Matt Gaetz

From my standpoint, that would properly venue

a RICO charge against the major players in the deep state in the Southern District of Florida rather than in Washington, D.C., where they have an administrative and judicial advantage.

But it got reinvigorated after.

Of course it did.

All of that got dispensed with.

Then Trump won, which people weren't expecting, and Obama on December 9th calls in Clapper, Brennan, Comey, and says, you guys have got to go out and reignite this Russia thing.

And in that effort, you see all of this offense against George Papadopoulos.

Oh, I remember.

You see the activation of foreign intelligence networks to try to create some predicate for spying on the Trump campaign.

And where does that leave us?

You know, it's like there was a real discussion in the 90s going on about extending NATO membership to Russia, which is what we should have done.

What do you mean?

said, I want to join NATO.

Imagine where we would be right now if the United States and Russia had created peace and a security infrastructure around Europe, I think appropriately positioned NATO as an alliance against the excesses of Sino expansion.

It would be a safer world, it would be a more prosperous world.

But so many aligned interests with NATO when it comes to countering extremism, having strong borders, all of the things that— Trade, right?

Trade.

We in Congress had people that were doing various roles within the D.C.

Police Department come and say we want to be whistleblowers and we want to talk about the way in which this investigation was truncated and we didn't get to really –

No, the FBI took over.