i have no confidence in clapper. know clapper wrote me a beautiful letter when i went into office and all of a sudden he's went hay wooi because they got to him and got him to say things he probably doesn't even mean. i certainly have no confidence in past people. you take a look at all of the shenanigans that have gone on. >> james clapper spent 35 years in the u.s. military, it's pretty shocking to hear the president talk about these dpis like that. >> honestly, it's disgraceful. these are career public servants, who have devoted their lives to this country. and the president lists them going down the line as if they have all hated him certainly. the one name he did mention that i was kind of listening for is bob mueller, the special counsel, he kind of left him off that list. but the president is taking on people who have made it their career do protect america, and for him to come out and say that these people were all out to get him personally, is just kind of depressing and stunning. >> david axelrod what do yo

clapper, served two tours of duty in southeast asia. despite that, senator rand paul who floated the idea to the president, suggested that this issue is an easy political win. >> i think there's a great deal of resolve. because i don't think we should reveal secrets who are calling the commander in chief treasonous. i don't think there's many people in america who are going to disagree with that judgment that we will continue to give secrets to calling the president treasonous. i would probably go further and say that really ex-cia agents once retired should no longer have top secret clearance. >> while rand paul calls this a no-brainer, democrats like ron wyden say it looks like the president is compiling, quote, an enemy list. as for folks being targeted, they're staying relatively quiet. comey and mccabe don't even have security clearance. that is what's so important. sarah sanders gets on the podium, ready to roll, naming people who don't even have clearance. that is sloppy nonsense. those men lost it when they were fired. for other

tell us, general clapper, how many years did you serve in the active u.s. military and how personally irritated are you right now that someone with your background in the military, 30, 40 years, whatever it was, is being treated like this? >> well, obviously, i think it's pretty shabby. and i'm not -- just not me. i served 34 years in the military altogether. counting my marine corps, reserve time, and then 32 years in the air force and then another 16 years in 3 different civilian capacities in the government. two of which were political appointee positions in republican and democratic administrations and i think it's -- this is terrible. you know? the substantive importance of it for me is minimal. i don't get classified briefings anymore. none of us do. and per my cadence tweet earlier, has no impact on what i say or do. it could for some people, particularly if they are under employment with a defense contractor where a security clearance is required. well, it could have real impact. in my particular case it doesn't. >> general clapper, thanks so much f

we have james clapper on the line. he's a national security analyst and former director of national intelligence. mr. clapper, you are apparently now on a list according to the white house. they would like to revoke your security clearance. how do you feel about that? >> well, it's interesting news. i'm reading it and learning about it just as you are. i think it's off the top of my head a sad commentary. for political reasons this is a petty way of retribution, i suppose for speaking out against the president which i think on the part of all of us, are borne out of genuine concerns about president trump. >> sarah huckabee sanders, one of the words she used, she referred to you all as politicizing and that you've monetized, essentially, your security clearance by you along with a number of other folks on the screen come on tv, paid contributor, with the security clearance to say how you feel about the president, and they don't like it, apparently. >> well, the security clearance has nothing to do with how i or any of u

that, i think, director clapper nailed. that's the most important thing. whether it's a distraction from russia or not, chilling free speech is something we need to take seriously. >> no question. it's a very, very dangerous road to go down. i will say i think there's a little irony in the fact that donald trump is saying that they monetized the situation and they already have books out and by raising the profile of james clapper and james comey, you are probably helping them monetize it more. >> they aren't unique in the fact that they left the administration and wrote a book. that is sort of what ex-officials do. i'm having a hard time thinking of a high ranking official that hasn't left and written some manner of book. that sort of falls flat. i think this is twofold. this is a way to change the headlines. the president doesn't want to talk about his relationship with putin. several of the individuals that he named, susan rice, james comey, mccabe, these are villains on the right already. these are people that he can set himself up with and he can go to

that brings us to the well-known leaker and liar himself, james clapper.he former director of national intelligence, widely believed to have leaked details of the infamous dossier to cnn. where he is now employed. fake news. and yet cnn cannot imagine why such an honorable person like him would lose his security clearance. let's take a look. >> cnn national security analysts jim clapper, and given the attack on him, i want to walk you through his ample nonpartisan resume, director of national intelligence during the obama administration, and director of the intelligence agency under president bush and bill clinton. joining the air force in 1963. serving torque curve two tours of combat. two defense distinguished metals for national intelligence. >> sean: okay, it was james clapper who issued a directive that said, in case you want to do some real research of news on your station, when it is determined that access to classified information is no longer required, the department or agency shall terminate such access and debrief the individual. oh, that is jam

