Cruz's warning denounced as incitement Wednesday; four days later, the same warning becomes "one rational choice."

…(cont) Is there an earlier page than that one? There is. September twenty-eighth: a column in the Washington Examiner, a writer named Joe Concha, saying El-Sayed will "do anything and say anything to get elected." Same notebook, same month, same name circled twice more before the Intelligence Committee line even gets written down.

Then November first. Next page. Does a column in the New York Post ask whether Michigan wants to elect a senator "who couldn't obtain a security clearance to work with classified documents"? It does, and it calls beating him the state's "one rational choice." I underlined one word in that sentence and put a star by it. Clearance.

Does Bernie Sanders show up on the same page, the same date? I checked the date twice, because it's the same one on the column two lines above it. November first, both of them.

I went out to the garage after I copied that down. The fan belt's been slipping and I had the tape measure out anyway, checking whether the roof rack still clears the door now that the tires are low on air. Seven and a half inches. Nobody made me fill out a form for that number. Nobody certified me to go measure it. I held the tape up, read it, and wrote it on the inside of a cereal box because the notebook was still in the house.

Oh — one more thing, before this goes back in the glovebox. Did anybody, anywhere in this notebook, answer the Post's question with an actual process — a date El-Sayed applied, an office he was turned down by? I went looking. I couldn't find that page. Maybe it's in with the dog. I don't know what the people using the word mean by it. I just know where I wrote it down, four days after somebody called the same subject incitement. Clearance.