"I'm very concerned that the DOJ and the FBI, whether you want to call it 'deep state' or what, are kind of off the rails," Rooney told MSNBC's Hallie Jackson. "Look at what that Strzok guy was texting. What that Ohr guy with the dossier Clinton oppo research people, and then this McCabe guy's wife takes $600,000 from Clinton related sources while she's running for state senator?"

"I think the American people have very high standards for government agencies, and to see these kinds of people, like these aforementioned examples… [which are] extremely nerve-wracking for me, and undermine my confidence that the agencies don't respect the Constitution and will put the ends before the means… We've seen a lot of ends before means culture, both out of the Obama administration, from Hillary Clinton with her $84 million of potentially illegal campaign contributions, the Clinton Foundation and Uranium One," he said. "People need a good clean government."