well six people were named in total including former heads of the cia f.b.i. and their say all of them have been critical of the trumpet ministrations policies and all your officials two of them no longer have clearance but those being targeted say irrelevant whether or not they have it 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 the classified information it's more of a courtesy i don't go back for classified briefings want to have any effect on what i say all right you know i'm open whether the move is a necessity or trump simply seeking to clamp down on powerful figures the top. 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 you to do exactly that now this comes just after his recent tweet in which he said that

six people were named including former heads of the cia f.b.i. and n.s.a. all of them have been critical of the trumpet ministrations policies all served on president obama to them no longer clearance but those being targeted say they're not told much 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 kill him up and looks at whether the move is a necessity or trump simply seeking to clamp down on powerful figures and the former heads of u.s. intelligence agencies are now dabbling in politics the fired f.b.i. director james.

six people were named including former heads of the cia f.b.i. and n.s.a. most of them are known for being critics of donald trump's policies but the officials themselves say it's like clarence is revoked it won't really change anything 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 frankly more of a courtesy i don't go back for classified briefings i want to have any effect on what i say all right. former u.s. intelligence officials have a history of speaking out once they leave office often reports 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 and which he said that the only way to support american values was to go democrat.

meant to be monetized off of security plans or six people were named including former heads of the cia f.b.i. and n.s.a. all of them have been critical of trump's administration and the president's policies and all of them were barack obama officials it's believed two of them no longer have clearance but they themselves say if it is revoked it won't really change anything 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 frankly more of a courtesy i don't go back for classified briefings won't have any effect on what i say oh right. now takes a look at whether the move is a necessity or trump looking to clamp down on u.s. intelligence. 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

intelligence communities or rather the cia f.b.i. and n.s.a. as hand-picked analysts assessments on alleged russian meddling and for start stating the following in the presence of one vladimir putin. i hold both countries responsible and i think that the united states has been foolish i think we've all been foolish we should have had this dialogue a long time ago and a long time frankly before i got to office and i think we're all to blame i think that the united states now is step forward along with russia and we're getting together and we have a chance to do some great things. so just so we're all clear what is happening right now as we speak here in the united states a majority of our elected officials both right and left along with the majority of our journalists working in the in the corporate news media are now declaring that as high crimes and treasonous if a u.s. citizen even the president of the united states admits publicly to our country's past mistakes and questions the veracity of our intelligence community. ladies and gentlemen we

president is extremely inappropriate and sarah sanders named six people including former heads of the cia f.b.i. and n.s.a. who may lose their access to classified information all of them have openly criticized the donald trump policies last week former cia chief john brennan accused trump of treasonous behavior. he was referring to the president's summit with vladimir putin in helsinki he went on to accuse trump of being in the pocket of the russian leader and vice president of the eurasia center think tank believes some former intelligence officials may have gone too far with their comments to the media. it's very it's very disturbing. usually those people. you know take a take a step back and people ask him advice but seldom do you see them taking so much. of a role. talking to the media openly lecturing and giving comments like that so does it really matter whether or not they have a clearance or not probably not. doesn't limit maybe some of the discussions they may have with former colleagues and stuff perhaps. but but they should not be receiving access to that information as it is even i

intelligence communities or rather the cia f.b.i. and n.s.a. his hand-picked analysts assessments on alleged russian meddling and for start stating the following in the presence of one vladimir putin and i hold both countries responsible i think that the united states has been foolish and i think we've all been foolish we should have had this dialogue a long time ago.

revoking the security clearances of six former intelligence officials including the former heads of the cia f.b.i. and n.s.a. all of whom were outspoken critics of donald trump the white house press secretary gave a statement explaining the move. the president is exploring these mechanisms to resume remove security clearance because they've politicized and in some cases actually monetized their privilege service and their security clearance clearances and making baseless accusations of improper contact with russia or being influenced by russia against the president is extremely inappropriate and this comes a week after former cia chief john brennan accused all trump of treasonous behavior he was referring to the president's summit with one reputed in helsinki he went on to accuse trump of being in the pocket of the russian leader. cross live now to earl rasmussen who's the vice president of the eurasia center think tank thanks for being with us here on r t international so. the white house press secretary senator sanders we just heard there she accused the six former intelligence officials of pol

