BEAT CHINA SO BADLY. DAGEN: JOINING ME NOW, FORMER SECRETARY OF STATE, FOX NEWS CONTRIBUTOR, MIKE POMPEO. GREAT TO SEE YOU THIS MORNING. >> GOOD MORNING, DAGEN. GOOD TO BE WITH YOU. DAGEN: BASED ON WHAT YOU’VE HEARD FROM PRESIDENT BIDEN, HOW WEAK ARE WE IN TERMS OF FACING THE CHINA THREAT? >> DAGEN, IF YOU LISTEN TO HIS RHETORIC WE WOULD BE FINE BUT YOU AND I BOTH KNOW THIS IS LIKELY TO BE AN EMPTY PROMISE. THERE’S NO EVIDENCE IN THE RECORD THAT THIS ADMINISTRATION IS PREPARED TO TRULY CONFRONT CHINA. AND WHEN YOU HEAR LANGUAGE, LANGUAGE LIKE COMPETITOR, WE COMPETE WITH THE UNITED KINGDOM, WE COMPETE WITH BELGIUM, WE COMPETE WITH FRIENDS AND ALLIES AROUND THE WORLD. THE CHINESE COMMUNIST PARTY DECLARED WAR ON THE AMERICAN WORKER. THEY DID THIS YEARS AGO. PRESIDENT TRUMP WAS THE FIRST LEADER TO TAKE THIS ON AND OUR ADMINISTRATION WENT FULL THROTTLE TO PUSH BACK AGAINST THIS ADVERSARY. THEY WANT TO STEAL YOUR OUR JOBS THEY’VE STOLEN INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY. THEY’VE CONDUCTED ESPIONAGE IN THE UNITED STATES, IN OUR RESEARCH INSTITUTES. THIS IS A CONFLICT THE CHINESE COMMUNIST PARTY BROUGHT ON US. WE NEED TO USE AMERICA’S ENORMOUS ECONOMIC POWER TO CONFRONT IT ON EVERY FRONT. DAGEN: ONE OF THE ISSUES IS THAT WE’RE GIBBING UP THAT POW -- GIVING UP THAT POWER BY TAKING AN AXE TO OUR ENERGY SECTOR. THE CLIMATE PROMISES OUT OF THIS ADMINISTRATION, THE FIRST DAY ON THE JOB, JOE BIDEN KILLS THE HE KEYSTONE XL PIPELINE, THIS CLIMATE PROMISE ON EMISSIONS REDUCTIONS WHEN WE ARE ALREADY AS A NATION AT THE LOWEST EMISSIONS PER CAPITA SINCE 1950. CHINA CONTINUES TO BUILD COAL-FIRED POWER PLANTS, ENOUGH TO POWER THE WHOLE OF GERMANY. SO AGAIN, THIS IS NOT JUST JOBS HERE AND PROSPERITY HERE BUT IT IS ECONOMIC STRENGTH AND STRENGTH ON THE WORLD STAGE IN TERMS OF OUR ENERGY PRODUCTION AND WE’RE GIVING IT ALL AWAY AND HANDING COMMUNIST CHINA THE KEYS TO THE KINGDOM. >> DAGEN, I DESCRIBED THE UNITED STATES’ DECISION TO RE-ENTER THE PARIS CRY MATT ACCORDS AS THE MOST ENORMOUS GIFT TO GENERAL SECRETARY XI XI THAT YOU -- XI JINPING THAT YOU COULD POSSIBLY HAVE GIVEN HIM. THE CAPACITY TO DELIVER INTO EUROPE, ASIA, THE MIDDLE EAST, AMERICAN ENERGY WAS AN IMPORTANT TOOL IN OUR DIPLOMATIC KIT. IT GAVE AMERICA ENORMOUS CAPACITY TO INFLUENCE HOW AMERICA WAS SEEN