he briefed harry reid and the gang of 8. he briefed harry reid at the end of august.arry reid goes and writes a letter to the fbi. information in that letter was only in the dossier. was john brennan the cia director not supposed to be spying on innocent citizens? was he the purveyor of this fake dossier? judge jeanine: what about the fact brennan lied before senate intel. if only for that he should be charged with perjury. >> then there is a process to get rid of his security clearance whiched president did not employ. he chose to do it for spite. judge jeanine: how do you know that? >> john brennan is a man who oversaw the mission that killed bin laden. and he served for 50 years. the president who has five deferments from vietnam should not be pulling his security clearance. judge jeanine: you can read about this in terms of the swamp, this guy is pond scum. i describe him in the book if you want to know about him. >> john brennan served the country. i was a secret service agent, too. i'm not asking you for a pat on the back. >> he killed bin laden. judge jeanine:

i don't know for sure.ks but it looks like he leaked it to harry reid and then you go down this listle who should lose their clearance and there's all kinds of problems. l >> sean: 25 top fbi dojce officials that have either been fired, demoted, resigned. top people, not rank-and-file. thank you, jim jordan. rudy giuliani warning mueller is trying to meddle in the 2018 elections.ue alan dershowitz, andy mccarthy next. ♪ the closer you get to home, the more you know the commute is worth it. you and that john deere tractor, you can keep dreaming up projects all the way home. it's a longer drive, but just like a john deere, it's worth it. and i'm the founder of ugmonk. before shipstation it was crazy. it's great when you see a hundred orders come in, a hundred orders come in, but then you realize i've got a hundred orders i have to ship out. shipstation streamlined that wh the order data, the weights of , everything is seamlessly put into shipstation, so when we print the shipping ll everything's pretty much done. it's so much easier so now, we're ready, bring on t. shipstation. the num

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november 20 of the same year, headline in "the washington post," reid -- harry reid, majority leadert the time, "democrats trigger nuclear option." i want the three of you to discuss this and what impact it has had on the united states senate. dr. baker: well, i would qualify my statement by saying that we are talking about two kinds of filibusters on nominations and on legislation, which so far is holding. as the "new york times" journalist who wrote various variousg consent" and things said, the senate is the place where people come to bang their head against the wall -- he did not quite say it that way -- but to fight, bleed, and die over compromise, and those who are not willing to to compromise, you need to get 60 votes, let's say, or 67 back in those days. if you don't get the compromise, you don't get the legislation, and that has changed, at least in terms of nominations and in terms of legislation. that may be next. mr. ritchie: dick, ray, and i were there at a time when congress was undergoing a huge transformation. in 1975, when the senate historical office got started the

you also have harry reid talking with john brennan who is the head of the cia, and they seem to be barking up the exact same tree. it's a russian tree. >> you can't swing that cat without hitting a kremlin expert on spying. we created a nation of experts on russian spying. i think that. >> i am just reading his emails. harry reid is a member of the gang of eight and he's talking about an active attack from a hostile foreign power. what christopher steele was trying to do. he was a private investigator hired by the campaign to try to find out -- kennedy: he was also working for the fbi. he was hired because the campaign was very concerned that the kremlin was working to elect donald trump and they were trying to figure that out. kennedy: i have got to bring robby in here. >> i have not seen the evidence to prove the collusion narrative and i'm not buying into it. them giving conflicting accounts of why this meeting took place. i understand why that would inspire concern in people who are looking to connect the dots where i don't see it. kennedy: lying about the timeline is problematic. >> i

vis-a-vis harry reid! that's not the role of the cia, professor. >> that's a scary -- i agree.e should be criticized for it. i know john brennan. i like him. i thought he was a good director of the cia. but i think he's gone overboard in his criticism. it makes it sound when he makes criticism that he knows it because he was in the cia, he has some special information. i think a former director of the cia has to be much more discreet in his level of criticism. having said that, i do think if the president denies security clearance only to his critics, he will be in court on the wrong side -- >> sean: by the way, i have an update. >> the aclu will bring a lawsuit. >> sean: on the security clearances, i put a republican list that they were incompetent or crazy, well said. >> that is a good argument. >> sean: professor, congratulations on the success of your book. when we come back, we'll continue this discussion with the great one mark levin joining us. that's next. sis, ... little things can be a big deal. that's why there's otezla. otezla is not a cream. it's a pill that treats