intelligence communities or rather the cia f.b.i. and n.s.a. is hand picked out a less assessments on alleged russian meddling and for start stating the pollo ing in the presence of one vladimir putin i hold both countries responsible i think that the united states has been foolish and i think we've been foolish we should have had this dialogue a long time ago a long time frankly before i got to office and i think we're all to blame i think that the united states now is step forward along with russia getting together and we have a chance to do some great things so just so we're all clear what is happening right now as we speak here in the united states a majority of our elected officials both right and left along with the majority of our journalists working in the in the corporate news media are now declaring that as high crimes and treasonous if a u.s. citizen even the president of the united states admits publicly to our country's past mistakes and questions the veracity of our intelligence community. ladies and gentlemen welcome to the fasci

and the irony of course is that it tends to be the liberals now that are rallying around the cia and the f.b.i. the f.b.i. which is for years in gauged infiltrating progressive organizations and peace organizations to disrupt them. to kill fred hampton a leader of the black panthers in cold blood and now somehow the f.b.i. supposed to be our it's really incredible you know brian one of the things i think it's. very interesting very tragic here is that somehow russia meddled in america's democracy i don't even really know what that means but you hear it all of the time but what really is happening i think my personal opinion is that because there isn't any questioning of the intelligence community in their behavior and i'm thinking of the f.b.i. during the two thousand and sixteen election they are damaging america's democracy because you cannot ask these questions about what they did i mean the f.b.i. the d.o.j. which was created by congress right they fund these agencies and what we see is the obstruction so i can't you know meddling ok i'm not i have no idea what that really means but we're

f.b.i. or the cia and certainly progressive people or people who used to consider themselves liberal i don't even know what the word liberal means anymore it doesn't mean anything. what here's the situation is this the u.s. government says that russian meddled by hacking into the democratic national committee e-mail server and revealing e-mails that show that the democratic party leadership. violated its own rules and regulations to make sure that hillary clinton would win the nomination now if that's true and it's being described as a parallel or or synonymous with what happened on nine eleven or pearl harbor why did the f b i why did the f.b.i. not subpoena and take control of that server to carry out a forensic investigation why did it allow crowd strike a third party that had its own self-interest in its own political bias against russia why did they take their word that in fact the democratic party server was hacked by the russians that on its face would make anyone skeptical but again if you're in a religious situation you don't need proof you only take things as an article of faith an

f.b.i. or the cia and certainly progressive people or people who used to consider themselves liberal i don't even know what the word liberal means anymore it doesn't mean anything. what here's the situation is this the u.s. government says that russian meddled by hacking into the democratic national committee e-mail server and revealing e-mails that show that the democratic party leadership. violated its own rules and regulations to make sure that hillary clinton would win the nomination now if that's true and it's being described as a parallel or or synonymous with what happened on nine eleven or pearl harbor why did the f b i why did the f.b.i. not subpoena and take control of that server to carry out a forensic investigation why did it allow crowd strike a third party that had its own self-interest in its own political bias against russia why did they take their word that in fact the democratic party server was hacked by the russians that on its face would make anyone skeptical but again if you're in a religious situation you don't need proof you only take things as an article of faith an

intelligence community has or rather the cia f.b.i. and n.s.a. has hand picked out a less assessments on alleged russian meddling and for start stating the following in the presence of one vladimir putin and i hold both countries responsible i think that the united states has been foolish and i think we've been foolish we should have had this dialogue a long time ago a long time frankly before i got to office and i think we're all to blame i think that the united states now is step forward along with russia getting together and we have a chance to do some great things so just so we're all clear what is happening right now as we speak here in the united states a majority of our elected officials both right and left along with the majority of our journalists working in the in the corporate news media are now declaring that as high crimes and treasonous if a u.s. citizen even the president of the united states admits publicly to our country's past mistakes and questions the veracity of our intelligence community. ladies and gentlemen welcome to the

cia director and of course all the f.b.i. people that have been in the news lately these people are the ones that trump has been demanded to say that he trusts for the sake of american unity but those people are also the ones that have been working hard for two years including con cock to this russia collusion case to get trump out of office so i can't blame him at all for not wanting to say live in front of the world and right next to putin that he believes that buton attempted to tamper with the election because the media will blur and follows that line and make it seem like drum admitted that his own election was thus illegitimate and fraudulent the truth of the matter is even if russia did try and of course the cold war is testament to how many decades people try to influence each other's politics it's russia it's america it's all kinds of people in the world have always tried to do that you expect that it's not any different now than it ever was the problem for trump is if he says yes russia meddled the media immediately

