that's all for tonight, thank you so much tomi and jason. mark levin is up, please do join us again next sunday when "the next revolution" will be televised. . mark: hello, america, i'm mark levin. this is "life, liberty & levin." and i'm here with an old friend of mine. lieutenant colonel allen west. >> good to be with you, mark, i'm fantastic. thanks for having me. mark: lot of people know who you are. you retired u.s. army lieutenant colonel, former member of the house of representatives. you were born in atlanta, georgia. same neighborhood as martin luther king. >> actually our neighborhood. the old fourth ward neighbor vin: and you hold a ba from the university of tennessee.

two masters degrees, kansas state university, and general command staff officers college, now your father was in the military? >> yes, my father was a corporal during world war ii. mark: older brother? >> lance corporal in the marine corps in vietnam. mark: and your nephew? >> just got back from third deployment in the middle east, and stationed at oklahoma where 35 years ago i showed up as a brand-new second lieutenant. mark: and you served in iraq? >> desert storm and then in iraq and went to afghanistan for 2 1/2 years as a civilian military adviser. mark: and some time in kuwait. >> yes. mark: kuwait, iraq, afghanistan. >> yeah. mark: your family is a military family. when did that happen? why? >> well, i think, when my dad sat down and talked to me early on, i was 15. he challenged me to be the first officer in our family, and one of the things of that

generation that my dad was brought up in, they want to prove themselves that they were loyal patriotic americans, and when i think about my dad and the sacrifices that he made to go and serve in uniform for a country that did not afford him all the rights and privileges that it did to others, and i will never forget when my dad said there is no greater honor than to wear the uniform of the united states of america. that's why i took my oath i took 31 july 1982 so seriously as i do today. >> were you a good kid before you went into the military? >> no, you know. my granddad nicknamed me a muchlt i was stubborn, hardheaded. i write about it in the book, my parents from the first grade through the ninth grade i went to private catholic school, and i toll them i want to go to the public school down the street. they didn't want to listen and everything, i ran away from home. mark: really? >> yeah.

as a matter of fact, it was my first well-planned operation. i studied my dad and my mom sleep habits and everything like that. i figured out the greyhound bus schedule. i wrote about it in my book, and i knew that my mom's sister, aunt sally, lived in the d.c. area, and i snuck over to the greyhound bus station in atlanta and caught a ride up in washington, d.c. but i left them a note. they knew everything that was going on and allowed me to transfer to a public high school, which really set me on the course to be where i am today. i joined r.o.t.c., i ended up becoming the cadet battalion commander which launched me to go to r.o.t.c. in the university of tennessee. it was lieutenant colonel heredia. no, lieutenant colonel pagones. master heredia, and first classman michael. all three were korea or vietnam, a couple were both.

they saw something in me that i did not know was in me as well, but it was so important because that structure, that discipline i had in home, they made sure i continued down that path in high school. mark: a lot of young men who have kids and so forth, when they get into the military, changes them. >> absolutely it does. mark: so it's really an important experience. my father was one of them, too. you met my father. >> yes. mark: world war ii veteran. and to make a long story short, eventually you decided to get into politics. when did you decide to get into politics, and what drove to you do that? >> you know, most of the folks in the military don't care for politicians, if you are an officer and got the assignment to be an escort for a member of congress or whatever, probably because you pissed off commanding officer, that's not something we thought as a grand thing to do, but it was so interesting, i came back after the 2006 midterm elections that

the republicans had lost, and a local woman by the name of donna wanted to sit down and talk to me and spoke to me about running for office. my mind-set was hey, look, i'm here for a couple of weeks, i've got to go back to afghanistan, i'm in kandahar, working with the afghan army, taliban all around us and said something that resonated, mark. she said just because you're out of uniform. just because you've retired from the military doesn't mean that your oath of service is ending. and that struck me very hard, because the oath that we take, the oath that my father took, the oath my older brother took, the oath that my nephew took was to support and defend the united states of america against all enemies foreign and domestic and bear truth and allegiance to the same. if you truly believe in that, she was right. i embarked on being a united states congressman, not wanting to seek fame or fortune or a career in politics, but to continue my service to this

country. mark: when did you realize you were a conservative? were you always a conservative? >> well, this is the thing, and my parents were registered democrats. i grew up in john lewis' congressional district, which was very interesting when i presented that to him, and i was sworn in with the congressional black caucus. my parents raised me with conservative values. they believed in faith, family and individual responsibility, good quality education and service to the country. i think if we start to have conversations in america not about republican or democrat, and i really think the two-party system is falling apart, if we start to talk to people on the principles and values about what makes this country so great, what enables a kid from the inner city of atlanta, georgia to be sitting here with such an incredible scholar like yourself on fox news on a sunday night? that's the american dream. that's what we fight for and what our founding fathers fought for.

