of b.s. news mike thanks as always thanks. donald trump is considering revoking the security clearance of several obama era intelligence officers the white house press secretary said he had politicized and in some cases monetize their access to sensitive information and made base this plane's about the president reporters were quick to question the implications of the threat big speech doesn't like you want to punish them for you know i think you are creating your own story there is the president doing exactly what you just said the president doesn't want all these people doing the list size in matters of national security by going after his political enemies people are politicizing agencies and departments that are specifically meant to not be political and not meant to be monetized off of security plans. well six people were named in total including former heads of the cia f.b.i. and n.s.a.

all of them have been critical of the trumpet ministrations policies and all were obama officials two of them no longer have clearance but those being targeted say it is irrelevant whether or not they are but anyway the security clearance has nothing to do with how i or any of us feel about the president i don't get briefings i don't have access to any classified information it's more of a courtesy i don't go back for classified briefings won't have any effect on what i say all right. caleb maupin now looks at whether the move is a necessity or trump simply seeking to clamp down on powerful figures that oppose the former heads of u.s. intelligence agencies are now dabbling in politics the fired f.b.i. director james comey just advised the democrats to steer clear of socialism. democrats please please don't lose your minds and rush to the socialist left this

president and his republican party accounts going to do exactly that now this comes just after his recent tweet in which he said that the only way to support american values was to go democrat. all who believe in this country's values must vote for democrats this fall policy differences don't matter right now history has its eyes on us now james komi fits in with a big cast of characters these are former intelligence officers were now telling us what we should be thinking about politics i know we're not nazi germany all right but there is a commonality there and a fear on my part that we have standards we have to live up to having some understanding of the levers of power that or available to the president if. he chooses to there to resign from. those. downright scary

and disturbing there's a big question first of all in terms of those who are on mr trump's team whether they can continue to serve in good conscience an individual who basically portrayed his nation now it hasn't always been like this former cia top boss george tenet became a private investment banker he left the public eye after leaving office and a former f.b.i. director louis freeh he launched a private consulting firm here's why it's kind of a big deal it turns out that former intelligence officials usually keep their security clearance. he's john brennan monetizing his security clearance is john brown and making millions of dollars they volunteered secrets to the mainstream media with his attacks on donald trump so even after leaving office they've still got power and connections that they could use to further their agenda on the intelligence. so whatever happened to

a quiet retirement now in the air pockets around the new forces of emerging former top spies were turning to political activism. marty new york well the editor of the fence and foreign affairs magazine gregory copley in any other country such behavior would be considered treasonous but what we've seen lately and the last two years is. the situation with people like director of national intelligence clapper and the like brennan. and so on making extremely comments designed deliberately to undermine the current u.s. government now who says this would be treasonable the most governments around the world there are profound cases of damage to the united states' image to the united

states' ability to. you know national security sense from what we've seen from this range of. comedy in the last eighteen months to two years. the european union has given more details about how it plans to help member states deal with the influx of migrants to the continent and attempts to quell the mounting discord over the crisis here short of. the e.u. it suggesting could pay up to six thousand. migrant to host them in secure migrant centers here in europe the e.u. as we know has been searching for a political solution for some time now to deal with the tens of thousands of migrants that have been coming across the mediterranean european shores for the last three years already in two thousand and eighteen we've seen around eighteen thousand people rifle over the mets to see in two thousand and seventeen that was a hundred and twenty thousand people and in two thousand and sixteen it was even

more around one hundred eighty one thousand people making that crossing and landing in europe and as we know that many countries on the mediterranean have dealt with that and so the e.u. has been looking for this political solution to try to ease some of the tensions within the block particularly by italy who recently talked about the fact that it would close its ports to my quince. but i want to put an end to this human trafficking which puts thousands of lives at risk in the same way that we raise the issue for the aquarius. are the vessels that follow. but other countries i'm hearing it from but instead of accepting the report of the migrants are objects of the same want as north korea to protect the external borders of. one of them we have had a little bit of a row back from italy in the last few days it's now said that while this new idea is on the table and it's being thrashed out it will allow us to talk for the next

