Fox News contributor and former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo weighs in on the Israel-Gaza conflict and the fuel crisis caused by the Colonial Pipeline cyberattack
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Carley we begin with a Fox news:
ALERT
Tel Aviv suspending routine
visas due to violence in the
Middle EAST.
Troops are patrolling the West
Bank as protesters are setting
fires
overnight. Eleven people were shot
and killed by israeli troops
after clashes turned violent
will. Meanwhile, Israel strikes
back after Hamas launches more
than two hundred rockets.
At least nine people have died
in Israel
and more than one hundred and thirty in Gaza,
PETE israeli Prime Minister,
Benjamin Netanyahu, vows to crush
Hamas with unrelenting
bombardment reports, cease fire
could be come as diplomatic
efforts continue.
Welcome to Fox AMP friends in
this 800 eastern time hour and
were going to start this hour
off big with our next guest, MIKE
Pompeo Fox NEWS, contributor and
former secretary of state.
Sir. Thank you there you go.
I will look at the right camera
now.
Thank you very much for being
with us this morning,
its a new set. We are getting
used to it
come on and you are fitting in
nicely with the Fox family
great to have you
PETE great to be with you
PETE, Mr Secretary, you spent a
lot of time there.
You know that situation,
intimately
b, DOT, B Netanyahu, all the factors.
Where are we now, as it pertains
to the security of Israel
PETE? I did spend a lot of
time there. They were an
important friend and ally
in the Trump administration. We
always had Israels back.
They knew that
and our adversaries into that
too.
The Iranians Hamas terrorists,
the palestinian Slack Jihad,
terrorists,
those folks who are firing these
missiles killing innocent
civilians in Israel. They knew
that the United States
understood that Israel had not
only the right but the
obligation to defend itself and
protect its people.
Whats happening is tragic.
Every life thats lost whether
its Gaza West Bank or inside
of Israel, is of value.
The terrorists have to stop what
they are doing.
Israel has every right to defend
itself.
Dont forget PETE the weapon
systems that are being faired.
The capabilities that these
terrorists have in Gaza Strip
were coming directly from
support from the slack republic
of Iranian
and the United States is sitting
at the table in Vienna today
plotting to hand over billions
of dollars to them very iranian
regime, thats now killing
innocent israeli civilians,
Carley yeah, Mr Secretary,
before the segment, I checked, the:
U Dot S State Department website. It
still says that Israel has no
greater ally than the United
States,
but President Biden gave
one hundred dollars million to the
Palestinians.
So why would the? U dot S government
give money to Palestine if they
are launching rockets at our
allies,
Carley Unexplainable
a total head scratcher.
I have seen that too.
I have seen that statement.
Frankly, Secretary Oberlin Kens
statements with respect to this
have been pretty good too.
He has said that the Israelis
have the right to defend
themselves.
Can you see in the Democrat
Party, there are many attacking
Israel.
They are call Israel tears.
They are coming after those who
say that the Israelis have the
right to defend themselves.
I hope that President Biden will
give an even stronger signal.
Remember, none of this happened
in the Trump administration.
These hundreds of rockets that
are coming out of Gaza would not
have happened, but for the
absence of deterrence, but for
the understanding of the
Iranians that were going to
continue to underwrite
your point about the
Palestinians giving one hundred dollars million
to connect pay for display,
killing its all fungible. It
can go school for West Bank or
go for a rocket to land in TEL
Aviv.
This is tragic.
The United States policy cant
be pro Iranian,
it cant be pro terrorist
and we need to make sure that
everyone is clear that were not
going to provide resources to
those who want to undermine this
historic jewish homeland in
Israel.
Will Mr Secretary, I was
having a conversation with
someone of the day they said.
Will where do these rockets
come from how too the
Palestinians get all the
Rockets
aim? Glad you clarified, where the
support for these kind of
attacks originate.
Let me ask you about this sort
of power behind the throne when
it comes to something else as
well.
The attack on american security
this past week, as we saw russian
hackers darkside the name of
the hacking group who hacked
into the colonial pipeline true
infrastructure here in the
United States of America.
Now Joe Biden has said that
Vladimir Putin and the russian
government are not behind this
kind of attack,
but where is the power behind
the throne? There?
There have been suggest nothing
happen in Russia, without
oversight or knowledge from the
russian government.
Can we dismiss the involvement
of the russian government in
this kind of hack?
Well, I havent seen the
intelligence. Maybe they have
that kind of intelligence that
leadership in Russia didnt
know.
Your point is well taken.
Very little happens there. That
is not at least tacitly
supported, whether they approve
this particular operation. At
night,
the Russian could say easily
know where these operators
hacked the United States. This
is threaten the United States of
America.
We have people stopping in gas
lines.
We have risks that our
infrastructure, more broadly,
even than these pipelines, could
come under attack.
This is hit on the american
economy
and its coming from foreign
soil.