it is about an equality of opportunity instead of equality of outcomes. and that's what makes us conservatives. we believe this is a great land of opportunity, and we just believe, as jefferson wrote about life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness, not someone trying to guarantee your happiness. mark: why do you think so few politicians talk about these values and principles that attracted you, attracted me and attract so many people, and may cause a lightbulb to go off and say wait a minute, i agree with that guy rather than that guy. >> you said the operative word, you said politician. politicians say what they think people want to hear. we need to have more statesmen, because a statesmen is a person that's going to tell you what you need to hear, and there are a lot of people in washington, d.c., they're not comfortable with that. they're not comfortable with telling the american people if we don't do something about the mandatory spending side of our budget, it doesn't matter how much taxes you raise. this is going to overtake our budget and we're going to be in

perpetual debt and deficit. that's not the proper thing to say, medicare, medicaid and social security reform needs to be improved, a politician is a person that is not able to look at themselves in the mirror at the end of the day. mark: is the republican party need to change? can it change? it will change? >> i think the republican party has to change. the republican party should not be the party passing $1.3 trillion omnibus spending bills. the republican party should not be the party that is not reducing the size and scope of the federal government. the republican party should not be the party that when we look at our personal income tax rates, the president said initially he wanted to go down to three. the house of representatives said four, the senate seven. we didn't see massive change. mark: on the individual side. >> on the individual side. on the corporate side, yes, 35 to 21% and see what has

happened with our economic growth, gdp numbers and what have you. but the important thing is that the republican party should be standing up for individual economic empower. because we know what the progressive socialist left believes in, they believe in economic enslavement and the dependence of society. mark: is the problem the republican leadership, or the problem that the republican party, they've had, by my calculation, really two solid conservatives in the last century. coolidge and reagan. >> yes. mark: and we'll see what history writes about trump. i think he's done a darn good job. >> absolutely. mark: but they seem to still lurch in the progressive direction because you know the progressive movement started not, it was pushed within the republican party the beginning of the last century. >> theodore roosevelt. mark: yeah. and seem to lapse into that constantly. >> yes, they do. and the important thing for us to see today and the american political atmosphere is that

this is all about the relationship between the individual and government and the system of governance. i think have you three different philosophies, progressive socialism which is what we see the bernie sanders, elizabeth warren and what have you. can you also be a progressive and want to see a bigger impact and reach of government than you want to see with constitutional conservatism, which is what our founding fathers intended us to be, and understand that the most important thing in the united states of america is individual sovereignty. and there are people in washington, d.c. that just don't want to see that back over to the american people because it scares them. that is what the whole tea party movement was about. it was not a party movement. it was a philosophical movement that talked about the relationship of the individual to the government, and it was really about fiscal issues and that's kind of like how this country got started. you know, the tyranny of taxation and the other things we saw from the british.

so i think that the republican party has kind of tried to, you know, walk an incredible balancing act, but they tend to teeter more so to washington, d.c. and the power that's inside this beltway. mark: so you run for congress the first time and you lose. >> yep. mark: in a very tough district. >> yep. mark: you run the second time and you win, you're a tea party favorite. your principles you espouse them now and back then, same beliefs, same values. you run for re-election and you lose by 2100 votes or something in what was, in my view, very suspicious election. you think you might run again? >> you know, if you were to tell you that every day i'm not approached about that, and there's something within you, you will always answer the call of service. i moved to texas four years ago, and after this election

cycle, you know, angela and i and the daughters aubrey and austyn. mark: your beautiful wife. >> who is much smarter than i am, ph.d. and everything, we're going to sit down and evaluate this because i think it's important we have statesmen, it's important that we have folks that understand servant leadership. and citizen legislators, that's what we have to restore and have to have people with courage of convictions. mark: i happen to know you're a voracious reader. you and i when i came to see you in florida a few years back, we were talking about aristotle and cicero. you said yeah. >> yeah. mark: you read all my books, not that that's the test. you read a lot did. that start in the military? before the military? recently? >> that's one of the things the military inculcated into me. you know, we used to have a reading list as new second lieutenants and one of the books on the reading list was

irwin ramos book attacks and that was about the exploits of him as an infantry lieutenant and infantry captain in romania, and the important thing is that was the book that patton read about rahmo. >> i read your book. >> that was important, after that, it passed. i think if you try to present yourself as a leader, one of the important c's is competence. you should not be able to stand up and back up what you believe in without being able to say here is where it relates throughout history. and that, i think, is what the military does train to you do, because when you're in a battle or whatever, you don't have time to pull out the manual and whatever, but it has to be engrained within you, folks are looking for the cool, steady hand when bullets are

