comey,lapper, james michael hayden, susan rice, andrew mccabe, peter struck, lisa page and bruce orff. the security clearances may be revoked and those who have already lost theirs may not be .ble to have it reinstated i will direct appropriate staff to make the necessary arrangements. but that, i will take your questions. reporter: it seems like everyone thementioned is a critic of president. is he going after his opponents? no,. -- reporter: rudy giuliani said if it is not written within a couple of weeks, we will unload him in a couple of weeks. see theuld like to investigation read -- wrapped up. for suffix, i refer you back to him. anter: -- reporter: isn't it attempt to curtail their freedom of speech? the president has a responsibility to protect classified information and that is what he is doing. is specific to mr. brennan and the others are under review. why are there no republicans on the list? >> we would be happy to review those. there is obvious examples. a list ofs only that have been critical? thosein, we would look at if we deemed it necessary. we will keep you posted

james comey, susan rice, michael hayden, sally yates, and a host of former and current fai and former fbi officials. all of whom have been ensnared in what some believe was a corrugated campaign to target then candidate donald trump. >> does the nsa collect any type of data at all on millions or hundreds of millions of americans? >> no, sir, . >> it does not? >> not wittingly. >> james clapper who some of accused of misleading congressional lawmakers about the nsa's warrantless surveillance program is among those whose clearance is under review. >> it is unprecedented. i don't know of a case where this has ever been done in the past. access to clearances normally would be done completely by a sponsoring agency. >> we have just seen a tweet from mr. brennan not long ago. he is calling the president's

figures i'm a valuating action with respect to the following individuals james clapper james comey michael hayden sally ates susan rice and german cave peter sure lisa page and bruce or security clearances for those who still have them may be revoked the most important things that have happened in u.s. politics in recent years is there's been a realisation that everything is political in other words that the federal bureau of investigation the cia the n.s.a. all of these u.s. agency is not about politics it's very apparent when you have figures like brennan and komi intervening in the public debate that these organizations and individual. operate with very considerable politics they are clearly very honored to be trump has been all along when they were in office and continue to be now and i think that's very problematic for the united states because what it means is that. these these institutions that were once seen as being the ferret are just this is a little while being questioned i think it's a good thing that they're being questioned because they haven't been fair and just but it's also very

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you look at james clapper there, 47 years going back to the vietnam war. michael hayden, nearly 40 years. brennan in the cia for 25 years. is this consequential for the intelligence community, for them, to lose this eligibility for access? >> well, certainly it is because, jim, when you think about it, what if the current cia director wants to call john brennan saying, hey, you were dealing with an issue while you were cia director and i need to talk to you about this. it's a classified matter. secret matter. he now cannot talk to her about that matter. and the case of the former dni director james clapper, he said on our air around 3:00 that he has talked to former white house officials. this now does not essentially allow these people in the case of the former cia director john brennan to have the classified secret conversations with current officials. they may want to bring him in for expertise on any number of issues and that's where the consequence could be in terms of a national security level, certainly in the current administration. >> you know what john brennan

james klapper, james comey, michael hayden, sally yates, susan rice, andrew mccabe, peter strzok, lisa paige and bruce ohr. security clearances for those who still have the may be revoked. those who have already lost security clearance may not be able to have it reinstated. it is for the foregoing reason that i have exercised my constitutional authority to deny mr. brennan access to classified information. i will direct appropriate staff at the national security council to make the necessary arrangements of the appropriate agencies to implement this determination. with that, i will take your questions. >> seems like everybody you mentioned has been a political critic of the president. i see going after his political opponents with this? >> no, there were others that we deemed necessarily we would take a look and reviewed those as well. >> i want to ask you about the president's attorney ted, rudy giuliani said of special counsel, robert mueller, -- he said if it is not written in the next two or three weeks we will unload on him like a ton of bricks. the president okay with his attorne

