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

that's said, when john brennan speaks and michael hayden speaks and others speak, these are serious, serious people who have been in this system and have worked for presidents of parties for a long time. they should be listened to. what they know of which they speak. i think it's important they understand they're using words very, very carefully. >> very carefully. then on the flip side, those critical of what director brennan has been saying so far, why are you in the media, why are you expressing your ideas that typically, historically, traditionally you've not heard from form dreshgtors of intelligence here. so the question may be, that is a reason why potentially that security clearance does need to be put in question. >> i absolutely agree. we've not seen anything like this before from former leaders. we may have to go to ramsey clark for somebody who was as vocal subsequent. but under security clearance guidelines, the guidelines issued by the white house, there is no guideline that pertains to this type of behavior. it doesn't give the agency any right to revoke your clearance

the idea that michael hayden has it coming, i don't see that.nnan's free speech is ridiculous. he will criticized trump even more. but it has us not talking about omarosa. >> bret: mark warner, vice chair of the senate intelligence committee. >> to me, this had an eerie memory of an enemies list. it smacks of nixonian type practices of trying to silence anyone who is willing to criticize this president and puts us in uncharted territory. there is a bit of an irony that one of the reasons they cited for taking away mr. brennan's clearance was erratic behavior. i wonder if this white house has looked at itself in the mirror. >> bret: rand paul was pushing for this action. he tweeted july 23 "is john brennan monetizing his security clearance? making millions of dollars divulging secrets to that real stream media with the attacks on trump?" other senators speaking out the other way. to this point about suppressing free speech. that doesn't seem to be what would happen. the thing that would happen is they would possibly not be brought into consult on

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 in charge of by the way? the point man on bin laden

michael hayden, james clapper have all said they don't think the country will suffer terribly much from them not having top secret clearance. >> i think that's right. look, that is -- as jim clapper said, the republic won't rise or fall on whether any one individual has their security clearance but what will damage the republic is the president and the administration in an effort to silence political critics by using the levers of state power. that's unpres dentcedented. the parallels are being drown to the nixonian enemies list but at least that was being done behind closed doors until it was exposed in the watergate process. >> there's no ambiguity give on the what the president told the "wall street journal." he said something that had to be done because they were behind the russia information. no ambiguity. as you said, lisa, it hasn't had the immediate impact perhaps that the president was hoping for which was silenting john brennan because he wrote this blistering op-ed in the "new york times" where he says the president's claims of no collusion are hogwash. let me read you a bit

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

john brennan has been critical of the president and james comey as has been michael hayden, also a cnn contributor. acting attorney general sally yates, he fired her and rails against obama's security adviser susan rice and the same for andrew mccabe, lisa page, and bruce orr. everyone on that list is a critic or someone the president locked horns with, a point not lost in the white house briefing room. >> how can americans not interpret that as a getting back against his critics and isn't it also an attempt to curtail the freedom of speech by penalizing them for being critical? >> not at all. the president has a constitutional responsibility to protect classified information and who has access to it. he is fulfilling that responsibility. this is specific to mr. brennan and the others are currently under review. >> keeping him honest, we are learning intelligence officials are not involved in the president's decision, not the top ranking official. jim schutto learned that dan coates was not consulted on the brennan decision and whoever had to proof read the president's statement was ta

officials like senator mark warren and retired general michael hayden said they felt this had more to do with the white house than brennan. >> it appears obvious to me that this is a white house that feels under siege because of the president's former campaign manager's trial. and obviously some of the issues with his former staffer omarosa. this is an attempt to distract the american public from those items that this white house faces on a daily basis. >> the white house just messaged the entire american intelligence community, if you stand up and say things that upset the president or with which he disagrees, he will punish you. and that is a horrible message to be sending to folks who are there to tell you objective truth. >> and this morning several other top intelligence officials are also at risk of losing their security clearances. for more let's bring in nbc news national political reporter heidi pressbowl, good to have you on set. >> it appears john brennan will be just the first official ever to get his security clearance revoked as white house brace secretary sarah sanders

michael hayden, former cia director who was appointed to lead the agency by president george w. bush. the president tells reuters he is staying out of the russian investigation but he could run it if he wanted to. what's your reaction? >> i have no idea what that means, and certainly it would compromise the independence of what bob mueller is doing, and just undercut any legitimacy with regard to a conclusion that the investigation would reach. and wolf, the president only gets out from under this cloud if people have confidence in the conclusion. >> if it is a significant conclusion. president trump told reuters in this interview he hasn't given a lot of thought in his words to the idea of revoking robert mueller's security clearance, but in "the new yorker" magazine, they report some of the president's advisers encouraged to deny intelligence briefings to former president barack obama, former national security adviser talked him out of that. how unprecedented to deny a former president of the united states security or intelligence briefings. >> it would be absolutely unprecede