let me play that for you. >> i have no confidence in clapper. clapper wrote me a beautiful letter when i first went to office and it was really nice, and he went haywire because they got to him and he said things he doesn't even mean. >> i'm not sure who they is, but i mean everything that i say, and president trump doesn't have a lot of confidence in me, i think the feeling is mutual, and i consider myself in very good company when he criticized me with people like jim comey, that's a badge of honor. thank you very much for joining us. >> all right, joining us. i don't want to let them slide here. james clapper who saw on the intelligence the russian attack on the u.s. election saying after he watched the helsinki press conference, i really do wonder if the russians have something. a guy that by the way he saw the intelligence for a year. after the press conference, he says i really do wonder if they do have something. >> i think it is a pivotal spoemt for people. trump who is so obsessed with the idea of strength at there on a teenage as a pre

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. , d then all of a sudden he's gone haywire, because they got to him and they probably got him to say things that maybe he doesn't even mean. n t, no, i certainly don't have confidence in past people. you look at what's happened. tak at allf the shenanigans that have gone on. very hard to have confidence in that group. >> glor: on saturday you told us your doctrine is strength, and achieving peace through strength. >> right. >> glor: after helsinki, lindsey graham said you showed weakness. >> well, lindsey graham, let me just-- >> glor: newt gingrich said it was the biggest mistake of your presidency. >> i totally disagree. i think i did great at the news conference. i think it was a strong news conference. you have people that said "you should have gone up to him. you should have walked up and started screaming in his face." we're living in the real world. okay. >> glor: who gives you th

clapper and brennan and others, particularly clapper have been in the united states military.hey have served republicans. it is only in recent months that they have been extraordinarily political, because they say it's what they see is needed with the president who is not respecting institutions, especially the intelligence community where they all worked. by way of context when i say it's political, michael flynn was in the intelligence community. he headed one of the intelligence agencies, the defense intelligence agency. and after that he was making money. he still had his security clearance. he was on the campaign trail saying that hillary clinton should be locked up. he didn't get his security clearance pulled by barack obama, the then president. if you're looking for something that is as -- is the closest to compare it to would probably be that. and, again, we have not seen any of the individuals that sarah sanders put out now on the campaign trail actively campaigning for or against a candidate. not yet. >> so if this is politically motivated, this would be retaliation,

>> ambassador clapper is waiting, director clapper, i should say. thank you, chris. >>> now that he's two days and 5,000 miles away from putin, president trump claims he was very strong on russia's election hacking. really? let's call this what it is. russia's attack on our democracy. in the cleanup to the cleanup to the cleanup, the president telling cbs news' jeff glor this about what he claims he said to putin. >> what did you say to him? >> very strong on the fact that we can't have meddling, we can't have any of that. >> well, that's what he says now. days later. on his third, or is it his fourth or maybe his fifth try. of course we didn't actually hear what was said behind closed doors in helsinki. but we did hear this from president trump today in the cabinet room. >> is russia still targeting the u.s., mr. president? >> thank you very much. no. >> no, you don't believe that to be the case? >> no. thank you very much, everybody. we're doing very well. we are doing very well and we're doing well, probably as well as anybody has ever done with

think about the positions that clapper has taken. the lies that he has told.omey misrepresented at the very least, so much. he talked about president trump as a man who is nefarious, but this is the man, he was perfectly willing to serve as his fbi director. and the list goes on. the madness and the intrigue is overwhelming. i expect to most americans. because first they did not know that these people had security clearances, still. they did not understand why they got them in the first place. and ascended to the top of the agencies. and the fact is, whether it is the fbi, the cia, the dni, what were their great accomplishments in achievements in leading the intelligence community? >> tucker: exactly, yeah. >> the history of the intelligence community over the past 20 years is a sad and sorry tale. >> tucker: if i weren't in the white house, i would convene a month-long symposium against human trafficking to watch moaning door -- morning joe. >> i will endorse that idea. that is a lovely idea. >> tucker: great to see you. a former cia analyst, he worked with h