IN THE WORLD AND SO TO HAND THAT BACK, TO GIVE UP THE AMERICAN ENERGY INDEPENDENCE WHEN IN FACT CHINA IS DEPENDENT FOR IMPORTATION FOR PETROLEUM PROJECTS, 70% OF THEIR ENERGY NEEDS, THIS IS AN ENORMOUS MISTAKE, WILL UNDERMINE AMERICAN SECURITY FOR PEOPLE ALL ACROSS OUR NATION. DAGEN: AS JOHN KERRY SAID, WE COULD TAKE OUR EMISSIONS TO ZERO IN THIS COUNTRY AND IT WOULDN’T MAKE A DIFFERENCE SO WHY DO IT AND SPEAKING OF JOHN KERRY, THE REPUBLICAN LAWMAKERS ARE CALLING FOR AN INVESTIGATION INTO THE CLIMATE CHANGE SPECIAL ENVOY, JOHN KERRY. HE’S ACCUSED OF SHARING ISRAELI MILITARY PLANS WITH IRAN’S FOREIGN MINISTER WHEN HE WAS SERVING AS SECRETARY OF STATE UNDER PRESIDENT OBAMA. AND MARIA ASKED FORMER PRESIDENT TRUMP ABOUT THOSE ALLEGATIONSES YESTERDAY. LISTEN TO THIS. >> IRAN WANTED TO MAKE A DEAL SO BADLY BUT JOHN KERRY WAS TELLING THEM IN MY OPINION DON’T MAKE A DEAL, WE’LL MAKE YOU A SWEETHEART DEAL IF WE WIN. AND THAT IS A VIOLATION AT THE HIGHEST LEVELS OF THE LOGAN ACT A. AND YOU KNOW, A LOT OF PEOPLE ARE CALLING FOR HIS RESIGNATION AND THEY’RE CALLING FOR A LOT MORE. I MEAN, WHAT HE DID IS TOTALLY ILLEGAL. DAGEN: SECRETARY POMPEO, I FIND IT VERY STRANGE. JOHN KERRY HAS ALWAYS BEEN COZY WITH IRAN AND HAD A WEIRD ANIMOSITY IF YOU WILL TOWARD ISRAEL BUT NOW HE’S THE CLIMATE CZAR AND SO THE LEFT -- THE WEAKER WE ARE IN TERMS OF OUR ENERGY PRODUCTION, THE MORE POWER IT HANDS TO IRAN AS WELL, A NATION THAT WANTS TO WIPE US OFF THE MAP. WHAT’S GOING ON HERE? >> IT’S AN ENORMOUS HEAD SCRATCHER, DAGEN. IT IS UNEXPLAINABLE, TO TIE UP WAS WE WERE TALKING ABOUT WITH CHINA, WITH HE RESPECT TO CHINA, THEY PUT THE GREEN KNEE NEW DEAL AHEAD OF AMERICA FIRST, IT IMPACTS NOT ONLY CHINA BUT AS YOU NOW SAID IRAN. WHAT SECRETARY KERRY DID IN ATTEMPTING TO UNDERMINE THE MAXIMUM PRESSURE CAMPAIGN, A CAMPAIGN THAT WAS WORKING, WE DENIED IRAN THE CAPACITY TO SHIP ITS CRUDE OIL. WE TOOK THEIR FOREIGN EXCHANGE RESERVES FROM 123 BILLION DOWN TO 4 BILLION, 96% REDUCTION IN THEIR FOREIGN EXCHANGE RESERVES ALL THE WHILE JOHN KERRY WAS TELLING THEM HANG ON FOR A FEW MORE PONTS, WE’LL MONTHS, WE’LL AND CUT YOU A SWEETHEART DEAL. THE DEAL WILL PRESENT ENORMOUS RISK TO ISRAELIS AND ARAB STATES AS WELCH. IT’S A MISTAKE TO GO BACK INTO THE DEAL WITH THE ISLAMIC REPUBLIC OF IRAN. THEY’RE ABOUT