obama years ago. he is retired cia. 100%s telling me that he leads the cuba is behind what's going on in nicaragua right now. and they are backed by russia. his professional opinion was that cuba is very much involved. on the ground in nicaragua. >> one last question. in that case i thank you very much for having been here with us this afternoon. and i believe that our extremely deserves a final round of applause. [applause] >> next on c-span we will stay live and take you over to the gathering of the association for education and journalism.

cia. serving as director der president obama. friday, he hit the president where it s. hu >> so there is collusion in plain sight. >> reporter: brennan cites t donald trump jr. 2016 trump tower meeting and candidate trump urging russia to find hillary clinton's e-mails as okroublesome. >> i don't know whether or not any of that rises to the level of conspiracy w anther any of that conspiracy rises to the level of criminal liability for that conspiracy. >> reporter: brennan nis a paidional security analyst for nbc. the president accuses him of making his collusion claims for tv. >> this wasust -- came up lately and it's a disgusting thing frankly. >> reporter: just three months ago, the president celebrated the cia. >> it is a true honor to stand here today before the most elite intelligence professionals on the planet earth. nobody even close. >> reporter: using his power toevoke clearances set off sirens fozens of foer national security officials who signed a letter of protest. others say ongoing access to secrets has value. >> the reason former officials have these cl

s. >>> today in response to the president's most crazed tweet of the day the obama administration's former cia astounding how often you fail to live up to minimum standards of decency, civility and probity. seems like you will never understand what it means to be president, nor what it takes to be a good decent and honest person. so disheartening. so dangerous for our nation." joining us now, former cia director john brennan. he is our senior national security and intelligence analyst for msnbc and nbc news. director brennan, what -- the last part of your tweet really captured my attention, saying that it's so dangerous for our nation. in what ways? >> well, good evening, lawrence. thank you for having me on. well, i think in two principal ways. first, i think donald trump has badly sullied the reputation of the office of the presidency with his invective, with his constant disregard i think for even decency as well as his befriending of autocratic leaders around the world. and his continued pursuit of relationships to benefit himself as opposed to the country. i do think that america's standi

s?w serious is this row between him and the offici jay: it is pretty serious. you see the argument back-and-forth between the president's camp saying that john brennan, cia director under obama who had his clearance revoked, he is obviously partisan, on the record saying that trump committed impeachable offenses with the press nference with vladimir putin in helsinki, that he is treasonous. brennan's remarks over the last 18 months have gotten increasingly political and very anti-tru. so to some degree hein is it on political reasons. that said, trump made a flip ithis afternoon in erview with "the wall street journal" saying, actually, yes, it is purely political, has little to do with the security of our country. there is this argument on the other side isaying that tha security question and should only be treated as a security question and should be completely apolitical. the question is which side is politicizi depending on who you talk to, both sides are. rajini: you mentioned john brennan there. obviously, after he had the security clearance revoked, he said that mr. trump's claims of no collusion are, in a word, hogwash. he is li investigation.e russia jay: he t is, a