i don't know if brennen quite qualifies as a witness.he president follows through with his threats to pull comey's clearance. clearance comey will be a crucial witness here. and it's a federal crime 1513, if anyone wants to look it up, to retaliate against someone to give truthful information to law enforcement. so he's getting closer and closer to dangerous ground here. >> terrific point. our thanks to you all. we'll have you all back. coming up there have been questions from the manafort jury. one of them may not be the best news for the prosecution. we're going to look back at day one of prosecution and talks to professionals when we continue. in a study with ozempic®, a majority of adults lowered their blood sugar and reached an a1c of less than seven and maintained it. oh! under seven? (vo) and you may lose weight. in the same one-year study, adults lost on average up to 12 pounds. oh! up to 12 pounds? (vo) a two-year study showed that ozempic® does not increase the risk of major cardiovascular events like heart attack, stroke, or d

they're making it about john brennen not about the bigger question.t the cia before he did this, he did not follow the clearly spelled out process for taking away somebody's security clearance where you lay out the behavior that makes you worry they should have-touch instead he told "the wall street journal" he pulled brennen -- >> i think i've called him a butt head and i meant it. i think he's given the national intelligence community a bad name. >> i think the things john brennen has said over the past several months about this country has been disgraceful. >> mr. brennen has gone way over the line in my view and i think restricting his clearance, pulling his clearance makes sense to me. >> the fact he's out there every single day acting in a partisan way probably doesn't help his cause. >> he says he's probably going to get bruce or, and you're going to see general clapper, former obama administration officials. if he keeps going are they going to say mr. president, do whatever you want? >> yes, that's exactly what they're going to do. at some poi

i don't know if brennen quite qualifies as a witness. but keep in mind if the president follows through with his threats to pull comey's clearance. clearance comey will be a crucial witness here. and it's a federal crime 1513, if anyone wants to look it up, to retaliate against someone to give truthful information to law enforcement. so he's getting closer and closer to dangerous ground here. >> terrific point. our thanks to you all. we'll have you all back. if anyone wants to look it up, to retaliate against someone to give truthful information to law enforcement. so he's getting closer and closer to dangerous ground here. >> terrific point. our thanks to you all. we'll have you all back. coming up there have been questions from the manafort jury. one of them may not be the best news for the prosecution. we're going to look back at day one of prosecution and talks to professionals when we continue. >>> day one of deliberations is history in the manafort trial. after going at it for about seven hours today the jury will be back at it at

he stripped john brennen's security clearance because he ties brennen to the russia investigation. >> look, i say it. i say it again. that whole situation is a rigged witch hunt. it's a totally rigged deal. >> totally rigged witch hunt. minus the word hoax you know what he's talk about. those are trump's favorite words for the russia investigation. maybe he is being honest about his motivations when it comes down to russia. but his press secretary gave a different explanation this week why trump revoked brennen's clearance. >> any benefit that senior officials might glean from consultations with mr. brennen are now outweighed by the risks posed with his erratic conduct and behavior. >> erratic conduct and behavior. maybe president trump realized that excuse wasn't going to work, because if erratic behavior was the standard for security clearance he would lose his, too. remember this tweet, and remember these comments? >> rocket man is on a suicide mission for himself. north korea best not make anymore threats to the united states. they will be met with fire and fury like the world has

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by the way, i don't want to just pick on brennen. clapper also lied in front of network, lied to congresses. >> you said that. but the bottom line here is there was -- there has been a unanimous response right now from the former intelligence officials who have come out and they have said that this kind of behavior rove indication of these security clearances for a political reason has never been done and should never been done. >> because former heads of intelligence, ana, were never political the way these men are. you didn't see william webster leave office and become a cable news partisan operative. >> i'll give you the last word. >> i say it's irrelevant. >> steve, you need to be quiet because you made your point. he wants brennen in jail. >> which is beyond. >> really? >> but what he is happening now is the politicizization, steve even sounds very, very panicked, very nervous, irrational, throw if he never jail attitude. i don't know what's behind that. all i know is keep your cool, people are allowed to say what they want to s

i want to talk about the focus on john brennen. after president trump's press conference with vladimir putin in helsinki brennen unleashed some pretty remarkable criticisms against the president saying it was quote, nothing short of treasonous. take a listen how brennen explained that comment just a couple days ago. >> and i did say it rises to and exceeds the level of high crimes and misdemeanors and there's nothing sort of treasonous. i didn't mean he committed treason, but it was a term i used nothing short of treasonous. >> but you didn't mean he committed treason, though? >> i said it was nothing short of treasonous, yeah. >> we'll get into the president's term in a second, but do you think john brennen's hyperbole is an issue here, the reason why we're having this crisis? >> i think it is. i think john is sort of like a freight train and he's going to say what's on his mind. i think, though, that the common denominator among all of us that have been speaking up, though, is genuine concern about the jeopardy andthets to o thre

