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it's all working. >> brennan: it's worth it? >> that's one point. i'm not for pain i'm for prosperity as always. but here, president trump has said he wants to end tariffs, he wants to end nontariff barriers, he wants to end subsidies. and he is a free trader. but sometimes you have to target tough tear riches to do so, okay? that's what he's doing and i think it's beginning to show some success. only been six months since he's been on this. so, no, we're going to deficit. let me say this, the increase in growth -- >> brennan: wrap it up. >> going to be a big factor in lowering the deficit. the cbo numbers they have never agreed with us on taxes and dynamics. we have always -- mcput out a number that i was referring to on the one trillion. >> behind that number in short run do we lose revenues to invest in our economy, absolutely. the cbo numbers show now that the entire $1.5 trillion tax cut is paid for by higher revenues and -- all good things. >> brennan: we have to leave it there because i'm out of time.

i'm margaret brennan and this is "face the nation." there is breaking news this morning as the operation to rescue 12 young boys and their soccer coach from a flooded cave in thailand is under way. we'll have the latest. here at home, president trump prepares for what could be a crucial week in his presidency. first up, a final decision on who he plans to name to the supreme court. >> and they're all great. they're all great. >> brennan: that announcement comes tomorrow night. then it's off to brussels to meet with nato. that alliance of u.s. military allies are still reeling from a disastrous g7 summit last month in canada. >> i'm going to tell nato, you got start paying your bills. the united states is not going to take care of everything. and we're the schmucks that are paying for the whole thing. >> brennan: another controversial meeting on the president's itinerary. a one-on-one next monday with russian president vladimir putin. >> getting along with russia and getting along with china and getting along with other countries is a g

i'm not. >> brennan: i know.d your represent. >> sure. >> brennan: picking up on what rachel is saying, this divide from within, in the efforts to muddy the water. >> i think there is a divide. i think the divide rachel is talking about is accurate. part of the issue here is kind of the change that's happened in the nature of these indictments. when we originally had these indictments come out in february, they were primarily targeted at social media activity, ads, fake news that russian activity was promoting here. now you're getting something that's more serious, which is actual activity on the part of russians to fish into dnc servers to, try to get e-mails out of the various people involved there. and the implication of these latest indictments is that the next step for this mueller investigation is going to be looking at some of the issues that victoryar nuland was talking about earlier, concerns about the state level actions that could have targeted secretaries of stated. that i think needs to be the utmost

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senator mark udall called on brennan to resign but obama protected brennan. let's not forget brennan was caught lying last year on the steele dossier. >> director brennan, do you know who commissioned the steele dossier? >> i don't. >> did the cia rely on it? >> no. >> why not? >> because we didn't. it was not anyway used as a basis for the intel community assessment that was done. >> laura: [laughs] every time i hear that. in fact, two former intel chiefs, jim clapper and mike rogers, they disputed brennan's claims that the dossier was not part of their assessment. rogers in a letter to congress and brennan last october on cnn. >> some of the content of the dossier, we were able to cooperate in the intelligence community assessment. >> laura: given brennan's history of lying and obscure ob obfuscation, any sane person was question his objectivity and credibility. trump is right to be skeptical on brennan and call him out on his misinformation campaign. as "the wall street journal"'s kimberley strassel noted, brennan has been bragging that it was he who start

in august, brennan briefed folks, including harry reid. two days later, harry reid writes a letter and says this. "the evidence of a direct connection between the russian government and donald trump's presidential campaign continues to mount. the american people deserve to have a full understanding of the facts from a completed investigation before they vote this november. he had no blood or would go no that narrative about collusion is within that election conversation. >> this is one of the channels by which these top trump gang, and there was obviously a handful of operators here, used very systems whether it was the executive branch agencies, congress, to feed this narrative and just have it create the perception that everyone says and everyone knows and is an echo chamber effect. once everyone starts saying the same thing, takes on a life of its own. it's information operation. it's how the public is manipulated and the media is manipulated and all you need is the tiniest kernel of half-truths and they embroider and embroider and embr

