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"Chris, you know you asked me not to call any of your questions today 'ridiculous,' you came really close right there," Pompeo told Wallace.

“Who is Mike Pompeo to say that Chris Wallace asks a ridiculous question when he’s just stating the truth?" Scarborough said Monday on "Morning Joe."

"What a joke," Scarborough said. "And what a disgrace for Mike Pompeo to be given all the opportunities he’s been given in life, to get the degrees, to be able to go to the best schools in the world and to use that ability, to use his talents, to use his background to make a fool of himself and lie for the president of the United States and excuse the president of the United States saying that, yes, there’s nothing wrong with accepting information from foreign hostile powers. That’s what the secretary just said.”



Citing unnamed sources, Scarborough contended that Pompeo hopes to be president himself some day after Trump leaves office.

He said Pompeo had “a combination of arrogance and ambition that would have him setting his sights on something far higher than the Senate seat from Kansas. He thinks he could be president of the United States, and who could blame him looking at who he works for and how who he works for operates.”



“I know Donald Trump, Donald Trump was a friend of mine, and Mike Pompeo, you’re no Donald Trump. Seriously, if you think you can do what Donald Trump can do, that’s a joke," Scarborough added.