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former cia director, general michael hayden. sir, good to see you. thank you for being with me on a friday night. help us understand this. is this, style points aside, kind of par for the course in a process like this, or do you see a concern? >> yeah, um, i have concerns. now, par for the course in the sense that we always knew this was going to be a long, difficult process with the north koreans. so let's break it down like you suggest. number one, the happiest man in town tonight has to be secretary of state pompeo. he avoids a long time to pyongyang, where i'm told it's not very pleasant, and he also avoids getting personally pinned with a policy that appears to be going nowhere. chris, we left singapore with a lot of smiles and handshakes, but with not even an agreed definition of denuclearization. so we had all of this pomp and ceremony and image, but there really wasn't any substance underneath it. and any means we had to keep pressure on the north koreans to create that substance, we've kind of whittled away. >> are we still farther along tha

michael hayden was george w. bush's cia director, was a critic of barack obama. we never sat around and contemplated publicly yanking his security clearance or privately doing so for that matter. it really is crossing a new line. and the reason it's dangerous is, first of all, it denies the nation the resource of people with certain expertise who disagree with the president. it politicizes national security in a way that there's just no need for. how we have a counterterrorism policy that protects our country should not be subsumed under this petty partisan politics out of the white house. if there was somebody like john brennan who could offer some advice, you should want that advice an shouldn't want to punish him. but it is also mindful of the type of punitive actions that you would see in autocratic countries where someone comes into power and says i'm going to purge anybody who's differed with me. i'm going to punish people who publicly criticize me. let's be very clear about what happened here. somebody criticized the president of the united states and so t

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

another clearance under review, michael hayden. he says yanking clearance in this way is dangerous. >> the white house just messaged the entire american intelligence community if you stand up and say things that upset the president or with which he disagrees, he will punish you. that is a horrible message to send folks who are there to tell you objective truth. >> the president said he was prepared to take action against brennan last week, but it was hectic. he was on a working vacation. the wall street editorial board scolding the president saying he should declassify election related documents subpoenaed by congress. we are all challenging the motives and investigating his behavior, but absent the full story that would provide the missing context, the revocation of the security clearance is petty without accomplishing anything useful. republican reaction of yanking the security clearance is mixed. susan collins says brennan is too political in statements, but doesn't see grounds for revoking clearance unless there was a disclosur

robert gates, michael hayden. i'm sure the current cia director worked for most of those men over her 20 years at the cia so i think that is a very, very significant letter. you also have bill mcraven. let's talk about him, the retired admiral who is head of the joint special operations forces, the man who led the raid, who coordinated that raid that killed bin laden. mcraven says these are mccarthy-era tactics that president trump is using. when i think about it and i think about admiral mcraven you've got a whole lot of people, a whole lot of men and women who would follow him anywhere so he is someone you have to listen to. his reputation is truly impeccable. >> martha, it also seems this week the president's plans for that military parade in november in washington fell victim to some pushback from the military. >> it did. there were members of the military and veterans organizations who said they wanted that money spent elsewhere. there were estimates some of them saying $90 million it would take to have that

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. agency is not about politics it's very apparent when you have figures like broadening komi intervening in the public debate that these organizations and individuals. with very considerable politics they are clearly very empty trond 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 terra just because it's a little being questioned i think it's a good thing that they're being questioned because they haven't been there and just but it's also very disruptive to the

figures i'm evaluating action with respect to the following individuals james clapper james comey michael hayden sally aids 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. agencies are not about politics it's very apparent when you have figures like brennan and komi intervening in the public debate that these organizations and individuals operate with very considerable politics they are clearly very trump has been. 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 ferret just arbiters 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 very disruptive to t