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white house went on to list nine others who can lose their security clearances, including james clapper, michael haydenbi director james comey. democrats are calling it an enemies list like one found in a dictatorship. >> white house press secretary, sarah sanders, offered an apology for falsely claiming that president trump had created three times as many jobs for african-americans than president obama. sanders told reporters this week, earlier in the week, that obama had just created just under 200,000 jobs for black workers during his eight years in office, but labor statistics show about 3 million of those jobs were added over the course of his two terms. >>> the president is slamming new york governor andrew cuomo after the governor took a jab at the trump campaign slogan saying america was never that great. cuomo's comments came days after president trump told a crowd that cuomo once told him, quote, i'll never run for president against you. wednesday the governor blasted the trump administration. >> we're not going to make america great again. it was never that great. we have not reached greatne

james clapper, james comey, michael hayden, sally yates, susan rice, andrew mccabe, peter strzok, lisae, and bruce orr. security clearances for those who still have them may be revoked. those who have lost their security clearance may not be able to have to reinstated. i have exercised my constitutional authority to deny mr. brennan access to classified information and i will direct appropriate staff of the national security council to make the necessary arrangements with the appropriate agencies to implement this determination. with that i'll take your questions. jonathan. >> reporter: sarah, i have a question. i wanted to ask, to follow up on that it seems like everybody that you mentioned has been a political critic of the president. is he going after his political opponents with this? >> no. if there were others that weren't, that we deemed necessary, we would look and review those as well. >> reporter: i want to ask you about something that the president's tee president's attorney said. rudy giuliani said of special counsel robert mueller, needs to write the damn report so we can

sarah: i'm evaluating action with respect to the foowing individuals -- james clapper, james comey, michael hayden, sally yates, susan rice, andrewa , peter strzok, lisa page. security clearances for those who still have them may be revoked, and those who have already lost the security clearance may not be able to have it reinstated. rajini: now if those names sound familiar, is because they ossed swords with mr. trump over a variety of issues and have drawn his scorn online. for more on all that, i spoke a brietime ago with shelby holiday, a video reporter at "the wall street journal." shelby holiday, great to have you with us. we saw sarahanders saying that the president is revoking the security clearance of one official and is thatening to do it with a number of others now. why now? now the well, we do official whose security clearance he was been very critical of the president. it might have to do with timing. the president obviously does not like any sort of criticism in the press, whether it is on social media, television. that is one thing. but he also in revoking the g clearance cited some

she named james clapper, james comey, michael hayden, sally yates, andrew mccabe, peter strzok, lisa page, bruce ohr. you know those names. as relates to brennan, the argument in part from the white house as relayed by sarah sanders earlier today was that brennan is essentially trying to leverage his criticisms against the president in a way that should not be leveraged. here's sarah sanders a little while ago. >> mr. brennan has leveraged his status as a former high-ranking official with access to highly sensitive information to make a series of unfounded allegations, wild outbursts on the internet and television about this administration. mr. brennan's lying an conduct characterized by his commentary is wholly inconsistent with the nation's close secrets. more broadly, the issue of mr. brennan's security clearance raises larger questions about the practice of former officials maintaining access to our nation's most sensitive secrets long after their time in government has ended. >> sarah sanders was also asked in a bunch of ways whether or not this sets a bad precedent as many of t

are you waiting action with respect to the following individuals james clapper james comey michael hayden sally ates susan rice and german cave peter shrugged lisa page and bruce or security clearances for those who still have them may be revoked it is for the foregoing reasons that i have exercised my constitutional authority to deny mr brennan access to classified information sara sander spoke to press and she said that the decision to revoke brennan's clearance was based on his erratic conduct and behavior defending the move as an effort to secure classified info from someone who has helped foment division in the past and clearly has very partisan leanings and john brennan himself has already chimed in blasting the move as part of a bid to suppress free speech and punish critics but for some context john brennan left his position as director of the cia back in january twenty seventeen and he now serves as m s n b c's senior national security and intelligence analyst but this whole debacle began last month when senator rand paul called brennan's motives into question asking if he had be

figures i am a valuating action with respect to the following individuals james clapper james comey michael hayden sally ates susan rice and german cave peter struck lisa page and bruce or security clearances for those who still have them may be revoked the president is doing the right thing rebooking the clearances of people who aren't contributing anything certainly a lot of them were higher ups in the f.b.i. and also it is. certainly i mean i believe these people are all involved in this rush to get to every case you know a bit and manipulating information and data for the public consumption to confuse and. you know create all kinds of uncertainty in the government the government business that's that's what the that's why they should never have a clearance you know all washington has a tradition of allowing former presidents and senior intelligence officials to still get the morning intel briefings each and every day even when they were tired but now in the unprecedented way of cutting off britain's top level security access says this is not political he would have done the same to any republic