brennen has leveraged his status as a former high ranking official. status to make a series of unfounded and outrageous allegations wild outbursts on the internet and television while a member of this administration. >> cnn contributor walter shab who resigned from the department of ethics last year. good evening. so much to talk about. president trump spoke to the wall street journal. president trump drew a direct connection between the russia investigation and his security clearance decision. >> i call it the rigged witch hunt, it is a sham, and she's people let it i think it's something that had to be done. doesn't that contradict what we heard from sarah sanders today? >> if does. to say i consulted with my intelligence community, the cia who holds brennen's clearance and they have serious concerns about him continuing to access this information. instead, he gave an interview to the press and said, this is about my hurt feelings, in doing so, this neuters the intelligence committee a key function is to determine who needs clearance he took that an

that's not what we're seeing from john brennen. john brennen has decided to exercise his first amendment rights, speak from things he knows a great deal about in terms of the way national security is handled in the country and give his opinion. normally presidents think of the country as leadership and that their role as being leaders and they can take criticism, and part of it is hearing all sides and not seeing every person who's a critic has someone who needs to be shut down and silenced. >> the president is saying he's giving him a greater platform by pointing him out. >> i worked with john brennen for four years. i don't think he needs the president lambasting him on twitter to make him feel like he has a voice. he used his voice with president obama and he's using it now against president trump. that's a ridiculous thing for president trump to say. it's a pr stunt. >> thank you both. >>> deliberations resume monday in the trial of former trump campaign chairman paul manafort. coming up, does the jury's question to the judge p

it hurts the country more than it hurts john brennen who will be fine.is. >> one thing that is important to point out is that the president is not on an island by himself on this right now. there is quite a significant level of republican support for what he did. and rick tyler, the antipathy coming from republicans across the hill, it's pretty deeply seeded. the only republican i heard yesterday average that brennen should keep his clearance was susan collins. and she said i don't really like brennen. >> one is that he decided to include tommy, for instance, who already had his security clearance revoked which meant he just wanted to publicly stick it to comey. he didn't have a -- >> jim comey, another person with no friends on capitol hill any more. >> correct. >> two, it's pretty clear he did this to quell the political damage coming from the omarosa tapes. that's not wise, but it's not new. he doesn't play with others. these are former administration with intel and he does not get along with intel. this isn't about free speech. you don't need a secur

not chilling for someone like brennen and retired. impact to him is going to minimal. someone who joined post 9/11 and taught very specifically from the lessons of 9/11 that intelligence professionals are trained, are encouraged to go out there. make a mistake. don't be afraid to say something that goes against the grain. we want people because of 9/11. we want people intelligence professionals to say things that maybe they're commanders don't agree with. maybe they're superiors don't go with. that's the point. punishing someone doesn't matter about clearance. singling out and punishing people, you are essentially going backwards from everything we've done post 9/11 in terms of making this country safer by encouraging thoughtful debate, encouraging thoughtful analyst and encouraging people in the minority see to speak up. you don't want to silence voices. that's what the president has just done. >> also impacts people's lives. if you are going to his point about brennen's retiring, what about young people that want to go forward and get the security clearance and then

morgan brennen has more on this escalating feud. >> reporter: what happens when the president of the united statess support the boycott of an american brand? hainey-davidson may soon f out. after hosting a bikers for trump event over the weekend, president trump tookero twi to slam the company saying, many harley-davidson owners plan to boycott the company as manufacturing moves overseas.th most companies are coming in this direction, including harl competitors. really bad move. the u.s. will have a level playing field or beer. it's the latest salvo in a war of words that has found harley at the center of a much bigger debate. >> i think as a business we just deal with what we have toeal with, and there -- we are not a political organization. we work very hard to be apolitical in how we approach a our businessnd our consumers everywhere in theworld, we do what we have to t do maintain that integrity as a company and as a brand facing difficult decisions as we do, as we have in this case. and that was just an unfortunate attention that wro maded an unfortunate set of circumstances. >>