suing the cia over john brennan and links to top democrat harry reid. it is in the wake of the trump administration threatening to pool brennan and other security clearances. they have a case? catherine herridge is here tonight with new analysis from the heavily redacted pfizer documents. we talk about the fusion gps connection and what the documents really tell us about alleged spying on the trump campaign. and a front runner to take on donald trump in 2020, one of the favorite targets of criticism. progressives painting democrat into a far left corner that may backfire on them. donald trump is considering revoking security clearances of some of his biggest critics including the top intelligence, law enforcement and national security of the last decade.e. trace caliber packing the story from the la newsroom. >> this appears to have been touched off by a tweet from senator rand paul urging donald trump to revoke the security clearance of former b cia direcr john brennan, quote, is john brennan monetizing his security clearance, making millions of dollar

comey, brennan, the media, they have absolutely lost their minds.he topic of russian-sponsored election hacking, today president trump clarified the remarks from the summit. he made it perfectly clear that he trusts our intel agencies, not the ones that worked before, and their reports on russian meddling. i have the proof. i will show you in a second. >> i have full faith and support for america's great intelligence agencies. always have. i felt very strongly that, while russia's actions had no impact at all on the outcome of the election, let me be totally clear in saying -- and i've said this many times, i accept our intelligence communities' conclusion that russia's meddling in the 2016 election took place. could be other people also. >> sean: in case the left for god, what you just saw from president trump is a position that he is clearly articulated over and over and over and over and over again and if your media had any honesty in them, they would remind you, they would do their job but as usual, we will do their job for them. here is the pre

what role did brennan play? were other agencies involved? i think when you have someone like john brennan and you have an agency, a powerful agency like the cia whose edict is to go after foreign threats but instead looks into political discord and our political state here within the country and exists in that with the fbi, then we have something very frightening. >> sean: i raised all these questions. everything we've been discussing here, they help a favorite candidate then they set out to destroy a second candidate, then all of that information it's a bought and paid for dossier to lie to the american people kind of like pravda, kind of like propaganda. it's russia and lives all things, the media ignores all of that. we have new information today apparently lisa page is now contradicting peter strzok, i will start with you. >> that was the information i received today. her testimony appeared to be very credible, it appeared to contradict peter strzok's testimony, they will be reviewing that again. they are going to be taking a very close

i've never been a big john brennan fan. you remember also that john brennan was involved with hacking into the democrats computers when they were doing the research into torture and waterboarding. they illegally, and he eventually apologized, not before sort of lying at first and saying that they didn't do it, but john brennan has a very, very sketchy history of doing things and abusing power, so he needs to not be getting that information because i think he has a history of doing things for partisan reasons and also things that the cia is not supposed to do, which is spy on senators and on their computers. >> martha: went to the president say about brendan? >> i think he's not really happy with brendan and the others. does anybody remember five or ten years ago when people retired from the cia, they might go on television but they sort of act like statesmen. they act like retired statesmen and they would weigh in on affairs from 60,000 feet, but you didn't have them saying vote democrat, you didn't have them calling the pr

you know john brennan., we put it up on the screen last night, if you want your clearance, you've got to act as the same way a current cia employee would react. >> for the rank-and-file retired intelligence officers who retain security clearance because they have a job to do as a contractor back in the intelligence committee which requires the clearance -- secondly there's no evidence that john brennan and jim klapper has revealed classified information. they have willfully spoken untruths not based on intelligence. jim klapper claims russians tilted the election to donald trump, not true andul contradicts the intelligence that was produced which he presided. brennan claims that putin could blackmail trump, there is no evidence to support that claim. they aren't exactly revealing classified information.th >> sean: i know you have a thing or two to say on this. >> i have three things to say, number one since the cia was created in 1947, no cia director has behaved as disgracefully as john brennan. the idea t