five weeks or so and those centers the idea would be to be able to process more efficient the asylum claims that those who reach european song from mediterranean countries well the european commission white paper which is suggested this idea says it will come out of the european budget now as we know the european budget is paid as a percentage of g.d.p. by the members of the european union so large a countries with large g.d.p.'s pay more such as germany for example that might cause some anger and annoyance in germany where we know that there has been some resistance to the tens of thousands of migrants who've come into the country over the last three years. he's facing existential challenges if we do establish an effective border patrol in germany and europe we will experience a meltdown in europe and germany and i don't want that. we have to solve a problem and the problem is called to avoid the repetition of the year twenty

fifteen so people unhappy with the fact that they feel they're secure and happy with paying for this so what we'll see is this logic countries possibly contributing more to this new plan which may appease the smaller countries making the much more happy to receive migrants but at the end of the day will people be questioning whether countries like germany are essentially now going to be buying themselves out of this crisis. ok another story we're closely following today germany security services have indicated a worrying increase in the number of violent. right wing extremist groups so-called right berger's are groups that reject the legitimacy of the modern german state and its laws according to a recent report the number of such individuals let's go through some of the figures here the increase from ten thousand and twenty sixteen to sixteen and a huff and last year not just under a thousand of that number are described as extremists indicating

a thirty three percent rise in just a year study say these groups have an interest in weapons some are legally armed as well security officials also stressed their readiness among some rocks berger's to engage in violence well here is germany's interior minister described the situation . the number of violent right wing extremists rose once again in twenty seventeen. roxburgh is having come in with right wing extremists as their liking of weapons last year the security services managed to seize large amounts of weapons and munitions. ok to the scots the latest important say we've got to be john thomas sali a member of the german left the party joining us on the program b. john welcome what does this report really indicate will get into the right burgers

in just a minute but but the overall picture here are we seeing the rise in right wing extremism due to the migrant crisis do you think primarily. backslash yes the policies of german government last year but i think what we're seeing us that intelligence services have neglected the threat from right wing actors in the last days you know of it is you where we have just seen a court rule which has killed those. multiple overstand margaret yes and the release of the eight hundred service he didn't notice it. so these are right spurrier's which is really becoming more and more frequent and seeing in headlines how dangerous are they never were and they have some very good he sure has weapons and the question is how do you get those where because you know to stand united in america you can't just go shop and buy and

armaments you have to have a license and many don't even have the last so where did they get the bad ones that's a interesting question if you look at your history yet in other cases the far right wing activists with. caches of weapons and sometimes those are part of god you know we've seen a lot of to and fro from under merkel and her party the leading. you know we've seen an issue saying first of all it's not the refugees fault and then you know we have to have tighter controls taking some of what's a right wing parties are saying how much is this kind of topsy turvy language led to what we're seeing in germany. well certainly haven't but i don't think it's a refugee sol it's the fall of adam or belligerent gottman for employer to dismiss

yet understand most of the syrian refugees are not ridiculousness but some are and what it is right now us if i do you are those ridiculous terrorist. reports that germany wants to take some of the way from syria what other people what are they going to do to germany germany question of this how do you tackle then the issue of right wing extremism in germany because you've got it seems more people going to center right positions because of things like the migrant crisis as well so they're getting somewhat support how do you stop it going from debate to violence. and suggesting they're fighting we're trying to take an oath problems the islam and the right wing us and we think that you can only comment on the problems together because both sides. just finally do you think that perhaps some of the language

from the left about perhaps ordinary working people talking about what they saw issues in their own communities being deemed racist eccentric might have added fuel to the fire of those on the right to take any blame on the left for what is happening at all. well as we talk about annette party which are most of our acting as a political who has the right and. take on the problems that normal hardworking people in germany face then i don't think you could say it is senator and that's why she's fallen and you movement in september and i think we will see a lot of positive action comedy. and islam isn't the same. or it will thanks very much for coming on the program and sharing your thoughts we've been speaking to solve a sollie member of the german left party this is our to international more stories by the minutes on our twitter page don't miss

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