ambassador clapper is waiting. i have to run. >> thank you. i appreciate this. director clapper. this is cnn tonight. now that he is 5,000 miles away from vladimir putin, president trump claim he was very strong on russia's hacking. let's call it what it is. russia's attack on our democracy. in the clean-up to the clean-up to the clean-up. saying this about what he claims he said to putin. >> very strong on the fact that we can't have meddling, any of that. >> that's what he says now. days later. on his third or, is it his fourth or fifth try. of course, we didn't actually hear what was said behind closed doors in helsinki but we did hear this from president trump today in the cabinet room. here it is. >> is russia still targeting the u.s., mr. president? >> let's go. make your way out. let's go. >> press, let's go. >> thank you very much, everybody. we're doing very well. we are doing very well and we're doing very well. probably as well as anybody has ever done with russia. and there is been no president ever as tough as i have been on russia. all you have to do is look at the

i have no confidence in clapper.ou know, clapper wrote me a beautiful letter when i first went to office, and it was really nice. and then all of the sudden he's gone haywire because they got to him and they probably got him to say things that maybe he doesn't even mean. but no, i certainly don't have confidence in past people. you look at what's happened. take a look at all of the senn nan began shenanigans that have gone on very hard to have confidence in that group. >> joining me by phone retired lieutenant general james clapper. director clapper, the president saying they have gotten to you since you wrote that gorgeous, beautiful letter to him. has anyone gotten to you? >> no, absolutely not, anderson. i mean everything i say, and everything i said, i mean. >> the 2017 assessment that the president says he now agrees with, that was done while you and then nci director john brennan were still in office. how can we reconcile the president attacking you, but apparently after a very long time finally, allegedly -- o

clapper, the former director of national intelligence. james clapper. susan rice, president obama's national security adviser for a time. there's a couple of others on the list as well. is it possible -- is it possible to characterize this as anything other than, you know, kind of a brush-back by the white house or is there more than revenge at work here? >> well, i don't think it's any position to speculate on whether it was appropriate or whether it amounted to retaliation. but what i can tell you in a factual way is that i cannot remember a time when former senior intelligence officials have been so open in public about their political views that relate to ongoing investigations. in this case, the russia case. the group that was mentioned by sarah sanders at the podium, the one that is kind of not like the others or doesn't fit is susan rice. susan rice has not really been leaning forward in the same way the others have in terms of television appearances or the messages in which she's communicated her political views on developments on twitter. it's

mike hayden comes on and is not as harsh as clapper is. you see i think he is the -- >> well. >> the shining beacon of -- >> who's who of the enemies of donald trump. of conservatives. of fox news. if you looked at fox news over the last couple of days, this is something they have been talking about, too. tucker carlson brought it up specifically. why does brennan have the security clearance? rand paul jumps on it, too. it is clearly the president has been back on his heels in some ways even on fox news so i think grabbed on to this idea that has been floating around among conservatives for a while. you hear from clapper and the folks who have these honorary clearances and not going back for clearances every day. susan rice on the board of netflix at this point and moved on from needing or wanting a security clearance. >> falls on the idea that president trump opposed to the idea of people monetizing their government service. if that the case, perhaps you would like to talk to your daughter, your son-in-law, your sons and maybe sean spicer

and now suddenly we're shifting to brennan and clapper.ink it's the way the president wants to stir the pot. and i think it's really troubling. >> yeah. a lot of people agree with you. anne milgram, you're our legal analyst. some are potential witnesses in the overall russia probe. what does that tell you about this? >> yeah, i mean, i think that to gloria's point, it would almost be easy to dismiss this as a petty political sideshow, and, you know, in an effort to distract whether it's iran or helsinki or the manafort trial coming up soon. but i actually -- i really think that this is more. the idea of having a political litmus test for who gets a national security clearance and really using that to try to quash dissent is deeply troubling. do you evaluate people who currently have security clearances in the law enforcement agencies on their political beliefs, on their political party? not to mention the countless number of private security individuals that the government has and continues to employ around the world who have private secur

director clapper, thank you as always. i appreciate talking to you. chief political analyst gloria borger joins us now along with steve hall. is this a well planned out and thought out idea? two of the people at the white house were looking to revoke his security clearance to don't even have a security clearance, mccabe and comey. but does this seem thought out the you? >> no. what does seem thought out lately. >> that's true. >> these days. no, not at all. i mean, it seems to me that the president had a meeting with senator rand paul earlier today who suggested that, you know, he didn't like what brennan had been saying about the president and that he ought to have his security clearance revoked. is so they had a conversation, and then after that, at some point, i guess the president decided that would be a really good idea and decided to add other people to a so-called public enemies list. at least nixon's was private. this is out there, of his critics, and added this. and then sarah sanders gets a question. she is completely prepared for it, by the