brennan having access to information. seen that he's used it to try to make a political case not to contribute to the collection of intelligence. so if there was some legitimate lag time for three years before, i don'ts think that would apply to brennan in these circumstances. >> neil: thanks, congressman. >> thank you. >> neil: i told you at the beginning the administration had that very tough words for iran. all caps tweet that the president sent out. i understand with that tweeting, if it's all caps, that's a big deal. so you would think that would send oil prices soaring. just the opposite. why is that? after this. crabfest is back at red lobster! discover our largest variety of crab and crab dishes all year! like new crabfest combo. your one chance to have new jumbo snow crab with tender dungeness crab. or try crab lover's dream. sweet, juicy king crab and jumbo snow crab cozied up with crab linguini alfredo. even our shrimp is crab-topped! so hurry in and get your butter-dunkin' game on! 'cause crabfest will be gone

how does john brennan -- i want to understand this sincerely, but how does allowing john brennan whoa cable news pontificate or and political extremist, how does giving him a top-secret clearance when he doesn't work for the government, how does that work for america? >> i'm glad you asked that. >> tucker: that's why the show raised it originally. >> people like him whether youho like it or not are valuable resources to people who are currently in the intelligence industry who are serving under this administration. they've got a lot of contextual knowledge and a lot of experience in their aren't a lot of people who can match that. >> tucker: just to be clear, he never served as a spy, he's a political guy. he was not out in a trench coat in vienna in the 80s fighting the soviets, he was a desk guy appointed by obama to his post. he's entirely political and is making statements accusing the president of treason, threatening the president for whom the cia works directly. their job is to inform the president, this guy is the president's political enemy -- i'm not against it but in what

john brennan and leon panetta. john brennan is a traitor, i will tell you why. the real traitor. what he did and what he has said recently about the president of the united states is despicable. he is personally responsible for the leaking of unmasked information, he was responsible for the sharing of false information to u.s. intelligence sources to get fisa warrants. he is personally responsible for the sharing of false information with american intelligence agencies, and he, i challenge him to a debate at the national press club for one hour, two hours, three hours about his role in the entire pre-election. about leon panetta, he should be ashamed of himself after what he did in benghazi when he kissed hillary clinton's fanny, now he thinks the russians may have something on the president to compromise him? shame on leon panetta, may he rot in hell! >> sean: monica? >> from what i'm hearing, sean, we are still in the early days of investigating the domestic internal targeting of donald trump's associates and his campaign. these are the early days. what we may

john brennan has a history of this. rob: joining me with reaction is cia operative mike baker.o rand paul he makes a pretty good point that sounds logical but when you look at this list of the six people the president wants to maybe take away that clearance from, you see a lot of his worst enemies. that makes people think this is political. >> it certainly appears that way. he is in uncharted territory here. on both sides. we have never seen this public animosity and criticism from former heads of the intel community, john brennan, tremendous experience. the fact that he is out there and so vocal is unusual, extremely unusual. now that you have got director comey and mccabe who don't have security clearances anymore so this appears to have been fired off without a lot of thought so it does appear vindictive on his part. rob: he has 4 million people with security clearances into million with top-secret clearances. and the cottage industry, and retain clearances and use that as a hiring element at an attractive point for commercial companies, they don't have to front the cost and

. >> brennan: the russians who were indicted, would you ask putin to send them here? >> well, i might. i haven't thought of that, but i'll be asking about it. but this was during the obama administration. they were doing whatever it was during the obama administration. i heard that they were trying or people were trying to hack into the rnc, too, the republican national committee, but we had much better defenses. i've been told that by a number of people. we have much better defenses, so they couldn't. i think the dnc should be ashamed of themselves for allowing themselves to be hacked. they had bad defenses. and they were able to be hacked. but i heard they were trying to hack the republicans, too, but, and this may be wrong, but they had much stronger defenses. >> brennan: what's your biggest competitor, the biggest foe globally right now? >> well, i think we have a lot of foes. i think the european union is a foe, what they do to us in trade. you wouldn't think of the european union, but they're a foe. russia is a foe in certain respects. china is a foe economicall