TO DO IT, DAGEN. DAGEN: IT LEAVES ALL OF US SHAKING OUR HEADS. SECRETARY POMPEO, I WANT TO GET YOUR REACTION TO THIS. PRESIDENT BIDEN SAID IN AN INTERVIEW WITH NBC THE U.S. ECONOMY IS RECOVERING FAST BECAUSE OF BIDEN’S INVESTMENTS. SO I THINK A RESPONSE TO THAT MIGHT BE LINING UP BY PINOCCHIOS FROM D.C. ALL THE WAIT TO BUTTE, MONTANA BECAUSE THE ECONOMY IS RECOVERING BECAUSE OF THE VACCINE AND INVESTMENTS, IT WAS ABOUT $4 TRILLION FUNNELED INTO THE ECONOMY LAST YEAR. WHAT DO YOU SAY TO THAT? >> DAGEN, THAT’S JUST SILLY AND IT’S POLITICAL AND IT’S FACTUALLY WRONG. I’M HAPPY TO SIGN UP FOR PUTTING PINOCCHIOS OUT IN KANSAS MYSELF. THIS RECOVERY IS TAKING PLACE BECAUSE UNDER PRESIDENT TRUMP WE GOT RID OF REGULATION, WE MOTIVATED PEOPLE TO INVEST, WE PUT PEOPLE BACK TO WORK. THERE WERE MORE JOBS THAN JOB SEEKERS FOR A GOOD PART OF THE TRUMP ADMINISTRATION AND THEN WARP SPEED, WARP SPEED DELIVERED A HISTORIC VACCINE, SOMETHING THAT THE WHOLE WORLD INCLUDING THE WASHINGTON POST, THE PRODUCER OF THE PINOCCHIOS SAID COULDN’T BE DONE. THAT’S WHY THE ECONOMY’S COMING BACK DOWN. YOU HEARD PRESIDENT BIDEN TALKING ABOUT ALL THE THINGS THAT ARE LIKELY TO BE VERY DESTRUCTIVE TO THE UNITED STATES ECONOMY, BUILDING A BIGGER GOVERNMENT AT THE EXPENSE OF AMERICAN WORKERS. THIS WILL BE DISASTROUS FOR THE AMERICAN ECONOMY IN THE MONTHS AND YEARS AHEAD. DAGEN: I CALLED IT THE BIDEN DELIVERED A DECLARATION OF DEPENDENCE, VAST NEW ENTITLEMENT PROGRAMS, NOT BASED ON WORK AND WITH REALLY NO -- IT’S A GOVERNMENT TAKEOVER OF EVEN MORE OF OUR ECONOMY, OUR LIVES, AND OUR LIVELIHOODS. THAT’S HOW I PHRASED IT. BUT JUST QUICKLY, HOW MUCH OF THAT, OF THESE IDEAS DO YOU THINK ACTUALLY GET THROUGH CONGRESS? >> BOY, I HOPE VERY FEW. I HOPE PEOPLE ALL ACROSS AMERICA, FRANKLY FROM BOTH POLITICAL PARTIES -- IF YOU’RE A UNION WORKER WHO WAS BUILDING THAT PIPELINE, IF YOU’RE A MANUFACTURING JOB AND YOU’RE A DEMOCRAT SITTING OUT IN ARIZONA, NEVADA OR TEXAS WHERE THE AMERICAN BORDER IS BEING TORCHED AND ALLOWING FOLKS TO COME ACROSS IN A WAY THAT WILL DEPRESS WAGES, WE’VE SEEN THIS BEFORE. WE SAW IT IN THE OBAMA ADMINISTRATION. THE AMERICAN PEOPLE RESPONDED. I AM CONFIDENT THAT THEY’LL RESPOND AGAIN AND DEMAND WE DON’T GO TO SOMETHING THAT LOOKS LIKE A EUROPEAN WELFARE STATE. DAGEN: SECRETARY OF STATE MIKE