he's cleaning up brennan, clapper, obama, comey, and clinton's mess.his happened under their watch. not his. >> we've also killed hundreds of russians in syria. this president is doing exactly what he promised he would do and i talk about it in the book. all of the good things he's doing is being ignored by the media. >> sean: they don't care, they don't care, they're liars. they are all agenda-driven. >> they are liars, leakers, and liberals, sean. that's why people have to focus on 2018, they have to make sure that we will in 2018 prove to the american people that they believe in justice, they believe in this man who takes income every day, the president of the united states, he still gets up and fights for us every day. let them have their crazy dance and get dressed up in their antifa getups. they can do whatever they want, america gets it. they are talking to each other. >> sean: congrats on the book. you can watch her saturday night, when we come back we have more breaking news. wait until you hear what lisa page and how she is contradicting her

director clapper, thank you very much for being with us. have you been able to process what you heard yesterday from the president of the united states? >> well, to be honest, alisyn, i really haven't. i'm still trying to get my head around what i witnessed, which is just unbelievable. i cannot get over it. in that single session, what the president did to diminish the stature and standing of the united states. >> you called him yesterday -- you called president trump naive and gullible. what makes you think that's what's going on? >> well, i long held that putin, because of his background and his instincts as a kgb officer, professional, from the outset would approach our president as though he were an intelligent asset and try to manipulate him, leverage him which he's done. >> but what do you mean by that? that he's successfully turned president trump into an asset or just successfully manipulated him to what snend. >> i think he has manipulated him to a position of inferiority, which is unprecedented in the history of our country where

let's talk about what former dni clapper called this. he called ate terrible precedent, he called it sad commentary for the white house. is this precedent setting? is this routine? is this somewhere in the middle? how do you see this, if it were to happen? >> it's not precedent setting. it it's, you know, people lose their security clearances all the time. they're either pulled. because they have no need anymore, they expire and they're not renewed. frankly -- and i'm not going to make a lot of friends in washington because there's a cottage industry of, you know, of taking your clearances with you into the commercial sector, as sort of an attractive highri element. but i think really, what we should be doing all along -- and this has nothing to do with the current tweets from the president, but just separately as an issue with the clearances -- we should just say, fine, you leave your government position, your need to know, then you lose your clearances. and then if you need those clearances, then you either have them sponsored by a com

thank you general clapper and hayden as well. and we will go into why it's troubling to so many people and why the president's statements have been raising concerns in washington. and those who know intelligence operations and russian agents are worried about the man who sits in the oval office. we'll go there tonight on "360." today... back pain can't win. now introducing aleve back and muscle pain. only aleve targets tough pain for up to 12 hours with just one pill. aleve back & muscle. all day strong. all day long. until her laptop crashed her salonthis morning.or weeks, you never know what the day's going to bring when you're running a small business, it might even bring a blue screen of death. having it problems? ask a business advisor how to get virus and spyware removal, and 24/7 tech support. office depot now offers on demand tech support for as little as $15 a month. ♪ right now, buy one hp ink and get a second at 30% off at office depot officemax dear foremothers, your society was led by a woman, who governed thousands.

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

john brennan, james comey and you can see michael hayden and james clapper and susan rice and andrew mccabe. that could be for starters. it's already start add firestorm in washington today. welcome. i'm neil cavuto, this is "your world." security clearance revoke not yet but for those six former obama administration ofs,

james clapper, the former director of national intelligence, was at the meeting and confirmed that to cnn last night. >> this is his refusal to accept information that he doesn't want to hear. >> clapper says his biggest fear in the wake of president trump's summit performance is it essentially allows putin to do just about anything he wants. >> after days of criticism and repeated clarification, president trump now says he holds vladimir putin personally responsible for russia's attempts to interfere in the 2016 elections. >> you haven't condemned putin specifically. do you hold him personal responsible? >> well, i woulds because he is in charge -- i would because he is in charge of the country just like i'm responsible for what happens if this country. -- in this country. certainly you have to hold him responsible. yes. >> what did you say to him? >> we cannot have meddling. i let him know we cannot have this. we will not have it. that's the way it will be. >> the president now accepts u.s. assessments of russia interfered and continues to do so. that is something he did not say in