harry reid to the fbi that was used as a predicate to spy on the trump team. we are supposed to trust this guy? this guy should get off twitter and hire a lawyer. >> tucker: i thought we were supposed to be impressed by him. i thought the heads of our intel agencies are so visited and intelligent. o everything i've read by -- it's banal, cliche, pompous, stupid. doesn't seem like an impressive person. how did he run the most powerful intel agency in the world? >> i'm not sure. when i worked in the white house, i remember crossing paths with brennan and found him to be a narcissistic fool, just like he is now. this man really is a disgrace and the stain on the united states whose legacy will only be a cautionary tale told to future cia leaders about how not to act. tucker, keep in mind too, far back as 2015, left-wing reporters -- because they thought they had a trump cushion conspiracy which never existed, were reporting on brennan's contacts with foreign intel about trump and his relationship with the russians that never came to fruition. suspiciously, some o

harry reid wrote with a letter to james comey saying hey, the fbi has got to investigate.his and then the fbi did. so, in other words, it started with brennan. then harry reid and then james comey and that's how we got to where we are a number of investigative reporters like kimberly strossel say. brian: he is an inflammatory pundit who has a rich history in intelligence. and it made the president concerned and others concerned that maybe is he going to use some of his intelligence access to go on and attack him with it. so the president took action. sarah sanders made it official. >> mr. brennan has recently leveraged his status as a former high ranking official with access to highly sensitive information to make a series of unfounded and outrageous allegations while the outburst on television about this administration. mr. brennan's lying and recent conduct characterized by increasingly frenzied commentary is wholly inconsistent with access to the nation's most closely held secrets and facilities, the very aim of our adversaries which is to sow division and chaos. brian:

after those comments were made by harry reid. >> -- and used it against him -- >> no, you're getting chronology wrong. >> and reid admitted it! >> you're getting your chronology wrong. >> hold on, hold on, hold on. being a civil libertarian does not mean that you're not for transparency, niger. >> yeah. >> you're for transparency. >> i -- i'm for full transparency -- >> trump has not given us that. >> -- requested and demanded -- and demanded by law. but wait a minute! >> only by law? >> he -- he -- why not? >> by the way, you don't even need a law here. >> the president of the united states is required -- >> you don't need a law here. >> -- to give a certain number of financial statements to be a legitimate candidate for president of the united states. he did so. you know, elizabeth warren was asked to give some tax returns going back some ten years when she was running for the united states senate. she did not. why? because she did not have to. >> look, i want to point out something else here, which has come up, which is what would trump be required to do? i want to point out, it wo

that was in fact, that was harry reid's point. that is the point i want to make to stanford students. it is so easy to say follow when you agree. it is a little tougher when you don't. [applause] joshua: let me ask you about something -- let me shift gears to one of these recent legal controversies i think a lot of people have been following quite a bit, as it relates to relationship between the public and the supreme court. there have been a number of recent decisions that have been written in a fairly narrowly tailored way -- the gerrymandering decision in maryland, for example. a lot of people really wanted the court to definitively answer decidingion of whether political districts to advantage one party or another is constitutional or not. the court has not answered that. butess i understand why, that is a question we were dying to know. we don't really care about marilyn or wisconsin as much as we care about is larger legal question. i think i speak for a lot of americans when i ask you in that regard, what were you waiting f

quote to them what harry reid in my building, in supreme court where we were at dinner, the most remarkable thing about that case is something that's hardly ever remarked, despite the fact that it was important, yeah, it was unpopular, i said at least half, maybe a few more than half but at least -- and i thought it was wrong, despite that -- [applause] >> that's how i actually feel about most of my descents. [laughter] >> but the fact despite that people followed it and i have my stanford audience, i know what they're thinking, i know right now when i say that and at least 20% are saying too bad there weren't guns or stones or something, i know what you're thinking, turn on the television set and see what happens in countries that decide their big problems andnd differences that way.di so i don't think it's so bad to have an institution that will, in fact, say mr. legislator, mr. governor or president or whoever, does your solution comport with this basic document? even if i disagree with the results, and i do, and i do not disagree with every result. that's a false rumor, i disagree with

wife working with the people at gps, and they steal dossier, and against former minority leader harry reid his potential action there, we know that christopher steal talked about the trump, president trump initially a conversation with the trump after president trump was elected. so yes, there is talking about the loser and people, and lead candidate has not been investigated. >> brennan: we'll talk about that with some people handling the investigation there. but i do want to ask you since i know you speak to the president, can you clarify some of his statements in past 24 hours particularly on twitter? he's not the only president to have an adversarial relationship with the press but language seems to have escalated today saying that the fake news media caused war and they're very dangerous, and sick. what wars have journalists started? >> margaret, i believe the president's entire point is this we do have a news media to includes some reporters, this should not be a broad a brush. i said that before, his daughter said it last week. i know he believes it's not all. that's why he said ref