liz: senator rand paul slammed john brennan. >> john brennan started out by voting for communist partydential candidate, and he is most biased bigoted, over the top, hyperbolic unhinged direct over of cia that we've had. liz: wasn't john brennan the guy who said that cia did not spy to senate intelligence committee? but they did. >> absolutely, he lead to congress, and i understand that congress sun popular, they have a constitutional responsible of overseeing people like brennan and the cia. you are right, to me that is more damning than the fact he supported a communist at one point is, fact that his agency under his direction spied on the united states congress. on u.s. staff in an effort to thwart oversight, that is astonishing. if you take that put it in of context of what of so alarming about the early investigation into some people surrounding trump, president trump or then candidate trump, during the presidential campaign. you know, it you see a pattern. liz: john brennan, it could be james clapper oharry reid. real bring you back. but your reacted on this, in white house press

they call brennan and say what were your dealings? >> that's a great example or if you are working with another intelligence service and want advice about how to handle the current players if they are still in office. you call your predecessor and say how do you deal with this? >> ashley, you are listening to sarah huckabee sanders with the rest of us and this part of the briefing comes up and one word stuck out at you and that was monitize. to hear you telling it, it's one thing to criticize the president, but he thinks you are monetizing any piece of him, monetizing the presidency is what the trump family has been accused of since he took the oath. if he thinks you are monetizing him, that crosses a red line. >> sarah sanders said specifically that word monitize. the president doesn't like critics. he doesn't like people who worked for past administrations especially president obama. one of the things other than the original sin of russia that just really drives him crazy is this idea that people are getting rich off of him, rich us

director john brennan, saying that he's, and i quote, monetizing his security clearance, and that it should be removed from him, even called on the president to do this. will the president consider senator paul's suggestion and call for the removal of former director brennan's security clearance? ms. sanders: not only is the president looking to take away brennan's security clearance, he's looking into the clearances of comey, clapper, haden, rice, and mccabe. the president is exploring the mechanisms to remove security clearance because they politicized and in some cases monetized their public service and security clearances, making baseless accusations of improper contact with russia or being influenced by russia against the president is extremely inappropriate and the fact that people with security clearances are making these baseless charges provides inappropriate legitimacy to accusations with zero evidence. reporter: when the president pulled out of the jcpoa, he did not reveal an alternate plan to address iran's nuclear ambitions. he seemed to bank on economic sanctions being

john brennan and other partisans should have their security clearances revoked.e continued, public officials should not use their security clearances to leverage speaking fees or network talking head fees. paul later added that he wants the ban to be more universal in comments he made once again on "fox news." >> i told the president in private what i have been saying in public, that i think there's a great danger to having talking heads on tv who are ex-cia agents and still have classified clearance. there's a real danger they might inadvertently reveal classified information. but i would make it more universal. i don't think that ex-cia agents of any stripe who are now talking heads should continue to get classified information. i think it is wrong. >> democrats reacted with strong words about the white house's proposal. senator of hawaii tweeted, this is what totalitarianism looks like, while virginia's mark warner likened the move to totalitarian regimes. >> i think it is a feeble attempt by the white house to change the conversation. they don't want to talk

breaking tonight, suing the cia over embattled former director john brennan and alleged leaks to then former top democrat harry reid. it is all in the wake of the trump administration threatening to pull brennan and other security clearances. do they have a case? stick around vinyl. chief intelligence correspond to catherine herridge is here tonight with new analysis on the heavily redacted fisa documents about former trump campaign advisor carter page. jason chaffetz uncovers meant matt gaetz join us live to investigate the fusion gps connection and answer the critics about what the fisa documents really tell us about