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's gone hey wire because they got to him and they probably got him to say things that maybe he doesn't even mean. but no, i certainly don't have confidence in past people. you look at what's happened. take a look at all of the shenanigans that have gone on, very hard to have confidence in that group. >> steve schmidt, two more poeses of information to throw at you and then take it away. during the most controversial and really devastating periods politically after the iraq war took some of its, you know, most botched turns, there was never an effort -- i talked to three former -- of our former colleagues. no one was ever stripped of their security clearances of being harsh critics of the iraq war. no critics take away security clearances of the one that preceded it, no matter how harsh the political debate comes. and i heard the president say something there tha

clapper called the threat to take away clearance quote petty. james comey, president obama nominated him as fbi director and he served until president trump fired him over the russia investigation. previously comey served as deputy attorney general under president george w. bush. threat is not much of a threat 25 at all. andrew mick kab. >> say that one more time. >> no more clearance. just to say it. for sar -- he doesn't have experience. andrew mick k -- andrew mccabe. james comey nominated him as fbi director in 2016. attorney general jeff sessions fired him just two days before his retirement in march of this year. spokesperson says he no longer has security clearance either. so what are we talking about him for? finally, susan rice president obama's national security adviser from 2013 to 2017. she also served under president clinton. that's who we are talking about here. >> joining us now, malcolm with more than 30 years. also the author of the new book. and clint watts, who wrote the book messing with the enemy. malcolm, washington post op

it's clapper in brennan that have been overly partisan. that's fairly unusual. it does beg the question why and why not. hayden less so. rice involved in the unmasking and mccabe in the dossier. so today, sarah sanders, said the president is investigating what can be done. >> not only is the president looking to take away brennan's security clearance, he's looking into the clearances of comey, clapper, hayden, 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 a baseless accusations of being in contact with russia that is extremely inappropriate. the fact that people with security clearances are making these baseless charges provides legitimacy to accusations with no threat. >> brennan has been unhinged to hear it from the white house tell it. that's not me saying it. that's them saying it. they feel so strongly that he's been so unfair in his criticism. i can also tell you this quickly, we've heard from the spokesperson f

with that jim clapper version two-point oh? >> my birthday was in march i turned 77 so clearly when i quit as director of national intelligence almost six and a half years i didn't notice how tired and stressed out i was. because the job is so consuming never actually had a whole day off the whole six and a half years. so essentially it is liberating to be free of the day today burden and worry and stress. and i find great satisfaction with things with projects around the house and last sunday my wife and i went to home depot and bought plants and planted them. that was quite satisfying so now i have an interest in those plants. i have never done that before. >> so now all those professionals watching now they get to their section so the wise man observations so the big picture first obviously for over half a century has seen a dramatic change of how the american public thinks so can you talk you don't have to go into details but what is the great unfinished war? a lot was done after 911. but what are the weaknesses they have t

former acting director of the fbi andrew mccabe, and former director of national intelligence james clapper. a former senior intelligence officially spoke to today following the white house threat called today's announcement a watershed moment of the trump presidency and said, quote, if we have come to a point when we use the stripping of security clearances to deny free speech, we have crossed an american line and people need to act. he also said of the individuals named by the white house today who he knows well, quote, the danger here is that while traditionally former directors have not entered the political debate, they have been called nazis by this president and these guys feel there is a need to protect the community because trump has crossed lines that create danger. this former official added, quote, the standard for stripping clearances is the disclosure of classified information and none of these individuals have disclosed classified information. they're doing no more than exercising their first amendment right to criticize a sitting

james clapper three people who have shown to be vehemently anti-trump that vladimir putin personally made sure they meddled in the election and he was personally responds cybil for it and the term is the president reluctantly agreed grudgingly convinced that putin ordered the interference. ainsley: the president has called out numerous times vladimir putin for meddling nut election and, russia, listen to this. >> as far as hacking i think it was russia. we also get hacked by other countries and other people. and i can say that you know, when we lost 22 million names and everything else that was hacked recently, they didn't make a big deal out of that. that was something that was extraordinary. that was probably china we have much hacking going on. i think it was russia and could have been other people and other countries, could have been a lot of the people interfered. i think it was russia. but i think it was probably other people and/or