where the obama administration intelligence chiefs the cia director former cia director john brennan the former director of the f.b.i. james comey who was of course fired by donald trump among others very clearly stating that there had been expressed consent by the russian president vladimir putin to meddle in the elections to use a dissin from ation campaign but coming out of that briefing donald trump issued a public statement saying it wasn't just russia but many countries this is certainly true but when the president stands on the stage with the russian president americans expected him to be forceful and the overwhelming reaction and used to be the conversation of disappointment to anger and outrage that the president didn't come out as forcefully as many americans believe he should while it's early morning where you are complete of course which will be much more to discuss through the day for the moment we'll leave it there thank you. pakistan's autonomous tribal region will vote for the first time in next week's general election it's home to five million people who are mainly from the bush dawn ethnic group no

where the obama administration intelligence chiefs the cia director former cia director john brennan the former director of the f.b.i. james comey who is of course fired by donald trump among others very clearly stating that there had been expressed consent by the russian president vladimir putin to meddle in the elections to use a dissin from asian campaign but coming out of that briefing donald trump issued a public statement saying it wasn't just russia but many countries this is certainly true but when the president stands on the stage with the russian president americans expected him to be forceful and the overwhelming reaction and used to be the conversation of disappointment to anger and outrage that the president didn't come out as forcefully as many americans believe he should while it's early morning where you are complete of course i'm sure will be much more to discuss through the day for the moment we'll leave it there thank you pakistan tribal region will vote for the first time in next week's general election it's home to five million people who maybe from the bush ethnic group now they say they've bee

president was briefed by the former cia director john brennan the former f.b.i. director james comey and also the former director of national intelligence james clapper all saying that in fact it was putin himself who ordered the hacking of the servers of the democratic national committee that was the one that was sowing the seeds of discontent and undermining the efforts to elect hillary clinton that all of this was given to the president now the president elect at the time in a very private confidential highly classified briefing but when the president came out of that briefing he issued a statement saying that he believed russia was guilty of election meddling but also it was other countries as well so certainly the president had a detailed knowledge of this dating far back as he went into that helsinki meeting but he still in fact seems to be open to the suggestion that many countries are involved even though there is overwhelming evidence that russia is a major player kimberly how keeping us up to date on those fast moving and confusing developments from the

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 spray 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. is john brennan monetising his security clearance. is john brennan making millions of dollars they've fallen 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 part of the new forces emerging former top spies who are turning to political activism a lot more of them are to be new york. etc after fence and foreign affairs magazine gregory copley says that 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 it stream leak comments des

f.b.i. director james comey by the former director of national intelligence james clapper and also the former head of the cia john brennan they both said that not only was putin personally ordering the hacking he was personally authorizing that this information campaign we know existed in the twenty sixteen u.s. election still we know after that briefing donald trump came out issued a public statement saying that not only had russia been trying to discredit him and so discontent within the u.s. electorate but also he pointed the finger at russia or rather china and many other countries so certainly this is interesting because donald trump appears even back then as now to be reluctant to say that russia has been a major player despite overwhelming evidence presented in january twenty seventeen and still being presented by members of his own administration today the story of said to keep on rolling kimberly have our white house correspondent kimberly thank you. watching the al-jazeera news hour live from london still to come on the program. the sound of gunfire is russian troops drive through a village in arme

cia director said. >> at what point will there be critical mass of objection to some of the lunacy going onit under this president? to state it boldly, the president sided with the enemy. >> jason: an ousted f.b.i. director, james comey, had to throw h in his two cents statin, "all who believe in this country's values must vote forif democrats this fall. policy differences don't matter right now. history has its eyes on us." gentlemen, is this an appropriate thing for a former intel chief to jump in here and do this? i want to start with scott. because i think these things actually play in donald trump'sy hands. >> i don't think they play in the hands. but what is your issue with what they have said, your gop colleagues have said, what democrats have said and what wee watched? we watched a president that did not denounce russia. 13 of his government agents were just indicted by mueller. they have had -- we have -- >> under the obama administration. yes. >> and 17 agencies said they attacked our election system and our president, gop president, denies it. then he gets on a consequential -- >> jason: i think -- >> he's does nothing about it. >> jason: it's too strong to say he denies it. he said