it wasn't taken against any other people on the list so far, james clapper, james comey, michael hayden, sally yates, lisa page or peter struck, bruce orr. >> any time this happened it would have been a giant snub to the intelligence community. the timing seems coincidental. it seems like right in the middle of this horrible criticism by omarosa, this just happens to come out today from the podium. i'm not a conspiracy theorist, but it seems coincidental don't you think? >>. >> we didn't just fall off the turnip truck, although they think we did. do you think this is a white house in crisis? >> yes, absolutely. >> you had omarosa, john kelly taking her in there to ask her to tell her she's being fired. taking her into the skiff, presumably because he didn't want to be reported. you have a white house ethics official who we just discovered was the one forcing people to sign the president's nondisclosure agreements, the entire thing is spiraling out of control. and it gets the most scary when it involves national security. anything else you can repair afterwards. the harm that might come

figures i'm a valuating action with respect to the following individuals james clapper james comey michael hayden sally ates susan rice and german cave peter struck lisa page and bruce or security clearances for those who still have them may be revoked the most important things that have happened in u.s. politics in recent years is there's been a realisation that everything is political in other words that the federal bureau of investigation the cia the n.s.a. all of these u.s. agencies are not about politics it's very apparent when you have figures like brennan and komi intervening in the public to critique these organizations in and of it. joel's operate with very considerable politics they are clearly very anti trump out in all along were when they were in office and continue to be now and i think that's very problematic for the united states because what it means is that. these these institutions that were once seen as being the parent are just partizan of the law being questioned i think it's a good thing that they're being questioned because they haven't been fair and just but it's also ver

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james comey. michael hayden. sally yates. susan rice. andrew mccabe. peter strzok, lisa page, and bruce orr. >> reporter: the president told "the wall street journal" i don't trust many of those people on that list. i think that they're very due police us to. i think that they're not good people. >> those people are being singled out smacks of nixon-ian types of practices. trying to silence anyone who is willing to criticize this president. >> reporter: in the same interview, the president seemed to draw a direct connection between his decision and the russia investigation. saying brennan is one of those he holds responsible for the probe. he says his move was something that had to be done. kendis and maggie? >> it changes the narrative of what was happening in the last week. thank you. >>> the president in the meantime is slamming governor andrew cuomo after the governor took a jab at the trump campaign slogan saying america was never that great. his comments came days after president trump told an upstate new york crowd that cuomo once told him quote

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critics or involved in the russia investigation, including fired fbi director james comey, former cia director michael haydenser susan rice, and former director of national intelligence, james clapper, who called the move an infringement of first amendment rights. >> isn't it also an attempt to curtail their freedom of speech by penalizing them for being critical on television? >> not at all. the president has a constitutional responsibility to protect classified information and who has access to it. >> reporter: the backlash was fierce. >> these people were being singled out to have either clearances revoked or in the process of being revoked, to me smacks of nixonian-type practices, of trying to silence anyone who's willing to criticize this president. >> reporter: why now? the white house won't say but officials here are eager to turn the page on multiple controversies. mr. trump's former adviser omarosa accusing him of using the "n" word. his former campaign chair on trial. >> kristen welker with that report. >>> in a new interview president trump said his actions against john brennan had to do with the

. >> james clapper, james comey, michael hayden, sally yates, susan rice, andrew mccabe, peter strzok, lisa page and bruce orr. >> reporter: it seems like everybody you mentioned has been a political critic of the president. is he going after his political opponents with this? >> no, if there were others that weren't, that we deemed necessary, we would certainly take a look and review those, as well. >> all right, so, let's get to jonathan karl at the white house tonight. john brennan wasn't the only name mentioned, you just had that list there provided by sarah sanders. i want to show viewers at home, here are some of the faces. one thing they have in common, as you pointed out there, jon, have been critical of decisions made by the president. so, bottom line, just how unusual is it for the president to revoke the security clearance of a former cia director and warn so many others? >> reporter: well, david, there's no doubt he has the power to do this, but i cannot find another example of a president personally intervening to strip a former official of his security clearance, let alo