clapper lied under oath.eaked information through a friend to create momentum for a special counsel. mccabe lied three times under oath and faces a criminal referral. we know peter strzok isn't telling the truth he couldn't admit bias in his text messages to the lisa page in the committee hearing two weeks ago. the president is fighting back like he sudden. what we also know is this past weekend everything that we saw in this fisa application confirm what is we have been all been saying for seven months. steve: so will the president pull their security creerns clearances? he is considering it right now. stay tuned. ainsley: it turns out, you know we were talking yesterday about the president being criticized on all these networks about his comments to iran. iranian dictator or leader said one thing. our president fought back. but, it is working. his strategy is working. we are learning this morning that there are satellite images of north korea and they are dismantling its main missile engine test site. so si

clapper said it's kind of a sad commentary for political reasons. a friend of comey's asked the former fbi director whether he even has the security clearance to revoke and space comey required nope. she said her clients clearance was already deactivated. >> this strikes me as a way of lashing out at the president's critics. but that's part of the job, to defend your positions, and attacking them this way seems to me to set a pretty dangerous precedent. >> the president also weighed in on the weekend document dump from the justice department. heavily redacted, the 412 pages released late saturday indicated that the unverified dossier funded by the dnc and clinton campaign help secure the surveillance warrant for trump campaign aide carter page. on twitter the president tied in the robert mueller special counsel russia probe and the national security court known as fisa. the fake dirty dossier that was knowingly and falsely submitted to the fisa, which was responsible for starting the totally conflicted and discredited mueller witch hunt. >> house re

clapper or anyone else has to say.t because they served as a former dni or national security advisor or whatever doesn't preclude their free speech rights once they leave that position. has nothing to do with responsibilities under current law and regulation to be a part of that network of individuals who get continued classified briefings. this boils down to one simple thing, the president is pissed because these folks are talking smack about what he's doing at the white house. he doesn't like it. he can't strike at them because they don't work for him. he can do the one thing, go at the one nexus he has to his administration, forever you will, that is that they still get these classified briefings. >> i think that makes perfect sense, michael, what you're saying and goes back to this seems to be a very emotional president breaking the rules and doing things experts say undermine national security, because there's something, as you put it, makes him upset. he's also upset about a current national professional, upset o

james clapper, director hayden. national security adviser susan rice, fbi number two, andrew mccabe, two of them, comey and mccabe no longer have security clearances. the white house announcement followed a twitter notice from rand paul of kentucky saying he said ask the president to remove brennan's privileges. he has been vocal in his criticism of the news conference with putin. it appears to have started on the president's cable news network of choice. >> john brennan is an irresponsible partisan combatant who works for a cable news channel and threatened the president on twitter. why would he have a top secret clearance? >> if john brennan has top secret clearance, can he research donald trump and his family? >> that seems to echo what the president told cbs news when he named names of former intelligence officials in a list remarkably similar to what we heard today. >> do you think agencies are out to get you? >> well certainly in the past. it's been terrible. you look at brennan, you look at clapper, you look

i agree with mike about the rationale for it. >> general clapper, when you hear what the man who has your job now, director of national intelligence, says he president didn't talk to him about meeting with putin and still doesn't know still, does that surprise you? i would have thought the president would come out of that meeting with putin and there'd be a quick debrief with his top intelligence officials or staff and that might get disseminated to coats indirectly. >> that's certainly the conventional manner in which these things are done, first, the national security team would be a part of the decision-making process to have a summit. work out the details for the agenda and the objectives and rules and all that sort of thing. as we have come to know, with this president, who's not conventional and very unorthodox, no, it doesn't surprise me everyone on his team is in the dark. >> general hayden, in terms of the whole idea of living the cover, perhaps the president is putting it out there as a doubling down to show a brave face. perhaps they're not actually going to go through wit

president trump doesn't like people going on television like james clapper has, like john brennan has and criticizing what they see in terms of his complete lack of respect and denigration of the intel community. so they have criticized him publicly. so now it feels this is punitive. >> uh-huh. >> and retribution for that and that he might revoke their security clearance. what else is going on behind the scenes? >> this actually is what we were talking about before is what's a distraction versus him just popping off. this is actually a distraction. this is something that sarah sanders went to the podium, was reading from this. to the extent that this white house plans things out, this was something that was planned. what took him so long is the fact that this was not realistic. some of the people he was talking about don't have active clearances. >> comey. >> correct. number two, it's not going to stop people -- he doesn't get to waive a wand and make this go away quickly. this is something the white house knows will fill headline space and kweez other things out, that is what they're