harry reid was -- harry reid was like watching paint dry but people tried to turn him into this great demonic figure. it never tested as strongly with republicans as pelosi does. >> she's a woman. they did a lot of this against hillary clinton. there is a thing about attacking women in the republican party. and i think the issue is a lot of women think why should we give into that. >> let's talk about people who could, though. i've heard a couple of names when it comes to people that could challenge her, yamiche. one is hakeem jeffries. when you used to start with california and the cbc, when you start with those strongholds it's hard to win but it does look to me like she's leaking some support from the congressional black caucus. >> as someone who's talked to a lot of members of the congressional black caucus, they have been very frustrated in the age of president trump mainly because they feel as though the democratic party has been trying to lean to this kind of almost mythical voter -- >> the unicorn, the white working class democrat that hasn't voted democrat in a generation? >>

withan had that meeting harry reid, where he briefed him on some of his suspicions. do you see brennan as a political actor here? phil.ker: thank you, that is a key question because, after the case was open on july 31, 2016, that summer, brennan went to harry reid who is the senate minority leader and told harry reid that he had turned this case over to the fbi. that is now seen by any observer as an effort to get the fbi moving on this counterintelligence case and -- counterintelligence investigation of the trump election campaign. brennan did that, and because of that leak from brennan, not leak but briefing, it's been leaked to cnn there was a case which apparently was the motive all along. brennan now has been very open about his motivation and takes credit for having pushed this whole thing. we are not exposing him, he exposed himself. philip: finally, with the last few minutes we have here, you brought out your pocket constitution a second ago, and it is clear the department of justice falls under the executive branch. why don't we see president trump -- or wou

harry reid wrote to you to complain of a disturbing double standard for the treatment of sensitive information is right was the since you came into possession of the slightest thing you end up relating to this is clinton you rush to publicize it in the most negative light possible he said and yet you continue to resist his calls to inform the public about critical information relating to donald trump that's true isn't it you were inconsistent no not in any respect in the premise of his very good over this but i think if i stay silent on things people later say agreement the notion that all we had about hillary clinton was in you window is nonsense but what you have about torture you possessed he said explosive information about close ties and coordination between don't trump his top advisers and the russian government you know that's not true i really can't talk about anything that might be classified i can just say again that the characterization of the senator's letter is not accurate the decision that president obama had to make was not my decision was he was was whether to say something pu

it shouldn't always be harry reid's way when the democrats were in control or mitch mcconnell's whenhe republicans are in control. he said perhaps you will win the argument and get big legislation. it was shot shocking when he was the thumbs down vote on the republican effort to repeal and replace obamacare. mccain was of the opinion on these big issues you needed bipartisan support to get these things done and the support of the nation. howie: he gave a speech about the institution of the senate not rushing these things through. mike emanuel at the russell senate office building maybe soon to be tree named after john mccain. joining us is anthony scaramucci. president trump and john mccain had a contentious relationship. but let's put that aside on this day. mccain's style, working with democrats and taking on republicans like george w. bush, having shiferght alliances. is that a vestige of a buy- -- of a bygone era? anthony: i hope not. they are thinking about ways to bridge the gaps because it's the policy of the united states, a right or wrong decision as oh peetsed to left or ri

people will be forced to vote on things that will hurt them or their leaders, harry reid, mitch mcconnell to start protecting them from voting so that the days and weeks go by and issues don't get taken up with but it's seen in the context of the campaign and the next election are we going to keep our majority or are we going to lose it. there is a good book by francis lee called insecure majorities. it makes people focus on the politics rather than anything else. >> you make an enormously good case about what happens in the intersection of the permanent campaign and the legislative roles that are so incumbent embodies. it is one of the best accounts that i have read frankly and i really want to congratulate you on your historical analysis of the impeachment experience, that it was a blend of the intersection but effective relationships in the senate. talk about that whole episode and what lesson can be learned from it. >> first, you are nice to see that. i relied very heavily on the booatthe impeachment trial set f facts as peter described them and he wrote a wonderful book about it so i

