that sounds exactly like what jake sullivan is here, junior, varsity ted harvey? i gotta leave it right there. unfortunately, thank you so much for your time. ted harvey is a former colorado state senator and chairman of the committee to defeat the president. check out the website. stop joe dot com to learn more. thank you, ted. you bad. thank you. bear me on. thank you. it's been a great time. alright. it's quite disturbing to learn that someone so smart could be so inept or perhaps unqualified. i guess a good analogy would be something like, you wouldn't want your auto mechanic no matter how awesome he is at fixing any problem in your car, to perform brain surgery, or even the other way around your surgeon, no matter how talented or educated is likely not going to know how to turn a wrench, and this might be how history will view jake sullivan, president biden's, current national security advisor. all right, that's going to do it for this episode of modus operandi. the show that dig deep in the foreign policy and current affairs. i'm your host manila. chad, than

let's stop to ted harvey. he's a former colorado state senator and chairman of the committee to defeat the president. you can find more at stop joe, dot com. ted harvey. thank you so much for joining us. you bet. thank you. have me on. i appreciate it. so jake solomon's rise to power, the national security advisor to post, you know, seems kind of surprising the outside observers. he's this young guy only in his mid forties now barely 43 when he was 1st appointed. but he's got this position right that, you know, for all intents and purposes is usually filled by these grey haired, grizzled old guys like henry kissinger. or it's a big new brzezinski. or, you know colin powell, how did sullivan get here to this position? so young, i mean, would it be beneficial to have someone, you know, a little bit older who's been around the block a? well, it's great question. um yes, typically we have people who have a great deal of wisdom and experience in foreign policy to be holding these positions, whether it's in the stat