the weaponization of the federal government. i do not applaud the the words he's using. i don't think it's helpful to talk about something vague like the deep state or to say things like, "we're going to talk about the weaponization of the federal government." the federal government is a vast beast. if you want to talk about taming aspects of it that have over overreached their authority, then you should be specific and you should be rigorous in how you investigate that, and i think setting the tone by calling it the weaponization of federal government is entirely political. he's a politician. he's allowed to do that. but if your purpose and i think there is serious reform needed in institutions like the fbi, certainly in some of our intelligence gathering institutions and the relationship between our large technology and social media platforms, and our intelligence gathering services at the domestic level. ifear, though, that there's a real looking back quality to the weaponization commission. it's going to be settling scores rather than fixing problems. all this is indicative of an institution that the political