never seen a former cia director make. clapper. as a matter of fact, they re paid contributors to liberal news outlets. you re a man of history, man of the military, you served in congress. you ever see anything like this? no, it s appalling. only place you would find it is a banana republic or some other third world type of country. you would never thought our democracy and our democratic fundamentals will be threatened like this here in the united states of america. let me put something else to rest. i had a ts-sci clearance, that s the top. the highest? the highest. it s the sensitive compartmented information. when i retire, my clearance was gone. so i don t understand how people who no longer have a need to know are supposedly still hanging onto clearances. just because you are a
schmucka telli, that is everybody below. life is bad for schmuckatelli. it does not matter that you had an e-mail server, you get classified information, something that anyone in the united states military, anyone that has security clearance, they re done, they re gone. they re going to prison for that, but somehow people can sit around and say, well, it wasn t that she was criminally negligent, she was a little careless, and they would come to find out the same person in charge of one investigation is in charge of another investigation who is also the person with the bias e-mails out there and we re told it s no big deal. it is a big deal. and that is what is really upsetting me about what we see happening, but i think that the election of donald trump was really, a really big middle finger to the elites in this country, and if they re not
careful, there are going to be several more fingers they re given in the midterm elections and also in the 2020 election. mark: do you think there s still enough americans that think this way? absolutely there are. you know, folks try to discount the quote, unquote flyover country, but those folks stood up. think about what happened in pennsylvania. for so long, pennsylvania as a statewide politics was based upon whatever happened in pittsburgh, whatever happened in philadelphia. now all of a sudden everything that s in between which is like sec football country, they stood up and said no, we don t want to be dictated by the people in philadelphia and pittsburgh. mark: it was incredible to watch the media when florida came in, when pennsylvania came in, ohio comes in, north carolina comes in. wisconsin. mark: and you see wisconsin, you go holy mackerel and they were so dejected, and i think they decided there and then this cannot stand. this cannot stand and this is how we re goi
commentator with some other news outlet, that doesn t guarantee to you have a clearance. a clearance for the united states of america is a privilege, not a right. and i think that is the number one thing that is happening in our government. too many people believe they have a right to do things when serving this country is a privilege and should be an honor. when i think about so many of the things that happened during the obama administration, you know, i ve been in combat. i ve been in a fire fight, the longest fire fight i was in was maybe three to five minutes, but seemed forever. imagine those individuals that were abandoned by the obama administration for 13 hours. mark: in benghazi? in benghazi. and think about the fact that you had the national security adviser stand on the stage, no, she wasn t the national security adviser, she was ambassador to the u.n., susan rice, stand on the stage, on the platform, and lie about it five times. this is what is happening in
is how we re going to leverage, weaponize the federal government and the quote, unquote deep state which does exist, the bureaucrat administrative state against the will of the american people. mark: and reagan used to call it the iron triangle. the media, the bureaucracy, the other one, maybe the democrat party. when we come back, i want to ask you what concerns you the most about the future of the country? because i know you think about these things all the time and you talk about them, too. have we reached a point with the democrat party and the government are almost one and the same? maybe it s the media? the democrat party and the government? and how do we deal with that? when we return. experience the versatility of utility at the lexus golden opportunity sales event. lease the 2018 rx 350 and rx 350 awd for these terms. experience amazing at your lexus dealer.