james clapper can't walk into cia today, say, hand me these following files.has the secret clearance, if pompeo said, i want you to look at this, he still has clearance to be seen, they can't do it demand to see things, because of their clearance get them, it just means if they are called upon to view them. >> everyone that special goggles, chris stirewalt thank you so much. >> thank you. kennedy: another sign, doj released 400 pages o fisa documents with carter page, president tweeted, we find out is was unverified and fake dirty dossier paid for by croo crooked hillary clinton. -- critics point out even though documents did not specify it came from dlin dli clinton clin, they said that firm that hire the steel was politically motivated. should we wait until we have more much in. panel is here to discuss joining me town lawal.com editor. katy pavlich with reason.com associate, robby. and a columnist at federalist. welcome you to. >> hello. kennedy: katy, with you. president and his supporters say this is vindication because steel dossier was used when fed sub

why did clapper deny there were fisa warrants? after the election they wanted to hide the fact they were on a fishing expedition to find anything they could on trump, they never found anything and that is why we don't have -- >> this is ongoing. >> we are giving up parking tickets and speeding tickets. >> 91 indictments. >> a scintilla of evidence. >> don't know why we don't let it run its course. strange to me that innocent people act guilty. shorter than trig out he spend on benghazi. >> it was the last committee that found hillary's emails. it takes a little time. >> let's start with hillary emails. we will be here for another hour. great to see you. former fbi director james comey giving democrats political advice and getting serious back lash. that and more when we return. a scratch so small you coulda fixed it with a pen. maybe you should take that pen and use it to sign up with a different insurance company. for drivers with accident forgiveness liberty mutual won't raise their rates because of their first accident. liberty

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 country. i mean, what is crazy a

reporter: the president is threatening to punish brennan and comey and clapper for saying things about him he doesn't like. is that presidential? ms. sanders: the president is exploring these mechanisms to remove security clearance. because they politicized and in some cases actually monetized their public service and their security clearances. and making baseless accusations of improper contact with russia or being influenced by russia against the president is extremely inappropriate. the president contends the fact that people with security clearances are making these baseless charges provides inappropriate legitimacy to accusations with zero evidence. when we have further updates on that front, i'll let you know. reporter: so they said something he doesn't like and he's punishing them for it? ms. sanders: no, i think you're making up your own story there. the president doesn't like that people are politicizing agencies aredepartments that specifically meant to not be political and not been -- meant to be monetized off of security clearance. reporter: isn't the president doing exactl

i'm assuming the trump officials are not breathing people like susan rice and clapper and brennan.t looks like political retaliation. the practical result, not much. >> jesse: great for fodder. >> greg: i am a big fan of fodder. just dropped into our show. how does brennan have a security clearance? a guy who is as trustworthy as jesse's barber. i agree with you, dana. so you are saying we are colluding? we are going to say you are colluding. it is like tic-tac-toe. it is like rochambeau. everyone is coming after each other. you can disagree with the administration, but i think they have ventured into undermining it. they have. come on. when you call the president a traitor, treasonous. you are undermining it. take what his clearance. >> juan: what if you are speaking the truth? >> greg: it doesn't matter. >> dana: even if this happens to them, i don't think they are going to change anything they are saying. >> juan: you are making the key points. they are not being briefed. this fits into a narrative from president trump they would say these are the citizens of the deep state and

on cnn former intelligence chief james clapper not parsing his words. >> this is kind of a petty waytribution, i suppose. >> reporter: while house speaker paul ryan described it as. >> i think it's trolling people, honestly zblsh democrats say it's all a distraction while those who have been threatened say even without security clearance they'll still be speaking out. >>> new this midday help may soon be on the way by u.s. farmers hit by tariffs on their goods. the trump administration is reportedby preparing to send billions of dollars in emergency aid to farmers caught in the cross fires. it would include direct assistance and other temporary relief for farmers being hit by retaliatory tariffs on goods like soybeans and pork. >>> new this morning ivanka trump is closing her namesake fashion brand according to "the wall street journal." the president of the brand informed employees this morning that her company would be shutting down. according to sources ms. trump was frustrated by restrictions put in place to avoid conflicts of interests while he serves in her father's administrat