i've covered john brennen. i've covered jim clapper, these are not men who scare easily, these are not men who cry wolf. the fact that they are out there shouting at the top of their lungs day after day at this point, that this man is a threat to our nation's rule of law, and our democratic institutions is something that we should be focused on. >> well, david, let's talk a little bit more about that, because former cia national security agency director michael hayden told cnn today that the relationship between trump and the intelligence community is dangerously close to being permanently broken. how dangerous is it -- the state of relations between the president and the intelligence community, that it's so bad that it's at risk of being permanently broken? >> one of the dangers here is that there is the fear -- and i haven't heard this directly from many people, because thankfully most of the people still doing national security currently are putting their heads down and doing their job, trying to protect nat

should brennen in your opinion take legal action against the president? >> well, that's certainly an option. i know john is considering it, and there are several legal activists who have approached all of us that have been threatened with this, and in john's case, where his clearance has been revoked. and i think that's a decision yet to be made. that's certainly one option. i will say, just to clarify, though, that john's interest is not in attempting to restore his clearance with a suit. his point would be to make a larger point, which is his right to speak and by extension others, which is by the way, if i may just take a moment to amplify something i said yesterday on state of the union, the issue here is not parsing john's rhetoric. the issue is his right to speak, and by extension, other's right to speak. >> the -- i want to read you something that the president tweeted today. he said i hope john brennan brings a lawsuit, it will then be easy to get all of his records, texts, e-mails and documents to show the poor job he did. but how he was involved

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brennen has leveraged his status to make a series of wild outbursts on the internet and television. > criticism is core protected speech. >> mr. brennan is totally political, i think he's given the national intelligence community a bad name. >> the white house just messaged the intelligence community. if you say things that upset the president, he will punish you. >> this guy devastated me with his actions. >> there are simply no words that i can offer to take away the pain. >> it won't go away. it's going to come in country after country after country. >> this is "new day" with alisyn camerota and john berman. >>> good morning, welcome to "new day," alisyn is off. erica hill joins me and the word of the day -- let's say it together -- hogwash. former cia director john brennan out just a short time ago with a new op-ed after the president revoked his security clearance because he was among those who launched the investigation into the russian attack on the 2016 election. this morning, brennan writes president trump's claims of no collusion are hogwash. he goes on to write mr. trump ha

. >>> plus "the washington post" confirming tonight that brennen security clearance move was decidedo change the subject. and not to be outdone trump is reportedly eager to do it again and we have the latest reporting. >>> also tonight one of the great voices of the past half century is gone. tonight we will remember the essential and remarkable aretha franklin as "the 11th hour" gets under way on a thursday night. >>> well, good evening once again from our nbc news headquarters here in new york.

welcome morgan brennen >> thank you i'm excited. and we're color coordinated. >> i see that.ow did that happen? first let's check in on the markets. s&p, nasdaq, russell all hitting all-time highs today the dow crossing 26,000 for the first time since february. a strong rally across the board as you can see sectors like industrials, materials and financials leads the charge >> and dow, s&p and nasdaq are on pace to post their best august gains since 2014. we've got that new trade agreement with mexico that's helping to push stocks higher today. with that let's get over to kayla tausche with the details >> an announcement today on certain parts of that agreement. specifically dealing with the content requirements in autos. the two countries saying that 75% of car contents will come from the u.s. and mexico, and half of the content will be made by workers making at least $16 an hour. that's designed to prevent outsourcing from the united states and keep a lot of car manufacturing here, as the president has said he wants to do there'll be no new tariffs on agricultural products.

former cia director john brennen fired back on the rachel maddow show. >> i know there's a question.o be looking at in terms of whether or not mr. trump is going to be doing in in order to obstruct justice or to try to silence critics. whatever, but the fact he's using a security clearance of a former cia director as a pawn in his public relations strategy is just so reflective

. >> not walk into a bar but walk onto a set, john brennen, stormy daniels and omarosa, all of them reinvolve around the notion to silence critics through either payoffs or intimidation in the case of brennan. stormy daniels poses a threat, women pose threats so we'll pay them off. omarosa today offered this $180,000 a year job, a no show job by lara trump by saying just don't say anything bad about us. john brennan, you can't pay him off, but you can cut him off and try to threaten and intimidate him. all speaking to a president two apparently is not just thin skinned but is starting to feel as though the various angles of potential vulnerability that something has got to be done and something that's just not tweets at this point. so it's taking more substantive actions. i think that shows you a president that feels -- and omarosa was not in the inner circle of the campaign. but the tape today talking to lara trump shows you something important. which is that she may access to e-mails that may prove nothing for bob ruler. but when you're talking to family members of the trump family, you're