i have been very concerned about john brennan.who is calling basically the president treasonous which would require the death penalty is someone that is over the top and not showing the proper judgment to still have access to classified information. >> now we know the white house is, in fact, considering removing clearances not only from brennan but from other former obama officials like fbi director james comey, deputy director andrew mccabe. dni clapper, rice, and hayden. clapper said this. >> i think this is just a very, very petty, petty threatening to do. and that's about all i will say about it. >> and as all this begins, we should make it very clear clearances do not automatically terminate when officials leave that position but the post position clearance does not also give them access to current intelligence. todd, ainsley, steve? steve: griff, thank you for reporting live from our nation's capitol. there has been reaction from both sides. some people go yeah, he ought to do that because they did weaponize their intel. bu

>> brennan, yates, klapper. klepper is accused of lying, quite credibly. pulling a security clearance is credible derogatory information. it's hard to say that there is no credible derogatory information. you have klapper who admits to lying and you have brennan who is accused in a book of leaking purposely. >> sean: that's all true. >> i would put them on hold. the one the cia director is spreading russian lies as cia director.. >> and susan wright had a number of explanation, contradictory investigations about her involvement in unmasking. >> i was reading how all weekend -- and if he didn't do that or i find out anyone did this illegally, i will sue them and hire the best legal team including andy, on the planet to go after them. let me go back to t you. wasn't this all about russian lies paid for, disseminated, propagated, and lying to the american people with russian lies of all things? i think it was about pushing the envelope as far as you could push it. i'm saying for the politics of the election, anday i think they did that because number one, the

i have no confidence in a guy like brennan, i think he is a total low life. i have no confidence in clapper. you know, clapper wrote me a beautiful letter when i first went to office, and it was really nice. and then all of a sudden, he has gone hay wire, because they have gotten to him and probably got him to say things he maybe doesn't even mean. i don't have confidence in past people, you look at what is happened, take a look at all the shannangans that has gone on, hard to have confidence in that group. >> which leads us to our pane. . jeremy, because you are the former fed here, i would like -- like to begin with you, why do we offer security clearances to former very senior ranking intelligence officials including but not limited to our former cia directors once they have left office? >> it's to benefit the country, it's to benefit the current occupants of the leadership offices of the agencies so they can call their predecessors and consult on very complex and difficult issues that those current office holders may be facing. so it's done to support the

brennan claims bin laden was struggling to communicate with affiliates. you heard about that language. that is flat-out false. one of the things we're working on is a week by week timeline of all the correspondence bin laden has been having. you will see he was a frequent pen pal to all sorts of terrorists across the globe. he was getting detailed memos like this one. this one is about 12 pages total in arabic. it summarized multiple communications across the globe, the exact opposite of what brennan said. why would he say that bin laden is not communicating with these other parties around the globe? if you look at it through the obama administration worldview, they wanted to say it is all over. if these groups are connected qaedaing groomed by al going forward, and this thing is metastasizing and going around the globe and is part of the al qaeda structure, your narrative about the 9/11 wars being over goes flat. what the obama folks did is they played disconnect the dots. when you have intelligence that connects bin laden to other entities around the gl

>> not only is the president looking to take away brennan's security clearance.earances of comey, clapper, hayden, rice, and mccabe. the president is exploring the mechanisms to remove security clearances because they've politicized and in some cases monetized their clearances. making accusations of improper contact with russia. it's extremely inappropriate, and the fact that people with security clearances are making baseless charges provides inappropriate legitimacy to accusations with zero evidence. >> when the president called out jcpoa he did not reveal an alternate plan to address the nuclear am bigs. -- ambitions. he seemed to bank on them coming back to the table. >> the president's number one goal is to make sure iran doesn't get a nuclear weapon. we have similar and shared interests with our european allies. we're continuing to have discussions with them. and when we have specifics on that front we'll let you know. >> reporter: my question was a follow up. my question about russia is president trump continues to air his grievances about the coverage of