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those thing. those are facts, if you want to compare it to president obama did. he's blowing it out of the water. when you look at what's happened with foreign policy, we are regarded and respected. not having offmic flexibility moments, we're not leading from behind, not drawing false red lines. when you look at national security and the rebuilding of our military capability and capacity, when was the last time you heard a headline about isis. when was the last time you had a domestic terrorist attack in the united states of america? knock on wood. but remember december of 2009, you know, we had ford hood, and that was ford hood that barack obama said was workplace violence. i don't think we have a president that has an issue saying who the enemy is. we're not going to be sending iran pallets of cash, and that has the mullahs over there upset. and i think he is putting the right type of pressure on russia and china, so there is nothing. mark: you are very pleased.

>> i'm ecstatic. mark: let me ask you this: the democrats who not only put up with eight years of obama but defended him every step of the way. >> of course. >> the iran deal, which was an outrageous deal. he basically turned the other cheek when it came to russia, crimea and so forth and the invasion of ukraine. he did nothing about the chinese ripping us off on our technology. >> nothing. mark: he tells trump on the way out, watch north korea, they're a problem. look all around the world and this president has inherited all these issues. >> yes. mark: did you think we would have a president finally who would say, you know what? jerusalem is the capital of israel and we're moving our embassy there? all of them campaigned on it, he did it. same with the iran deal, he tried it, he said no, we're going to have to kill that. he has shown to me, you tell me, you brought up statesmanship. statesmanship isn't just speeches, as you said. it's actions. >> actions. mark: what do you say?

>> there's no doubt about it. i mean barack obama was this perfect image, great speech giver on a teleprompter. but there was no there there, it was a facade. it was like a hollywood set. you have the face and there's nothing behind it. we have substance right now, and you have a president that is putting -- he's really putting people on notice. look at what is happening with the ukraine. barack obama sent them mres and socks, donald trump is sending weapons. the people in latvia, estonia and lithuania, they were concerned being overrun by vladimir putin and russia. we have joint military operations going on there. when was the last time you heard about a russian naval flight of a vessel? when is the last time you heard about sailors on their knees at gunpoint. not going to happen anymore. what is going on in the united states and what is driving the progressive socialist left into

this apoplectic meltdown, they are being exposed who they are, their weakness, their dislike of the face of the america. mark, every day you turn on the media, their hair is on fire. hair is on fire and they're focused. i could care less about stormy daniels. the most important thing is people that are out there are able to work, take care of families, send kids to college. take a summer vacation. that was not possible during the years of barack obama. you know one to maybe not even 2% gdp growth, that was supposed to be the new normal. president has blown through that in 18 months. mark: why does the media hate him so much? >> because we won, the grand strategy of the left is they have the first black president, then they were going to have the first female president, then probably the first hispanic president, and then probably another identity politics president. looking at 32 years of

ideological domination of the united states of america, which includes the supreme court, they're going to be ruling, not governing this constitutional republic. donald trump came in from outside, and not just the liberal progressive media, have you people like george well, max booth, bill kristol, all of the folks so comfortable with inside the beltway, it got upset by a person that came in from the outside. he did not act as they scripted things to do, to be, and now he's producing results, and they're not relevant anymore. so donald trump has completely exposed the left to the point that now there's no doubt that they're socialists. they're telling us they're socialists. mark: what do you make of that? what do you make of the fact that bernie sanders, 76 years old, an old time, we used to call red socialist. >> yeah. mark: from vermont. really quite an eccentric figure. gets 45% of the democrat party vote in the primary.