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

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

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

michael hayden. sally yates. susan rice. andrew mccabe. peter strok. lisa page. bruce orr. >> what do those people have in common? all of them have been targets of trump's public ire, or they've criticized trump, or both. not on the list? fired national security adviser michael flynn, who pleaded guilty to lying to the fbi about his conversations with ambassador kislyak. and take another page out of a dictator's playbook. president trump seems to be trying here to manipulate the news cycle. what say you? take a look at his statements as sent out today. clearly dated july 26th, 2018. that's three days after the white house first said the president was considering the move. so why would they sit on this for nearly three weeks? and why release it today? well, the white house aide claims it's nothing but a cut and paste error. would versus wouldn't. a cut and paste error. the president tells "the wall street journal" he was prepared to do it last week but it was in his words, it was too hectic. he was on vacation last week. but you've got to wonder about the timing h

figures i'm a valuating action with respect to the following individuals james clapper james comey michael hayden sally aides 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. agents is not about politics it's very apparent when you have figures like brennan and komi intervening in the public to create these organizations and individuals operate with very considerable politics they are clearly very i'm the trump has been. along when they were in office and continue to be now 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 terra just because it's a little 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 disruptive to th

george tenet, porter goss, michael hayden, leon panetta, david petraeus, robert gates, james clapper. this is a serious list of people, many of whom, whatever your poll tickles, are titics ao kept us safe after 9/11. they're saying the president is wrong. to be clear, a lot of them think john brennan has become too partisan. a lot of them would tell you they think john brennan has become too much of a democrat in what he says on television. but they say that's not the point. this is america. he has that first amendment right. the president is sending a chilling sign when he says, i took his security clearance, now i'm looking for somebody else. >> this is a remarkable letter. this is from members who served in the significant positions in the national security apparatus, the intelligence security apparatus under democratic and republican presidents. most of them have been quiet, have not spoken out. this is something they're really sticking their neck out and telling the president he's, quote, stifling free speech. when the president says he's getting rave reviews, not just fox news,

you look at someone like michael hayden and he's done a pretty good job of not crossing that line. >> the white house is threatening him. >> he is. he said it doesn't influence my commentary. >> they have already taken away from john brennan. doesn't that say to ervlverybod else, shut your mouth, don't say anything about this administration and keep your clearance? >> we're getting so upset over elites. this is really about elites. everyone is fine with executive power when john brennan is the one calling drone strikes from the west wing. >> elise, it's about abuse of power. >> i think when you say everyone is fine with executive power when he's calling drone strikes is way overstated. there were a lot of folks out there who hate him for that and hate him for that decision and disagree vehemently for the way that that was done, so i think that's overstated. but i do think that regardless of how you feel about the way john brennan carried out his job while he was in office, i think this sort of thing is crossing a different line. it is a different rubicon. >> i absolutely think it's po

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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

there is john brennan, andrew mccabe, michael hayden, susan rice, lisa page, james comey, james clapper, sally yates, bruce ohr. they all have connections to robert mueller and this russia investigation. brennan presented evidence to trump shortly before his inauguration. comey briefed trump on the steele dossier and was chief investigator in the probe of trump's former national security advisor michael flynn. james clapper, house permanent collect committee on intelligence accused him, the farmer dni, of engineering the dossier released. michael hayden, if you keep looking at the screen, served as the director of the national security agency at the same time that robert mueller served as the fbi director. it's on our screen. if we can go back to that, control room. unfortunately, we can't. sally yates warned the president about compromised, michael flynn being compromized by the russians. peter strzok, his role in the mueller investigation. lisa page, the person he was texting. and bruce ohr, whose wife works at fusion gps. there is talk about whether he had conversations with chris

intelligence and law enforcement officials, many of them trump critics or involved in the russiaformer c michael hayden, obama's national security adviser 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 are being singled out to have privileges revoked or in the process of being revoked smacks of nixonian practices, wanting to silence anyone who criticizes this president. >> reporter: whyw?hite house w say but officials are eager to turn the page on multiple controversies. mr. trump's former adviser omarosa accusing him of using the "n" word, and his former campaign chair on trial, lester. >> kristen welker at the white house, thank you. >>> as all that plays out, the fate of the president's former campaign chairman is about to