we know john brennan was there. he was there when the president was shown the texts and the e-mails and explained the source close to vladimir putin and how they know all of this and how they know that vladimir putin personally ordered it. john brennan was there when this information was delivered to this president. and so he has had to endure all of these public comments the president has made since then that contradict everything that he was told that day. >> sure. and, you know, we knew on some level when the intelligence chiefs came out and told us unanimously and unequivocally that russia interfered in the election that russia interfered in the election with the intention of helping donald trump that they had a basis for saying that. and we could have also assumed that their basis for saying that was something that they appropriately shared with the president elect. but seeing in black and white in this new york times story the nature of that information, the detailed nature of that information, adding to it th

also brennan has been chastised by his own colleagues senate democrats for lying to congress as well and nothing ever came of that on critical intelligence testimony both behind closed doors and overtly this is interesting that part you're bringing into the politics of this the base trump thing i'll give him the most credit in the world as a lifelong democrat turned into a tea party evangelical baby boomer fox news viewer you know individual good christian all of titian good for you know it's his base. he knows his base better than anybody that's why he tweets the red meat to them i think that checklist you have we're going to end up seeing that on campaign rallies across the country the next few months they will not move a needle and the more the elite in gauges and slams him on this press conference and engagement with russia and try to promulgated further rusher phobia more of his base will completely turn that off now the interesting part taking place the last few days and into the next several days is that fox news itself the channel that protects the president is definitely the

lou: let's turn to brennan coming out against the president.ed this, am i correct. whenever john brennan opens his mouth or tweets he removes all doubt about his ignorance. i like that. >> you like that? well it's true. he accused the president of trees. treason. there's the tweet. that's ridiculous because the treason laws in the united states are very specific. the u.s. has to be at war with another country. and we're not at war with the russians. and you know, the julius and ethel rosenburg case in the 1950s, they gave nuclear design secrets to the soviets, they were not charged with treason. lou: i'm sitting here grinning right now. only a great attorney could take a 140-character tweet, limited tweet, and turn it into a brief and go from there. i thought -- you had me at ignorance. i really think you nailed john brennan right there. >> thank you very much. you know, john brennan says dope things all odopey things all of. he was a hillary clinton sycophant. and more than anybody else, he was propagating the anti-trump fabricated dossier to

to me it just sort of smacks of retaliation. >> brennan, clapper and comey have been pretty public., susan rice hasn't been all that public. she's asked about trump's motivations and she said there are legitimate questions, but susan rice has not really been out there much. >> she's someone, though, that the right has targeted a lot and has criticized a lot. they tried to tie her in, if you remember, with the unmasking scandal and they had her go up to capitol hill to testify about that. so she's long been a person that the right has gone to and tried to criticize as they have criticized obama and, you know, she was part of the iran deal. so in many ways, she's a face of that. >> boogie man of the right is the term that you were looking for. michael schmidt, thank you very much. guy lewis, thanks for sticking around. that will wrap things up for me this hour. ali velshi, remarkable day every day. but to have the white house say we're going to revoke security clearances about people not saying nice things about the president -- listen, donald trump was on the campaign trail talking a

exact opposite what brennan said. interesting, why would he say that? why would he say bin laden wasn't communicating with all the other parties around the globe? if you look at it through the obama administration world view, they wanted to say it is all over. if these other groups really are connected to al qaeda are part of al qaeda and being groomed by al qaeda to lead going forward, this thing is metastasizing they said, spreading across the globe but really part of al qaeda's structure, well, that means your whole narrative about 9/11 war being over falls flat, doesn't it? i coinedded with people in the intelligence community, what the obama folks played disconnect dots. when you had intelligence that connected bin laden to other entities around the globe they would downplay that because it didn't fit their idealogical world view and policies they preferred. let's go ahead, play the next clip. this is from president barack obama. this one i think is stunning. go ahead. >> to begin with, our actions are effective. don't take my word for it. in the i

