Quote, near peer get tore unparalleled priority now you were the director of national intelligence. You were banging the pots and pans you were trying to tell american people that democrats in congress that we have a huge issue a huge problem on our hands with communist china. You think they realize it now? well mark i think they realized it all of last year as you said i spent much of the past year saying that china is our greatest national security threat by far. Militarily, economically, technologically, the china and china alone is intending to sub plant the united states. But i as you recall received a lot of pushback on that because it wasn t the political narrative that the left wanted. They wanted russia to be the bad guy and i was accused of of trying to create a false e e i with russia i wrote an oped saying china is number one national security threat, and as you correctly point the now that the election is over, i think the intelligence can t be ignored what you saw was a 2
That are that are tiff they want to push. mark: when we come back i want to ask you about response of veinings like kalib but i look at the statute and 42 hours, 48 hours they charged her with a crime that doesn t fit the language doesn t even fit what took place. and my concern here now is we have prosecuted elected local prosecutors in a case like this is bringing a charge to try to silence rioters you re not going to silence rioters. reminds me of john adams way back when in the boston massacre. when thee red coats shot at some of the columnists killing one. they couldn t find a lawyer to represent them and he knocked on john adams door and said i ll do that for several years after that and by the way captain of the red coats as you know is found innocent. john adams had off it time politically. but then eventually people said you know what, he was right.