti

mr. pompeo: it became politics, not science. parents are angry about what school systems did to their children. whether it was the unions were school boards, they denied their students the opportunity to learn for in a year in an environment where they could move. you only get 12 years. they took 8% or 12% away. it gave parents a lot of insight. you saw testimony in the film by parents who were teaching their kids at home and then they had to go back to work and they got to see that the curriculum was not meeting their child's needs. they got to see the substance of what was being presented to their children and there's nothing like a mama bear who is in happy. there were a lot of unhappy mama bears. some of the state legislatures a new hampshire that made it happen, god bless you for doing it, you will make new hampshire better and it will give parents freedom to make good choices for their kids. ms. devos: parents had a window like never before on their kids education on many are displeased. over one million children never par

mr. pompeo came down and had asked for the walls to be put up because the national guard, secret service,etropolitan police were all being bombarded during black lives matter protests, and many people were hurt during those. and, there was a debacle about getting better protection for the white house, and i think even president trump was taken down to the bunker as the protesters were getting close. and, they had difficulty getting the walls up during that time. so i felt that that was a precursor to what was happening around the country, as well as what was happening, then what happened on january 6. i felt, for my friends who did attend the rally, they said they went there to peacefully protest. they did not even realize what was going on with the people who did enter the building. and, then there was another caller who called in and was having a little bit of trouble speaking. i think what he meant to say was that c-span has not had any of the people who were attending the rally, and letting them speak about their experience. host: our phone lines are open every day, so if someone atte

mr. pompeo and mr. ratcliffe told me it was uninimity, if conditions are not met the afghan army and government would collapse within weeks and longest they heard, a month or two. that was surprised because secretary austin said today that the fact the afghan army, we and partners trained melted away was a shock. john ratcliffe told me he told his successor that they were going to collapse instant anuously if conditions were not met, they would evaporate. >> with all due respect -- >> sure. >> what i think it is, not failure of intelligence, i didn't know this stuff, i'm asking, it seems failure to heed that intelligence and act accordingly. >> i can show you intelligence reports produced. >> 50 seconds left. 5000 bad guys in bagram and jail bagram, right, general mckenzie? we go down to 650, can't hold them, we split around july 1, we left? >> 12th. >> july 12th. it fell august 15th; correct? >> they got out? august 16th. an attack on troops couple weeks later. can any of you guarantee the american peo

mr. pompeo came down and had asked for the walls to be put up because the national guard, secret service,litan police were all being bombarded during black lives matter protests, and many people were hurt during those. and, there was a debacle about getting better protection for the white house, and i think even president trump was taken down to the bunker as the protesters were getting close. and, they had difficulty getting the walls up during that time. so i felt that that was a precursor to what was happening around the country, as well as what was happening, then what happened on january 6. i felt, for my friends who did attend the rally, they said they went there to peacefully protest. they did not even realize what was going on with the people who did enter the building. and, then there was another caller who called in and was having a little bit of trouble speaking. i think what he meant to say was that c-span has not had any of the people who were attending the rally, and letting them speak about their experience. host: our phone lines are open every day, so if someone attended t

joining us fox news contributor and former secretary of state mike pompeo. mr. secretary, you would have never allowed it to get to this point. the taliban moves 4 inches out of their space was allocated in agreement, we know what would have happened appear at the fate of solomonic, the fate of baghdadi, the feed of the leader of yemen and the isis caliphate would have been their fate so we watch this unfold for months, 20%, 50% of the country and they didn't lift a finger. then they took kabul and still joe biden when he had an opportunity to get everyone out and get them out while he had control, he didn't do it. your reaction. >> sean, this debacle didn't have to be. this is a direct result of arbitrary political decision to set a firm date to get out without considering how you would get every american out. the fact we are hearing from american still on the ground and we have great americans risking their own lives to try to distract them after the united states give up all of its leverage, all of the capacity to get these people home. this is debacle of ext

