i've been told that they tried to fire gina haspel, cia director, and install kash patel. gina, a very savvy operator and an incredible public serve, it already had what i had a suicide pact in place. we're basically in the entire intelligence community would walk with her that option. officially, like, essentially, decapitating the entire intelligence community. so, they were able to stop that. but allegedly, for about 14 minutes, cash was actually the cia director. i don't need to tell this to congressman schiff. that man has no business being anywhere near intelligence or anything else. so, all that is to say, it was a scary period, and i'm glad i wasn't there for a lot of that. but i think you guys have a lot of threads you should pull. >> so, luke, correct me if i'm wrong but i believe cash patel is now immunized with some limited immunity. a witness, as a witness in the investigation into this handling of classified documents a mar-a-lago. he was, for 14 minutes the country cia director. >> right, you're correct about his role, also in the mar-a-lago case. there is a

i have beenrt told that they trd to fire gina haspel, the cia director and install kash patel. but gina, who is a very savvy operator and an incredible public servant, already had what i call a suicide pact in place. where basically the entire intelligence community would walk with her, if that happened. officially. like, or essentially, like decapitating the entire intelligencede community. so they were able to stop it. but allegedly, for about 14 minutes, kash was actually the cia director. and i don't need to tell this to congressman schiff but that man has no business being anywhere near intelligence or anything else.or so all that is to say it was a scary period, and i'm glad i wasn'tri there for a lot of it, but i think you guys have a lot of threads you should pull. so luke, correct me if i'm wrong, but i believe kash patel is now an immunized, limited immunity, as a witness, in the investigation into the mishandling of classified documentsmi at mar-a-lago. he was, for 14 minutes, the country's ciath director. >> right, you're correct about his role, also in the mar-a-lag

if gina has pell -- haspell had been still in office, poleland would have sold the migs and been happy, ukraine would have got then migs and been happy but we had the red line with the migs and the hymars. on some of the longer range platforms, we do have to exercise some prudence there. i don't disagree with jake and tony and the president on -- and lloyd austin and how they're dealing with those systems. >> we could probably spend the whole hour talking about this but i want to move on to a few more topics. you talked about xi jinping watch what's happening in ukraine but so far they say there's no evidence that china is move nong taiwan, at least to the point that an attack seems immeant. -- imminent. where do you classify the threat level and why do you think -- what do you think can be done in order to send that message to xi jinping and china in general that any moves would be unwise? >> that's the $64,000 question. it's the most important question we're looking at internationally right now. this is how world war iii starts, in the taiwan straits. phil davidson, a former combatan