There should be every
expectation that the leadership
in the home country appears that
its Russia, that the leadership
in Russia will hold accountable
these actors and if they dont
do it, the United States has a
responsibility to take them on
directly and make sure that
something like this never
happens again.
The fact that we paid ransom was
noted.
It was noted by terrorists all
around the world.
I assure you
and whether it was five million
this time it will be fifty million
next time.
The price for paying ransom
increases,
always increases threats,
im afraid thats whats
happening in this situation as
well
PETE, Mr Secretary, what is the
proportional response or the
deterrence
you have got a virus that, as we
learn more and more you know,
appears to have escaped from a
chinese lab.
You have things like this that
may be tied to the russian
government.
Lets say that theyre
lets say it was the russian
government tied in how do we
respond in a world of
cyberattacks which can kill
Americans cripple our economy?
We have a very vulnerable grid
and infrastructure.
What does a response? Look like
that? Deters bad actors that can
do bad things with the click of
a mouse
PETE, you nailed it. This is
life threatening.
This may not be connected in the
traditional sense that you and I
know as veterans. This is not
that,
but the risk to life the risk
to life of Americans is very
real
adversaries to use these as
cyber tools
lots of ways to respond
respond in kind in cyberspace.
We know how to do it.
Our forces are capable of
executing counter attack in
imposing real cost
bigger picture.
You mentioned the Wuhan virus.
Think about this.
The Chinese Communist Party
covered up a virus. They knew
they had human to human
transition.
Is, it may well have leaked from
one of their laboratories. We
still dont know the answer to
that. The world must unite
kicking them out of important
substitution institutions that
matter putting tariffs,
sanction senior leaders, not
letting them travel.
Can you imagine dozens of
actions? The world could take to
impose real costs on the Chinese
Communist Party until they help
us understand how millions of
people around the world died as
a result of a virus that escaped
from their country
Carley from one crisis to
another and talking about the
border crisis. Now there are
really disturbing pictures that
have come out and it shows two
small children among a group of
about twenty migrants and they were
being smuggled in a field truck
bed. Cargo trailer-
and there is also this New York
Times report that President
Biden has lashed out at Hhs
Secretary Basara during an oval
office meeting.
What does that New York Times?
Report say to you
because of the messaging are
the public messaging? Is that
this is not a crisis.
We have everything under
control,
but when you look at those
images and hear about this
report that there could be some
friction within the Biden
administration on this, what
does that say to you
Carley? President Biden is in
charge,
so he can holler at whoever he
wants.
He can get frustrated, whoever he
would like to get frustrated
with.
In the end. These are the Biden
administration policies that
have caused this human tragedy.
This crisis on our southern
border,
the darndest thing about this
one, unlike some of the others,
this one was man made.
We had this problem,
we worked on it for two and a
half years.
We had figured out a solution.
We had diplomatic arrangements
with the mexican government
with the governments in Central
America
that had created a stable
situation on our southern
border.
They walked in and they said
Trump Pompeo. Their team did
this. We will flip the
situation and undo it.
Can you see these pictures are
so hard to watch
the risk to our southern border
from fentanyl coming across
from cartels moving their way
into our nation. These are real
risks. Southern border is
important to secure american
sovereignty,
its central to secure and so
frustrating to hear the Biden
administration fighting with
each other, when, in fact, we
ought to be addressing this
crisis on our southern border.
Will you point out correctly
that Joe Biden ultimately is in
charge?
He has attempted to delegate
these responsibilities to his
vice president. Kamala Harris
lets. Take a look at this l dot a
times headline by the way
it says Republicans, arent alone
in saying Kamala Harris should
visit the southern border.
Mr secretary whats, going on
here
is this its hard not to look
at this and say theres an
attempt inside the Biden
administration to offload this
bad press on to someone,
maybe Biden shifting it to
haste?
Maybe Harris saying I dont want
it whatever it is. Everyone in
the administration is running
away from this issue,
thats sure what it looks
like it
looks like people trying to
point to the other guy and throw
him under the bus,
thats, really bad leadership.
In the end, this comes from the
top.
In the end, if you give a
directive to your vice
president, your vice president
has the obligation to execute
that was true in the Trump
administration. As the president
said MIKE, this is your mission
set.
I had every single focus to make
sure we delivered on behalf of
America and the United States
to watch a bit of a keystone cop
exercise, people pointing in one
way or the other, trying to
offload blame, fundamentally
mistakes. The problems at our
southern border,
whoever is in charge of it, needs
to get their act together.
We need to clean this this up
its possible to too
Vice President Harris said it
would take time. No,
it was right when you took over
go back to those policy and our
border will get back to where we
need it to be again:
PETE yeah from energy to Israel,
to the border man that has
been a heck of a one hundred and fifteen days.
Cant wait for the next one hundred and fifteen
Mr Secretary. Thank you so much
for being with us.
Thank you all.
Transcript generated on 2021-08-10.