mr. pompeo and mr.e it was unanimity even president trump said if conditions are not met the afghan army and government would collapse within weeks so john radcliffe told me he told his successor that they were going to collapse if those conditions were not met they would evaporate. >> that with all the respect what i think it is come it was not a failure of intelligence it seems to me. it wasas a failure to heed that intelligence. so those thater were produced. >> we have 5000 bad guys and bob graham - - and then we go down at 650 we cannot hold it so we split to july 1st at bagram. and then it fell august 15? august 16? then we have an attack on our troops a couple weeks later can any of you guarantee the american people that those 5000 bad guys come back into that were directly responsible for killing our troops quick. >> i cannot guarantee that. >> i yield back. >> thank you mr. chairman and mr. secretary i have several questions and i appreciate your concise response. general mckenzie, august 30th

mr. pompeo saying, oh, yes, they're going to be good boys this time. they're not. again, i think our intelligence is lacking. i don't know how we can correct that. >> look, this is a collective responsibility and i think all of us, whether it's the intelligence community, whether it's the military, whether it's the state department need to make sure we are doing everything we can to provide the best possible assessments and feeding all of the information in and coming to conclusions. so i think this is a collective spochbsbility. that's very important. iran, there's a lot that goes into that. what we put in place in the agreement, it's no longer being adhered to. the jcpoa, we had hands on, eyes on the ground and monitoring unlike anything we had. that's different than assessing someone's intent. >> again, my time is almost up. i do thank you for all the work that you've done but, again, i think we got it all wrong with our intelligence and i think we're going to get it all wrong with iran. i think we're going to pay a big price. i thank you for your hard work. i a

mr. pompeo, looking into the eyes of taliban, like they are going to be good boys.gain, i think our intelligence is lacking. i don't know how we can correct that. >> this is a collective responsibility, and i think all of us, whether the intelligence committee, the military, whether it's the state department need to make sure we are doing everything we can to provide the best possible assessments of feeding the information in and coming to conclusions. it's a collective responsibility, and that's very important. he run -- when it comes to what we put in place through the agreement, it's now no longer being a here to. we had on the ground eyes on intelligence monitoring unlike anything we've had, and that is different from assessing someone's intent. >> my time is almost up, i do thank you for all the work you've, done but again i do wrong with iran and pay big price. i thank you for your hard work. i yelled back. >> i represent -- i recognize representative brad schneider of illinois for five minutes. >> thank you, mr. chairman. i want to thank you for hosting this

mr. pompeo and mr. ratcliffe, they told me that it was -- there was unanimity. even president trump said if conditions are not met that the afghan army and government would collapse within weeks. and the longest they heard maybe a month or two. is what they gave me. because i was just surprised because secretary austin said in his remarks today the fact that the afghan army, we and our partners trained simply melted away in many cases was a shock. john ratcliffe told me me the circumstances were going to -- with all due respect. >> sure. >> what i think it is, it is not a failure of intelligence. it seems to me. i didn't know this stuff. i wasn't in the room. you were. that it was a failure to heed that intelligence and act accordingly. >> i can show you the intelligence reports that were produced -- >> and i appreciate that. i have 50 seconds left so i appreciate that. all right so we got 5,000 bad guys in bagram and -- am i right? general mckenzie sh? we go down to 650. we can't hold so we split, around july, july 1st i think we left. >> 12th. >> and it fell a

mr. o'brien is the cochairman of the nixon sarah mark -- seminar where we discussed affairs along with pompeoour guest of honor this morning, house gop leader mccarthy was elected to congress in 2006. he has been the leader of the republican party in the house since 2019. before that he served in the california state legislator. ambassador o'brien is from a different part of the state, we are glad you are here. the birthplace of former president nixon. tens of thousands of americans have been through trauma and the last couple of weeks and of course, 2400 have died in afghanistan, tens of thousands wounded including 13 marines who lost their lives, who lost their lives in afghanistan just two weeks ago. it is a somber occasion and i begin with mr. mccarthy, a few questions, you saw the president's speech last night. this morning the politico headline about afghanistan reads biden tries to shift blame on afghanistan and", i am absolutely appalled and bitterly horrified --", i am absolutely pulled in -- appalled. we have failed that no failed mission. another white house official said the missi