. >> the still dossier goes to john brennan, who leaks to harry reid, peter strzok already knew aboutk and expected that, that i that is what judicl watch feels is happening, democrat senator mark warner, called yanking brennan security cleaclearance nixonian and wondd if mueller is next, and other officials from obama era. should those -- should they lose their security clearances? >> as president said, he will take it on a case by case basis. the standard should be not what their wants are but needs of the country, do we need these people to have access to the secrets of united states, in many cases, for former government officials who are trading off that access, the answer is clearly no. in my estimation there are a whole host of people who should not have been give then courtesy. liz: talking about james clapper, james comey, sally yates. media saying that the president is trying it change omarosa manigault newman headlines, but this has been were review from white house for some time. >> president has taken the time to thoughtfully consider this, i have to say, has someone who s

i had my picture taken with harry reid in a fight. that was john.of the world. >> martha: it is interesting just to talk about this choice little bit because the selection of this russian dissident some are saying it's little bit thumb in the eye to president trump. it shows how much senator mccain was concerned about the activities of vladimir putin and this individual, he twice suffered organ failure from poisoning. they only knew each other, john mccain and this individual for about eight or nine years. he said he got a personal message from senator mccain. he was asking him if he please be one of his pallbearers. he said i was speechless and heart broken and close to tears. i said yes, of course. it would be the most heart breaking honor that anyone can think of. he said that although, he knew it was coming to an end, he knew that senator mccain busy planning it. he said he didn't think that it was political. he thought really it was more of a message about the thing that senator mccain cared about. interesting choice to be sure. >> yes. i doubt

brennan leaked the dossier to harry reid. he lost his clearance. clapper lied under oath.an rice lied five times, and you can go count list. mccomey fired, gates fired, all but strzok have been fired. i don't even know why it's a debate. why do they have it in the first place if they have left government. take their clearances away from them. that makes sense. kennedy: at the top of the show i was talking to shannon bream about a lawsuit brennan might bring. she said at some point it might be defamation. yawn brennan said the president was treasonous. the comments were questionable that were delivered standing next to vladimir putin. to a lot of people they were offensive. but that am not treason. one of the penalties for treason is death. is john brennan calling for the president's demise? >> john brennan is saying crazy things. even james clapper says brennan is saying things he shouldn't say. he could bring any lawsuit he wants. i don't think he'll be successful by any stretch of the imagination. as i said, you go down that list be clapper, rice, comey, mccabe, yates, s

himself briefing harry reid. you know, we are going to find out more about this in brendan's role in this band, you know, he has a very expansive view of what treason may be. he might just be calling the kettle black himself when he does that. lou: if you can realize what he means by treasonous, and he said that it was nothing short of treason. the helsinki statement that the president, which is really mind-boggling when you think about it. and i was trying to say that he didn't mean treasonous. i mean, please, to think he was the head of the cia, he is oafish, he is clumsy beyond imagination with words and i don't think he knows what the hel he's talking about to begin with. >> i want to know if he monetized his security clearance post to the point being. you know, so when he is out of office, did he monetized the end i believe it looks like he did after making money hand over fist, offering opinions here and they are and knows. i want to know, did he monetized this? lou: the over 60 former intelligence official

it shouldn't always be harry reid's way when the democrats were in control or mitch mcconnell's whenyou will win the argument and get big legislation. it was shot shocking when he was the thumbs down vote on the republican effort to repeal and replace obamacare. mccain was of the opinion on these big issues you needed bipartisan support to get these things done and the support of the nation. howie: he gave a speech about the institution of the senate not rushing these things through. mike emanuel at the russell senate office building maybe soon to be tree named after john mccain. joining us is anthony scaramucci. president trump and john mccain had a contentious relationship. but let's put that aside on this day. mccain's style, working with democrats and taking on republicans like george w. bush, having shiferght alliances. is that a vestige of a buy- -- of a bygone era? anthony: i hope not. they are thinking about ways to bridge the gaps because it's the policy of the united states, a right or wrong decision as oh peetsed to left or right. last night i was looking at the details in

martha: here now john summers, democratic strategist and former communications director for senator harry reid. and byron york chief political correspondent for the "washington examiner," also a fox news contributor. let me start with you, you've been watching this case closely. what did you make of this huge delay today and what about the mueller team's complaint that ellis is coming after them unfairly? >> i don't know what the delay is about but the peter strzok has taken some hits. their star witness rick gates got beaten up a little bit and we learned peter strzok muellee learned he was stealing from a paul manafort, to finance on a in london. all of this didn't help his credibility and to the degree that the jurors begin to think of this as one grifter versus another grifter, maybe they are more sympathetic to manna mana. >> martha: the not of this is whether there's any connection, what we keep hearing is this is a separate thing it happened years and years ago, they're looking at his financial situation and what might have motivated him to promise he would have access to the president

