it all. as former president and the reason that jimmy carter can go look at these things, it might be that one of his successors said will you please come and advise me and help me and the reason that we in the united states keep the security clearances around for these guys is so that in a moment of crisis or if there's an urgent question that somebody has institutional knowledge, you can call them back and say you worked on russia in the 1990s, do you know about that is, do you know about that? as far as monetizing goes, and that goes to rand paul's point, the monetization of security clearance in washington, d.c., is a big deal because you have a lot of defense firms and a lot of contracting firms that are providing services to the federal government that you can't work for without a security clearance. that's a whole other kettle of fish. >> bret: meanwhile, iran and what the president tweeted, what has been said in the focus on iran. take a listen. >> do not play with the lion's tail or else you will regret it. it will bring you eternal regre