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

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 american system as. the u.s. says economic sanctions against

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 the american system as the u.s. says economic sanctions against

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 republican he deemed incompetent. the u.s. remains in the grip of a w

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james clapper, james comey, sally eight, susan rice, andrew mccabe, peter struck, lisa page and more. those who have already lost their security clearance may not be able to have it reinstated. it is for the foregoing reasons i have used my constitutional mr. brennan deny access to classified information and will direct appropriate staff to make the necessary arrangements with the necessary agencies to implement this determination. that,st, to follow up on it seems like everybody you mentioned has been a political critic of the president. is he going after his political opponents with this? >> no. there were others that were not. we will review those as well. >> you can watch the rest of the white house briefing at our website c-span.org. c-span's washington journal, live every day news and policy issues that impact you. coming up thursday morning, --llister on introducing reducing violence. then manhattan institute rafael money wall continues -- rafael continues our discussion. be sure to watch c-span's washington journal live at 7:00 a.m. eastern thursday morning. join the discussio

out of the activities of people that worked at the department of justice, whether it is peter struck or lisa pages comey. we have walked through those a number of times. i think it has given calls for a lot of americans, some of those activities. is a justice department is not doing its job. ms. sanders: again, the president has expressed his views on this matter. concerns about a number of other problems that he has seen within the department of justice. reporter: i wanted to follow-up on an early president -- early comment with the presidents comments. when exactly did he learn about them and also are there any other payments he has now become aware of? four are those the only two women who have received money for agreeing not to rip their stories of allegedly fares with the president? ms. sanders: i have addressed all that i will say on the cohen issue. for those specific questions, i would refer you to the presidents special counsel. reporter: can't we bring them in here for the briefing? ms. sanders: they don't work here at the white house. i would encourage you to reach out to them. reporte

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. whether it happened july 26. or today. whether we have more enemy lists name have their eligibility to access information revoked. the timing seems coincidental. it seems like right in the middle of this horrible security violation by omarosa. criticism by omarosa, this just happens to come out today from the podium. i'm not a conspiracy theorist, like the president and several membe members of his team. 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 have the security violation by hoomarosa. john kelly taking her in there 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 nondisc

paid for the phony, discredited dossier which was, along with comey, mccabe, peter struck at his lover, the lovely lisa page, used to begin the witch hunt. a very disgraceful. by the way the dossier is phony lies and fisa judges were lied to. many in the media are now saying president trump actually obstructed justice because he tweeted out his opposition to all that has happened with no evidence and criticizing what is a witch hunt. in other words, telling the truth. take a look. >> these basically sort of delegitimizing our system of government. >> maybe this is the beginning of a new saturday night massacre and one has to wonder whether mr. trump is feeling the pressure of the manafort trial. >> it looks like he may very well have obstructed justice in this particular case. that's why i find it particularly ironic that he seems to be continuing to try to obstruct and end this case so publicly. >> they are starting to feel the collusion investigation closing in a little bit more. we are getting donald trump's most overt and obstructionist tweets to date. it's not a surprise. >> just around this little inc

employees agent peter struck as well as his lover the f.b.i. lawyer lisa page who were it was revealed during the twenty sixteen presidential campaign exchanged anti donald trump attacks well for more on this let's speak to glenn kahl he's a former deputy national intelligence officer of the trans national threats of the cia he also worked with john brennan and joins us via skype from boston john brennan says this action by president trump is politically motivated and meant to silence his critics but how normal is it for a president to revoke security clearance like this. it's not normal at all i believe that has never happened before the only reason security car clearances would be revoked is for national security which means that someone has mishandled classified information or is found to be a security threat to the nation the security threat to the nation amply documented actually sitting in the oval office in the white house you don't remove ok it never happens secure you never revoke security clearances for political differences in fact the foundation of

more old school colleagues when you see what the deputy assistant director, peter struck, was saying when he texted lisa page that he "loathed congress." is that at risk of metastasizing and spreading through the ranks? mr. baker: i think it is disgusting. that is how a lot of us reacted to it. that whole series of texts, which is available online as well including the second batch of them that the inspector general found that could not be found. when you read those, if you have the stomach to read it, it is really disgusting. it is very clear they were biased against trump. there is no question about that, and that is why mueller removed him from the special counsel investigation. remember, the fbi had its own counterintelligence investigation, which we could talk about maybe, until well into 2017, when it was made and taken over as the special counsel investigation. other things in those texts, they go back and forth. there's a total lack of discipline, total lack of character and the use of horrible language, which is not blocked out. a lot of things are redacted, talking about members of congress who are

. >> he elevated him and lisa page to the forefront of conservative media, segments on fox news, on breitbart, peter struck has really been a figure of particular derision. during his testimony on the hill, he tried to explain his text messages. he got in a tense debate with gop members. some on the left tried to defend him. it's clear that whatever happened with the text messages have been larger than life because of the president's ability to make it so. nonstop posts and comments about it. >> nia, let me bring you in. as josh points out, this has been a topic the president definitely has focused on a lot. this was a big deal whether the text messages came out in the inspector general report. >> that's right. you saw him testifying on capitol hill there in an explosive series of exchanges there with republicans who went after him in a very personal way. we will see what donald trump says about this. as josh said, this has been a person who has been enemy number one in many ways of the president. used to essentially say that the whole mueller investigation, the mueller probe was rigged against him. now wh

reported on an e-mail from may of two thousand and sixteen where peter struck a peter struck was a counter-intelligence along with lisa page this story says that the inspector general of the intelligence division went to the f.b.i. with this information that hillary's e-mails had been hacked by the chinese and that they had all of her e-mails and that peter struck was one of the people that was told about it and did nothing and then an e-mail. that was back you know fifteen sixteen there's an e-mail reportedly from peter struck where he said we know that foreign actors got a hold of some of hillary's emails so that that we know so it all does make some kind of sense. look i was particularly taken when the donald trump said are you sure it wasn't russia i thought that was a great line and i want to do that three months but but but you know why should we believe this really i mean it's not beyond the the realm of possibility china was accused just a few months ago of infiltrating and hacking the navy and co and some some specific submarine anti-ship missiles and all that stuff getting the plans for them and all that so china