, and leaking sensitive information to the general public as it relates to the dossier, through harry reidand to a public letter that is made public to comey. some are now claiming john brennan's first amendment rights are infringed. he is on tv 24/7. what are they talking about? take a look. >> this is a dictatorial exercise of power that should frighten and call on all republicans to say, mr. president, you cannot do this, you are trying to inhibit the free speech of people who may be in opposition to you. >> to you, this kind of punishment is a violation of the first amendment. >> this is a striking move toward authoritarianism. this is what dictators do. they shut down the press, they shut down dissent, the agl they their opponents, or in thisor case, they steal their security clearance. >> what happened here was a peer authoritarian act from an intemperate president who wanted to w punish one of his critics. nothing more, nothing less. >> the white house is threatening him right now. they've already taken it away from john brennan.. doesn't that say to everybody else, shut your mouth?

the harry reid folks said the reason were not going to do it is we can't allow republicans have a victoryt's terribly frustrating, and it's wrong. i think those messages are fundamentally wrong. i do believe the polling that the number one issue going into the midterm will be immigration. there are eight congressional days left and the house of representatives. they have to pass a continuing resolution or an omnibus, and the president has laid down the law. there is going to be funding in there, or i will veto that bill. that has to happen before the election. >> geraldo: do taken at his word that he's actually going to shut down the government? if he does, how do you get it reopened? what happens to reopen? >> jason: this is why think you need to make the case to the american people there's no reason you can't put in $25 billion to fund a wall. extrapolate that over ten years. >> geraldo: i will give you 25 billion for the wall if you give me a green light for the dreamers. >> jason: i think what the president has offered goes far beyond what he promised in the election. he has actually

getting paid for on msnbc and leaking, of of course, sensitive information about the dossier, through harry reid and a letter public to comey. but the main stream media don't care about the truth or any of this. some are now claiming that john brennan's first amendment rights are infringed. he is on tv 24/7. what are they talking about? take a look. >> this is a dictatorial exercise of power that should frighten and call on all republicans to say, "mr. president, you cannot do this. you are trying to inhibit the free speech of people who may be in opposition to you." >> to you, this kind of punishment is a violation of the first amendment. >> i mean this is a striking move toward authoritarianism. this is what the dictators do. they shut down the press and shut down dissent and jail opponents. or in this case they steal the security clearance. >> this is an authoritative act from a president who wanted to punish a critic. nothing more, nothing less. >> the white house is threatening him right now. he is. >> it doesn't influence the commentary. >> they have already taken away from john brennan. d

this was true for tom daschle, harry reid, mitch mcconnell, speaker banner, paul ryan.is normal. and that's also whether controversy is. i think they're following the story. there is a piece of national review today. as it was coming out of my mouth, i was like, jesse's gonna roll his eyes. he says he thinks perhaps the democrats might have a november -- october surprise, excuse me. that they will pull nancy pelosi from any consideration for leadership so that the democrats have a better chance of beating republicans in november. don't know if it's true. just passing a long john's idea. >> juan: the press going after all these people at the top. >> tyrus: a 20 year mole, that's pretty good. that's a lot of recordings. i always equate things, my brain always thinks sports. if my gm, if we have a losing season for a decade, it's probably time for the gm to go. if the fans will do it because they love them, democrats just don't ever seem to want to make an aggressive move. >> jesse: unless you are cleveland. >> tyrus: unless you're cleveland. let's say maybe nbc's little b

he peddled it to harry reid. that led to the request for the investigation. so he takes a false affidavit, a false dossier, he gets the senators involved, a couple of republican senators, and they demand an investigation. totally phony investigation. why can't we get an investigation when there are clear facts showing possible violations of the law? even in the order appointing mueller, which is completely illegitimate, they don't point out any crime. you have to point out a crime under the independent counsel regulations. they don't point it out. we have lots of crimes and we can't get sessions to move and appoint an independent counsel. he's recused from it. he's recused from everything. and rosenstein is too much involved with it, and a possible witness. >> sean: rosenstein signed the last fisa morning. >> that's why he's possible witness. independent counsel to investigate the investigators. >> sean: when we come back frank luntz will respond to a claim made by omarosa. jeraldo rivera coming up straight ahead. ahead. ♪ my name is jeff sheldon, and i'm t