of the fbi because he didn t like what they did. everyone is gone, director comey, deputy director mccabe, general counsel baker is gone. he has targeted members of the intelligence community. here he is in an interview with cbs, targeting them by name. do you think any intelligence agencies, u.s. intelligence agencies, are out to get you? well, certainly in the past it s been terrible. you look at brennan, you look at clapper, you look at hayden, you look at comey, you look at mccabe, you look at strzok and his lover, lisa page. you look at other people in the fbi that have been fired that are no longer there, certainly, i can t have any confidence in the past, but i can have a lot of confidence in the present and the future, because it s getting to be now where we re putting our people in, but in the past, no. so, his people are in, and this morning, he tweeted at his people that they were passive,
at least half of them, republicans. they never attacked trump. they investigated and attacked russia for meddling in our election. it seems that we always come back to where we started, which is that he can t stand, you know, anyone messing with his mother russia. yeah, that s right. and a number of those people you named, strzok, page, career officials. a lot of them are appointeed. mccabe and hayden and brennan. when you see him talking about the intelligence communities, he s talking about not just the political appointees in the obama administration who started some of the russia investigation. he s talking about career appointees who have won job, to serve the country. and you know, he has this idea, you can see it in his remarks, that there is this deep state conspiracy. i guarantee you when he watched the coverage of yesterday s hearing, he was thinking, here are these same people and the deep state, they ve been out to get me from the beginning, they re still out to get m
that nothing bad has happened yet. but what you re describing is really almost like what steve bannon articulated which was dismantling the state. yes. they have had some success, unfortunately, in doing that, and you know, what s your sense of what would happen if we had a real crisis? so, the problem is, and i hear a lot of people say, like, if a real crisis happens, this will rally people around trump. no, they say he ll act normal. he s never acted normal before. how do you know he ll act normal? he won t because this is normal for him. this behavior that s erratic and insane and i think at this point if something terrible were to happen, i say this as somebody who s getting on the flight to go to the super bowl, which is a national security event, this country will not rally around this president. they ll blame him. they ll see the government shutdown. that s a great point. i don t want to let that sound go, because the president named brennan, clapper, hayden, comey,