john brennan leaked their name.s a history of having a problem with leaking, who in the right mind would want to let him have the power still to search through everybody's records? >> tucker: he's a private citizen who works for a cable news -- can i get a security clearance and find out government secrets and use them in the course of my job? what is this? >> i think it's completely crazy and the idea that he could be passing secrets to the media, that's alarming. >> tucker: what could be done? >> we're going to send a letter not only to the presidentan askg if he still has clearance which i think the president might be interested in this issue. i'm sending it to jeff sessions and dan coats, we are going to b press the case and we are going to find out does he still have clearance, and should a person who has called the president treasonous have a top-secret clearance? >> tucker: or threatened him? it's not just brennan, it isis potentially end we believe it is also james clapper, susan rice, people who are active

he is blasting john brennan for accusing him of treason. griff jenkins has more on the president's reaction to the backlash. we are okay, are you? >> reporter: no stopping. walk back time at the white house after blistering bipartisan criticism, the president reaffirmed he has full faith in the intelligence community and clarified his remarks in helsinki when he responded to a question asking if he believes regarding election meddling. >> a key sentence in my remarks i said the word would instead of wouldn't. the sentence should have been i don't see any reason why i wouldn't or why it wouldn't be russia. >> reporter: later in an exclusive interview with tucker he went on the attack against former cia director john brennan who accused him of treason. >> i think brennan is a very bad guy. if you look at a lot of things happened under his watch, a very bad person. >> reporter: twitter, the president maintained the summit was successful writing the meeting between pres. putin and myself was a great success except in the fake news media. about

but secondly, brennan is accused of divulging classified secrets. i am not aware that that's happened. lots of people say that. i'm aware he said the putin meeting was treasonous. >> one second. let's put that tweet up there. brennan said last week about the president's behavior when he stood next to vladimir putin in helsinki, quote, donald trump's press conference performance exceeds the high crime of misdemeanors and treasonous. >> that's an opinion and a right to an opinion and as controversial as it may be and saw that clapper speaking earlier on cnn said i don't need them to comment to the press. so i've been encouraging them to double down on the press, a direct action aimed to silence them. >> clapper called it an abuse of the system. i want do go do barbara starr right now at the pentagon to explain for us because i think there is some confusion out there and at this table why does -- do these officials even have security clearances? is it a nicety? why does this exist? >> reporter: it is neither honorary or a nicety or a protocol. senior f

if brennan and clapper still have clearances, it is not much of a police state.reat to see you. >> good to see you, thanks. >> tucker: inflamed over on the left, tempers are not cooling over this weekend, the denver post posting an letter to the editor that trump and other members of the administration deserve to be executed for treason. as we do so very often, we bring in some perspective, fox news senior political analyst greg hume has seen everything, and he can put that in the appropriate context and calm us down. >> nice to see you, tucker. >> tucker: what do you make of this? >> i read the letter and it references trump as some kind of trader and notes that the rosenbergs were found guilty of that, and were executed. i did not quite see this as a suggestion that trump be executed, but it was close to the line. and he might have thought the editors at "the denver post" would've been more careful publishing it. but if we were not talking about it tonight, i do not think that the world will look longer than a few minutes to note that it would happen. >> tucker

and john brennan. john brennan was working for the white house at this time. point last night. all the people screaming the loudest right now are people who have been in charge of our foreign policy. going back 30, 40 years. the reason donald trump got elected. by the way got elected making promises about trying to reset and re -- you know, reengage russia in a more positive relationship, he got elected in order to get rid of all of those people. i think americans have heard their side of the story and they don't want to hear them anymore. ainsley: is that a bad thing to want to reset and have a relationship with russia. >> no it's not. trump did this yesterday when he his course correction. when he gets back to talking about trying to have a more hopeful, constructive relationship with russia, is he back to winning. that's great. you know, he had -- he had one bad day on monday. and it wasn't even that bad when you compare it to all the bad days that obama and john brennan and all these people have had before him. ainsley: thank you so much for being with you