you have a 28-year-old who has difficulty really explaining her policies but they've got the usual talking point. she's pushed out there by the media as the new movement within the democrat party. you now have people who want to run for the democrat nomination trying to outleft wing each other. >> absolutely. mark: is that a prescriptions for disaster for the country or disaster for the democrats? >> disaster for a prescription for the democrat party, that's why you see the #walk away that's out there because america is not about wealth redistribution. america is not about nationalizing economic production, and america is not about expanding the welfare state, which is what obama did with more people being in poverty. more people being on food stamps. america is not about social egalitarianism. what you see the democrat party standing up for is the culture of the participation trophy. everybody is going to get something for doing nothing, someone has to pay into this to

have the free health care and have the free college education. remember the 2008 meltdown that we saw happen? you trace that back 30 years prior to 1978 with jimmy carter and community reinvestment act. when he had this misconceived notion of benevolence that everyone has a right to own a home. how did that work out? and you look at the 30 years all the different things that happened along the way, the mortgage-backed securities how they were sold around. the rise of fannie and freddie. mark: crashed the banks. >> crashed the banks. that's what happens when you have the idiots, i have to be honest, they are idiots, history shows it never works. they say the incredible four-letter word, free. that's why it's so important that we get into our system of education and restore it to be a system of education and not a system of indoctrination. that's where the left is churning out the next

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yosemite national park. the carr fire near redding, california, killing a sixth person. this blaze has consumed more than 500 buildings but officials are feeling optimistic and starting to gain ground on the fire. congressman john lewis released from the hospital today with a clean bill of health. the georgia democrat was hospitalized yesterday for undisclosed reasons staying overnight for observation. the civil rights icon who marched with dr. martin luther king, jr. in selma, alabama has represented georgia since 1987. i'm lauren green. now back to "life, liberty & levin." . mark: allen west. china. if we're not careful, in 50 years, 100 years, china will be the most powerful superpower on the face of the earth, won't it? >> absolutely will. and what china did is they sat

back and watched the collapse of the soviet union and learned a very important lesson. the collapse of the soviet union did not come militarily. our military capability, capacity and our deterrence was able to bring about that collapse. but the soviet union collapsed economically. and so the chinese understood that we still want to be communists but there's something about this capitalism thing, there's something about the free market thing that we can use and we can become like a tick. we can insert ourselves into the west and we can suck the blood out of them and get fat to the point where they can't take us out. if they try to take us out, they're going to get lyme disease and die. that's where we are. when china got in with most favorite nation status and entered into the trade environment of the west, they understood they could then leverage who they are and, you know, supply us with the cheap goods and we will become wedded to that. one of the critical things we fought against in south florida

is the chinese dry wall. and so what we have seen is that we stopped our production, we stopped our manufacturing, we were so happy to try to have these relations with china, but they could not be trusted and you know about the theft of our intellectual property and the forced technology transfers to the point now, look at what they're doing in the south china sea. south china sea where they have built the man-made islands and fortified them with military weaponry, that's 40 to 45% of the commerce, and ask yourself from a historical perspective, when is the last time we saw an asian nation occupy islands in the pacific and put military weaponry on there to include airfields. that's what we have to learn. so these guys are sitting back saying we can beat the americans, they are not in it for the long haul. mark: can they? >> no, i think president trump has exposed them, but the thing they are hoping for is that there will be a change in

leadership because something about america, you know, we keep doing this drastic swing of the pendulum. we have to have a continuum. you talked about ronald reagan early on, you talked about calvin coolidge. if you don't have people that follow up behind those presidential administrations to continue those principles and those perspectives and those policies, then you do swing the opposite direction, and at some point in time, the american ship of state has to have the steady state. mark: here's what i've not understood. follow up on your point here. china, russia, too. this argument, this paradigm that the russians wanted trump to win, when the russians were getting everything they could from hillary clinton. why would the russians want donald trump to win? look at what he's doing now? >> makes no sense whatsoever because under obama they got rid of the missile defense

program with pope. with obama the chemical weapons being removed from syria. absolutely not. they did not want to have someone that would be tough or them. they really didn't know about president trump because he's never been in politics. mark: but they knew about hillary. >> they knew about hillary. without a doubt, you want to continue with the reset button, the cute little plastic toy. when you look at what president trump has done, all of these people on the yellow brook road headed to oz, north korea, iran, russia, china, islamic jihadists. now all of a sudden, they're like who is this guy? much the same with ronald reagan when he came in and had a fear of peace through strength because weakness is enticing to despots and dictators. mark: what do you make of this relentless and ongoing commentary on the left against the president, his meeting with

putin, shouldn't have met with putin. the press conference was a disaster and must have something on him. >> well, they have to come up with the conspiracy theories and distractions because in truth, if you saw secretary pompeo's testimony this past week. mark: incredible, right? >> absolutely incredible. he embarrassed some of the senators which shows they don't have the competence, they don't know the gravity of the situations going on. far and above, our position is a position of strength, and i think that what you're going to start seeing with the trump administration is a shift from the old europe, western europe and more so focused towards eastern europe, i call that the new europe, the poland, the baltic, the ukraine, some of the others from the soviet satellites, we want better relations with the united states. we want trade relations, we'll take the oil and natural gas,

never mind what angela merkel and germany is doing. that will help to undermine russia's economy even more. mark: don't forget, most week nights you can watch me on levin tv, join us at crtv.com, we'd love to have you. or call 844-levin tv. 844-levin tv. we'll be right back. ♪ ♪ keep it comin' love.