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

sanders read a list of others. >> james clapper, james comey, michael hayden, sally yates.abe, peter strzok, lisa page and bruce ohr. >> reporter: it seems everybody you mentioned has been a political critic. is he going after his politil opponents with this? >> no, if there were others that weren't that we deemed necessary we'd take a look and review those as well. >> reporter: while there's no doubt that the president has the power to revoke security clearances, we can find no example of a president personally intervening to take away someone's security clearance, let alone someone who has not been accused of breaking the law. brennan says this will have a chilling effect on officials who may want to question this president or any other president. jonathan karl, abc news, the white house. >> many people are questioning the timing here as perhaps a move to distract from the fallout over the tell-all book by omarosa. omarosa was the highest-ranking white house staffer who was black and her media blitz has drawn attention to the lack of diversity among senior aides. the pres

i know you don't have a video monitor, but james clapper, james comey, who doesn't have one, michael hayden, sally yates, andrew mccabe, peter strzok, why are those the ten people they are signaling out? >> because they have been critical of him or because he wants to use them as examples of the deep state or those that are trying to hurt him. in the case of bruce ohr, a current department of justice official, i think that is one of the most outrageous steps that he could take to revoke the clearances of a current government official simply because he doesn't like either them or their spouse in terms of what they might have done. that is so antithetical to what has been the practice and the tradition and what needs to continue to be the basis for the granting of the revoking of security clearances so you trust people with those secrets. >> i'm curious. on friday night with rachel maddow you indicated that you have had lawyers contact you about possible legal action. it's 48 hours later. what would that look like? is that something you're serious about? >> well, i have been contacted by a nu

article observed you'll find confidence inspiring names like henry kissinger former cia chief michael hayden former acting cia had mike morrell and former bush era homeland security chief michael chertoff are on tire of interim recently sat down with saeed to discuss the slippery slope of facebook friends censorship. is this kind of push for the corporate policing of free speech. and political content a kind of his manifesto itself you know recently with kind of facebook executives teaming up with a group of the atlantic council to decide you know what is fake news and bad political speech and what is good news and good political speech. how many different ways is this a really bad idea it's it's unbelievably scary and. even if you take the worst case scenario view of what happened in two thousand and sixteen with russian meddling. this is a separate. and extremely terrifying political development that has been going on for a long time even independently again of the russian story because a huge part of what's happening now with this whole situation with facebook zapping sites that you know

james comey, james clapper, michael hayden, sally yates, former a.g. number of f.b.i. officials and officials from the d.o.j. all of them in many cases the president feels like have not earned the right to maintain a security clearance, sandra. >> sandra: brennan has responded, right? he is calling this retaliation. what else is he saying? >> he is not only saying it's retaliation, he is saying this is actually meant to silence him and other critics. listen to what he said and how he frames losing his security clearance. >> mr. trump decided to take this action as he has done with others to try to intimidate and suppress any criticism of him or his administration. and revoking my security clearances is his way of trying to get back at me. mr. trump believes this is going to lead me to go away and be quiet, he is very badly mistaken. >> you saw brennan there. here is what adam schiff of the intel committee is saying. he said in adding john brennan to his enemies list, trump, meaning president trump, demonstrates again how deeply insecure and vindictive he is. two charac

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

figures i'm evaluating 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 the president is doing the right thing rebooking to clearances of people who aren't contributing anything nearly 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 russia gate and fabrication of it 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 they that's why they should never had a clearance. to russian cosmonauts have conducted one of the longest of us space walks right outside the international space station and both were equipped with cameras to share the view with you. throughout thank you our thanks to our viewers before the hour right here in new york the long time for a little bit back every. year the laughter of the few people th

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

figures i am evaluating action with respect to the following individuals james clapper james comey michael hayden sally ates susan rice and german cave peter shura lisa page and bruce or security clearances for those who still have them may be revoked the president is doing the right thing revoking the clearances of people who aren't contributing anything learn lee a lot of them were higher ups in the f.b.i. and also dennis and cia certainly i mean i believe these people are all involved in this rush to get in every case you know of it and then 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. the u.s. remains in the grip of a wave of protests as both far right and left wing groups are rallying to denounce each other off to some of the demos turned violent c.n.n. presented chris cuomo made a controversial claim that violence coming from the anti for movement in the us is more morally justified than violence which comes