remember just last week when he withdrew brennen's security clearance the stated reason by the whitekless behavior and indiscriminate public commentary. to have trump saying we should study mccarthyism it seems that's what he simself has been doing in these exercises. it's a very elaborate n sense inside trump's mind. this twitter feed is going to be studied i'm convinced by historians for generations who say we just never had this unbelievable realtime insight into this complicated and even bizarre rantings of the most powerful man in the world. >> i think if you -- you should probably do like a trump what did you mast in, what's your major, trumpism? what does that say? projection. i was writing that and susan said it because he projects everything. >> you can go through every single person. lying ted, crooked hillary, who's more crooked than hillary. >> donald trump. >> it's almost like he's seeing version of himself and attacking them, you know? >> what about that, john. his tweeter feed will be studied especially as it relates to this case. >> i think it will be. in fact, i unde

muchos salen en defensa de brennen, entre ellos, seis ex funcionarios de la agencia porque dicen quelo Último. elyangÉlica: no dudan en hacer que revocar la credencial es una forma de vengarse de Él y que la estrategia fue pensada para intimidar a los crÍticos de la administraciÓn de trump, en una reuniÓn con su gabinete donde se cocinaba por esto, el mandatario guardÓ silencio. " presidente, es apropiado que castigue a sus crÍticos?", decÍan los periodistas, hablando de que brennen es de los mÁs fÉrreos contra las polÍticas de trump. dice que su decisiÓn se justificaba con que Él tiene que ver con en bestias sobre la trama rusa, a la que llevar " cacerÍa de brujas amaÑada", algo que ellos tenÍan que hacer. brennan respondiÓ con fuego cruzado en el new york times. dice que son unas tonterÍas. que la Última pronta que queda por responder es si la colaboraciÓn implica una responsabilidad penal por conspiraciÓn y se preguntaba si hubo obstrucciÓn de justicia para encubrirla. a brennam no le --brennan mno le faltan seguidores. dice que podrÍa agregar a la lista de sus dones y mujeres que

joining us now to discuss is maria brennen president and ceo of women and cable cell communications, maureen. lady and gentleman good to have you here i'm the girl on the set soi have to do the whole segment about why there aren't more women doing these things why do you think we've lost a woman ceo at one of the biggest companies in america and are we going to see an improvement in the numbers? >> is that for me? >> so i'm -- >> it's for maureen. >> so i am optimistic in the change in the numbers. there were a flurry of numbers today. i know we're down in the number of women holding ceo positions what has changed, me too has change they've participated in womens march, both men and women. and i think they're going to see an association with their wallets. so i'm optimistic ayou may see a change maybe not from within but from the company itself. >> is it really filtering into how they pick what goods to buy or sell? >> well, i do. i do agree with maureen to some extent i think we are seeing sort of an unprecedented tide of awareness, the sorts of things that some of the organizations

. >>> i'm morgan brennen in new york the next generation of spaceflight. spacex unveiling its new castle and i'll have the details. >>> coca-cola making a new bet in sports drinks they have to do with nba superstar kobe bryant. "the closing bell" starts right now. >>> good afternoon, a very warm welcome to "the closing bell." we'll get to all those stories in just a moment, but first let's check in on the market stocks rebounding today. helping the s&p rise for the first time a little bit more than that for the s&p, nasdaq and russell. >> all 11 s&p sectors are higher we'll have much more on the markets in just a moment, but first let's begin today with the latest on elon musk's attempts to secure funding to take tesla private. cnbc.com's alex sherman joins us on set he's been reporting incrementally. we know according to the tweets elon musk has advisers, we know the board has formed a committee to look at it. now what >> so the board should get an advisor, that should happen in the next day or so at that point the key decision point here is what is this

be another busy hour for us here on earnings julia boorstin will be bringing us the numbers morgan brennen covering aigs results and josh lippen will have the numbers from gopro. we're about 30 minutes away from that cbs earnings call joining us today to talk about this market is mike san tolly and michael back from destination management leading the dow of course was apple. cf industries was the big winner on the s&p, trip advisor the biggest loser. apple becoming the first u.s. company in history to hit $1 trillion of the market cap everybody's trying to read into it, mike what does it mean for apple? >> apple didn't keep us in suspense that long finally crossed and closed over a trillion dollars, so that's great. it obviously reflects how big the market is. so it makes sense on that front but also really does reflect how remarkably huge apple is as an economic entity. quarter of a trillion dollar in sales, most profitable company in the world >> stephanie, to what extent do you believe it's been pushed over the line because it was close to the line? >> i think there's no two ways about

. >>> i'm morgan brennen in new york the next generation of spaceflight.castle and i'll have the details. >>> coca-cola making a new