Before you go, we're about to talk about Trump's retribution campaign.

We're seeing at the FBI and the Justice Department.

You're obviously on his enemies list, at least Cash Patel's enemies list.

Are you worried that they're going to come after you in some way?

I mean, he's hinted at it before.

Well, I think he's already come after me and several others in withdrawing the protection

that we had from the Iranians for the attack on Qasem Soleimani.

So I think, and I said in the new forward of the paperback edition of my book, I think

it is a retribution presidency.

Aid for TV attempt at an authoritarian takeover just so happens to be consuming the news

cycle after news cycle.

But here's the thing.

It is also very real and exactly what it looks like.

It's not just a show or a distraction.

It's the real thing.

They are sending troops into the streets.

They are occupying the Capitol.

They have a secret police force that is

scooping people up, that is demanding people's ID. They have an enemy's list. They have the state

security apparatus targeting political opponents. In fact, we're being told, the FBI search

on John Bolton's home and office was part of a, quote, national security investigation in search

of classified records, some more familiar with the matter confirmed to NBC News.

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