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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

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

the united states of america. people are losing confidence in the federal government. when you are just a ma and pa constitutional conservative grassroots organization, and the power of a federal government agency is unleashed on you, see, we have a cancer that is growing in washington, d.c., and i don't think that the people that are there in the house and the senate, i don't think they understand. i don't think the people in the federal government, they don't get it. they don't realize that when they hear people talk about disarming law-abiding legal gun owners in america but want to abolish i.c.e., want to allow criminal illegal immigrants, ms-13 gang members to run free in the sanctuaries they set up? this is a cancer that has to be stomped out in the united states of america. mark: do you think we've gone too far in terms of the fisa court, the secrecy i understand, there is no balance in there. do you think we've gone too far in the power of some of the

intelligence agencies and they need more checks and balances when it comes to senior levels of the fbi? no one is talking about it. >> you need to have that. as a matter of fact, when i was in congress and the renewal of the patriot act for five years came up, i didn't vote for it because that is too much power that you have in one person's hand. now president bush may have had all the great intentions, but when it got into the hands of someone else, it was bad intentions. i don't want to see an east german type of stassi situation where we have secret courts and judges, people that can get warrantless surveillance against american citizens, that's not who we are as the american people. and a lot of times folks say we have to do this in order to fight terrorism. just fight terrorism. just understand who the enemy is but don't start punishing americans and don't create the levels of secrecy. there is an incredible chasm between washington, d.c. and the american people. incredible amount of distrust

and i don't think the people that are over there, you know, working monday through thursday or tuesday through friday that they get. mark: yet there's no talk about addressing the institutions. we have one party that is a special pleader for everything that's taken place, and they disrupt congressional hearings and endorse efforts that are against the president of the united states, they accept no responsibility for the espionage act and hillary clinton's actions and to me it was crystalized in james comey. they wanted comey out, despised comey, accused him of costing the election, and the minute donald trump fired him, they flipped that he was firing this angelic man that served the country so beautifully. >> never let a good crime go to waste, when you talk about what hillary clinton did, if i had done one-tenth of what hillary clinton did while i was an officer in the united states military, i would not be

sitting with you right now. you would be in a brown jumpsuit in fort leavenworth. why is it there are different levels of justice? different levels of law. different rules for the people in washington, d.c. >> let's pursue that as soon as we come back. we'll be right back. ♪

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. mark: unequal justice, based on party, based on ideology? >> i think it is based upon who are the elites and who are the rest of the schmucks, i think there is academic elitism, political media, cultural, entertainment, and that transcends the r&d thing, and i see a kind of a soviet-style pilot bureau that is formed in the united states of america and that's repulsive to me, because the greatness of america is that justice should be blind and justice should be equally applied to everyone no matter what your position. mark: what is the soviet pollitt burro. >> there is a different -- they're protected. we used to call them joe

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 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.

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>> two things. first of all, to restore the system of education and eradicate this indoctrination that we have in our schools. even in the elementary level. i often tell people the most elected position in united states of america is the school board. we need to have people who go out there and work at the school board. mark: it's a hard job. i was a school board member. >> that's your example. what i see is the grand strate strategy, they're going to read states and taking over the major population centers and in texas you look at the major cities, dallas, san antonio, austin, houston, el paso all controlled by the left. that is their playbook. you'll get tennessee and georgia. we got to turn that background because that is where you see the biggest failure of the policies. mark: do you think it's in part of immigration? you and i know that those are future republicans, cross

country -- democrats would fight the stupid do you think this is a big picture thing they're involved in? >> absolutely. that's why you hear abolish ice and get rid of the borders. they want to get more people dependent upon them and that's their electoral base. you want to see folks able to go out and work because you don't need them giving you stuff. mark: next election, midterms, republicans or democrats? >> republicans because democrats are not offering anything to the mac and people. mark: will it be close? >> i think that if you go on a scale of zero-ten republicans will pull and eight. mark: do you think they will hold their seats or have a small minority? >> the majority in the house will shrink but i think you'll see an expansion of the republican authority in the senate. mark: much change in the republican leadership? i personally don't think so. >> it depends on who the new speaker of the house will be. mark: who might that be? >> i think it will end up being

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