review, i am evaluating action with respect to the following individuals, james clapper, james comey, michael haydene, andrew mccabe, peter strzok, lisa page, and bruce ohr. security clearances for those who still have them may be revoked and those who have already lost their security clearance may not be able to have it reinstated. sarah sanders there. for more on this i've been speaking to our north america correspondent peter bowes. there has been, in some quarters, a very angry response to this. john kerry, for example, the former secretary of state in the last administration said mr trump was behaving like the ruler of a banana republic. mr brennan himself sending out a tweet very quickly after hearing this news with his own views, suggesting that donald trump is trying to stifle free speech. he says the move was part of president trump's broader efforts to suppress freedom of speech and punish critics. it goes on, he says "it should gravely worry all americans, including intelligence professionals about the cost of speaking out. "my principles," he says, "are worth far more than clearances." i

valuating action with respect to the following individuals james clapper james comey michael hayden sally ates susan rice and german cave peter sure lisa page and bruce or security clearances for those who still have them may be revoked it is for the foregoing reasons that i've exercised my constitutional authority to deny mr brennan access to classified information. ok let's get more details now from smearing counties following events for us in the u.s. and smear a good evening just run through them what prompted this move by the trumpet ministration. well sarah huckabee sanders spoke to the press and she explained his decision to revoke brought in security clearance as based on his quote erratic conduct and behavior defending the move as an effort to secure classified info from someone who has helped his vision in the past and clearly has very partisan leanings now john brennan himself chimed in a chimed in and he blasted the move as part of a bid to suppress free speech and punish critics but for some context john brennan left his position as director of the cia back in january twenty

figures i'm a valuating action with respect to the following individuals james clapper james comey michael hayden sally ates susan rice and german cave peter struck lisa page and bruce or security clearances for those who still have them may be revoked the most important things that have happened in u.s. politics in recent years is there's been a realisation that everything is political in other words that the federal bureau of investigation the cia the n.s.a. all of these u.s. agencies are not about politics it's very apparent when you have figures like brennan and komi intervening in the public to come to. these organizations and individuals with jerry considerable politics they are clearly very i'm trying to the how can we. a lot when they have it also this and continue to be no i think that's a great problem i say for the united states because what it means is that. these these institutions that were once seen as beings is a ferret are just that is it's a little being questioned i think it's a good thing that they're being questioned because they haven't been severing just but it's a very dis

james clapper, james comey, michael hayden, sally yates, sycessen rice, andrew mccabe, peter strozk, lisa page and bruce ohr. >> ohr is the only official on the white house list still working for the u.s. government. review by fox news of ohr's justice department e-mails and handwritten notes shows he is deeply connected to the controversial trump dossier. and during the presidential election, the scandal over alleged government surveillance abuse. >> it seems like he is a key player. >> ohr's wife nellie worked for fusion g.p.s. the clinton campaign paid the campaign for the trump dossier formed by christopher steele. after the f.b.i. dropped steele as a source for lying lyg in november 2016, the intelligence committee found steele maintained contact using ohr as a back channel. >> bruce ohr's wife worked for the firm that clinton hired to put together the decemberier. she has given it to ohr and he has given it to the f.b.i. >> in the closed door testimony last year, glenn simpson claimed no contact with ohr until after the presidential election. but ohr work e-mail conflict with t

credibilitys i'm evaluating action with respect to the following individuals: james clapper, james comey, michael haydenm sally yates, susan rice, anja mckay, peter strzok, lisa page, and bruce ohr. security clearances for those who still have the may be revoked and those who have reduced their security clearance may not have it reinstated. >> sean: it is about time, for months here on this program we have been calling out brennan over his serious and blatant abuse of power. during his time as obama's cia director, john brennan was responsible for the proliferation of christopher steele's dirty dossier in an then-candidate donald trump and legitimized salacious, unverified claims, russian lies found in that dossier. brennan leaked its contents to then-senator harry reid which subsequently alerted the public in a open letter to james comey. he pushed hillary clinton's russian lies to purposefully deceive and lie to you, the american people. why? so he could sway an election. through all of this, brennan told congress, the cia did not make use of the dirty dossier. that was a flat out lie. that, my friend